Disturbing Squatter Cases From Around The Internet

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[@salmana6418]

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[@antlerman7644]

Thank you for not taking better help sponsorships, interesting videos cheers boss 👍

[@shutjuice2356]

Great video

[@someguyonyt2831]

I'm pretty sure nobody likes squatters lol. Your next video should be "This Video Will Make You Hate Illegal Migrants." since it seems to be a trend as of late.

[@Politickles-zs5xp]

No, I still hate landlords more. Sorry, it's a matter of principle. Why the focus on desperate houseless people? Do you believe that rich people cannot be evil criminals who ruin peoples' lives? I would like to know. I want to know if I should unsubscribe.

[@tylerwebb2495]

“You’re stealing their power” “I am… blessed” Truly a gift 😂

[@stevenharbinger2427]

Okay, provide affordable housing.

[@tylerwebb2495]

@@stevenharbinger2427 lol, what? What did I do?

[@T.Maximus]

​@@stevenharbinger2427 agree 👍 housing is too much.

[@Mandrake42]

@@tylerwebb2495 Yeah, I don't know why you should be expected to provide affordable housing either. That's the government's job, you are just some dude who thought that woman's comments were funny. That bit made me laugh too, but I am not buying her a house either.

[@ibapreppie]

@@stevenharbinger2427 Biden's fault. MAGA 2024

[@Boostiverse]

“I don’t like dogs” “well we don’t like squatters but you’re still here” 😂

[@littlebighead4482]

she got his ass with that one

[@yerfavpsycho]

I loved her comebacks 😭

[@shelbymartinez104]

She's blessed and her neighbors are cursed 😭

[@areligaming6263]

Vallejo guy should have sued the state to pay for his medical bills. Ignoring a freaking 911 call and dude gets stabbed by a sword. Smh

[@isaacfreeman8860]

It's California. He's lucky he's not in jail for not dying and defending himself

[@Lunabatt]

As someone who lives around Vallejo, police don’t do anything there and citizens often have to do their own police work. I agree that this man should’ve sued the state for this incident or at least the city of Vallejo

[@warren1078]

​@@isaacfreeman8860😂😂😂😂 painfully accurate

[@SteezMade]

As someone who’s lived in vallejo for most of their life, the police do not care at all

[@therogueheero]

​@@SteezMadeBig Facts.

[@midnightdimensions13]

I cannot imagine having the courage to just roll into a house and claim it as mine. I would be shitting my pants.

[@kthulhukif]

Yup. I'd be terrified I hit someone's last nerve and they come back with a firearm.

[@smolexfundie6458]

Drugs tend to give a huge confidence boost

[@Val_ayh]

@@smolexfundie6458 Drugs, and disastrous Democrat policies that have destroyed people's property rights.

[@nerdtanks1439]

@@kthulhukifit wouldn’t take “hitting a limit” you have a right to protect you and your family. If you just sank the majority of your resources into buying a house, and someone tries to steal that from you, it falls well within your rights to defend your home, your life, and your families well being with lethal force. After all it’s YOUR home. There have been several home invaders (liberals labeled them squatters) shot and killed without the home owner facing repercussions. The biggest factor is if you have a legit government or are living under a new wave communist stronghold like cali…

[@Syclone0044]

@@nerdtanks1439Few states would allow you to execute someone just for being on your property, let’s be real here. You normally need to be in legit fear for your life before you can use deadly force. Your reckless macho nonsense would and has gotten people locked up for murder.

[@nickmudd]

When I get caught stealing I'll use the excuse "I'm blessed" 😂😂😂😂

[@markoz673bajen8]

JoEBi: You ain't Black !

[@TechGorilla1987]

I got caught stealin', once when I was 5. I enjoy stealin', it's just as simple as that.

[@KomradeCPU]

@@TechGorilla1987 they keep importing stealers

[@Im-not-clever]

He said "when"... Respect for knowing it's coming I guess lol

[@murphine969]

I came here to write almost exactly this comment. That’s the craziest thing I’ve heard on the internet all day so far.

[@MadamFizzgig]

Love how the police only help when it’ll look bad if they don’t.

[@J.Biden69]

Common mann.. let them live there,,i my self squatted white house for quite a while.. if god gift you a free house then god may got you thee, no joke

[@informalnarwhals]

even in cali, they never show unless it's too late 😡

[@jeffhe1701]

@@informalnarwhals cali is a shithole

[@scorpionsen4302]

Reporter:"You're stealing electricity" Squatter: "I'm blessed"

[@stevenharbinger2427]

Okay, provide affordable housing.

[@thegreatkhan2939]

@@stevenharbinger2427 Dude stop spamming comments!

[@tchillin-5017]

@stevenharbinger2427 Ur probably a squatter urself 😂

[@osamu_90]

@@stevenharbinger2427 Tell that to the people you voted for instead of spamming on KZbin like a broken record.

[@Spyder13337]

@@stevenharbinger2427 ok how about you get a job how about that that the first step learn to mange your money it call being an adult 101

[@RoyAlWhicheez]

I get it, homeless people need a place to stay so living in an abandoned property is one thing. On the other hand, if the owner of that property shows up and you refuse to leave all bets should be off

[@scionixx9568]

Yeah just move on. Don’t be an asshole.

[@Morning4201]

600 thousand homeless people and 15 million vacant homes in America. fucking disgusting that we’ve gotten to the point where some people make a profit off of a basic necessity of life when there are still people without shelter.

[@Val_ayh]

​@@Morning4201 Who's going to maintain the homes for 600 thousand people? Who's gonna pay for the water & electric? The Taxpayers? At that point, you're just creating an indefinite Welfare State that'll completely bankrupt the Middle Class & create more homelessness. There are soooo many variables you're not considering. If you think it's as easy as this naive Leftist fallacy of "jUsT mOvE ThEm iNtO tHe EmPtY hOuSeS", then you're an idiot. I don't know what the best solution is, but we can start by stopping this hyper-partisan tribalist bullshit in voting for the same corrupt politicians who are causing these issues for decades.

[@nerdtanks1439]

@@Morning4201those people or people in their families busted their asses to build those homes. The overwhelming majority of homelessness in this country is related to drug use. Does it suck? Absolutely. But when is society’s debt to leeches and predators going to be “too much” for folks like you? When they move into your home (or your parents) and ruining their lives for no reason other than they made better choices???

