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    Also if the actual owner comes back and boots you out after doing all the stuff required by the law you cannot sue the owner to get repaid for anything you did while squatting on the property during the waiting period.

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    It's not actually a requirement that he live there 24/7... he just has to show that he has a presence in the home/neighborhood... which clearly he's done or he wouldn't have been told on. This is according to wfaa 8 out of Dallas... Flower Mound is only about 15 minutes from me... I'm tempted to drive by there just to see.

    And, it's pretty slim that the owner is gonna come back. They were foreclosed on and would have to come up w/ the lump sum to pay the house off to get it back. Whoever bought the mortgage companies debt could come get it if they wanted it but it's unlikely the bank will come after it, since also according to wfaa, it would require a very costly lawsuit. So, who knows... I think he filed the paperwork in July, so I guess we'll find out in a couple of years.
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    Man who claimed Dallas home for $16 told to leave
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    ROANOKE, Texas (AP) — A man who gained notoriety for claiming he could live in a $340,000 suburban Dallas house for $16 has vacated the home following a judge's order.

    Kenneth Robinson had filed an "affidavit of adverse possession" giving him the right to live in the empty foreclosed home in Flower Mound. He also became a kind of local celebrity, speaking to law school students and creating a website, http://16dollarhouse.com , about his experience.

    But Denton County Justice of the Peace J.W. Hand ruled Monday that lienholder Bank of America can force the 51-year-old Robinson out. The bank foreclosed on the house last month.

    Robinson says he moved out early Monday morning, ending what he calls a "huge learning experience."

    Prosecutors also are cracking down on others seeking to emulate Robinson.

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    I knew they would eventually kick him out. BOA finally doing something right.

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    We had a home that was foreclosed on next door to us one time and in a nice neighborhood. Why don't the banks arrange for the house to be maintained? I don't know what happened but the for sale sign was out front and all of a sudden the lawn wasn't mowed or the house taken care of. I guess the real estate company went out of business or dropped it. One neighbor mowed it when he could but for the most part it looked abandoned.

    I went over then one time and the back door was unlocked. I went in to see what condition it was in and no one had bothered it. The former owners left a nice refrigerator and the dish washer and other built ins were there. Anyone could have gone in and gutted it for the light fixtures, etc.

    We tried to contact the real estate company but no one came out to lock up and the grass kept growing. The neighbors were worried about it being an attraction to who knows what could have gone on over there. Personally, I would have welcomed someone living in it just to to keep it maintained.

    I don't know why the banks do not hire people to live in repossessed houses, after all it's the bank's investment. I guess they have so many houses like that the banks can's keep up with all of them. So much for forcing the banks to give out loans to people who couldn't afford them. I don't blame the banks so much as the government who forced them to do it. What a mess. Leave it to government to do stupid things and then leave it up to us to figure out how to solve it.

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    Still...he lived in the house for 3months for $16., not bad! You can't even get a private-room for one night in a hostel for that!
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    Well we had renters who only paid the first months rent and lived there for 6 months. We tried to evict them but our lawyers said we couldn't do anything. They moved on when school let out. These people did this all over the country, I got tons of calls from people wanting to know how to get a hold of them to pay their bills. They squat until they want to move on and do it all over again. They left the house filthy but no holes in the wall or any major damage.

    One funny thing they did---at least they must have thought it was funny. They left a junk car sideways in the garage thinking it would be hard to impossible for us to get it out. My hubby borrowed a tool from work that turned it easily. They were just jerks.

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    I find it funny that he claims to have only moved out on Monday... when he was on the news w/ all the others in his organization (that he also claims doesn't exist) more than 2 months ago being evicted by law enforcement... and it had nothing to do w/ BOA. The various cities this was affecting very quickly started denying applicants and booting them when it was apparent that he was teaching ppl how to do it and there were thousands of apps.
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    Quote Originally Posted by janelle View Post
    Well we had renters who only paid the first months rent and lived there for 6 months. We tried to evict them but our lawyers said we couldn't do anything. They moved on when school let out. These people did this all over the country, I got tons of calls from people wanting to know how to get a hold of them to pay their bills. They squat until they want to move on and do it all over again. They left the house filthy but no holes in the wall or any major damage.

    One funny thing they did---at least they must have thought it was funny. They left a junk car sideways in the garage thinking it would be hard to impossible for us to get it out. My hubby borrowed a tool from work that turned it easily. They were just jerks.
    You could of had them evicted. It cost about $ 500.00 for the last squatters we had to evict from one of my bosses rentals. I finally made him start using a property management company for the rentals since I refuse to deal with residential rentals. The sideways car is so easy to deal with they might have thought you would be stuck with it there for a while. When hurricane Charlie was heading towards Orlando my Uncle put all 3 of his Corvettes in his office that is part of his house - slid them all in on a dolly through the sliding doors and turned the first one side ways and the other 2 slid in and slid sideways so you could walk between them. It was SO much fun trying to get around those darn cars for the rest of hurricane season (Charlie was in August and the season doesn't end until end of November).

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    Quote Originally Posted by janelle View Post
    I don't know why the banks do not hire people to live in repossessed houses, after all it's the bank's investment.
    The banks aren't going to HIRE people to live in houses, because then EVERYONE would want to do that, and live there for free. The bank wouldn't make any money off of it. Who'd want to BUY a house, when you can live there and have the bank PAY you to live there?

    The banks also don't want to shell out money to maintain the house or grounds either. Just more added expenses.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 3lilpigs View Post
    The banks aren't going to HIRE people to live in houses, because then EVERYONE would want to do that, and live there for free. The bank wouldn't make any money off of it. Who'd want to BUY a house, when you can live there and have the bank PAY you to live there?

    The banks also don't want to shell out money to maintain the house or grounds either. Just more added expenses.
    Well, IMO it would be better than to let the house stand empty and deteriorate. The house next door started to look abandoned with weeds growing up through the sidewalk and any window or something that broke would stay that way.

    House sitters get paid all the time for people who spend the winter somewhere else. You don't need to pay them much or at all, just a place to live. Make the contract say they have to maintain the house in showing condition to the public and when it sells they need to move out by the time stipulated.

    The empty house next to us worried me and all the neighbors. I know I would have liked a person living there.
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