“I’d much rather make a squatter homeless than have a landlord lose property,” James added.
Keeping it classy.
I thought for sure I was on the onion when I read that line. Sad that it’s real
he smells like a nimby. he probably would be at the place when MILLBRAE(rich white residents) were complaining about converting a former hotel into a liviing space for the impoverished that occured like last year.
So it was him making all those pro-landlord memes…
“I’d much rather make a squatter homeless than have a landlord lose property,” Jacobs added.
These are the pieces of shit your politicians listen to every time they increase funding for police enforcement against the homeless, and deny zoning changes, even if it would improve the housing crisis. “theft is always bad no matter what 🤓☝️”
You have to be genuinely mentally ill to believe that someone going homeless is better than someone with more properties than they need to live in losing one of those properties so someone has a place to live.
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Especially empty properties.
that cannot be a real quote from a real person. it just can’t be.
In fact, this is something I could genuinely see multiple people in my own extended family saying.
You don’t believe him? But he’s got the only squatter removal business with a Yelp account! /s
…with professional-grade tactical gear.
The gear includes firearms, ballistic full-body armor, flash bangs and smoke grenades, tear gas…Where the fuck are you sourcing explosives and tear gas as a civilian, and more importantly…
Where can I get some? Purely for home defense, of course. Definitely not wanting it for defrost purposes.Plus points for “defrosting” there, very nicely put.
Where the fuck are you sourcing explosives and tear gas as a civilian
https://www.keepshooting.com/clear-out-6oz-tear-gas-grenade.html
Clear Out 6oz Tear Gas Grenade
Totally legal, all of that. The grenades require a $200 DD stamp each (don’t think the smokes do, unsure about tear gas - I know I bought smoke grenades for airsoft all the time back when I played), but everything there is totally legal from your local gun show or Bubba.
Bubba is the guy that Trump sucked off
Gun show.
The best part is the 50/50 on if they work or not
Oof. That bad?
I would wager much of the “tacti-cool” market stuff to not perform.
I’m not an expert.
its very important that the property remains empty, you see. if we allowed people to pay too little for it that would drive the prices of our other properties down.
literally just the passage from grapes of wrath.
this is a puff piece about the kind of gangster who turns up murdered and unmourned
“The average squatter has no melee experience,”
But what about magic? Magic beats melee in the combat triangle.
what about crack, and fentanyl buffs.
Fentanyl is a debuff.
At a distance! This would be close quarter
It actually doesn’t matter as far as the combat triangle is concerned because melee armor has debuffs for magic defense and magic armor has buffs for melee defense IIRC
Also mages can freeze you and shit
If the squatter mage has been there long enough to count it as a chantry, then there’s wards and no paradox, so the melee assailant is cooked.
Here me out, longbow is still melee range.
No argument there. See: Legolas in any LOTR
And people with melee experience are not bulletproof.
I cast GUN
Hm. This guy might have trouble against a higher-level homeless like Nanba-san.
Squatters rights are an important part of common law and they serve as a foundational means of ensuring valuable real estate remains in use. Adverse possession requires openly living somewhere for years without permission or resistance from the owner
Yep, and this guy is one form of “resistance”. But doesn’t reporting the squatter to the police count as “resistance” as well? Surely you don’t need to hire private goons to chuck them out?
sword-wielding man
ASAP Squatter Removal has a 95%+ success rate
Every now and then, you run into a spearman.
These people think evil quest givers in games are role models, not warnings.
I feel like this is a time to vouch for an element of a story I’m writing.
In this world, there’s an Adventurer’s Guild. It’s named, and oriented, very much like the generic guild that appears in so many generic Anime-MMO medieval fantasy worlds. In it, travelers with weapons, be they swords or bows, complete missions for money.
As one would expect from that setup, the only people with money who ever hire the Adventurer’s Guild are wealthy merchants with cargo to protect, or land developers with an excuse to enact aggression on innocent people, or anyone who can veil their murderous intent with some legal excuse. The first way the story introduces them is that a city has contracted with the Guild to use them as extra peacekeepers, and it’s a horrible setup because they have no deescalation training. The guild itself lures in members with ideas that they’ll “take down troublesome animals for troubled townfolk” and maybe even sometimes have those quests, but primarily, most of the other characters in the story just refer to it as “The Mercenary’s Guild. Oh, I guess they call themselves Adventurers’ Guild now.”
It’s my way of getting people to analyze their desire to kill things for rewards, which is fine for a simple game made for children, but shouldn’t be part of your fantasies as you grow up.