[@pentagrin4157]

@@Morning4201 People act like its so easy to get help and it's not. My mom had to give my sisters and I up to relatives when she was having money issues and was in danger of losing the trailer and not being able to afford her medication (mental health and newly acquired Lymes Disease) she was lucky she had family who would take us in.

[@SkullsNightshade]

“Crackheadery” is now in my vocabulary permanently. Thanks Wavy! ❤

[@sirawesomenessi1796]

That’s a new one for me. I always use Cracktivities in my area.

[@MrClubfoot90]

I've changed Thomfoolery to Thomfuckery. 😂

[@Oytruestoryofjim]

He always has the best Oscar Wilde-like wordplay.

[@stevenharbinger2427]

Okay, provide affordable housing.

[@BrownMan-gg7dx]

Right lol.

[@tywilkins2584]

I’m glad the Governor of Georgia just signed a new squatter bill to assure that your case is seen by a court and taken care of in less than a week now. Because this is ridiculous.

[@youtube-kit9450]

Like, I honestly don't care if it's some derelict building 20 years not in use. But it's ridiculous you can get squatter troubles with no contract from the squatters' side by just going on vacation for a month.

[@epstein_isnt_dead7726]

​@@youtube-kit9450I'm baffled as to why people who respect the rule of law so much get so angry when a citizen uses the law to their advantage. Squatters never go in a home because the owner was on vacation for a week. That's what the media says, and clearly you believe the media. They go in houses that the bank owns and is doing nothing with. Then the bank sells the property with a squatter inside and you still see the bank as the innocent little angel, never did nuffin wrong to nobody

[@youtube-kit9450]

@@epstein_isnt_dead7726 That's why we have myriads of horror stories of squatters directly harrassing owners and not just owners surprised they got cheated by the bank sold them a property lived in by other people. Guess what, in that case people would cuss out banks, not squatters.

[@Sceptonic]

​@@epstein_isnt_dead7726why not both the squatters who screw regular people over and banks who dont do sh1t to take care of the house, as well as the nonsensical law that allows people to move into peoples houses

[@SuperRat420]

wish tennants had the same rights and freedom to excercise

[@averyeml]

“We don’t like squatters, but you’re still here” damn sis go off, good on you

[@AmberF-ly5bn]

Timestamp?

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​@@AmberF-ly5bn 22:30 here ya go

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[@ScaryPoke]

10:33 “Uhm my powerr isss-“ “Thats not legit.” “-is not legit.” “Nah yu-you’re stealing the power.” “I ammm…. Blessed…”

[@stevenharbinger2427]

Okay, provide affordable housing.

[@problemsfan4132]

@@stevenharbinger2427 Steven, we all want afforable housing. We all know half these people probably wouldn't be arrested if they could actually get a home. But come on, you're replying to like every comment with the same thing. You sound like a bot.

[@metakn1ght]

@@stevenharbinger2427 CommieBot

[@Cynic_6489]

@@stevenharbinger2427 not an excuse to steal power, you buffoon.

[@thecactussword4304]

​@@metakn1ghtthe exact and total opposite of Liberty Prime, an incredibly incompetent, communist-loving robot.

[@GR.455]

The police in this stories sound like they are made of gelatine and air.

[@nunyabusiness9056]

Well from my experience the fastest way to motivate the police to do literally nothing is to call them and tell them you need their help.

[@Wisegorilla122]

The issue is that without an eviction notice police can't remove people from a home. If they JUST broke into the home, then you can make the argument for breaking and entering, but if they've established themselves at the residence, then they have squatters' rights. At that point, it becomes civil. Of course, the time required before squatter rights kicks in varies by state.

[@nunyabusiness9056]

@@Wisegorilla122 He's probably referring to the fact that people legitimately reported multiple actual crimes and threats and the police either didn't show up or did nothing to investigate them. Also a few of these stories WERE break ins and the police still did nothing.

[@0ne01]

Cops are made of bacon and vitriol.

[@SilveniumTheDrifter]

@@Wisegorilla122 ^ this.

[@TwigTheThird]

I love that the guy who destroyed his dental records obviously didn’t think it through that they only really look for those if YOU die

[@kaimcdragonfist4803]

It really feels like something out of Always Sunny. In the best way possible.

[@stevenharbinger2427]

Okay, provide affordable housing.

[@AndyProkopykChapmanStick]

It was a cover story for his revenge on the hygienist that repeatedly stabbed his gums and continuously insisted that he's bleeding because he doesn't floss enough

[@thecactussword4304]

​​@@stevenharbinger2427what is the correlation between affordable housing and some moron burning down a dentist office? Serious question.

[@juniorsoto7703]

​@@stevenharbinger2427 Silence bot

[@daelyrics69]

I do junk removal and demolition for Jiffy Junk. We cleared a hoarder house, while the guy was out of state some folks broke in and started squating. Destroyed the house so much it was like we were never there. Stole all the copper pipes, And shit. On the fucking floor. Twice. Also shat in the crock pot. Hell

[@SilveniumTheDrifter]

They popped a squat, while they squat!

[@bladeobrian2144]

As someone who was homeless at one point, squatters suck! Even I had standards back then!

[@skuntanksnuggler3919]

Congratulations on getting out of homelessness 🎉❤

[@johnnyblues777]

Same. I knew better.

[@bladeobrian2144]

@@johnnyblues777 yeah doing shit like that just makes people hate the homeless even more!

[@helpkirbyhasagun_2047]

Here’s a bit of a complex story but it’s relevant to the video I grew up in an old house with lots of family. The house belonged to my great grandparents and they passed it down to my mentally challenged aunt. She passed in 2020 and because she was mentally challenged she could not legally pass the house down, we had to move since it now was in nobody’s name Went to visit the old place a year ago, just to at least see the outside of the place I grew up in for 10 years. I saw someone’s face in the window and they peeked away, makes me sick that we couldn’t keep the house but some random squatter can wander about as they please

[@PineJayForge]

That's kind of what adverse possession is for. You just don't leave then after awhile you can file for ownership, which will be granted because nobody exists to oppose you

[@taylorbug9]

If it ever becomes empty again, take it back. What are they gonna do? Nothing.

