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“You’re stealing their power” “I am… blessed” Truly a gift 😂

My God.. Someone squatting in YOUR house is bad enough. Having them lie to police after they choked you, then putting all your animals in KILL SHELTERS while YOURE LOCKED UP over a LIE is just straight-up evil man.

“I don’t like dogs” “well we don’t like squatters but you’re still here” 😂

“We don’t like squatters, but you’re still here” damn sis go off, good on you

Vallejo guy should have sued the state to pay for his medical bills. Ignoring a freaking 911 call and dude gets stabbed by a sword. Smh

I’m glad the Governor of Georgia just signed a new squatter bill to assure that your case is seen by a court and taken care of in less than a week now. Because this is ridiculous.

Sometimes, I do not think there is anything wrong with squatters. It just depends on the circumstances. I know of a case where an older man was squatting in an abandoned house. Both the home and the land were owned by the government and had been left unused for years. One day, the older man just moved into that home and started fixing it up the best he could. Eventually, the press found out, and people got upset because he was living there for free! That is what appeared to bother everyone: that he was living somewhere for free. The government did kick him out and bulldozed the home. Now the place is just unused land. The man could have been left there, and it would not have bothered or cost anyone a cent. No, people got upset that someone was living for free (that's why they wanted him out).

‘I don’t like dogs.’ ‘I don’t like squatters, but you’re still here!’ 🤣🤣🤣

Reporter:"You're stealing electricity" Squatter: "I'm blessed"

When I get caught stealing I'll use the excuse "I'm blessed" 😂😂😂😂

Squatters can actually provide a somewhat valuable role if they are in a truly abandoned property and IF the squatters take care of it decently well (that's a big "if"). I had friends who did this for five years. When the true owner asked them to leave, they asked for a couple weeks to find a new place and then handed it over to him. The owner later thanked them for keeping it in good shape during the financial crisis!

7:15 you don't have to blame America for that one. Squatters rights are inherited from British law and it is still protected in the UK

I cannot imagine having the courage to just roll into a house and claim it as mine. I would be shitting my pants.

Love how the police only help when it’ll look bad if they don’t.

$11 A MEAL?!!?!?!?!?!?! I knew things in America were bad, but.... wow... My wife and I could have a full dinner for two in a restaraunt and change to spare for that much, over here in Taiwan.

Kind of funny how squatters get so upset when people intrude on them... the irony is truly lost on them 😏

I get it, homeless people need a place to stay so living in an abandoned property is one thing. On the other hand, if the owner of that property shows up and you refuse to leave all bets should be off

“Crackheadery” is now in my vocabulary permanently. Thanks Wavy! ❤

Some of these squatters are just assholes but I also see just a lot of people who are desperate and who need help. The homeless and unemployed epidemics are absolutely insane

Lawyer here. Adverse possession and "squatters rights" are not the same thing. Adverse possession actually makes a bit of sense. It's meant to encourage land development, discourage land waste, and prevent pseudo-feudalism. Back during westward expansion, you had land barons gobbling up tens of thousands of acres of land just to let it sit there, undeveloped. Most of em had never even been within a thousand miles of the land they owned. Homesteaders moving out there to stake their claim would find a piece of undeveloped land, with no way to know it was owned, and build a home, farm, and family there. Then, 15 years later, land baron sends someone to go inspect the land and sees the family, and the family gets evicted. This is the kind of thing it was meant for. It happens rarely today because most land *is* developed at this point. Still, it prevents someone from buying a plot and then letting it sit there for 80 years without maintaining it. Encourages big landowners to at least come by and do maintenance every once in a while.

Here’s a bit of a complex story but it’s relevant to the video I grew up in an old house with lots of family. The house belonged to my great grandparents and they passed it down to my mentally challenged aunt. She passed in 2020 and because she was mentally challenged she could not legally pass the house down, we had to move since it now was in nobody’s name Went to visit the old place a year ago, just to at least see the outside of the place I grew up in for 10 years. I saw someone’s face in the window and they peeked away, makes me sick that we couldn’t keep the house but some random squatter can wander about as they please

10:33 “Uhm my powerr isss-“ “Thats not legit.” “-is not legit.” “Nah yu-you’re stealing the power.” “I ammm…. Blessed…”

Now that 20 years have passed since the incident, I think it might be interesting to talk about the Killdozer incident, and more importantly, why on earth a false narrative about the guy being the Protagonist became so widespread.

these are bad cases of squatting but the fact I will never be able to own a home in this economy, I cant help but identify. Would I ever defile a corpse for a house? no. But please provide affordable housing.

