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The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday in the noon hour.
QUESTION: Should squatters (a person who takes over a home when nobody is living there) have any rights, or do you think they should go to jail?
Talk about it.
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No! No rights to private property unless the property meets the definition of “abandoned” pursuant to real property law and tax law.
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Abandoned or not, it is not their property. They should be removed & jailed
Do not pass go, Do not collect $200 !
they should be removed from the premises. If they are illegals they should be deported. Or, moved to the Governor’s mansion.
YES!!! Greasy Gavin’s home perfect!!!
He would probably exploit them into labor and he’s there his house or his Winery.
there are some environments even methed up squatters do not want to experience.
As far as I’m concerned, anybody that is occupying a house without the owner’s permission should be guilty of trespassing, breaking and entering, and loitering. If it was my house and the police couldn’t do anything about it, I wouldn’t hesitate to remove them myself.
NOPE
I heard somewhere that they are a protected class.
They aren’t they are illegals
They should have rights. The right to get their a$$es beat and thrown out the windows.
Nope. Let them squat in prison or on the other side of the US Border.
No! …. they have too many now – They shouldn’t have any! they should be kicked out on demand! and arrested for trespassing!
JAIL sounds good, would slow down the problem.
& we still end up paying…
No, neither should people in our country illegally. Enforce the law and vote out the liberal communists destroying America.
No.
Is this a serious question or the start of the new joke thread?
NO!
Oh Heck NO!!
Just get them out!!
Everyone has rights in America; even criminals have some rights. So squatters should have some rights.
When they are asked to move and they don’t, then they need to be in jail
Your rights end when it comes to my property!
What makes you more important and think you have rights to MY property? Let me answer for you Paul, nothing makes you important enough to have rights to my property.
HELL NO!!! Why in the world should someone have the ability to camp out on someone’s property abandoned or not & assume ownership!?! Total & complete BS
No.
Rights to what? Somebody breaks into a house and knowingly lives there illegally, they should have the absolute right to expect to get a beating, or to be forcefully removed, violently if necessary. The time has passed for “compassion” as we watch this nation get squatted on (sure feels like it) by all the illegal aliens invading our cities (3 states’ population worth of invaders).
F NO!!!! Period
I’d just relocate them
Cinder Block sandals and a boat ride to Dillon Point.
How about an eyesore abandoned house, that’s been deteriorating and bringing down neighborhood property values? And an enterprising person squats and improves the appearance of the property? I know the likely hood is slim, but I would support that squatter. At the same time being envious that I didn’t think of it.
The existing laws involving adverse possession, a.k.a. squatters rights, do contemplate property improvement. But don’t let the narrow and rare exception drive the thinking on the rule. If it ain’t yours then you don’t get to have it. Property is ownership is not determined by property maintenance, condition, or usage . . . at least not yet.
Just spent 6000 to get some out. So hell no.
This almost happened to a house three down from me. The house was a rental and was in between tenants. Someone has people that drive around and look for homes like this. They reported back to someone and this person hired some people to go change the locks!!!!! The neighbor next door saw what was going on and called the owner and the police. Their trying to track down the person doing this scam! They were getting ready to try and rent it to someone and start collecting money. Even though it was not their home!!
Hell no they should not have rights!!!
Im going up to Tahoe and find a vacant cabin and stay there for a few months free!! You got to be kidding me!!
This shouldn’t even be a question!
PHMOM, I was thinking the same thing!
If non-citizen, foreign investors can own unoccupied homes in the Bay Area, along with Hedge Funds, driving up our rental prices, through speculation, and not compensate such Vacant dwellings for not adding some money to our local economies in order to accommodate affordable housing; then yes…I am 100% in support of homeless or low income squatters. The Bay Area has over 60,000 vacant homes, yet our politicians whine about the need to build more affordable housing. Some American cities are starting to wake up and take notice! …if you are a foreign billionaire, and want to invest in our vacant real estate… Fine! But you need to also pony up some supplement funds!
Many of these squatters are being paid. Companies invest in squatters as a strategy to obtain property legally, using the squatter’s rights laws.
And contractors for years or decades have been building “monster homes” because they are more profitable. It’s all about the money and in so many ways. Also a lot of seniors would love to sell off their home but they don’t know where to move to. It’s quite quagmire that society has gotten itself into.
And no I’m not into allowing squatting. It is trespassing.
Again guido with the ignorance. Homeowners no matter who contribute to our local economy through property tax.
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Simply another attack on our American rights. Private property is foundational to freedom. You over here advocating confiscation of private property. Shameful
Maga Sam, have you ever heard of a vacancy tax? Berkeley has one!
Who cares what bezerkley does? That place sucks.
They do. At the squat rack. Please re-rack your weights.
The right to remain silent,,,,bookem Danno
Yes they should have rights, we’re all human.
So provide your address so we can send some squatters your way? As you said, we are all human.
I will not open my home to squatters, homeless or anyone else that believes I owe them anything. And I simply a leach on society. Good of you to do so though.
Flash bang grenades, rottweilers and baseball bats should be used to drive these criminals from property they illegally enter.
NO! How did this law ever happen?
They’re following the UN Agenda 2030 rules like the World Economic Forum recommends: “you won’t anything and you will like it”. That’s a rule for a hive society. Feel like a bee? I don’t. Seems the public have elected a bunch of lap dogs who in their idiocy think this a good thing to do. Society has sunk to a new low. Don’t comply.
CAPTAIN BEBOPS,
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“Squatters Rights” has existed in America long before the UN and WEF came into existence.
So? Look up the UN Agenda 2030 rules.
Squatters deserve to be beaten and jailed.
Unfortunately some unscrupulous and lying people, with the help of unscrupulous as well as lying notaries public, have filed quitclaim deeds on other people’s homes after the death of the husband and then taken possession of those homes. They then board up the house and remove all appliances and fixtures.
While I agree with the sentiment here there are also *hole landlords. I would not want to tilt things too far in their favor. There are also *hole squatters that have fake lease agreements, ect. Also consider that there are fake landlords, trying to essentially swat someone out of a building. A cop knocking on the door is not equipped to verify and validate stories by either the landlord or tenant/squatter.
Part of the current problem is that it takes months to years plus a bag of money to get a court date.
In the past the sign read looters will be shot! In liberal California the sign should now read squatters will be protected. That’s not considered progress…
I recognize you are being hyperbolic but ironically in Kortum v. James Alkire (City Manager of the City
of Pleasant Hill circa 1977) makes it abandonly clear you may not use deadly force for non-felonies in California.
Just a little a little factoid trivia for your amusement…
Yes. They have the right to remain silent…..
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand they say there’s no such thing as a stupid question
Only if they’re sitting on the toilet