[@helpkirbyhasagun_2047]

@@PineJayForge unfortunately the state got involved due to some rogue family members that hate the rest of the family so it’s too late. This was years and years ago and things are already settled (as in my grandparents got a new house)

[@DarkSwordRagnarok]

I know you explained there's outside reasons why nobody could stay, but ironically enough that's the exact reason squatters rights exist. It's just now with the prevalence of the internet and people learning they can get away with this, that the system gets abused to the point of it being useless. Sorry for you and your family's loss no matter how long ago it was.

[@totallytubular618]

It's impossible for a house to not be in anyone's name. In the US, land cannot be unowned. If she died, it's still in her name, and owned by her estate until the estate is probated, at which point the home will become the property of the heir (if no will) or the beneficiary (if a will).

[@rachelblake2350]

America sure has a lot of homeless people, a lot of empty homes, and a lot of landlords. Weird.

[@thepinapple8829]

Americans also don't have enough money to afford houses

[@FatherAxeKeeper]

@@thepinapple8829 yes. none of the homes in america are actually inhabited.

[@janemiettinen5176]

And really bad police, that’s a huge fact in these stories. If you want any sort of accountability, going to media and exposing their incompetence seems to be the only way.

[@F3arlessSoldier]

Yes somehow we're not able to help homeless people, but politicians are able to find money to put illegal aliens in hotel rooms.

[@Don_Dewitt]

And a lot of people excusing theft as social justice

[@AndyNapierrr]

“Burrowed into an abandoned Circuit City”… yea that checks out

[@Totally_Descendants]

‘I don’t like dogs.’ ‘I don’t like squatters, but you’re still here!’ 🤣🤣🤣

[@cheesybiscuits2103]

My father lived in Florida when he was alive, while I lived in Wisconsin only 5 miles away from his cabin in the woods. Some meth head couple moved in to our cabin without our knowledge. The bf already worked at my work and his gf was just hired at my job. I find out they took over my dads cabin and refused to leave. I called police on behalf of my dad and they did absolutely nothing. Their excuse was that my dad was not physically there even though he didn't want them there. Not only was this happening, the meth boyfriend was actively beating his gf and we saw the evidence all over her face when she showed up to work. Still with the evidence of abuse and clear drug using in our cabin it wasn't enough for police to want to help us.

[@stevenharbinger2427]

Okay, provide affordable housing.

[@cheesybiscuits2103]

@@stevenharbinger2427 yeah my bad, I forgot I was the government.

[@Krexel]

​@@stevenharbinger2427 Why the fuck are you saying this to some rando in KZbin comments as if we can do anything about it? Shut the fuck up

[@A_Ducky]

​@@Krexel He's posted that under every comment. I think bot

[@Krexel]

@@A_Ducky There's no way it's a bot. Who would make a bot to spread such an asinine statement?

[@JohnnyHammersticks-bm5wz]

Adverse possession plays an important policy role in common law-it incentivizes property owners to check if their property is or is not being used. Adverse possession in English Common Law is older than the US itself. The abhors a waste of land regardless of who is in possession of it.

[@Syclone0044]

How is that legitimate?? What’s wrong with someone choosing to do whatever they want with THEIR land, including nothing at all?

[@Blakbox92]

​@@Syclone0044because it can be an issue for everyone else, having an unmaintained house can be a refuge for criminals, be a breeding ground for pests, a magnet for vandalism, and become an eyesore. If you're not exercising any real ownership over something for years, and it's something out in the open and unguarded, then people and laws aren't going to care much if someone actually starts using what you're wasting. If you had a bicycle sitting in a public alleyway and didn't ride it for years, and someone took off with it, the cops would just shrug if someone "stole" it, because it might as well just be a free bike.

[@zombiewafle]

Needs to be tweaked a bit for the modern age. I get it entirely but it's often abused by bad actors

[@jayleaf201]

​@@Syclone0044They can leave it empty, they just have to maintain it

[@kamure_]

Should probably mention that in order for adverse possession to be claimed, the claimant must have been using or living on the property for many years (depending on the state)

[@Abella1094]

The unfortunate thing is that this is only going to get worse as the housing crisis gets worse and people get more desperate

[@ImARealHumanPerson]

Homeowners will get desperate too and deal with the squatters themselves.

[@SuperRat420]

sounds like a leechlord problem. You wouldn't sink so morally low as to have to worry about that, would you?

[@ZazooEel57]

​@SuperRat420 what a stupid thing to say. Without landlords, a large portion of the population wouldn't have a place to live. Home ownership is at an all time low.

[@SuperRat420]

@@ZazooEel57 actually without you cooking the housing market books, we would. Without paying your mortages for you, we would. We have more empty homes than homeless in this country. It's directly in part your fault. Own it, don't, don't care. No one with a functioning moral compass becomes a leechlord

[@SuperRat420]

@@ZazooEel57 tenants rights only go so far as your ability to pay and your ability to miss work. Since leechlords get free money and don't have a job, you can clearly see who the law is in favor of. For instance you can only legally pick two of first, last, and security here legally as a leech, but good luck as a tenant taking that to court when you don't even live there yet. Many folks are intentionally trapped because, while they may be able to comfortably move to say a $900/mo apartment and pay that, $2700 outta nowhere ain't it. This is all purposeful so leeches don't have to work labor.

[@TheKkkeeennnnnnyyy]

If he paid back taxes on the property couldn't he have went about it legally to actually aquire it. Why hadn't the bank been paying the taxes, it doesn't sound like they were doing things correctly either.

[@samantha8701]

Kind of funny how squatters get so upset when people intrude on them... the irony is truly lost on them 😏

[@davidvenom]

Make me hate them? I’ve always hated them

[@Alexandra-ng1ih]

I was about say the same 🤣

[@cfiber_inc]

I do too

[@TheScottyboi369]

Well, unfortunately, it's not all about you, and this video wasn't to just convince you. Jesus, a bit self-centered, aren't you David?

