As illegal squatters taking over homes across Southern California grow increasingly common, one man has dedicated his life to fighting those squatters and protecting homeowners. Known as “The Squat…
I think that's usually the case. Yeah, a squatter could be waiting in the bushes for you to go to work so they can break in and set up shop, but they'd know that would lead to a fight, so they'd aim for unoccupied houses where they'd be left alone
Actually he's not, he is using a loophole whereby the owners sign an official lease with him for him to reside there.
The other tenant(s) do not have a lease and therefore are not within the legal right to complain.
edit: He also doesn't do it directly for profit, thus bypassing other laws. His site explains it in a youtube video here: https://squatterhunters.com/about/
The website doesn't really explain anything though, and even says that the laws should be amended
Why would the legal world take much longer and many more dollars to achieve what this guy can? Why wouldn't everyone just sign a lease to their friend?
If the landlord is aware of the squatters and then enters into a lease intended to deprive them of possession, how is that not just an end run around the law?
This guy just found a niche job as the bouncer for the 2nd/3rd/nth homes of the ultrawealthy, and he's trying, and apparently news outlets are helping to promote it as a good thing. Most people don't have a problem with squatters because they actually live in the house they own.
he charges his clients anywhere from $5,000 to $20,000 depending on the case.
He's not "helping", he's running a business. Also, only the ultrawealthy have homes like those he has removed people from, and you can tell from his YouTube channel that he's certainly targeting a specific audience.
If I spend my hard earned cash on a house. For any reason I leave for a while. Maybe my work requires I relocate for. (It doesn't matter what the reason is). Because I'm not there that means you can move in?
Or you buy a new house, and while your old house is on the market for sale, someone breaks in and claims it as their own while you're stuck paying for it, can't sell it, and run the risk of having it completely trashed.
What’s even more entitled is you thinking you have a right to shelter you don’t even use when hundreds of thousands nation-wide cannot afford shelter due to people like you hoovering up unused homes.
You know what your attitude is called? Parasitical and greedy.