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How Squatters Took An Elderly Man's Home (and still have it)

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0:00 imagine your dad being in that position where like he can't do anything cuz honly yeah I'm I'm wilding out I don't give a I'm knocking heads [Music] up this story is only is sad because it's still going on uh so everybody loves squatters right we all like squatters rights and love that squatters are hard to kick out of houses it's really fun everybody wins because of this law got loopholes yeah so here's what happened there's a 76-year-old man who's been living in his Colorado house for 50 years and while he was out walking he noticed that there's a woman who was living out of her car uh this homeless woman offered to do some household chores for him so he said yes cuz he's a 76-year old guy um he's also

0:51 uh suffering from like mild dementia at this stage uh so then he agrees to it and then the requests and favors start getting a little bit stretched out out next thing you know she starts using the shower every now and then and starts sleeping in his guest room certain nights next thing you know she's moved two nonworking automobiles into his driveway she's brought in her 15-year-old son to live in the house her boyfriend and her cat the boyfriend is always threatening the elderly guy whenever he's asking him like what he's doing there if he's going to move out so it's hard to get rid of him and then he that that boyfriend I think is like into some illegal ████ because he's got people coming around the house looking for him like in bad ways so it's starting trouble for the elderly guy and then uh the squatters start setting up a

1:42 mushroom growing operation inside the house and there's underage drug use and and guns always present the elderly dude is stuck in this house because he's living off of Social Security which is just enough for him to get by by his own and he can't afford the legal uh procedure in order to get the squatters out so people ask has he called the cops yes he has every time the cops come they'll maybe come up to 24 hours later from the call and when they do show up the squatters just say that they're the ones that live there and that when the cop asks for permission to enter they just say no you don't have permission to enter and then it ends right there they just can't do anything so um especially if they already have stuff in the house exactly so that's the key yeah a big big uh feature with why they also can't do

2:32 anything is that the original person that came into the house which is that one homeless lady was actually invited in by that guy so because of that that means they have to get a court order to get these people out the old dude can't afford to do all that and uh right now his daughters have set up a GoFundMe in order for him to pay the legal expenses to get these people out yeah it's really why does it have to go through legals though like it's just same with here it's just it's a s█████ situation it just really sucks squatters are targeting people like this yeah yeah I think it's sad cuz he was trying to do like a nice thing yeah like it's like it sucks that like you give an inch people take a mile or like it just kept getting worse like everything you said like oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh it kind of shows you that that's kind of their MO

3:22 like that's their career is to just constantly getting houses and and then uh bring in everybody and continue whatever illegal ████ they're doing it just to imagine being in that position or imagine your dad being in that position where like he can't do anything cuz hon yeah I'm I'm wilding out I don't give a ████ I'm knocking heads ████ I'm ████ ████ up almost because of this law though there's almost no way to get away with that but if you can prove that those people are not living in the house you can like kick them out and be like hey they're in my house but they're a burden but you have to prove it in court you can't prove it face to face America Noe crazy I would just move in and just be the worst like I would move in if what they typically do way asan Andy did that with his situation uhuh he had a squatter that wouldn't leave and he just tried to what

4:14 did she finally leave I don't remember what exactly happened but he just made her life hell and just kept like pestering her blaring noises doing everything he could oh yeah I think eventually they did figure that out okay yeah I'll go to jail though ████ I'd be willing to go to jail I'm going kale but what if you're the only way to do it is to just become like a horrible roommate in return you know what I mean like cuz like what else can you do like that's not within the legal parameters that's the only way you just be like put a bunch of Sak Bombs Over yeah the other there's this other guy that I watched uh he it was like this weird loophole for him because it was his mother's house and squatters ended up taking over that house so he ended up having to squat the squatters and reverse the white gu yeah that was

5:06 really and he now has like a business helping people get out of that you can yeah hopefully this guy can get in contact with this guy that would be really cool yeah he's like an expert squatter exterminator because of that situation he's you know do look maybe this isn't like I don't know like do is this an American thing or is this everywhere I think it's an American thing mostly they have we like that think so I think California is the worst in the Netherlands that's probably not possible if you're still living in the house and you have Pro you live there then and you're like certain like hey police this is a man that's not living in my house I can prove it then the that man is going to get arrested yeah that's how the logic seems here it's like if what they would say or what they would do is print out a fake lease agreement and say I live here because this person