I am also doing my own MMO isekai thing, where the concept is that the inhabitants are vaguely aware that they occupy an artificial world. Or more specifically, they view developers and players as gods and demigods, respectively. Things like player housing are special mechanics that the inhabitants have to work around, or guild privileges vanishing if certain NPC lineages (player “pets”) die out. The world in general is falling apart, because the game has long become a museum piece - almost no one ever visits, in the hundreds of ingame years that the MMO has been running. It is a story about the NPC cultures have developed in the absence of realworld humans, in a world of game mechanics.
Anyhow, I figured that I might as well mention it to you. Way I figure, we can take each other’s angles and remix them.
I will admit to being personally aggrieved by the supposition that I’m childish for enjoying fighting things. But I believe there should be a way to interrogate the levels of critical thinking and agency people/players give away in the pursuit of an easy, “clear” target without making prescriptive, defamatory remarks about how people have fun in fiction.
We must defend the empty properties!
Also, we must solve the housing crisis by building more houses!
Squatters don’t usually go for genuinely abandoned properties, but rather ones that are empty in the short term for normal reasons (vacations, sales, grandma got moved to a home). If they went into abandoned properties then there might be repairs that need to be done, some of the utilities might not be able to be activated immediately because of connection issues, it might not be safe, and certainly the owner might not notice and then come to ask them to leave and then they would never be able to ask the owner for money to make them leave.
Do you have knowledge of these truly abandoned properties? I could use some adverse possession…
You could search Zillow for off-market properties. Look for stuff that’s way below market for the area. Cross reference state property tax records. Title records. Maybe it’s boarded up and in obvious disrepair. Particular look for one that’s owned for a long time by an LLC. The owner there has enough business accumen to fix it up, but believes that he’ll profit more by waiting around until market conditions change. Look for the LLC owner, for one who doesn’t live nearby. Now you have someone whose distance and dereliction of social duty shows through in the condition of the property. He’s harming the neighborhood, keeping housing empty and off-market, and not even paying attention. That’s the one.
This is not legal advice, just a mental exercise.
Everyone here sucks except the squatters.
Edit: This is very contraversial for some reason nobody cares to defend but consider that a house is first and foremost a tool and squatters are the only people in the story correctly using a house for its only real purpose. I’m not saying they’re good people, just that they’re the only people not enganged in some kind of elaborate fraud or thinly vieled attempt to murder humans.
Then I’ll train and purposely squat so that this stain can be humbled
Ads for this type of services show up in craigslist regularly where I live. Named organizations like Viking Acquisitions or FAFO LLC post weekly. I bugged the local newspaper about it, but they were disinterested.
Ok…but what happens when a squatter has a gun?
“The average sword-wielding man has no firearms experience.”
He should slowly develop his resistance to bullets, starting with air rifle and then small calibre rounds.
If you were a tenant and you are getting kicked out you should have different rights like a proper eviction and a court date.
If you just broke in you should simply be removed by the cops on penalty of law if the landlord lies and you are actually a tenant who was illegally evicted.
This is what the law in liberal wa state is.
In theory yeah, but squatters rights do exist for a purpose of keeping abandoned buildings from just decaying if you can show you’ve been maintaining it in the owners absence. Now I’m not saying that they’re used like that now but that is their actual purpose.
I wish to God squatters would quietly drill out the locks on an old abandoned property, occupy it and slowly fix it up and just go over to whatever agency 5 years later with the documentation to show it and say “by right of labor and occupancy this house is mine.”
I just doesn’t seem to be how it works in places with tolerant squatting laws. The way it seems to go is some enterprising criminals will run off some fake leases, gain entry to a home that’s only temporarily unoccupied, and then when the owners come back they ask them for money to leave. And then the owners give them money, and the squatters either leave or they don’t.
It takes a long time up to 20 years in some places and it’s normal if the situation is legally unclear to make a court handle it.
At that point after a court finds the lease fabricated it is up to the law to punish people if they don’t they are as much at fault as the bad guys
They aren’t used at all anywhere for the most part because it takes up to 20 years.
When morons say it half of them mean needing to evict someone who sets up shop illegally without a lease and half of them mean needing to go to court instead of being free to put tenants shit on the street for non-payment.
Squatters rights also called Aversive possession have to do with neither.
Squatters of the kind almost anyone encounters in real life don’t have squatters rights at most they have the leverage provided by cops being unwilling to handle the situation. If you break into a property you don’t live in you can absolutely simply be arrested. In fact WA codified in law that if you aren’t a tenant and haven’t been recently you can be removed on the owners say so without a formal eviction.
Tenants who don’t pay still aren’t squatters and their right to a formal eviction is a tenant’s right.
