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“I’d much rather make a squatter homeless than have a landlord lose property,” James added.
Keeping it classy.
wanted to say the same thing. what a dickhead, simping for landlords.
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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.
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“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.
...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.
It would seem contrary to known physics, but tear gas actually makes frozen water whine like little bitches. 🤷🏼♂️
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.
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
Gun show.
The best part is the 50/50 on if they work or not
“The average squatter has no melee experience,”
But what about magic? Magic beats melee in the combat triangle.
And people with melee experience are not bulletproof.
what about crack, and fentanyl buffs.
Fentanyl is a debuff.
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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.
These people think evil quest givers in games are role models, not warnings.
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?
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This fool is going to get shot.
I assume it's a joke, but the guy said professional tactical gear and firearms apparently, as well as teargas and such. If he's not joking I'd say their odds of going to prison are pretty good. Premeditating and provoking a situation with deadly weapons instead of contacting actual authorities and following the laws/procedure doesn't seem like it would work out well for anyone.
Isn't that the exact gear that cops use to break up homeless encampments?
Whether we like it or not, those cops are the proper procedure/authorities in said situation. Thus they are allowed by law. I can't just hire a neighbor to show up to a homeless camp with said gear and expect when something goes wrong for them not to get arrested for murder/battery, and probably be arrested for something else. Paying them to do so probably has a different terminology than an accessory. Might fall under the rico shit, not sure
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sword-wielding man
ASAP Squatter Removal has a 95%+ success rate
Every now and then, you run into a spearman.
this is a puff piece about the kind of gangster who turns up murdered and unmourned
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.
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.
Home ownership is now a soulslike? I've been training for this my whole middle-aged life.
bay area homeowners about to lose homes
if you have trouble with squatters, i am willing to sell professional advice on how to get them to leave. it never fails.
Nah fuck squatters too. Everyone sucks here but squatters are just as trashy. We need to have a vacant homes penalty desperately but yeah that won't happen anytime soon if ever in my lifetime.
We need to have a vacant homes penalty desperately
Technically that's what adverse possession or squatters rights actually is.
The general criteria(without state specifics) for legal squatting is incredibly difficult to fulfill though. It's not reasonable to achieve in the majority of situations.
Right now there is a penalty for not keeping it vacant. Say you’re an elderly homeowner in Los Angeles. Your husband died 15 years ago when the property you bought in 1970 for $35,000 was worth $500,000. The tax basis resets from $35k to $500k. But now the property is worth $2 million and you need to move into a retirement home due to your health. If you sell the house now, your family takes a capital gains tax hit on the $1.5 million of appreciation. If they wait until you die, the tax basis resets to current market value. If you make the qualifying event the move to the retirement home instead of death it would save on taxes but would give your kids a powerful incentive to move you out. Tl;dr most of the vacant homes I’m personally aware of are owned by elderly people with health issues.
Who the hell passed a law allowing squatters to be able to take away the title after 5 years,that's freaking nuts. Can literally just steal property.
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donning full plate armor and a dagger "Luckily I'm no average squatter"
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’d much rather make a squatter homeless than have a landlord lose property,” Jacobs added
I'd much rather make poor people without an option homeless than have a rich asshole lose some money!
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