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She was not formally charged for living in the space, police said

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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dammit I wanted to see pictures of the space

[–] swayevenly@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why? Are you in the market?

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 year ago

Aren't we all?

[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Keurig should get her an Apartment for a year just for the PR they would gain.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems like Family Fare should do that, it's good PR for the entire chain. They did donate $10k to a local shelter though.

[–] entropicshart@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Contractors really had to report it? Seems like she was living there without disturbing anything /one

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's not blame the contractors for a societal problem.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

It's free real estate

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I bet the landowner was furious they hadn’t got an opportunity to charge rent. It even came with a kitchen and study!

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

That's $1,500/mo easy!

[–] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

There's got to be thousands of signs like that around the country. So, housing crisis solved?

[–] Unicode13051@lemmyf.uk 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How can they just kick her out? Don't they have to go through an eviction process? Does she not have squatters' rights?

[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had to look this up. What a strange idea, but apparently it is a thing.

https://learn.eforms.com/real-estate/squatters-rights/#how-to-claim-squatters-rights

I knew about adverse possession but a squatter was just trespassing until that kicked in. Apparently I have to get them written notice and 30 days to get gone in my state.

I wonder why it doesn't decrease the number of rental home vacancies? Odd.

[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's from the days when records were a lot harder to track down and someone could just die or disappear. After a certain amount of time the state just has to just call it or else the land's ownership is locked up forever. That's why the term of adverse possession is generally lower in the Western "frontier" states than the Eastern states, it was a lot more perilous to stake a claim there and there was a lot of turnover, with poor records. People have successfully adversely possessed abandoned houses in places like Vegas though, and more power to them.

It should be noted that trashing a house, setting fires, shitting in the corner, and inviting 30 of your friends to join you isn't the way this is done. You have to "openly and notoriously" occupy the property, which basically means presenting yourself as the owner. So you live there, keep the place up, and most importantly pay the property taxes. Basically present yourself in such a way that everyone thinks you are the owner.

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Squatters' rights doesn't really exist in the US like it does in Europe/the UK.

[–] mke_geek@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

She was trespassing.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Life, uh, finds a way…

[–] bAZtARd@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

I saw whole families living like this in Manila.

[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago