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Topic started on 13-10-2012 @ 02:03 PM by Blackmarketeer
Detroit Homeowner, Squatter Forced to Live Under Same Roof

Here's your WTF moment of the day - a Detroit homeowner, who's been away for a year, returns to find a former tenant (and previously evicted) has turned squatter is now forced to live under the same roof with her until she can properly evict her through court.

DETROIT -- Heidi Peterson always dreamed of living in a historical home. In May of 2010, she bought one in Detroit's Boston-Edison District for $23,000.

After being away for a year, she said she returned to her house last week and found a woman living there. Peterson learned from neighbors she had been living there for a few months.

Peterson claims the squatter changed the locks, reworked the plumbing, replaced her appliances, put a lien on the house and even changed the curtains, and now this squatter won't leave. So now they are forced to sleep one room away from each other, Peterson with her one-year-old daughter.

The alleged squatter's name is documented all over the house as Missionary-Tracey Elaine Blair, a write-in candidate for president.




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reply posted on 13-10-2012 @ 03:59 PM by Blackmarketeer
reply to post by GeneralMishka


The homeowner was only out of the country for less than a year, so it can hardly be called an abandoned property. The homeowner was also making improvements to it. A trespasser can't throw in a few improvements of their own into a home and start calling it theirs. There's not enough specifics in the article to say what sort of lease arrangement existed prior to the eviction, but AFAIK an evicted tenant can't take up squatter 'rights' to continue living in a property just because it's in poor shape or the owner isn't living there.



reply posted on 13-10-2012 @ 04:54 PM by Rockpuck
reply to post by Blackmarketeer


This has been becoming a bigger and bigger concern around where I live, huge groups of squatters taking over vacant houses and police not being able to do anything unless hey pose an immediate risk to neighbors. In cases like this the law favors criminals, there is no protection for the neighborhoods, the homeowners or anyone with an investment.. it's absurd. IMO the situation can only be handled outside of courts.... I'm sure we all have imaginative ways of protecting our property from would be vagrants.


reply posted on 13-10-2012 @ 04:57 PM by FreebirdGirl
reply to post by Rockpuck


True. The difference here is she is a former renter not a squatter. There should be some documentation or judgement on her vacating the property. If so squatter's rights do not apply. Her returning to the property would violate the law.
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