I love that the guy who destroyed his dental records obviously didn’t think it through that they only really look for those if YOU die

The police in this stories sound like they are made of gelatine and air.

America sure has a lot of homeless people, a lot of empty homes, and a lot of landlords. Weird.

Recently here in Alabama, the government passed a law that allows the home owner (s) to do whatever they see fit to take of the squatter (s).

As someone who was homeless at one point, squatters suck! Even I had standards back then!

“Burrowed into an abandoned Circuit City”… yea that checks out

I have a real hard time feeling bad for landlords but these stories are wild

If he paid back taxes on the property couldn't he have went about it legally to actually aquire it. Why hadn't the bank been paying the taxes, it doesn't sound like they were doing things correctly either.

It's stories like these that make me question what the police actually DO when they're on duty supposedly earning their paychecks. They claim they're keepers of the peace but don't seem to actually care unless the case is high enough profile or a rich person's involved.

Look, I am not remotely defending the people in this video who were violent and scammy, although I really do question the ethics of that one guy who shot the sleeping couple...that aside, however. We have an insanely huge problem in this country of property being sat on vacant by investors at ridiculous and ever-climbing prices that no one even making double minimum wage could ever hope to buy in the cities they work in. There are people actively fighting affordable housing initiatives, criminalizing homelessness, and driving people to desperation. You can't buy 5 square feet and port-a-potty anywhere within 30 miles of Seattle for less than $500k where I work. I don't know what people expect when you put all these factors together. Are you just going to jail 50 million people? I bet the prison complex would love that. Plus, if we get even deeper and touchier here, no one gave a single shit about the property rights of Native Americans when we landed here and "adversely ownershipped" the entire country we now live in. Colonials are the original squatters from hell, and everyone else who lived here before is still being served injustice.

The unfortunate thing is that this is only going to get worse as the housing crisis gets worse and people get more desperate

Adverse possession plays an important policy role in common law-it incentivizes property owners to check if their property is or is not being used. Adverse possession in English Common Law is older than the US itself. The abhors a waste of land regardless of who is in possession of it.

The first guy is obviously a piece of shit, but I'm not necessarily opposed to adverse possession. If the owner of a property isn't maintaining it or paying taxes, and someone else starts maintaining it, paying the taxes, and manages to openly live there for several years without the owner noticing, it's better for everyone if the guy that's actually willing to take care of the property owns it, and I struggle to feel sympathy for whoever (or, more realistically, whatever company) owns it, considering they couldn't even be bothered to occasionally stop by and check on the property.