[@maccamachine]

@@TheScottyboi369you’re such a virgin

[@maccamachine]

@@TheScottyboi369you’re 100% a redditor

[@bjs301]

Don't blame America for adverse possession law. We inherited it from the English common law, and it actually made historical sense. Back in the olden days, large land owners frequently abandoned low value properties. The abandoned farm down the road could bring down property values and attract highwaymen, so laws were developed to allow someone to move into an abandoned property, and ultimately obtain ownership after living there for 21 years. And the possession had to be open, notorious and adverse (exclusive to anyone else's interest.) If you allow me to occupy your property, I can not claim adverse possession because my possession is not adverse to you. A few states, like Ohio and Pennsylvania, still use the 21 year rule. A couple have raised it to 27 or 30 years, and many have reduced it to 10 years. I read California now uses a 5 year rule, which sounds insane. But I haven't really research it. Bottom line - the squatter problem really has nothing to do with real state adverse possession laws.

[@kthulhukif]

Sadly, none of these people squat on a property and fix it up. Every single time they just destroy it.

[@__-tc3sr]

@@kthulhukif you will naturally only hear about negative outcomes. No one is going to go around making a big deal about a truly abandoned property that they've gotten adverse possession of

[@SuperRat420]

@@kthulhukif why would you fix something thats only going to be taken from your for profit from someone else? Every repair I would have done in my own home was left to rot in my rental least I increase the value and be passed on for a tennant who will now pay more, or I will be expected to pay more. Almost like when you treat people like less than adult, they start to act like it

[@stevenharbinger2427]

Okay, provide affordable housing.

[@samaeltheundying]

It was also done to reduce instances of share cropping in the 20s and 30s.

[@Fygee]

*talks about grave squatter in Las Vegas* *shows the absolute least Las Vegas looking stock footage of a home in the Midwest plains*

[@GERMANAITOR]

My God.. Someone squatting in YOUR house is bad enough. Having them lie to police after they choked you, then putting all your animals in KILL SHELTERS while YOURE LOCKED UP over a LIE is just straight-up evil man.

[@lelandunruh7896]

Squatters can actually provide a somewhat valuable role if they are in a truly abandoned property and IF the squatters take care of it decently well (that's a big "if"). I had friends who did this for five years. When the true owner asked them to leave, they asked for a couple weeks to find a new place and then handed it over to him. The owner later thanked them for keeping it in good shape during the financial crisis!

[@Blakbox92]

See, you rarely hear about the stories where squatting works out, where someone just needs a place, the property owner doesn't care much for the property, and the squatters maintain it.

[@lelandunruh7896]

@@Blakbox92 Sadly, I suspect such cases are comparatively rare. But they exist!

[@williamdowling7718]

Its crazy that the cops cant seem to do anything about the squatting (indicating theres a lack of enforceable law), but squatting does seem to be illegal enough to violate parole... If its an obvious parole violation, why isnt it a crime that cops can enforce outside of a parole/probation situation?

[@nerdtanks1439]

They can, in the majority of the country. It’s considered a home invasion. Try this crap in the south and you’ll be remembered fondly in the police report as a “justified shooting” 😂😂😂 This is mainly rampant in cali and other communist controlled areas.

[@aximatic]

If it's a vacant lot owned by a bank, I'm fully in support. How the hell are we supposed to afford houses as younger generations when every single house is an investment property? Obviously if it's a private owner and they're trying to live there or rent it out even just seasonally, that shouldn't be allowed but if you're not using the house, why hog it?

[@RedYankee45]

So… because a bank owns something, people should get it for free? Wow… the IQ just keeps dropping with every generation. This whole world is truly doomed.

[@nunyabusiness9056]

I came terrifyingly close to a squatter situation myself recently. I prefer to have somebody around and always rent out my spare room. A woman answered my ad and she was my age, said she's recovering from a bad divorce, trying to get custody of her kid and needs a place to get back on her feet. I met her in a coffee shop and she was well dressed and good looking (Irrelevant to my decision but she didn't look like a drunken hobo...which is foreshadowing.), seemed pretty dim witted but that's common out here. I agreed to let her stay and she cut me a check and for about two days things were good. On the first day she was drunk, said she was celebrating the new place, made me some drinks, we went out for some drinks and she got REAL drunk but we had fun even though she was saying weird low key insulting things about me occasionally (I'm good looking too but definitely don't dress or look like the average guy here in trump country texas.). So a few days in and i noticed that by about 2 or 3 pm she was PISS drunk...every day, she seemed to exist off nothing but mimosas, i never saw her actually eat. She would get drunk and i could hear her in her room having a VERY loud very angry conversation with somebody i assumed was on the phone, she said she'd just left her mothers so i assumed it was them or something to do with this supposed divorce but i realized she's DEFINITELY an alcoholic. She would be perfectly fine till she gets drunk and then she would just pick fights, insult me, just be unreasonably nasty to me for no reason. One day i sat her down and gave her a talk, told her I don't put up with ish from ANYBODY, that i've been kind to her, gave her a place to stay but this is gonna stop NOW. She apologized, says she's been told she gets like that when she's drunk and it'll stop but she also admitted she's an alcoholic. I told her that's okay but she has to control herself. I also realized she was probably working as an escort but she didn't entertain here so whatever. It wasn't till she was there almost a full month that i realized that these nightly LOUD screaming conversations she was having with somebody in her room were not on the phone....she would get drunk and babble to herself, seemingly talking to people not in the room like a lunatic as well as yelling at herself, seeming to have entire conversations with herself. I came home one day and there were live bullets on my living room floor. I knocked on her door interrupting one of these conversations with herself and asked her if she had a gun, she said yes. I asked if i could see it and showed her the bullets. She said she thought she heard something and was walking around the house with a gun. I asked her why she was ejecting live ammunition from it and she couldn't really answer me. She gets the loaded gun from her dresser to show me and shows me by *putting it to my chest with her finger on the trigger.* I'm like WHOA!! And step to the side, she laughs hysterically and apologizes. About 20 minutes later i hear a blood curdling scream from her room and she tells me she saw a bug and demanded i come get it. I look for the bug and the whole time she's FREAKING, screaming and really annoying me. I get the bug and throw it outside. About an hour later her drunken convo with herself gets SO loud i ask her to keep it down which she does for about 10 minutes only to get even LOUDER and move out into the hallway and start banging on my door and screaming about how i went into her room while she was in the shower and put a bug in it and she doesn't feel safe and she called the cops and says "If I see you remember i have a gun!". I call the police who say she NEVER called them but ask me what's going on. Soon as i mention the gun they send cops down who show up and i tell them she'd pointed a gun at my chest, probably on purpose. They talk to her and say she's on drugs, they're just not sure what. At this point she was on a new month period and hadn't paid her rent, i told her she has to leave again. She told the cops she has nowhere to go and I told them she was officially squatting. They told me i have to evict her and she's not leaving and has no plan to leave and there's nothing they can do and that eviction could take up to 9 months. I almost lost it when i heard that and came up with a plan. I deduced she had been at her parents house and moved in early because they kicked her out (She's 41.) and told the cops to ask her to call her parents. She did and the cops asked her for the phone, when she passed the phone to the cops i shouted into it "PLEASE COME PICK UP YOUR DAUGHTER! PLEASE DON'T MAKE HER MY PROBLEM TOO!". It worked. Her parents had mercy on me and came to pick her up that night and got all her stuff. Dodged a bullet, probably literally.

