Squatters Rights

[DrewPaul]

Pennsylvania man pays ransom to reclaim house from squatters: 'The city is rewarding criminals'

Squatters allegedly broke into a Philadelphia home that was about to be sold. With no help from police or the city, the owner says he paid to get his house back.

www.foxnews.com

A Pennsylvania man says he had to pay a squatter $1,200 to leave his house after police told him they couldn't intervene and court staff said a formal eviction could take more than six months.
"It's just unbelievable," Chris Harte said. "The city is rewarding criminals, basically."
Harte first spoke to Fox News in December, just days after his saga began. He was in the process of selling an investment property he'd renovated in northwest Philadelphia.
But on Dec. 8, Harte's real estate agent got a call from someone who lived near the house. She said she heard a commotion the night before, then saw people moving into the house and taking down the "for sale" sign.

A long time ago a right wing bomb thrower Michael Savage said that liberalism is a mental disease. At the time I figured it was incendiary speech. But is it? Can anyone explain to me how intelligent rational people came up with the idea that if you leave your house for a period of time or put it on sale then people are allowed to break in, change the locks so the owner can't get in. Then if you call the police they're hands are tied because of squatters rights. How did criminals get rights to commit crime? What about muggers rights? Rapists rights? Shop lifting rights. So the owner ended up paying the squatters to leave. In my opinion that was foolish. I'd pay some goons to move them out forcibly.

 

[Phys251]

Pennsylvania man pays ransom to reclaim house from squatters: 'The city is rewarding criminals'

Squatters allegedly broke into a Philadelphia home that was about to be sold. With no help from police or the city, the owner says he paid to get his house back.

www.foxnews.com

A Pennsylvania man says he had to pay a squatter $1,200 to leave his house after police told him they couldn't intervene and court staff said a formal eviction could take more than six months.
"It's just unbelievable," Chris Harte said. "The city is rewarding criminals, basically."
Harte first spoke to Fox News in December, just days after his saga began. He was in the process of selling an investment property he'd renovated in northwest Philadelphia.
But on Dec. 8, Harte's real estate agent got a call from someone who lived near the house. She said she heard a commotion the night before, then saw people moving into the house and taking down the "for sale" sign.

A long time ago a right wing bomb thrower Michael Savage said that liberalism is a mental disease. At the time I figured it was incendiary speech. But is it? Can anyone explain to me how intelligent rational people came up with the idea that if you leave your house for a period of time or put it on sale then people are allowed to break in, change the locks so the owner can't get in. Then if you call the police they're hands are tied because of squatters rights. How did criminals get rights to commit crime? What about muggers rights? Rapists rights? Shop lifting rights. So the owner ended up paying the squatters to leave. In my opinion that was foolish. I'd pay some goons to move them out forcibly.

You take a reasonable issue--unwanted squatters--and go straight to the "blame the liberals" shtick. Get a new line of attack.

 

[DrewPaul]

You take a reasonable issue--unwanted squatters--and go straight to the "blame the liberals" shtick. Get a new line of attack.

Who do you think passed such an asinine ordinance?

 

[Phys251]

Who do you think passed such an asinine ordinance?

Squatters' rights laws are everywhere. Get a new shtick.

 

[Mycroft]

Pennsylvania man pays ransom to reclaim house from squatters: 'The city is rewarding criminals'

Squatters allegedly broke into a Philadelphia home that was about to be sold. With no help from police or the city, the owner says he paid to get his house back.

www.foxnews.com

A Pennsylvania man says he had to pay a squatter $1,200 to leave his house after police told him they couldn't intervene and court staff said a formal eviction could take more than six months.
"It's just unbelievable," Chris Harte said. "The city is rewarding criminals, basically."
Harte first spoke to Fox News in December, just days after his saga began. He was in the process of selling an investment property he'd renovated in northwest Philadelphia.
But on Dec. 8, Harte's real estate agent got a call from someone who lived near the house. She said she heard a commotion the night before, then saw people moving into the house and taking down the "for sale" sign.

A long time ago a right wing bomb thrower Michael Savage said that liberalism is a mental disease. At the time I figured it was incendiary speech. But is it? Can anyone explain to me how intelligent rational people came up with the idea that if you leave your house for a period of time or put it on sale then people are allowed to break in, change the locks so the owner can't get in. Then if you call the police they're hands are tied because of squatters rights. How did criminals get rights to commit crime? What about muggers rights? Rapists rights? Shop lifting rights. So the owner ended up paying the squatters to leave. In my opinion that was foolish. I'd pay some goons to move them out forcibly.

