• kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 hours ago

      Fun fact: you can legally just steal a house if nobody is living in it for an extended period of time and you get away with living in it for an extended period of time (not legal advice btw)

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            1 hour ago

            CA has them I know.

            Generally the squatting has to be open, and hostile. Idk why hostile that has always seemed odd to me. But you want to get bills in your name as soon as possible for instance. You want to make some improvements to the property if you can.

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              35 minutes ago

              Idk why hostile that has always seemed odd to me.

              Maybe to prevent the law from being abused for capital transfer tax fraud. But that’s just a guess.

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                I think also, like a neighbor built their driveway over my property under the old owner (2 of them did actually, one he put a chain over it in a couple places, other one woman called the sheriff and made him back off and let her steal that little bit of what is now my land. But her use maybe is like hostile, at this point I couldn’t get it back, although this is a little different than squatter laws it’s kind of from a similar place in the law I think.

                So her use was hostile, so I can’t get it back. If it wasn’t, if she just asked can I use it, and I would say sure, then I could reclaim that piece, because I was letting her use it. Still seems weird to me but I think that’s how it works sometimes.

                Neighbors are dicks out here, some of them, always trying to prevent people with property from accessing the private road network they have gates up on. Judge finally told them to fuck off and threatened to jail them, so we all got the code, but they can change it again at a moment’s notice. I should get some thermite, if they lock me out and just melt through that bitch. But that’s all another story.