[@snickersmyknickers5120]

This is some horror movie type sht, she's a literal parasite. Absolutely makes me paranoid and gives me trust issues. Hopefully everything is going fine for you now.

[@nunyabusiness9056]

@@snickersmyknickers5120 yeah, found a great dude and we're friends now...but he's leaving....so I gotta really rethink my screening process to avoid another Nicole. Also the B owes me 250 dollars for bills.

[@dingobiscut]

29:17 "you better lock your fucking doors" had me in stitches.

[@EtG69]

The presentation in this video was great

[@andrewbrenton8092]

Adverse Possession isn't unique to the US, and it isn't quite the same as squatting. You have to be openly living in the home, usually for 10+ years, and make improvements on it. It depends on the state too. Some states it is 20 years. Then you have to file to have it signed over to you. During all those years, all the owner has to do is simply realize that you are staying there, and you don't belong. All they have to do is drive by their second property once every five years to make sure a family hasn't just moved in.

[@moimoi2994]

Stealing someone's house and also stealing electricity from another house and saying that you're "blessed" is WILD!

[@PopeAbibe]

It's a bit unrelated, but I basically consider my ex psycho flatmate to be a legal squatter. Yes she paid her room like everyone else, but after almost physically assaulting me and yelling so loud in an argument (the flat was disgusting after I came back from travelling for 2 weeks, and she couldn't take accountability), that the apartment complex thought I was assaulting a child. The landlord couldn't kick her out because in France you can't force someone to leave from December - March. So I was stuck living with an insane person who refused to leave despite the whole flat share wanting her out. These people who abuse the law and cause suffering to others are the worst.

[@ZazooEel57]

Good luck kicking anyone out in France anyway. Once you stay for over 24h, you need court order to be kicked out. Additionally, getting mail delivered to your place is a proof of residency as you don't need to register to your address in France unlike in many other countries (which might be where the first woman got her idea from?).

[@stevenharbinger2427]

Okay, provide affordable housing.

[@PeterGriffin11]

@@stevenharbinger2427 Okay, stop spamming this response underneath every comment.

[@A_Ducky]

​@@stevenharbinger2427 This is posted under every comment (so prob a bot).. but it's just too funny - randomly ordering French people to resolve USA issues, lmao

[@AliAiham]

Damn

[@ClockTownBound]

"Crackheadery" Never change lmao

[@silver8632]

On one hand a lot of these "squatters" suck. On the other hand i cant bring myself to feel bad for people who own MORE than 1 home when i dont have single home let alone enough to rent out, making money off of people's need for a roof over their head instead of an actual job or simply being unemployed.

[@jdirty5307]

Well sucks to be you.

[@masked_katz2450]

Hey I actually live just down the road from the cabin in the first story, I remember the 2017 video first coming out and it scaring me and my friends when we were younger. The home looks pretty different nowadays and you can tell its been taken cared of more. Much love from your fans in Mt Juliet, TN!

[@aureafaix]

It's stories like these that make me question what the police actually DO when they're on duty supposedly earning their paychecks. They claim they're keepers of the peace but don't seem to actually care unless the case is high enough profile or a rich person's involved.

[@imnotracistbut-9559]

Their job is 100% to show up after the crime has already been committed and take notes of the incident and sit on the side of the road waiting for people speeding. Legit that’s 90% of their job is talking to people

[@DeplorableTroll]

If it’s Vallejo, there are only like 200 units for the entire city. So as in the case with my bestie, if you call the cops and you aren’t actively being killed, wait time is 7 hours or “just file it online or go down to the station yourself”. Truly a shithole yet sadly, it is far from the only one like that. That’s why in Vallejo, they often just chalk up obvious cases of murder to suicide then move on since they are woefully understaffed and incompetent. I wish it were not so.

[@Im-not-clever]

Are you shitting me? When they show up and do something, y'all bitch and want them defunded!! Then bitch when they can't show up because someone stole your Amazon package of bubbles because THEY'RE UNDERFUNDED AND UNDERSTAFFED.

[@cicerothenekoknightplaysall]

Already hated squatters before this video. Stealing people's houses is not okay. Homelessness isn't a crime necessarily but stealing people's houses are

[@XxProGamerUSAxX]

what the hell is squatters

[@turboshazed7370]

​@@XxProGamerUSAxXlook it up

[@MaoRatto]

@@XxProGamerUSAxX It's not IS in this case, but ARE. You are TALKING ABOUT A PLURAL SUBJECT, therefore you use ARE, IS for subjects. ARE isn't that hard to remember.

[@goldh2o543]

Unless they own a bunch of houses they don't actually need, then you're filling wasted space, honestly.

[@EvilShadow7777]

Banks also steal properties and homes just being unhoused for years while sitting at insane prices is a crime against the poor. I'd just rather squatters not be violent assholes about the fact they're sitting on a house, most of these people are desperate or homeless though. Like would most of us honestly just sit on an unoccupied property we don't own if we didn't have to?

[@Firroth]

Hey, maybe bail shouldn't be an option in cases of violent crimes and threats. But, what do I know? I'm not a lawyer.

[@stevenharbinger2427]

Okay, provide affordable housing.

[@buffoonery4649]

@@stevenharbinger2427 Steven what does Firroth providing affordable housing or not have to do with being able to bail out for violent crimes?

[@soogymoogi]

​@@stevenharbinger2427 i mean i agree with you there but providing affordable housing isn't going to end violent crime?

