Special Reports & Tweets - The Loopholes of Squatting
Aired: 2014-11-08
Duration: 03:12


=== Squatters and Foreclosures (02:24) ===

[00:00:00]  *Dramatic Music* I'm Andrea Isom, on the edge.
[00:00:12]  She recently did a story about a woman who bought a house in Detroit and wanted to sell it.
[00:00:16]  But a squatter had taken over the house and refused to leave.
[00:00:20]  The police were called.
[00:00:21]  But Lynn the squatter claimed the homeowner tried to run her over.
[00:00:25]  The homeowner went to jail and Lynn moved her stuff back in the house.
[00:00:29]  Now you're caught up.
[00:00:30]  That's a turn of events.
[00:00:32]  Are you going to bail her out?
[00:00:34]  This is technically a violation of probation, so...
[00:00:37]  After watching that clip, I began wondering how common squatting was.
[00:00:41]  Turns out my investigation didn't even have to leave the city of Detroit.
[00:00:46]  Talk to us now?
[00:00:47]  No.
[00:00:48]  No, why not?
[00:00:49]  Well, why are you stopping then?
[00:00:50]  Don't even think about throwing that out.
[00:00:52]  After the reporter helped expose the squatters, she was attacked and had racial obscenities hurled at her.
[00:00:57]  Why do people squat?
[00:00:59]  How do they manage to get away with it for so long?
[00:01:02]  TheLaw.tv reports, for adverse possession to work, squatters have to stay in a home for a minimum time period as mandated by the state.
[00:01:10]  This time frame varies widely by location.
[00:01:13]  During that time, many states require the trespasser to have paid property taxes.
[00:01:17]  Adverse possession was put on the books hundreds of years ago when the law primarily applied to farmland.
[00:01:23]  Property records were easily lost and damaged then, and adverse possession was a way to keep the land in productive use when it wasn't clear who owned or inherited the land.
[00:01:33]  So the origins of the practice began innocently enough, but the practice itself has been taken advantage of a great deal since then.
[00:01:40]  Only an owner can initiate eviction proceedings, and the problem here, this house is a foreclosure property that gave the squatters a loophole to hang out and ultimately trash this place.
[00:01:52]  And for a time, terrorized the neighborhood.
[00:01:54]  Deputies went about it quickly, and within moments, one tenant left with his bicycle.
[00:02:00]  The other hopped on a skateboard and rolled away.
[00:02:02]  So if you're a property owner, some of the best investments you can make would be steady fencing and sturdy locks.
[00:02:08]  You can find more reports at InfoWars.com.

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