Squatters in California meet their match (Martinez: property taxes, live in, law)

[UniversalTraveler]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

Where is it otherwise? What state disallows self-defense in response to an intruder threatening the homeowner’s life inside their own home?

Does California? It seems with their liberal bent they would give the trespasser/intruder rights. LOL....sheesh

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by UniversalTraveler

Does California? It seems with their liberal bent they would give the trespasser/intruder rights. LOL....sheesh

“It seems”?

Do you have actual information to cite that proves your incessant inferences? You know, like laws?

You live in Idaho … yet you are polluting the California forums with innuendos … falsehoods. What’s the point?

True self-defense is legal everywhere in America.

what amendment says you can defend yourself?
Heller, the Supreme Court held that the "Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home."

^^^ That’s federal … you know: ‘universal’ to ALL 50 states.

[UniversalTraveler]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

“It seems”?

Do you have actual information to cite that proves your incessant inferences? You know, like laws?

You live in Idaho … yet you are polluting the California forums with innuendos … falsehoods. What’s the point?

True self-defense is legal everywhere in America.



^^^ That’s federal … you know: ‘universal’ to ALL 50 states.

This is encouraging to hear you say

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by UniversalTraveler

This is encouraging to hear you say

Yeah? Why? … more inferences that I’ve ever held otherwise?

Keep ‘em coming. I’m in a debunking mode …

[mattja]

Originally Posted by fluffythewondercat

Dateline Fremont, California. Five years ago I had to evict our so-called renters who wouldn't pay the rent and wouldn't leave, after we repeatedly put up notices nailed to the garage door. The police came on the day the renters were supposed to vacate. Two cops, one cop car. Safety in numbers, thank goodness.

Hilariously, the woman of the house came out wearing a cocktail dress and heels.

Some people are just scumbags.

[mattja]

Originally Posted by bad debt

California doesn't protect squatters. You are free to remove someone however you want. But if the person is simply sitting in your house and he's not doing anything to endanger you and you kill him. That's called murder. Even in Georgia.

That's why you need a throw-down gun.

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by mattja

That's why you need a throw-down gun.

or three

[hbdwihdh378y9]

Originally Posted by ExNooYawk2

My sister allowed one of her dirt-bag boyfriends to get his mail at her house. When she passed away, he moved in. My brother couldn't evict him because he could show he resided in the home due to the mail delivery. Next thing, the neighbors took pictures of him loading up a U-Haul as he helped herself to her belongings. Nothing the cops could do. Sickening.

Unless she had a will leaving that stuff to him, it was theft, and the cops could have arrested him.

[hbdwihdh378y9]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

California doesn't protect squatters any more than any other state. As the article in the OP states, "A tenant is someone who was invited onto a property with consent, said Mark Martinez, a tenant rights attorney. That consent can be as formal as a written lease or as casual as a verbal agreement. Even if a tenant stops paying rent, they still have protections, and landlords have to go through an official eviction process, which can take weeks or months.

A squatter is essentially a trespasser, Martinez said: someone who goes into a property without permission and stays there.

Besides adverse possession, a rarely seen process in which a person can obtain a property after openly living there and paying property taxes for five years, there are no true “squatter’s rights,” Martinez said. Trespassing is illegal, and squatters cannot legally live in a home."

That's what I've been trying to tell people.

[hbdwihdh378y9]

Originally Posted by JGC97

You were very fortunate that you had a rental agreement and had the law on your side, fluffy. It's a big fat headache to get those renters out but when someone just moves into a house without a legal agreement, it becomes a civil matter and police won't touch it.

Squatters can be very clever. They can manufacture a fake lease agreement, forge signatures and when LE shows up at their door, they whip that out and show it to the officer(s). Officers don't know for certain if the document is fake or real which is why they won't get involved.

Baloney. Once they are there they ARE involved.

Either they take the side of the homeowner, or they take the side of the criminal.