Squatters

Spyhop · 28 Feb 2011 at 00:58

Property trolls.

crisbduck · 28 Feb 2011 at 01:02

I'm sure I've read similar/the same story before and other articles on it say it was a development project that had no one in it for 6 months+. Hardly a reliable source

shifty_uk · 28 Feb 2011 at 01:11

PardonTheWait said:
I find it genuinely hard to believe that anyone I know, on coming to their own house and seeing that notice, would do anything that wasn't immediately fetching a load of mates and kicking the door in. And that's not a keyboard warrior statement... hobos in your house, kick them out. They're Polish hippies in skinny jeans, not the Royal Marines.

Although the law technically is on their side, how does anyone expect anything to come of it? You hoof these losers out, they call the police, and say they were in your house, you say "No you weren't", the police say "jolly good, off you trot then trampypants"

No one is going to get prosecuted for that.

I was just writing a post along the same lines. Definitely agree.

I don't know anyone who wouldn't be forceful or violent in a situation like that.

Stretch · 28 Feb 2011 at 01:36

Stink bomb through the letterbox on the hour every hour.

It’s a stupid law, and shouldn’t be allowed. It’s not tolerated in Scotland.

OpenToSuggestions · 28 Feb 2011 at 01:37

If I had a house and if squatters moved in, I would chase them out with a chainsaw.

If it is my house then I have the right to act dangerously within my own home

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Tute · 28 Feb 2011 at 06:55

Squatting and car clamping are two laws I don't understand how they even existed in the first place.

Squatting = Theft, tresspass, sometimes breaking and entering.
Clamping = Extortion.

Scotland has the right idea with all this, when's the government here going to grow a brain and do something about it?

Sankari · 28 Feb 2011 at 07:51

It beggars belief that this house was not properly secure in the first place. Renovation is no excuse for poor security.

arknor · 28 Feb 2011 at 08:06

Evangelion said:
It beggars belief that this house was not properly secure in the first place. Renovation is no excuse for poor security.

dont they change all the locks when they take over?

it seems if you can change locks without damage its not classed as forced entry, the neighbours say they broke in to

Mucky_Pup · 28 Feb 2011 at 08:13

Overslop said:
Ah, but when the boxers decide they don't want to leave you would have to throw some lions in and then how do you get rid of the lions?

Throw in some African poachers.

And I'd get the door kicked in, and threaten to burn their eyes out with a blow lamp.

Sankari · 28 Feb 2011 at 08:23

arknor said:
dont they change all the locks when they take over? it seems if you can change locks without damage its not classed as forced entry

Good gracious. I don't understand why this ridiculous legal loophole still exists.

the neighbours say they broke in to

The tricky part is proving this in court.

Margaret · 28 Feb 2011 at 08:31

That's a 1 million pound house? Blimey it doesn't look like much. :S

shifty_uk said:
I was just writing a post along the same lines. Definitely agree.

I don't know anyone who wouldn't be forceful or violent in a situation like that.

This. That picture of the scruffy mess with a guitar enrages me...well if he was in my house that door would be kicked in and that little scruffy ****** would be on the floor in the street.

Edrof · 28 Feb 2011 at 08:38

Superewza said:
Daily mail...

I don't see anything wrong with squatting as long as they respect the property, leave everything as they found it and leave when asked/the owner returns. After all, if it's an empty property then why shouldn't someone make use of it?

Because they haven't paid for it, that's why! Do you mind if I use your car/house/garage/wife while you're not there?

After all they aren't in use for a bit, why shouldn't someone make use of them?

Tombstone · 28 Feb 2011 at 08:50

It seems so bizarre that if someone takes my car, its theft. If someone takes my tv its theft, if someone takes my clothes its theft...but if they take my house...its squatting and is allowed. :confused:

koolpc · 28 Feb 2011 at 09:03

No way would i go to the police to get them out. I would do it myself with my mates. Trust me, they would be gotten out of the house in one fell swoop!

Tombstone · 28 Feb 2011 at 09:06

Margaret said:
That's a 1 million pound house? Blimey it doesn't look like much. :S

Thats Highgate prices for you, the average terraced house price in Highgate this year is £1.4 million, the average detached in Highgate is £2.6 million.

Overslop · 28 Feb 2011 at 09:09

Tombstone said:
It seems so bizarre that if someone takes my car, its theft. If someone takes my tv its theft, if someone takes my clothes its theft...but if they take my house...its squatting and is allowed.

It's legal for some guy to come along and take your wife too. And if he does then he usually gets half your house as a bonus.

SoundsGood · 28 Feb 2011 at 09:13

Cardioid bass array as close to the bedrooms as possible, sweeping between 30 and 100hz 24/7 at 140dB.

ColdAsIce · 28 Feb 2011 at 09:45

Superewza said:
Daily mail...

I don't see anything wrong with squatting as long as they respect the property, leave everything as they found it and leave when asked/the owner returns. After all, if it's an empty property then why shouldn't someone make use of it?

Such a communist point of view, no idea of the principals of ownership.

koolpc · 28 Feb 2011 at 10:01

Superewza said:
Daily mail...

I don't see anything wrong with squatting as long as they respect the property, leave everything as they found it and leave when asked/the owner returns. After all, if it's an empty property then why shouldn't someone make use of it?

Obviously written by a twelve year old who lives with mum and dad!!

Tombstone · 28 Feb 2011 at 10:16

Overslop said:
It's legal for some guy to come along and take your wife too. And if he does then he usually gets half your house as a bonus.

Thats ok as long as I get the half with the Kitchen and Toilet in it