[@Don_Dewitt]

A lawyer doesn't dictate policy

[@Co19801003]

While I also can't wrap my head around someone having committed such crimes and getting bail set, I find it more mindblowing that his brother bails him out TWICE. And at the top of my list of thing I do not understand about this part of this case is why someone who was bailed out twice decides to kill the person who bailed him out and is clearly a sucker for you to some extent.

[@cadenandthegirl]

Quick note on adverse possession: it arose as a legal concept primarily in the era of American expansionism a couple of hundred years ago. The idea behind it was that the state would prefer to have someone farming and utilizing arable land, regardless of whether or not they’re the owner. That being said, the legal standard for adpos is pretty high, and it’s unlikely someone who’s squatting will meet it.

[@ebofthechill8008]

I had no idea the concept went that far back. Certainly makes a lot of sense in that context.

[@totallytubular618]

​​@@ebofthechill8008yes, back in the day you had land barons gobbling up tens of thousands of acres of wild land they've never even visited, and when a settler would come and build a homestead on it with his family (having no way to know it was owned), him and his family would get kicked off by the land owner 15 years later when the owner finally sends someone over to look at the land. Really meant to prevent shit like that, and encourage active land development.

[@staringcorgi6475]

This is should is a fair system since this would stop corperation from hording land

[@RitzStarr]

Honestly one of the few ways squatting makes sense. If some moron is gonna own property and not care for MONTHS or even YEARS to check on it... f them. Let someone live there if they aren't damaging it or the neighborhood in general

[@earsplittingpictures1133]

@@ebofthechill8008it actually goes further back ti europe

[@Billcipher_fan5]

The reporter roasting the people for squatting was hilarious 😂😂

[@slackerofhell]

I'm totally gonna use "I am blessed" as a counter to stealing from now on lol

[@DoorsToHideBehind156]

When my dad passed away, his girlfriend at the time (they had been dating when I was a lot younger then got back together) refused to leave the house preventing probate and me being able to sell it and get his belongings. This lasted for like, 9 months. We eventually stopped paying the power bill and had the water shut off and she still wouldn't leave. She started selling his belongings since she didn't have a job and even sold his nice truck. She changed the locks obviously too. It was a nightmare and ended up losing close to 20k over it. She even had the audacity to tell me that she was the only woman my dad had ever loved which was bs because I am his only daughter and she wasn't my mom. She had a pattern of being a mooch her whole life and leeched off my dad for years and years prior to and after his passing. Oh and she also tried to get his pension from his job and started draining his bank account immediately as well. Truly an awful person.

[@Syclone0044]

Omg that sounds like an absolute nightmare, I’m so sorry you had to endure that nonsense

[@informitas0117]

If people steal houses from the bank, I somehow shed negative 2,14 tears with an extra -4 in escrow.

[@JannieDaMannie]

We had cousins that we helped live in our house because they had family problems and the children had nowhere to go. My mom let them live with us but for only one condition. Help with chores. That's it. But 2 months later idk what happened, maybe they got too comfortable or something but they made the house look more like a pig sty, they didn't help clean and when they do it's because my mom came down the stairs to check on them. And then one day one of them stole from my mom's purse. And then rumors started circulating that we're treating them like slaves so our other relatives got mad at us on something we didn't do. My mother caught wind of all of this and rightly evicted them, they have another house that they live in on their mother's side. But I hate that they acted more like squatters than cousins. Hope they do well, but I don't want to see them again.

[@SkylarTrahan]

Had family like that as well, when they first moved in they helped around the house and outside. About a month after that they didn’t contribute to anything and always left a mess

[@taylorbug9]

Were these minors? Because taking in minors *on one condition* is a shitty thing to do. You either take them in out of the goodness of your heart and help raise them, or you say you can't. You don't take in children or teens and tell them they can only stay if they help you keep your house clean. That's fucked up.

[@jeremyjones7436]

⁠@@taylorbug9i think it’s more messed up that they were presented with a good deal but couldn’t even do the bare minimum of CLEANING AFTER YOURSELF

[@JannieDaMannie]

@@taylorbug9 I didn't really need to mention if they were minors or not but since you brought it up, there are four of them total and only one of them was a minor (probably an adult now) and the other three are adults maybe 20 to 24. I can safely say that we didn't force minors to become maids at our house. We just wanted them to help because I had work and had to leave my sister to take care of everything until I can get home. Can't really help with the house chores when I'm not there. They get all the privileges of owning a house and all of its amenities while we get extra help in the house. Two birds with one stone. I was wrong. P.s. There were actually five of them, they had a step brother hence why I said "children", Idk about his whereabouts.

[@auriellis]

I love seeing you move around more and just have fun with the narration

[@jayeautocorrectstohate5054]

Hundreds of homes are sitting empty because greedy landowners won’t rent unless they get a certain $ amount and they let them fall apart so I don’t blame people for squatting. And the DMV in Virginia will take a utility bill with your name on it as proof of residence. So the whole mail thing is not as absurd as you think.

[@winged500]

We have an affordable housing crisis in the United States. Like in my town many low income apartment buildings have been bought up and everyone was evicted. I heard that they are being turned into high priced luxury apartments.

[@joefor88]

I like the new "bird chirp" that you have incorporated along with the WWS initials as a type of branding. You have come a long way since I first started following you and it looks good on you. I appreciate you Wavy. Wishing you all the best!

[@GraphicJ]

This is currently happening to us right now, here in Los Angeles. They haven't paid over a year. It's really distressing how the local authorities, the county and the government allow this. Very lax laws for these thieves known as squatters.

[@AaronAndroid]

Lived nextdoor to a squatter that was a veteran but had mental illnesses and was always drug induced. He’d have a many disputes with his gf. Was a nightmare living next to him. He set up surveillance in front of his apt and all. Made people very uncomfortable. He also had this little dog that he’d let poop everywhere. One day a sheriff came with some guys and set all his stuff out. I was beyond happy. Squatters are such a pain.

[@kthulhukif]

The problem seems to be that all squatters are kinda like this; they destroy everything and cause all kinds of trouble for the neighbors, probably because of mental illness in all it's form.

[@purplewolfranger22]

​@kthulhukif this is what happens when asylums are all shut down. So many crazy people out there terrorizing the mass populace.

