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In court: *Tresspasser:* "I own your house now, I've been there for 5 years now" *Me:* "But I have a welcome mat." *Judge:* "Oh shit he has a point."

This is the "If the teacher dosent show up for 15 minutes we can leave" argument in the world of house ownership.

There is generally an important caveat in Adverse Possession cases - The adverse possession must be uncontested during the period of possession.

This reminds me of the story of how my uncle got his house for free. My uncle had taken out a loan to get the house, but he couldn't pay the loan, because he had more important things to spend money on like heroin. So the bank decided to take the house, since it was bought with their money. However, my uncle had left the house in such a state of disrepair that the bank decided to let my uncle keep the house and write it off as charity.

Man, does that work in Monopoly?

"Put a welcome sign so nobody could claim it" Simple spell but quite unbreakable

I own 4 and a half acres of land in a wooded area of Florence, South Carolina. But as most of you know, I usually travel to Jamaica twice a year. When covid came in 2020, I was in Jamaica, then the borders were closed and I ended up staying in Jamaica for a full year. When I came back to the states, I decided to pay a visit to my property and to my greatest surprise, I saw that some one had built a hiking trail and cultivated crops on it. I followed the trail and saw a small camper parked up the hill on the property. I decided to go check it out. While I was heading there, I saw another guy who was hiking, and I asked him if he was from around, and said yes. I asked him how long he had lived in the area, and he said for about a year. I asked him if he knew the place well enough to show me around, and he said he knew it well, but that at the moment, he just wanted to play it by the ear. I asked him what that meant, and he asked me to hike with him a bit while we talked. He told me that he gets up in the morning, sits outside of his camper to watch the sunrise while drinking a glass or two of beer, and smoking some grass. Then he works on the garden till midday, by which time he goes back into the camper for his afternoon nap. He gets up later in the day and cleans around, then goes for a hike. He returns from the hike and sits in front of the camper to watch the sunset, with a glass or two of beer while playing it by the ear all along. At this point I felt like I was being violated and I told him that the property was mine, and that he needed to pack up and leave immediately. He asked if he could give me a little money so that he could stay till his crops mature, that way he doesn't lose his harvest. Long story short, we are in 2022, and he is still on the land, but that's because I let him stay and take care of the land while I was away. I made him sign a document that clearly stated why he was there. I have not had any issues with him since.

Adverse possession doesn't work in Australia anymore, those laws have been patched up by other laws. I think it was just last year a police officer over here was sent to jail for running an adverse possession racket to bolster her own portfolio.

House: Exists. Squatter: Hippity hoppity, this land is now my property!

This actually happened to my Father-in-law in Uraguay. when he came over here to Australia he allowed his brother to live in his house back in Uraguay rent-free since the value of the property at the time was insignificant. Fast forward 30 years and he is now retired and decided to sell the house back in Uraguay only for his brother to claim possession stating that he has acted as the owner of the property for the last 30 years. My Father-in-law eventually won but he did have to go back to Uraguay to fight the case in person.

Neighbor: *Takes care of half my yard for eight years* Me: *Strolling over to my neighbor mowing* "Good morning, nice day out!" Neighbor: "Great, now I have to start all over again!"

if someone did that to my house he would go missing quickly

“When stealing is legal, go for it!” *Picture of Wall Street in the background*

Wendover Production: Detailed analysis of the logistics of ISS. Half as Interesting: hey uh so did u know that u can steal other ppl houses without getting caught

This is why estate managers exist. To do the rounds of properties once every few months and take note of any signs of occupation or potential damage. If someone wants to be generous they can offer a $1 lease renewable annually upon owner's discretion. Then the occupants are tenants and not squatters. Something that is quite common locally is for people to offer someone the task of "land manager" in exchange for tenancy. Which both excludes others from squatting and firmly classifies them as tenants. Not sure if this only counts for the "house" or the whole property, which in some jurisdictions are treated as separate entities. In which case the owner of the property can demand that the house and it's occupants (new owners) is removed, which is a prohibitively expensive endeavour in and of itself. I'm fairly sure that some jurisdictions require a fair attempt to notify the owner of your occupation. Such as when you file with the court the owner then has to be found and notified by the court, at which point they can file an eviction notice. If they can't be found, then the house is treated as an unowned asset or something like that. Also, I wonder if this can be used to settle indigenous land claims. If the government or no one of settler descent wants to use the land then an indigenous governmental organisation could try to occupy it and claim it back. Then again, with out record of how we treated indigenous people, it's likely that we would ignore even our own law and forcibly evict them.

