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Fun fact: you can legally just steal a house if nobody is living in it for an extended period of time and you get away with living in it for an extended period of time (not legal advice btw)
Sugar Bear?!
What?
Squatter laws differ by State.
Yeah that's why you shouldn't take what I said as legal advice
CA has them I know.
Generally the squatting has to be open, and hostile. Idk why hostile that has always seemed odd to me. But you want to get bills in your name as soon as possible for instance. You want to make some improvements to the property if you can.
Around here you have to pay the property taxes for several years in a row, if the actual owners realize after a few years and start again, you're just out the money. Which... seems like a good way to only pay your property taxes once every few years, if you don't mind your property going to hell (lots of folks around here do not, based on the number of burnt out houses).
Civil forfeiture could actually be improved in some cases, like if you just give up and move along and your house is a nuisance attracting crime and squatters, your neighbors should be able to fix that by petitioning for ownership, instead of having to wait until the house is worthless and likely burned down for anything to be possible.
Maybe to prevent the law from being abused for capital transfer tax fraud. But that's just a guess.
I think also, like a neighbor built their driveway over my property under the old owner (2 of them did actually, one he put a chain over it in a couple places, other one woman called the sheriff and made him back off and let her steal that little bit of what is now my land. But her use maybe is like hostile, at this point I couldn't get it back, although this is a little different than squatter laws it's kind of from a similar place in the law I think.
So her use was hostile, so I can't get it back. If it wasn't, if she just asked can I use it, and I would say sure, then I could reclaim that piece, because I was letting her use it. Still seems weird to me but I think that's how it works sometimes.
Neighbors are dicks out here, some of them, always trying to prevent people with property from accessing the private road network they have gates up on. Judge finally told them to fuck off and threatened to jail them, so we all got the code, but they can change it again at a moment's notice. I should get some thermite, if they lock me out and just melt through that bitch. But that's all another story.
Can’t you just be “hostile” and take back what’s yours? And yeah thermite that bitch.
I don't think I could get that piece of land back. I don't care though, we are both new owners, I have only seen the owner twice in 5 years, he's alright, came up to deer hunt this year, and his property has all of these blue spruces he'd have to cut through. If he did it to screw me I would be mad, if he asked I would let him.
The other guy was the one that mattered more, 100 or 200 yards by 10 or 20 yards his drive was on my property, and I think he cut down a bunch of trees too, it's all forest except for that part anyway. I haven't seen them at all in 5 years, but have 2 cables still up between trees so no one can drive back there.