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A Squatter Has Won the Rights to a Home After Owner Dies

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0:00 does it always go back to like the government people that's why all this stupid ████ happens is that pretty much sums that's a pretty fair way of looking at it that's a hot tap can wow can whoa are you sure you want to say [Music] that a squatter has won battle over a dead woman's home won the battle won the battle won leg legal ownership of a property he took over and then sold the home for a profit so it's way this is some ████ California ████ dude it's in the UK same thing same thing okay how did this happen check this out so there's a quirky ancient Roman law um that was cited in this but let me first tell you what happened there's a British

0:51 construction worker his his name is Keith best and he happened to spot a empty three-bedroom semi-detached home in London's Newberry Park back in 97 while he's working in a construction job nearby and according to reports he started renovating the property and ultimately moved his family into the home in 2012 so he just started renovating it and then moved right in what the wow however the house belonged to retiree Colin Curtis who lived in the property with his mother until the late '90s when he moved out now he inherited the property but under what has been described as a quirky ancient Roman law that allows someone in possession of a good without title to become the law proprietor of the original own if the original owner didn't show up after some time so he got grandfathered in as the home's legal guardian and an owner just

1:41 because the owner didn't show up they didn't show up for how long so crazy so he shows up and he takes it over in 90 in the '90s right like 97 you said earlier yeah and this no nobody showed up for a decade wow yeah so the guy probably died the at least 10 years had passed with without affection action by the owner and effective action by the owner and that's what made this guy win I mean that does feel like an abandoned home well we have that here too it's how many years does it take probably two months in La same day same day it's like you go shop for groceries and you come back in a squatter took your house you're like ████ man same day squat you know how they're battling squatters now how what now this is kind of like to me it feels like some badass Mafia ████ right but like so like say you got a squatter

2:31 you're like Joe help me out and I'm like all right well just rent it out to me so you write me out a lease I just wait till they leave the house and as soon as they leave the house I move in I bring all my ████ in whatever and I just become an obnoxious ████ roommate all right yeah and then usually it's like a really big six-foot dude that's like I don't want to shower but I'm going to walk around in my boxers and I'm going to eat cereal be obnoxious and then people are just like ████ I got to get out of here wow and then that's how they do it that's solid I heard about the music thing where they blast music in the room like just hanging out blasting music just keep throwing Sono speakers dude just have Anthony Lee go in the room and sit down and the guy's like oh ████ sake ████ I got to get the ████ out of here dude sick of this ████ that right now can you load the cabinets

3:21 with the sick of what an just but no imagine imagine Anthony just going in the room and then sitting down and then that's like I mean that guy's got to get it's crazy that like the house got passed down it's your mom's house and the house got passed down to you it's yours you used to live in it and then like something happens you move across yeah you move across town or whatever and then you come back like 10 years later and you're like the ████ it's not mine yeah dude 10 years to not go back to a property that's why you need a manager right a property manager to constantly like check that is absolutely why you need that yeah just leave the TV on with K's videos running or something 10 years is pretty crazy 10 years is crazy the TV is like let me die please let me ████ pull up PL I can't do it

4:14 anymore like oh my God was he just paying the bills remote cuz I'm like if you don't do anything and pay for anything like doesn't the city come after you and I don't know or maybe he was paying for it but he wasn't like effective action by the owner to take control of the property is what they say it doesn't exactly say what that means but yeah that's what they're talking but it's the crazy part it's yours right like imagine like you bought just land not even a house let's say you own a piece of land in Texas and then 10 years later there's like wait there's how come there's a house here oh there's no one here so I built one on top of this land you're like no but that land's mine that's crazy but you w't here to claim it yeah right and he also said that he thought it just transferred to him yeah he didn't know he had to take legal action to to Minister his mom's estate sure he thought it was just like hey transference because she died that's

5:05 pretty ignorant though because for most things you have to like do some paperwork so to make it binding so that's kind of funny that's a lot of bread so was he just a kind of like a rich kid that just doesn't know anything could be little scatterbrain isn't it crazy how like uh like squatters and stuff it's kind of makes you feel like it's still the Wild West in in some ways of the world you sometimes you think rules aren't even ████ real dude feels like they're real but only because there's people that say they are yeah like you could just they're not actually there start remodeling a house that you don't even live in it is kind of funny that like ████ you're putting money in Sweat Equity and a ████ yeah I'm going put a sink in this ████ place it is a little bit odd that it kind of looks easier to acquire property like illegally than it is legally buy a house there's a lot of things you can acquire easily like dude that's he chose right