I came terrifyingly close to a squatter situation myself recently. I prefer to have somebody around and always rent out my spare room. A woman answered my ad and she was my age, said she's recovering from a bad divorce, trying to get custody of her kid and needs a place to get back on her feet. I met her in a coffee shop and she was well dressed and good looking (Irrelevant to my decision but she didn't look like a drunken hobo...which is foreshadowing.), seemed pretty dim witted but that's common out here. I agreed to let her stay and she cut me a check and for about two days things were good. On the first day she was drunk, said she was celebrating the new place, made me some drinks, we went out for some drinks and she got REAL drunk but we had fun even though she was saying weird low key insulting things about me occasionally (I'm good looking too but definitely don't dress or look like the average guy here in trump country texas.). So a few days in and i noticed that by about 2 or 3 pm she was PISS drunk...every day, she seemed to exist off nothing but mimosas, i never saw her actually eat. She would get drunk and i could hear her in her room having a VERY loud very angry conversation with somebody i assumed was on the phone, she said she'd just left her mothers so i assumed it was them or something to do with this supposed divorce but i realized she's DEFINITELY an alcoholic. She would be perfectly fine till she gets drunk and then she would just pick fights, insult me, just be unreasonably nasty to me for no reason. One day i sat her down and gave her a talk, told her I don't put up with ish from ANYBODY, that i've been kind to her, gave her a place to stay but this is gonna stop NOW. She apologized, says she's been told she gets like that when she's drunk and it'll stop but she also admitted she's an alcoholic. I told her that's okay but she has to control herself. I also realized she was probably working as an escort but she didn't entertain here so whatever. It wasn't till she was there almost a full month that i realized that these nightly LOUD screaming conversations she was having with somebody in her room were not on the phone....she would get drunk and babble to herself, seemingly talking to people not in the room like a lunatic as well as yelling at herself, seeming to have entire conversations with herself. I came home one day and there were live bullets on my living room floor. I knocked on her door interrupting one of these conversations with herself and asked her if she had a gun, she said yes. I asked if i could see it and showed her the bullets. She said she thought she heard something and was walking around the house with a gun. I asked her why she was ejecting live ammunition from it and she couldn't really answer me. She gets the loaded gun from her dresser to show me and shows me by *putting it to my chest with her finger on the trigger.* I'm like WHOA!! And step to the side, she laughs hysterically and apologizes. About 20 minutes later i hear a blood curdling scream from her room and she tells me she saw a bug and demanded i come get it. I look for the bug and the whole time she's FREAKING, screaming and really annoying me. I get the bug and throw it outside. About an hour later her drunken convo with herself gets SO loud i ask her to keep it down which she does for about 10 minutes only to get even LOUDER and move out into the hallway and start banging on my door and screaming about how i went into her room while she was in the shower and put a bug in it and she doesn't feel safe and she called the cops and says "If I see you remember i have a gun!". I call the police who say she NEVER called them but ask me what's going on. Soon as i mention the gun they send cops down who show up and i tell them she'd pointed a gun at my chest, probably on purpose. They talk to her and say she's on drugs, they're just not sure what. At this point she was on a new month period and hadn't paid her rent, i told her she has to leave again. She told the cops she has nowhere to go and I told them she was officially squatting. They told me i have to evict her and she's not leaving and has no plan to leave and there's nothing they can do and that eviction could take up to 9 months. I almost lost it when i heard that and came up with a plan. I deduced she had been at her parents house and moved in early because they kicked her out (She's 41.) and told the cops to ask her to call her parents. She did and the cops asked her for the phone, when she passed the phone to the cops i shouted into it "PLEASE COME PICK UP YOUR DAUGHTER! PLEASE DON'T MAKE HER MY PROBLEM TOO!". It worked. Her parents had mercy on me and came to pick her up that night and got all her stuff. Dodged a bullet, probably literally.

I do junk removal and demolition for Jiffy Junk. We cleared a hoarder house, while the guy was out of state some folks broke in and started squating. Destroyed the house so much it was like we were never there. Stole all the copper pipes, And shit. On the fucking floor. Twice. Also shat in the crock pot. Hell

Hey, maybe bail shouldn't be an option in cases of violent crimes and threats. But, what do I know? I'm not a lawyer.

so many homeless people, so many empty homes - squatting in itself is morally neutral. but if you behave like a dick to neighbors, you're crossing a line.

How desperate do you have to be to resort to killing someone in order to illegally stay where you are staying? I guess a lot of us take for granted simple things such as having a roof over our heads.

Make me hate them? I’ve always hated them

Don't blame America for adverse possession law. We inherited it from the English common law, and it actually made historical sense. Back in the olden days, large land owners frequently abandoned low value properties. The abandoned farm down the road could bring down property values and attract highwaymen, so laws were developed to allow someone to move into an abandoned property, and ultimately obtain ownership after living there for 21 years. And the possession had to be open, notorious and adverse (exclusive to anyone else's interest.) If you allow me to occupy your property, I can not claim adverse possession because my possession is not adverse to you. A few states, like Ohio and Pennsylvania, still use the 21 year rule. A couple have raised it to 27 or 30 years, and many have reduced it to 10 years. I read California now uses a 5 year rule, which sounds insane. But I haven't really research it. Bottom line - the squatter problem really has nothing to do with real state adverse possession laws.