[@Azletrack]

I was in a VA rehab for 28 days and homeless people decided to squat in my apartment. Only found out because I’m very quiet and when my downstairs neighbors heard a lot of noise and called me asking if everything was OK

[@mradrianrodriguez]

My aunt had 3 acres in so cal with a main house and guest house. She moved out to help my grandma so she rented the main house out while me my mom and sister lived in the guest house. The renter stopped paying rent for 5 months before he was evicted - and left everything in the house including his meth. My family had to solely move all their stuff out by the sidewalk. the hole Time the renter was telling people how he was being evicted. Doing a really good sob act. Dude was a prick. And ruined the house.

[@hexxin]

at least they left the meth to help with the moving process.

[@bennyblabla3459]

22:26 "I don't like dogs" "Well we don't like squatters but you're still here" 💀 well said.

[@l3wdlemon708]

Shouldve gotten a zillow ad for this one

[@cooliostarstache5474]

Some of these squatters are just assholes but I also see just a lot of people who are desperate and who need help. The homeless and unemployed epidemics are absolutely insane

[@repugnant__6379]

these are bad cases of squatting but the fact I will never be able to own a home in this economy, I cant help but identify. Would I ever defile a corpse for a house? no. But please provide affordable housing.

[@HeavyWeapon858]

I have one story. Which is before I had gotten married to my first wife. It was nuts. Dude threatened to burn down my trailer with her in it. She was pregnant with my first child. He tried to get her to miscarry intentionally.

[@bigoldpp9542]

I find it hilarious when people act like landlords are good people.

[@sherikrupp]

I have a real hard time feeling bad for landlords but these stories are wild

[@turdferguson2537]

Adverse possession (frequently) begins with squatting. It takes decades. It's not stupid. It's designed to prevent waste.

[@JohnnyHammersticks-bm5wz]

Yes, and there are other elements the squatters must satisfy which they likely won’t.

[@GENXJOPLIN]

We have more than enough empty buildings to house every single homeless person and then some. This new squatting panic is a psyop by landlord lobbyists and blackrock

[@stevenharbinger2427]

Okay, provide affordable housing.

[@danpaz9485]

This wouldn’t happen if u gave people jobs that can afford them housing, food, and education for their children. Basically socialism not “capitalism”, if it was purely capitalism, u would have bad pay, have long working hours and poor working conditions as well as no consumer rights, u have to buy what u need even if it isn’t good.

[@turdferguson2537]

For the record, I am absolutely not a arguing that the residential housing system in America is working. I'm just stating that there is a legitimate reason for the law.

[@christianthrasher8677]

Thank god Florida recently passed a law to were police can arrest squatters when called

[@nicholasr39]

Lynn "Arthur": I'm......blessed 😂😂😂😂 great line

[@zeropolicy7456]

Adverse Possession is a pretty important law. Because it forces property owners to maintain their lots instead of hoarding land and letting it stagnate. It keeps housing in active circulation and helps make sure that big plots of land are at least properly monitored. Obviously it can be taken advantage of by some less than reputable people. But it keeps land and property owners active in maintaining their stakes. And it deters would-be market manipulators by making property buy-ups a very costly endeavor in the long term.

[@2prize]

idgaf if people squat properties owned by a BANK

[@notknightbean]

Squating laws was always meant to only take effect after years, where someone finds seemingly unoccupied land and improves it, only to later find out some laid a claim to it 5 years ago, sometimes as far back as decades ago, and left. It was entirely to stop frivolous land grabs by claiming to have once held ownership. The fact that the laws now take effect after weeks, often longer than it would take to evict an illegal squater, is insane.

[@areiaaphrodite]

This video makes it seem like squatting isn't illegal in America. The squatters always either get arrested for something else, or if the police are called, still nothing happens to them. That's crazy

[@Trainfan1055Janathan]

Jeffrey Allen Manchester sounds like a British name you come up with if you've never been to Britain. -We need a name for this fictional British character! -Uh... Jeffrey Allen Manchester? -Perfect!

[@SangiinKherem]

As a non-american, I see this as an absolute win. Just go to the US, squat in someones house until they give it to me and sell it ASAP.

[@GeeEee75]

As a fellow non-American, I can't imagine how that would work. Did I miss something, or was there a case in this video where the home owner ended up handing over the property to the squatters? Why would anyone do that? They might give up but the squatters still wouldn't have the legal right to sell the property. Still, I guess you might end up enjoying a roof over your head courtesy of the US prison system.

[@Douglas.kong33]

As someone that hates banks and squatters… I’m confused

[@DamplyDoo]

I thought most squatters rules require them to pay back taxes and maintain the property if it is abandoned. In the first case that seems to be the situation?

[@teethgrinder83]

Yeah I mean the cases he's picked are obviously going to be the worst or among the worst to find but banks and companies who own loads of property and just sit on them until house prices are sky high is a huge reason why there was the 2008 financial crisis which caused millions to lose their homes and small businesses to close and many have still not recovered (naturally banks were bailed out). I'm from Scotland thankfully things aren't as bad here. We still have a bad housing issue but at the least there seems to be much more help for people compared to America (I pay quite close attention to American politics). So yeah, squatting and doing things like steal electric from neighbours, ruining the house, being violent, screwing over individuals rather than the companies that are the larger issue I obviously don't like at all but there's clearly a systematic problem in the US (and late-stage capitalism)

[@taylorbug9]

​@DamplyDoo You're right. My mom took over an abandoned house, kept the taxes paid, improved the home and property, paid utilities, and hired a lawyer to track down the deceased man's family. Went through the whole process legally, and now she owns the house outright, no mortgage. And she saved it from rotting into the ground. It sat empty for two years before she came along, and it'd probably still be empty all these years later if she hadn't done what she did. The people in these type of videos don't do any of that because they're just looking for a place to live without paying a dime. Sad there's so few like my mom and so many like the ones in the video. My mom saved a house from rotting away and these people typically damage the property more.

[@ninjakid1003]

Banks are worse, they have money and are holding housing hostage. Calling owned houses "homes" is annoiying.

[@Syclone0044]

@@taylorbug9I still can’t believe your mom had the audacity to just waltz into someone’s home and commandeer it. Unbelievable!