Just realised that the guy shifted every word in "mending the fences, taking out the trash, mowing/weeding the lawn, watering the hedges" and added windows just to confuse everyone.

How you can legally steal a house ...by trespassing, which is a crime

"What do you do for a living?" HAI: *I teach kids how to steal houses on KZfaq*

Im going to go steal an entire mountain now, thanks✌ Edit: Arizona is only 2 years, that makes it so much easier

Finally, now I can start my own business, all I need is 5 years and the courage to live in that abandoned factory in the city.

Someone: commits adverse possession Wait, that's *legal!*

Germany: -squats on Poland- Poland: hey dats illega- Germany: ADVERSE POSSESSION

In Panamá they're an entire town named Casco Viejo full of squatters where the owners usually just buy them a house someplace else.

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how they slid in that advertisement 😭

“Reading the trash” Also known as browsing Twitter

>But when stealing is legal... >wall st sign 10/10

I like how smoothly he moves to the sponsor

time to steal buckingham palace

So that means.. if a homeless man has been living in an abandoned house for years no one has bought yet.. *I T S A F R E E R E A L E S T A T E*

It's 3:00 am. The perfect time to watch this video!

Oh nice! Now I can legally invade that massive mansion with an abandoned nuclear silo that is just at the end of my street. I’ve always wanted a nuclear silo or bunker.

It can also be used when you're in the right! I bought my cabin on land contract, I paid it off and did the paper work. 30 years later I go to sell it and they can't find land contract sign off, realtor gone, original owner dead. I had to file adverse possession to clear title.

**Swiper sees the law** _Swiper steals the entire neighborhood_

1. Find mansion 2. Find owner(s) 3. Challenge them to live anywhere else for however long you need (Prize of course) 4. Live in their mansion, and tell everyone, but in a joking way 5. They haven’t entered the mansion in years while you have and cannot claim they didn’t know 6. You own the mansion 7. Sell mansion 8. Use money to cover legal costs and pay the original owners their prize

Except for my aversion leaning toward hatred for advertisements online or in the mail or on television (that I no longer "watch" and haven't for decades..) Nice work. Informative, humorous, and not too long or short. Kudos. Added to your subscriber count.

wow i've had a really bad month and basically found no interest in anything i normally love and been just watching random youtube essentially in the complete despair that anything could ever shake me from my existential crisis.. until 3:41 of this video that is... and i almost fell out of my chair... thank you. as random as it was, this video really cheered me up for a minute =)

HAI: *releases this video* Squatters: It's free real estate!* *Terms and Conditions apply

Why own a house when u can claim a whole city ? Hint : Chernobyl

This should always be legal, I see abandoned buildings all the time where I live and nobody’s coming there.

Because of how tactfully your ad was placed, I actually have a positive view of Dashlane as an option for me. I generally tend to avoid products or services that are aggressively advertised. Great content on the subject of "squatter's rights".

I think these laws were intended for when someone died (or moved West) and left a house behind. Not so much for today. Although if a property owner really doesn't come home in five years or more, they don't really need that house.

3:08 taking out the lawn and weeding the trash 😂😂

In Brazil it's is called "Usu Capião" and i'm actually registering my house via this law, because the last owner, that i bought the house from, had some legal problems and now, after 5 years, the house is completely in my name, and this works even if you have an Buy and Sell Contract of the land.

A real estate lawyer told me decades ago how to easily and inexpensively beat a squatter out of winning any adverse possession claim - without hiring an attorney! He said if someone is on your property and trying to get it under adverse possession laws all you have to do is write them a letter giving them permission to stay there and have them served with a copy of the letter. It's the complete opposite of going to court and fighting yet removes that "hostile" and "without permission" first hurdle required for them to win.

0:30 WOHA WOAH WHAT! HOW DARE YOU BE AGAINST THE CRJ 200! ITS LIKE MY 27TH FAVOURITE AIRCRAFT

Great key analogy the ad. Using Dash Laine are other password managers is like having a keychain with all of your keys on it perfectly labeled to the locks that they match. Then you take that keychain and put it in a lock box with only one key hoping that no one breaks into your lockbox this makes perfect sense.