On one hand a lot of these "squatters" suck. On the other hand i cant bring myself to feel bad for people who own MORE than 1 home when i dont have single home let alone enough to rent out, making money off of people's need for a roof over their head instead of an actual job or simply being unemployed.

We have an affordable housing crisis in the United States. Like in my town many low income apartment buildings have been bought up and everyone was evicted. I heard that they are being turned into high priced luxury apartments.

My father lived in Florida when he was alive, while I lived in Wisconsin only 5 miles away from his cabin in the woods. Some meth head couple moved in to our cabin without our knowledge. The bf already worked at my work and his gf was just hired at my job. I find out they took over my dads cabin and refused to leave. I called police on behalf of my dad and they did absolutely nothing. Their excuse was that my dad was not physically there even though he didn't want them there. Not only was this happening, the meth boyfriend was actively beating his gf and we saw the evidence all over her face when she showed up to work. Still with the evidence of abuse and clear drug using in our cabin it wasn't enough for police to want to help us.

Its crazy that the cops cant seem to do anything about the squatting (indicating theres a lack of enforceable law), but squatting does seem to be illegal enough to violate parole... If its an obvious parole violation, why isnt it a crime that cops can enforce outside of a parole/probation situation?

If it's a vacant lot owned by a bank, I'm fully in support. How the hell are we supposed to afford houses as younger generations when every single house is an investment property? Obviously if it's a private owner and they're trying to live there or rent it out even just seasonally, that shouldn't be allowed but if you're not using the house, why hog it?

7:00 It's not actually stupid if used properly. It's mainly for abandoned property. if a landlord has forgotten about it, moved away without selling it, or died without any next of kin, it's actually a really weird gray area in the law for what is to be done with that property. Eventually, the city or county will repossess it, but that can take a long time, and in the meantime the property goes unused and falls into disrepair. In this case, it's not actually very useful to anyone due to the effort and cost involved in rebuilding the property, so anyone can pretty much just claim it, and if you live there for long enough without the landlord laying claim to it and evicting you (it's some years, maybe 4) you can become the legal owner of the property. However, if the legal owner is currently trying to sell the house it doesn't really count anymore, although it seems a major oversight to knowingly have this guy living in your house and trying to sell it without evicting him first.

It's a bit unrelated, but I basically consider my ex psycho flatmate to be a legal squatter. Yes she paid her room like everyone else, but after almost physically assaulting me and yelling so loud in an argument (the flat was disgusting after I came back from travelling for 2 weeks, and she couldn't take accountability), that the apartment complex thought I was assaulting a child. The landlord couldn't kick her out because in France you can't force someone to leave from December - March. So I was stuck living with an insane person who refused to leave despite the whole flat share wanting her out. These people who abuse the law and cause suffering to others are the worst.

29:17 "you better lock your fucking doors" had me in stitches.

My aunt had claimed a house in her name that she was squatting in. Apparently when she had first started squatting she happened to stumble upon the owner in the kitchen, but he was dead on the floor. So they barricaded the door to the kitchen and she squatted upstairs. Then some 6 to 9 months later when the body was finally recovered, my aunt decided to do her research, and thanks to her knowledge of the system, she was able to dig up all the information she could on the owner and property and took it to the courts. Shortly after she not only gained the property of the owner, but some excess land that he had owned in another state as well. It's crazy how many loopholes are in this system.

Hundreds of homes are sitting empty because greedy landowners won’t rent unless they get a certain $ amount and they let them fall apart so I don’t blame people for squatting. And the DMV in Virginia will take a utility bill with your name on it as proof of residence. So the whole mail thing is not as absurd as you think.

Already hated squatters before this video. Stealing people's houses is not okay. Homelessness isn't a crime necessarily but stealing people's houses are

idgaf if people squat properties owned by a BANK

Hey I actually live just down the road from the cabin in the first story, I remember the 2017 video first coming out and it scaring me and my friends when we were younger. The home looks pretty different nowadays and you can tell its been taken cared of more. Much love from your fans in Mt Juliet, TN!