[@coolllama8128]

My aunt had claimed a house in her name that she was squatting in. Apparently when she had first started squatting she happened to stumble upon the owner in the kitchen, but he was dead on the floor. So they barricaded the door to the kitchen and she squatted upstairs. Then some 6 to 9 months later when the body was finally recovered, my aunt decided to do her research, and thanks to her knowledge of the system, she was able to dig up all the information she could on the owner and property and took it to the courts. Shortly after she not only gained the property of the owner, but some excess land that he had owned in another state as well. It's crazy how many loopholes are in this system.

[@nananakeson]

Adverse possession is not stupid what? If the guy has lived in a place for 15 years without getting removed from there is safe to assume that the house is basically theirs, if you eant it back than pay for him maintaining the place, if you don't want to lose your property then don't abandon it is that simple

[@calipurnioelreydelodio7141]

"This video will make you hate Squatters" Me: Dude, I'm from Spain, the international capitol of the Squatters. They are more protected by the law here than a normal civil man.

[@dullsunrise8820]

I get that there’s a massive housing crisis and I understand why homeless people would take up residence in unused places (can’t blame them really), but to take advantage of other people’s kindness so they never have to try and at least attempt finding ways to get back on their feet? Breaking into already occupied homes and deciding “ok I live here now”? Treating the owners like dirt and even stealing from neighbors? There’s no excusing that kind of behavior. It only further harms those around them and actual homeless people who don’t act like jerks. Idk really frustrating to me and it’s only going to become more common at this rate :/

[@lildarling1221]

Absolutely. I will never be on the side of landlords, but it’s unacceptable that these crackheads are stealing homes from people who work hard, who have families and children, because they can’t be bothered to do anything but crack 😭 and they’re being protected by law. Unfortunately it’s just more proof of how this country hates the homeless. The government would rather shill the responsibility of providing for the unhoused onto its poorest citizens

[@stevenharbinger2427]

Okay, provide affordable housing.

[@danpaz9485]

U have to realise that some of those people are going through tough times or have had such a rough life that this is what they’ve grown to believe how to act or behave. Most of which is out of their control, theres only so much u can blame before u realise it is the fault of the system that fails these people

[@LilBearZen]

@@stevenharbinger2427bro you’ve been in every comment saying the same thing whether or not it’s relevant… how bout YOU provide some affordable housing instead of of serial commenting nonsense.

[@lildarling1221]

@@stevenharbinger2427 fr like the landlords can’t be mad someone is using the house

[@Madkalibyr]

Heck yes to the Charlie LeDuff mention!! He is an AMAZING journalist. I urge anyone to check out his current stuff, he truly deserves a lot more eyes on his stuff.

[@ka0584]

It's too bad these squatters (that actually go to prison) don't squat in prison when their sentences are up.

[@mn_twisted4319]

Absolutely crazy. I heard about one where a guy shot at the police then killed himself because he was being evicted from his house. Kinda sad but just insane escalation

[@DJMcNerdette]

I know who you're talking about, the car salesman right? He was already mentally out of it well before then, trying to write his manifesto before shooting at the cops, crazy guy.

[@mn_twisted4319]

Yup that would be him!

[@Syclone0044]

Evicted from his house or somebody else’s house he was trespassing upon?

[@totallytubular618]

Lawyer here. Adverse possession and "squatters rights" are not the same thing. Adverse possession actually makes a bit of sense. It's meant to encourage land development, discourage land waste, and prevent pseudo-feudalism. Back during westward expansion, you had land barons gobbling up tens of thousands of acres of land just to let it sit there, undeveloped. Most of em had never even been within a thousand miles of the land they owned. Homesteaders moving out there to stake their claim would find a piece of undeveloped land, with no way to know it was owned, and build a home, farm, and family there. Then, 15 years later, land baron sends someone to go inspect the land and sees the family, and the family gets evicted. This is the kind of thing it was meant for. It happens rarely today because most land *is* developed at this point. Still, it prevents someone from buying a plot and then letting it sit there for 80 years without maintaining it. Encourages big landowners to at least come by and do maintenance every once in a while.

[@breezytree8246]

Squater laws suck! I had a boyfriend living with me who was emotionally and verbally abusive to me and my son. He was disabled and didn’t bring in any money. He wasn’t on the lease but the cops couldn’t kick him out because he had lived there for so long and had mail sent to the apartment. Took me forever to finally get him out of my place.

[@brunoyudi9555]

thats not related to Squatter's Laws

[@NekoAkuma666]

I’ve noticed a recent rise in “squatting” issues in the USA. As someone living in the US I can assure you I have thought about it since I and many others my age (early 20’s) can’t even afford a home let alone an apartment. It’s bad when my fiancé and I have contemplated moving to another country because it’s cheaper in the long run.

[@jjenk911]

Even though you can't find the outcomes of some of the squatters in this video, your research is well done. Keep up the good work, WWS.

[@rebusak47]

Love it, a British thing that's transferred to the States, your welcome America.

[@songoku9348]

Then I want the 2nd amendment transferred to Britain in exchange. God knows we need self protection laws here.

[@thetiredcynic]

Look at you, wavey, bumping up that presentation style. Also you're looking good, man keep at whatever you're doing.

[@Zippo_Allstar]

I love the dude that squatted in her moms squatted house to drive them out and since then started a service helping people remove squatters by squatting.

[@Musicreach101]

Squatters act like they’ll be missed if they piss off the wrong home owner.

[@pixle3625]

looking sharp man, love watching your vids. Keep up the good work :D

[@kevin171994]

THIS IS one my favorite channels, keep up the goord work !! you are brilliant !! quality keeps getting better n better

[@rachelhammonds2510]

I literally find myself searching for your newest upload after a certain amount of time...Wavy withdrawals ❤😂

[@theaychgee]

uhm .... I already do hate squatters.... lol but I will watch the video anyways. Criminals gunna criminal.

[@paneth8466]

Guy named Jeffrey squatting in a Toys R Us is kinda on the nose lol

[@stevenedwards8353]

Love how that dude just walked up and was like "You my wife now. What's for dinner?" lol

[@simenkjeldsen8675]

Thank you for going through bad crazy shit for me, so I don't have to ❤️ I love your content!

[@Cl0udWolf]

Crazy how squatting is basically legal because cops won’t do anything about it unless there is another type of crime being committed

[@Ragnarakk]

Damn. if only landlords werent such greedy pricks.. maybe we wouldnt have so many stories like this

[@justinb864]

People really out here wondering why squatting is becoming an issue when we have more forever vacant houses than homeless people.