Really good commercials. He gets you with a catchy topic and then BAM! Commercial. Nice.

For those confused by the wit: In adverse possession countries, land/property rights work like trademarks. As in, you need to use them and defend them, or you lose them. In both cases, the idea is to prevent waste and rights hording.

This isn't completely crazy. It's about implicitly relinquishing your property by abandonment.

Some states also require you to pay property tax on it for a certain amount of time before it’s yours.

I used to work in the county appraisal district office in a rural county in Texas. We saw adverse possession at least once a year. It turns out back in the 1920s, land developers put together plots of land about the size of a generous tent camping site, say 25 feet by 100 feet, and sold those plots to Yankees wishing to build a retirement home in Texas. These neighborhoods numbered at least 10,000 individual lots in many counties. As the Yankee retirement influx failed to materialize, and as children and grandchildren inheritors failed to follow up, the abandoned lots have been picked up for free by adjacent neighbors. Our county judge would ask all the neighbors if any of them objected to the adverse possession. If anyone did he game everyone a chance to come to terms before approving the deal. Once the judge approves it, the new owner had 100% clear title with no recourse for anyone to try and reclaim it. In two counties I know of entire ranches are comprised of these abandoned lots.

I got halfway through this video and remembered *SHIT* I need to water my window

*HAI:* Shows me how to steal a house. *Me:* Steals HAI's house. *HAI:* D:

3:34 "Criteria number... ev". It was adorable!

"Taking out the lawn & reading the trash etc." 🤣🤣🤣

You might want to mention the case in the USA when someone won a Vacant Possession in court after a lengthy legal battle. The very next day the original owner went to the house and blew new owners head out with a shot gun. His only words were " I'm dying of cancer, you arn't getting my kids inheritance property and know this, I'll get the health care i cannot afford in jail too."

Came for the click bait...stayed for the legitimately interesting content. Nice job!

I really like the short form video you post to this channel

In South Africa the part about tresspassing doesn’t apply, which has caused many problems such as when renters refuse to pay rent or farm workers (in South Africa most farm workers lived on the farm itself but this is changing due toe the issues surrounding them then owning parts of the farm if they live there long enough) start to cause trouble or are fired and simply not legally being able to kick them off of the property. In South Africa it is a geniune common concern that once someone is on your land you cant legally get them offbif they stay for môre than a few days

One additional item some states in the US have to make adverse possession harder: the squatter must be paying the property taxes as well.

Me: Kidnapps neighbour Also me: It's free real estate

It worked for me when we sold my parents house in 2001 When the house was bought in the seventies the Neibour house was Also sold. We believed the garage was ours so we treated it that way. The neighboring house was sold several more times. When it was time to sell the house we had to find the original owner who owned the whole thing including the garage and have him sign off that it was a long time ago and he had no idea and all the time that had passed, but he was dead.

Damn, this idea to have the same key for all your locks and not needing to carry a keychain is genius.

Time to gather forces of homeless people and invade the rich neighbourhood _sounds like a Clash of Clans rip-off_

Man, i love the infograp- ...wait a second, This isn't the infographics show! This is only half as interesting!

This is exactly what I needed to watch while procrastinating for a quiz on a book I haven’t read yet that I will be taking in less than 7 hours

I found the dashlane portion of the video to be of tremendous help!

I know someone who did that in the UK. A corner of there house was actually on someone else's property. They realized with about a year to go before they could claim it and because they didn't want to give up there washing up machine space didn't tell there neighbors. They then claimed the area later without there neighbors ever knowing.

Trespasser: "I claim adverse possession." Homeowner: "I am okay with him being on my land for one-second out of every year" Judge: "Sorry, no hostility"

"Watering the windows, taking out the lawn, reading the trash" lol

Would have been nice to include modern cases and give more specific examples

Me: How could he possibly insert an aircraft joke in this HAI: ... Bombardier CRJ200 Smooth as f

Wife: WHERE ARE YOU husband: in the house Wife: HONEY, THE HOUSE IS GONE

There is one more element applied in modern U.S. jurisdictions, as well as non-U.S. countreis. Specifically, as part of the process that the "adverse possessor" must prove in a "quiet title" action (the name of the legal process to give title to the adverse possessor), is that the person claiming title through adverse POSSESSION MUST ALSO HAVE PAID THE PROPERTY TAXES. The act of paying property taxes demonstrates ownership.

a couple years ago, my grandpa had to leave for a few months, so he paid a woman to housesit/catsit while he was away. When he returned, she refused to leave, and used a ton of laws just like this as threats. He had to pay her a frankly outrageous amount of money together to leave, on top of everything else (her fee for housesitting, the food she ate, damages to the house). These laws have uses sometimes but they can also do a lot of damage to innocent homeowners.

