29 States Where Squatters Can Legally Steal Your Property
Story by Christina Drury • 22h
29 States Where Squatters Can Legally Steal Your Property
We often think of squatting as happening in other places, to different people. Places like California, where homelessness runs rampant and so-called tent cities have wreaked havoc on the urban landscape.
However, nearly every state in the union offers a set of legal rights for people who squat on someone else’s property. If you don’t know what laws protect squatters in your state and you own property that you seldom use, it’s a good idea to learn and understand what rights could eventually cost you the legal claim to your property.
No matter where you live in the United States, squatters could have rights that allow them to lay legal claim, in a court of law, to the property you purchased without needing to properly compensate you. We’ve given notice of just how easy it is in some states, through a process called adverse possession, for squatters to usurp you of your property, no matter how long you’ve owned it.
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