I hope it's ok to share this yt vid.
A few months ago I noticed a weird uptick in “squatter” videos on YT. They universally portray squatters as dirty parasites who steal homes from good taxpaying Americans.
Squatters' rights laws do get abused once in a while, I know this.. but for every story like that there are ten, or maybe hundreds of people who didn't get thrown out of their apartment or the home they've mortgaged the last twenty years because of squatters' rights.
I think that banks and landlords want us polarized against squatters' rights so that we'll abolish our own protection.. basically the last domino between us and China's all-rent property-ownership model.
If you know anyone who's crusading against squatters, in spite of never having seen or heard of one in their life… please set them straight.
BTW I've heard some arguments for the other side. I know a guy who had to kick vandals out of his LA home after a hurricane. He successfully did it thru the courts. It cost him money, but so did the hurricane that caused the whole situation. And I know a guy who made a bad life choice and found it very difficult to get rid of a live-in girlfriend whom he'd let stay one night too many… and he solved his problem too and has a much healthier relationship going on now.
Giving my mortgage company (who's filed bankruptcy twice now) to seize my home if I'm a day late on my mortgage is not the answer to problems caused by acts of God or thinking with the wrong head.