Owner: I own this property. Adverse Possession Law: I'm about to end this man's whole career.

"When stealing is legal..." *Shows Wall Street*

Squatters on Bogue Banks, southern Outer Banks of NC successfully gain possession of a ton of beach front property owned by Teddy Roosevelt’s estate. People went to the island, cut down the trees and just built houses on the land, having no clue who even owned it (or if anyone owned it)

Great video! One question.. Does it matter if the property is own by the state or another person?

I'm always impressed by how smoothly and naturally you bring up the sponsors at the end of the video. Sqauters, locks and keys, passwords, password manager.

IIRC, there was a squatter in Sydney who stayed in one of those old Victorian terraces (for those who don't know, they look crappy and rundown mostly, but they're expensive af since they're historical buildings). He ended up with a $20million terrace

While granted I last studied the law of adverse possession in this context over thirty years ago when studying for the bar in New York I seem to recall the multistage exclusivity requirement is that the party asserting a claim must possess to the exclusion of the owner as well as others lest the claimants possession not be apparently open and notorious or hostile. On the other hand,and to the claimants benefit respecting the required time period, in New York I believe generally ten years, twenty if the claim is versus the state, a claimant can "tack" on to a prior possessors time in possession,otherwise meeting all criteria, and the respective continuous ie consecutive periods if in total meeting or exceeding the required time period, then adverse possession for the second possessor is established. Again,this is from memory,though I am fairly certain as to the latter,less so as to the former.

Can't wait for this to be in the next Leverage episode.

Go to minecraft, find a village and sleep on their house. easy

Half as Interesting: You can steal someone's house legally. Squatters in the third world: Wait, you guys can do that?

I don't live on it, but I stole a brush hill in my village center, cleared it, planted, put in a driveway and put up a monument. It's been almost 2 years, I may start adding sheds

Lol that ending advertisement was slick 👏 🤣👍

Family who just paid off mortgage: We've been living here continuously and exclusively for 20 years. Bank: But you can't prove it was hostile so we're stealing your house Court: Rules in favor of the bank

I'll have you know that the Bombardier CRJ-200 is a FINE aircraft thank you very much... Just a little cramped, that's all..

“Crumpet consuming” I just cracked up 🤣

I keep getting mail in other people's names, a lot of different people. I signed up for Informed Delivery from USPS and have had all mail to my home stopped EXCEPT mail in my name. Sometimes mail does slip thru when USPS uses my street as a training route, so I contact the senders and make sure to let them know I live alone. I do this because if a person gets mail at your address for a predetermined time, they are entitled to squat there. Just today I got a notice of a new person's mail from Ford about airbags. These new mails are not from any person that may have lived here before me as I have lived here forever and when I ask the sender when the account had been setup at this address, they all say within the last year. Getting mail at an address IS PROOF that you live there! My home kinda looks abandoned except for the 8 security cameras and the lighted security signs. At night my home looks dark from the outside but all windows have blackout curtains.

3:05 Mowing the fences Watering the windows Taking out the lawn Completely normal stuff

Mowing The fences, watering the window, taking out the lawn, reading the trash... I love it

So if you own a whole slew of houses, which are in all kinds of different far-flung locations around the country (or the world), then it behooves you to see that someone is managing them, whether they are occupied or not.

1:12 Nice one for dropping this in... Most Brits won't even get it.

Having squatters take over my house while I'm on holiday is probably one of my biggest fears.

I love the sales pitches at the end. Nicely integrated with video's content.

1:17 lol

I actually support this. In my neighborhood there were many houses abandoned by the banks after foreclosure and people moved in, fixed up the property and made it into a home and improved the neighborhood in comparison to before, when there were run down abandoned buildings on every block.