5:56 let me and they they rented me space and look at this also there's of amount of time that you've occupied a space now dictates that you've lived here oh wow regardless of you having a contract or a lease that's actually viable yeah so that's the the s█████ part too it's even weirder backwards there's a there's another weirder I don't know exactly the the word for word definition of this law but there's a squatter law where like if you've let's say you've squatted in an empty house for like some number of years it can become your house if it's uncontested and you pay the uh the back taxes it's only way we could get a house nowadays yeah but I don't think anybody's ever done that cuz you have to have a lot of money to do that love that too everything I hear about this is always like we're all everyone I know is kind of on the same page of like this seems wrong you know it's like what is the other side like what would someone from

6:47 the squatter's perspective like say to be like no this is why we can do this and why we have I don't know what the Justice side of it really is other than yeah like what would the def what would their point of view be if they have family is their thing is it's a survival situation yeah it's like a gypsy mentality you're going to do everything you possibly can regardless ████ Gypsy but I guess I guess like the thing it's supposed to protect is like if you were telling the truth if somebody did rent you space in the house and then they just want you out they just can't do that to you and I think part of like my this is my crackpot Theory but I think the reason why this certain States like this is it it's not their problem because they're not on the street so they're more concerned that there's a person that's on the street than a person in a house and they're like well if that guy's indoors that's less of an issue it just causes so many other

7:37 problem it's just your drama and they're like oh you handle your drama yeah man it almost washes their hands of the incident when they're like that's that's on you dude yeah but aren't they figuring that stuff out now they actually have a new law for it I think they're moving that direction yeah but I don't know if it'll stick or what'll be the end result cuz it's like you would think this isn't a new nuisance so why did they have this taken care of like a long time ago cuz people been having this problem forever we're not different in this generation we also hate it real estate I think also with like social media like people can like post their personal stories and like it's more like you're able to like advocate for it like on your own accord more than like if you were back in the day just able to like say it it's kind of like at large like a bigger it has more air time of other people agreeing and be like yeah see this is wrong feel like it's happening

8:28 all the time yeah versus like if there was no like cuz the news is not necessarily going to cover that you know for people to feel some type of way about so that might not's your that like our phones or whatever can like kind of like get that message out so it feels a little more like you know unanimous right I've never met one person that sees the logic in working the other way though I don't I don't really I would love to know what their thoughts are like maybe like said like Survival cuz like I think like are they just misunderstood like I don't know you know like there's got be I think there are people who are just in really s█████ positions have made poor choices for the most part and they have decided to take advantage of people yeah for either themselves um or for their family if they have that situation which you know when you look at it from that

9:19 perspective it's like yeah you would do anything for your kids but it's a s█████ situation s█████ way of done it it's like if that was happening to your your dad or something he wouldn't want you to go to jail over that's more problem exactly you know what I mean right that's very true I told the story on here about my my ex's dad he went to jail for doing this exact thing when a squatter took over one of their properties and uh I guess he had gotten a fight with the guy and when he came in he finally made his way into the house he saw that there were dirty diapers everywhere that the guy just like threw the squatter so then he he I think he beat the guy's ass and when the dude was laying down he made him eat the diaper and went went to jail for that exact like that's on his record that's crazy feces shoved in his mouth they didn't go easy on him either because he was the owner of nothing they literally and he's like an important guy in his community this dude is like a a head sales at

10:10 Oracle like a major corporation no he got no breaks they were just like you did this all right you going to jail how did they prove he did it though he didn't deny he did it it literally just did it he wasn't like oh I didn't do it yeah no he he he that's he did the thing that we all say on a hitfire reaction of oh beat his ass he did exactly that and it it didn't go well for him so it's it's not one of those things where like even if it feels good to do that the problems it gave him down the line was cost more yeah it cost more than uh sometimes it's like it's not worth it to stand on business like sometimes just stay on business not a great idea stay on business but do it strategically I don't know I kind of like staying on business enjoy jail it's hard when you got a kid when you got a kid you got to you got to tactically stand up yeah yeah no you

11:01 can't do nothing that'll take you away from your family first of all doesn't matter what it is yeah he's like not convinced what is it like though just stomp on the ████ head just like what are you you feel this pain like just beat his ass enough you know you're going to have to feel it symbolically dude

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