5:57 he chose right on that house I mean I mean he cuz he was doing construction so he's there every day you know he's like bird dogging it for a while knows the deal yeah he's junkyard dogging that ████ from across the way yeah you guys heard of a professional renters there's nothing professional about them okay but they are like con artists right they'll look for like you know how like there's adus or like there's like a like some people have a home and then they convert their garage or whatever to like a studio or whatever right what's an AD stand something something unit addition additional dwelling unit yeah yeah and then they'll look at it and then they'll say this one isn't registered with the city right so they'll they'll say oh I guess you're renting it out right so they'll get a lease with you they'll move in and then maybe a month or two they'll stop paying rent and then they go well technically I'm not even staying

6:49 here this doesn't even exist so there's this conflicting law where the land lord doesn't want to report because it's also an illegal unit but at the same time they like there's this weird technicality where it's like they're living there but they're not living there and they can't get evicted because it's also illegal to someone yeah so they you just have this guy living wow I'm like it's so ████ bold that someone would do this because they haven't met the vandalizing Avatar such as myself I will use the your own Adu I will use all elements to get rid of this guy Which element would you think would be I think ████ you take I think I would first use air which is which is noise or smell noise or smell to get them out cuz I don't want to damage my own property right so that's air is number one Earth

7:41 is number two I would use ████ manure whatever ████ bending so cuz I could clean the ████ right yeah and then could always be clean clean the ████ I think flood water bending I think that would still work you could just flood the ████ out of their place BL effort dude you you know what you can do is you get while they're inside air conditioners with the remote but you can only control it with a remote so you crank it and make it super cold and they're like ████ man but if it's whm Hoff what am I going to do they're not dude it's very popular these days Wim Hoff is a popular method you just make it freezing cold for them it might be a Siberian ████ con artist so they might like it cold but turn it up if it's a Polynesian I think oh you know what I mean we could you know freeze them out tongin can't stand the cold yeah genetically they just can't do hope they I just play this ████

8:33 and then I don't have to do any of your guys' work I mean what would that be considered I uh eye bending torture torture yeah that's true eye bending I makes no sense I know I don't know dude what made you pick that video that one yeah oh cuz it says Arena China China China China what would you guys do do if um what would you guys do if you had a squatter that was like let's say you had like a house and another little house next to you and then they squatt it and you have to see them every ████ day oh do I get my dogs and they just bark all day they just ████ bark and they would make annoy them oh yeah dud I get my neighbor's Nutcracker thing that

9:23 goes have a fan that's it that's it that's what I do right by their ████ window damn huge Nutcracker does that we we were living in this complex and the and the bottom floor was getting kicked out and what this fool would do is run the water and play Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles like the game and leave it on repl and then just leave it on and leave the house I'll leave I was going to say how does he do it and then the run the water just leave the water running doesn't that the water doesn't the water bill go crazy or something and then you know what it is it's cuz the agreement for where we were living the landlord pays the water we pay electricity so he's screwing them hard so he just leaves all the water on so what my roommate did is just shut off his water he went into the piping shut off his hot water shut off everything yeah cuz he knew where to control it from the garage area that's

10:14 dope turn off his ████ power too the fact that you have to people have to deal with this is nuts it is it's ████ annoying and then one time when he when he left um somebody basically jammed a key in his door and broke it broke it and so he couldn't open his door bro you got to replace the whole thing I would murder somebody I think I would go crazy I don't have the selfcontrol to deal with that I saw a news story about a guy he I think he's still fighting this battle but he has a he owns a small home that is currently occupied by squatter so he can't get in but then that used to be his like additional home that he used as an investment his real house got foreclosed on cuz he ran into some tough ████ and lost his home he's homeless and he can't get into his other house that's unfortunate he lives on the street and he still owns another home

11:04 but the guy squatting hasn't paid rent and uh the bill collectors for utilities are coming after him what the the ████ cuz under his name bro you should be able to go in your house and drag that ████ by his neck on top of that the guy that's squatting listed it on Airbnb and makes money renting and Airbnb approved it no way how does that how he doesn't have the title to the house or anything this California ████ yeah dude that's why see it almost it almost serves you just to be a piece of ████ more sometimes it at this stage in this climate in this state absolutely but doesn't Gavin Newsome get style points yeah he does great hair he has nice hair great suits guy wears pin stripes very well little is it him that made all these things okay like who's the ████ that said hey all the da stop Prosecuting like I don't

11:54 understand you can make do ████ that's what he doesn't play the tuba but he can get get them to play what he wants them to play yeah and I'm wondering fired a prosecutor in Florida for not doing their or da in Florida for not doing their job yeah he's the conductor he makes the flutes play the flutes he makes the CL he's not doing anything to push them to do it he's just letting his the soral puppets win does it always go back to like the government people that's why all this stupid ████ happens is that pretty much sums up that's a pretty fair way of looking at it that's a hot take can wow can whoa are you sure you want to say that sure about cuz like aren't people supposed to be able to vote on certain things yeah but we V

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