Squatters Trying To Take Over Homes Arrested For Damages
Sep 28th 2010MiamiBuying & Condos & For Sale by Owner & Foreclosures & Homes & Renting & Selling
As a blogger for an Insurance School there are insurance implications for squatters moving into empty homes after the Real Estate Crash and trying to take ownership through the process of adverse possession. The squatters damage the property and therefore create insurance claims .
People are taking ownership through adverse possession and being arrested for it . In Florida hundreds of those claims are taking place and the police are arresting the people involved . The law harkens back to use in Europe in the 16th Century . In Florida if you move into a vacant house and pay the taxes on the house for seven years you will then become the owner. That’s if the owner doesn’t pay the taxes due on the house . When I prepared for my Real Estate License I had to learn about adverse possession because it was part of the law . I wonder why they teach it as a method to gain property if all the work and trouble just gets you arrested by the police for attempting it?
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Obviously some are breaking multiple laws to do this . Some are pretending to be landlords of homes and renting them out for money . People are also being arrested for being a trespasser and for breaking and entering. The law states that the person has to publicly let people know they are there, and not hiding there. But the law kind of encourages you to try. Yes you might get arrested, but you might also win . Can you imagine a law that says you can sell dope and if you don’t get apprehended for 7 years, you are immune from ever getting busted again? That would encourage you to try . Would that make adverse possession like state-sanction entrapment? What do you think about this latest twist in the Real Estate fallout ?
Rick Sabian
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