It takes a bleeding heart liberal to pass laws that allow this kind of thing to happen.

I wonder...does PA have castle doctrine laws?

 

[DrewPaul]

Squatters' rights laws are everywhere. Get a new shtick.

So you agree with it...I hope you don't leave your home for a long vacation.

 

[Phys251]

So you agree with it...I hope you don't leave your home for a long vacation.

I know this is difficult for you to understand, but conservative states have squatters' rights laws as well. Why won't you blame the righties instead of engaging in partisan hackery?

 

[NolanVoyd]

So you agree with it...I hope you don't leave your home for a long vacation.

Just curious.

He says : "Squatters' rights laws are everywhere.

And you respond with "So you agree with it".

Can you explain that?

 

[DrewPaul]

I know this is difficult for you to understand, but conservative states have squatters' rights laws as well. Why won't you blame the righties instead of engaging in partisan hackery?

So you think squatters rights is a conservative idea? Is it rational? Are squatters rights a good thing? People who post in here tend to be above average intelligence. I suspect you know such laws are irrational. How did they obtain these rights? When did taxpaying homeowners lose their rights? I hope something is done on the national level. With the millions of new citizens were allowing in through the south border are going to need homes.

The idea of squatters rights comes from Marxism. The idea there is no private property and everyone has equal rights to everything. Except for the ruling class that invariably exempts themselves.

 

[Phys251]

So you think squatters rights is a conservative idea? Is it rational? Are squatters rights a good thing? People who post in here tend to be above average intelligence. I suspect you know such laws are irrational. How did they obtain these rights? When did taxpaying homeowners lose their rights? I hope something is done on the national level. With the millions of new citizens were allowing in through the south border are going to need homes.

The idea of squatters rights comes from Marxism. The idea there is no private property and everyone has equal rights to everything. Except for the ruling class that invariably exempts themselves.

Are you seriously under the delusion that Republican states have Marxist laws?

 

[DrewPaul]

Just curious.

He says : "Squatters' rights laws are everywhere.

And you respond with "So you agree with it".

Can you explain that?

He's clearly deflecting. He doesn't want to comment on whether such an idea is outrageous...obviously it is. He is probably butt hurt because I questioned if liberalism is a mental disease. He also knows liberals own Philadelphia.

 

[DrewPaul]

Are you seriously under the delusion that Republican states have Marxist laws?

Want to play? Answer my questions.

So you think squatters rights is a conservative idea? Is it rational? Are squatters rights a good thing? People who post in here tend to be above average intelligence. I suspect you know such laws are irrational. How did they obtain these rights? When did taxpaying homeowners lose their rights? I hope something is done on the national level. With the millions of new citizens were allowing in through the south border are going to need homes.

 

[Phys251]

Want to play? Answer my questions.

You answer mine first.

Why won't you blame the righties instead of engaging in partisan hackery?

So you think squatters rights is a conservative idea? Is it rational? Are squatters rights a good thing? People who post in here tend to be above average intelligence. I suspect you know such laws are irrational. How did they obtain these rights? When did taxpaying homeowners lose their rights? I hope something is done on the national level. With the millions of new citizens were allowing in through the south border are going to need homes.

 

[Grand Mal]

Pennsylvania man pays ransom to reclaim house from squatters: 'The city is rewarding criminals'

Squatters allegedly broke into a Philadelphia home that was about to be sold. With no help from police or the city, the owner says he paid to get his house back.

www.foxnews.com

A Pennsylvania man says he had to pay a squatter $1,200 to leave his house after police told him they couldn't intervene and court staff said a formal eviction could take more than six months.
"It's just unbelievable," Chris Harte said. "The city is rewarding criminals, basically."
Harte first spoke to Fox News in December, just days after his saga began. He was in the process of selling an investment property he'd renovated in northwest Philadelphia.
But on Dec. 8, Harte's real estate agent got a call from someone who lived near the house. She said she heard a commotion the night before, then saw people moving into the house and taking down the "for sale" sign.

A long time ago a right wing bomb thrower Michael Savage said that liberalism is a mental disease. At the time I figured it was incendiary speech. But is it? Can anyone explain to me how intelligent rational people came up with the idea that if you leave your house for a period of time or put it on sale then people are allowed to break in, change the locks so the owner can't get in. Then if you call the police they're hands are tied because of squatters rights. How did criminals get rights to commit crime? What about muggers rights? Rapists rights? Shop lifting rights. So the owner ended up paying the squatters to leave. In my opinion that was foolish. I'd pay some goons to move them out forcibly.

