FYI: Squatters Have Rights, Too!

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Guess what? If a squatter occupies your property unauthorized and unannounced, you CANNOT put them out.  According to dictionary.com, a squatter is “a person who settles on land or occupies property without title, right, or payment of rent.”  As a property owner, you have to treat these people the same way you would paying tenants.  It’s not right, but it’s the law.

5 comments

  1. So, does this mean that someone can move into my vacant property without my permission, and I would have to go through the same proceedings at I would with a payment tenant?? That’s bull!!!

  2. I don’t think this is accurate. Can you provide a link to a law that gives squatters these rights? If this were true, squatting would be widespread.

  3. I haven’t called 311 yet, but I had another thought on squatting. People don’t do it because they don’t know they can. Which is why it isn’t being done on a large scale. But, I”ll check this out.

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