*talks about grave squatter in Las Vegas* *shows the absolute least Las Vegas looking stock footage of a home in the Midwest plains*

If people steal houses from the bank, I somehow shed negative 2,14 tears with an extra -4 in escrow.

Squatting: Awful if it takes place on a person's property. A way of taking back what we are owed if it is against banks that have for closed or large companies that have come in to buy up and inflate property values.

"Crackheadery" Never change lmao

Quick note on adverse possession: it arose as a legal concept primarily in the era of American expansionism a couple of hundred years ago. The idea behind it was that the state would prefer to have someone farming and utilizing arable land, regardless of whether or not they’re the owner. That being said, the legal standard for adpos is pretty high, and it’s unlikely someone who’s squatting will meet it.

I'm not defending the guy in the first one but I legit don't understand why you're swinging so hard to defend billion dollar banks hoarding houses in the same country with a housing crisis and people living on the streets. Idk I don't see how it's dumb to use and upkeep a house that a money driven corporation was letting sit around for so long that they didn't even notice someone moving in till years after The fact. They "aquired" it through forclosure so tbh the bank may have stole the property from someones else as well. If vacant housing is going unused for literally years then I don't see the issue allowing someone who needs it and is actually taking care and paying taxes on it to take ownership. Defending corporations over actual people is such an L take.

Back in the 70s in the UK I was part of the squatters movement. We only ever moved into comdemned council properties, NEVER private owned. Got the utilities connected, paid the bills, made it nice and moved on if the property was ever reclaimed. My brother lived quietly for 12 years in a house due for demolition and was able to claim it. When he moved he just handed over to a young family. No money changed hands. This was all a political act. What we see here is a vastly different thing and the people deserve any shit that comes their way. Different times. Different motives.

Remember, although these squatters are bad. Squatters rights protects you from being unfairy evicted!

When my dad passed away, his girlfriend at the time (they had been dating when I was a lot younger then got back together) refused to leave the house preventing probate and me being able to sell it and get his belongings. This lasted for like, 9 months. We eventually stopped paying the power bill and had the water shut off and she still wouldn't leave. She started selling his belongings since she didn't have a job and even sold his nice truck. She changed the locks obviously too. It was a nightmare and ended up losing close to 20k over it. She even had the audacity to tell me that she was the only woman my dad had ever loved which was bs because I am his only daughter and she wasn't my mom. She had a pattern of being a mooch her whole life and leeched off my dad for years and years prior to and after his passing. Oh and she also tried to get his pension from his job and started draining his bank account immediately as well. Truly an awful person.

The reporter roasting the people for squatting was hilarious 😂😂

Adverse Possession is a pretty important law. Because it forces property owners to maintain their lots instead of hoarding land and letting it stagnate. It keeps housing in active circulation and helps make sure that big plots of land are at least properly monitored. Obviously it can be taken advantage of by some less than reputable people. But it keeps land and property owners active in maintaining their stakes. And it deters would-be market manipulators by making property buy-ups a very costly endeavor in the long term.

22:26 "I don't like dogs" "Well we don't like squatters but you're still here" 💀 well said.

I love seeing you move around more and just have fun with the narration

I like the new "bird chirp" that you have incorporated along with the WWS initials as a type of branding. You have come a long way since I first started following you and it looks good on you. I appreciate you Wavy. Wishing you all the best!

As someone working in housing, I've seen firsthand that squatting is far from a one-dimensional issue. It's not fair or accurate to label all squatters as "crackheads." Many are individuals and families facing economic hardships exacerbated by soaring housing costs or living in uninhabitable conditions due to neglectful landlords.

I find it hilarious when people act like landlords are good people.

Adverse Possession isn't unique to the US, and it isn't quite the same as squatting. You have to be openly living in the home, usually for 10+ years, and make improvements on it. It depends on the state too. Some states it is 20 years. Then you have to file to have it signed over to you. During all those years, all the owner has to do is simply realize that you are staying there, and you don't belong. All they have to do is drive by their second property once every five years to make sure a family hasn't just moved in.

Adverse possession (frequently) begins with squatting. It takes decades. It's not stupid. It's designed to prevent waste.