Hell's this got to do with liberalism?

 

[vanceen]

Perhaps it would be interesting to discuss the topic rather than lobbing spitballs back and forth about "liberals" and "conservatives".

I can imagine some circumstances in which it would be justifiable to have "squatter's rights", by which I mean that it would require a legal process to remove someone living in a home that isn't theirs. If the home had been abandoned, if the squatters had been there a certain amount of time, if they had made improvements, etc.

On the other hand, it's outrageous that someone can just move into a property that is for sale just because they want to. In so far as I can understand this case and the associated law, this looks like an abuse.

 

[Grand Mal]

It takes a bleeding heart liberal to pass laws that allow this kind of thing to happen.

You wouldn't know a liberal if he helped you get back up and phoned your mother for you

I wonder...does PA have castle doctrine laws?

 

[NolanVoyd]

He's clearly deflecting. He doesn't want to comment on whether such an idea is outrageous...obviously it is. He is probably butt hurt because I questioned if liberalism is a mental disease. He also knows liberals own Philadelphia.

I don't know how you get from him saying such laws are everywhere, to you saying he agrees with them.

I don't get the connection.

 

[DrewPaul]

You answer mine first.

Why won't you blame the righties instead of engaging in partisan hackery?

I have no problem blaming anyone who is responsible. I'm confident you will find more often liberals support it. Why should I think otherwise? This is the party that allows the homeless to camp out on city sidewalks. This is the party that is inviting millions to come here. This is the party of soft on crime. CA is offering healthcare for illegal immigrants.

 

[NolanVoyd]

Some history.

Squatting in the United States - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[NolanVoyd]

I This is the party that allows the homeless to camp out on city sidewalks. This is the party that is inviting millions to come here. This is the party of soft on crime.

Turn off Fox News, they lie to you, and it looks like you believed them.

 

[vanceen]

It takes a bleeding heart liberal to pass laws that allow this kind of thing to happen.

I wonder...does PA have castle doctrine laws?

Castle doctrine laws apply to a person's home, not investment property.

 

[vanceen]

Some history.

Squatting in the United States - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

That's a worthwhile read. But none of the justifications applied to squatting laws in that article apply to this case.

 

[Phys251]

I have no problem blaming anyone who is responsible. I'm confident you will find more often liberals support it. Why should I think otherwise? This is the party that allows the homeless to camp out on city sidewalks. This is the party that is inviting millions to come here. This is the party of soft on crime. CA is offering healthcare for illegal immigrants.

There you go again deflecting to the liberals. You just can't help yourself, can you?

 

[Roadvirus]

Pennsylvania man pays ransom to reclaim house from squatters: 'The city is rewarding criminals'

Squatters allegedly broke into a Philadelphia home that was about to be sold. With no help from police or the city, the owner says he paid to get his house back.

www.foxnews.com

A Pennsylvania man says he had to pay a squatter $1,200 to leave his house after police told him they couldn't intervene and court staff said a formal eviction could take more than six months.
"It's just unbelievable," Chris Harte said. "The city is rewarding criminals, basically."
Harte first spoke to Fox News in December, just days after his saga began. He was in the process of selling an investment property he'd renovated in northwest Philadelphia.
But on Dec. 8, Harte's real estate agent got a call from someone who lived near the house. She said she heard a commotion the night before, then saw people moving into the house and taking down the "for sale" sign.

A long time ago a right wing bomb thrower Michael Savage said that liberalism is a mental disease. At the time I figured it was incendiary speech. But is it? Can anyone explain to me how intelligent rational people came up with the idea that if you leave your house for a period of time or put it on sale then people are allowed to break in, change the locks so the owner can't get in. Then if you call the police they're hands are tied because of squatters rights. How did criminals get rights to commit crime? What about muggers rights? Rapists rights? Shop lifting rights. So the owner ended up paying the squatters to leave. In my opinion that was foolish. I'd pay some goons to move them out forcibly.

Ridiculous.

Just go into the place armed and escort them out.

 

[DrewPaul]

Ridiculous.

Just go into the place armed and escort them out.

I imagine these destitute poor people all have a cell phone and they'll record the event. You can expect the doors to break down and you'll be carted away.