I love the dude that squatted in her moms squatted house to drive them out and since then started a service helping people remove squatters by squatting.

One day I was watching a squatter arrest compilation video and I swear my ex and her baby daddy was in it. I hadn't seen her in years and it was the funniest thing I ever seen

In Spain we call it "okupar" and "okupas" and it's something that grown ass adults and some people are forced to do after the banks and specially landlords incrementally make housing so expensive that you have to abandon your house. Rent is a real problem here and people have to pay half or more of their paychecks just to live in a single room home. I can't hate them, as it's way more likely I'm FORCED to become a Squatter in order to have a home than I am likely to have my property occupied.

Thank god Florida recently passed a law to were police can arrest squatters when called

This is currently happening to us right now, here in Los Angeles. They haven't paid over a year. It's really distressing how the local authorities, the county and the government allow this. Very lax laws for these thieves known as squatters.

I'm totally gonna use "I am blessed" as a counter to stealing from now on lol

Lived nextdoor to a squatter that was a veteran but had mental illnesses and was always drug induced. He’d have a many disputes with his gf. Was a nightmare living next to him. He set up surveillance in front of his apt and all. Made people very uncomfortable. He also had this little dog that he’d let poop everywhere. One day a sheriff came with some guys and set all his stuff out. I was beyond happy. Squatters are such a pain.

If buying isn't owning. Then squatting isn't trespassing.

People really out here wondering why squatting is becoming an issue when we have more forever vacant houses than homeless people.

Squating laws was always meant to only take effect after years, where someone finds seemingly unoccupied land and improves it, only to later find out some laid a claim to it 5 years ago, sometimes as far back as decades ago, and left. It was entirely to stop frivolous land grabs by claiming to have once held ownership. The fact that the laws now take effect after weeks, often longer than it would take to evict an illegal squater, is insane.

Love how that dude just walked up and was like "You my wife now. What's for dinner?" lol

adverse possession is typically for abandoned property with owed taxes not bank owned homes for sale

I get that there’s a massive housing crisis and I understand why homeless people would take up residence in unused places (can’t blame them really), but to take advantage of other people’s kindness so they never have to try and at least attempt finding ways to get back on their feet? Breaking into already occupied homes and deciding “ok I live here now”? Treating the owners like dirt and even stealing from neighbors? There’s no excusing that kind of behavior. It only further harms those around them and actual homeless people who don’t act like jerks. Idk really frustrating to me and it’s only going to become more common at this rate :/

Heck yes to the Charlie LeDuff mention!! He is an AMAZING journalist. I urge anyone to check out his current stuff, he truly deserves a lot more eyes on his stuff.

Damn. if only landlords werent such greedy pricks.. maybe we wouldnt have so many stories like this

Jeffrey Allen Manchester sounds like a British name you come up with if you've never been to Britain. -We need a name for this fictional British character! -Uh... Jeffrey Allen Manchester? -Perfect!

My aunt had 3 acres in so cal with a main house and guest house. She moved out to help my grandma so she rented the main house out while me my mom and sister lived in the guest house. The renter stopped paying rent for 5 months before he was evicted - and left everything in the house including his meth. My family had to solely move all their stuff out by the sidewalk. the hole Time the renter was telling people how he was being evicted. Doing a really good sob act. Dude was a prick. And ruined the house.

As someone that hates banks and squatters… I’m confused

Banks are thieves and crooks.

Absolutely crazy. I heard about one where a guy shot at the police then killed himself because he was being evicted from his house. Kinda sad but just insane escalation

Squatters act like they’ll be missed if they piss off the wrong home owner.

If a house goes unused for the amount of time it takes to actually take possession of the property, that house SHOULD go to someone who can use it.

I genuinely dunno if this is a hot take or not but I don't just like hate squatters on principle. Obviously ALL of them in this video were too extreme but like. I'm empathetic for homeless people and i think its pretty ridiculous for people to leave there homes for years completely unattended but not lease it out or something. When I'm away from home for 8 months for university i always let someone stay at my home even just to shower or whatever free of charge

"This video will make you hate Squatters" Me: Dude, I'm from Spain, the international capitol of the Squatters. They are more protected by the law here than a normal civil man.