A little more "Squatter" thought.................

I saw something like this before.

Have considered getting a lease drafted up and issued to my son-in-law for my place and having my dad issue me a lease for his place. Just in case something like that happens.

That way can just whip out the lease and say I been leasing this place for x years from the owner. I didn't sublease.

My cousin owns a piece of commercial realestate. His renter stopped paying rent and he went over and changed the locks. The judge did not like that and spanked his hand. The kicker is her husband is on the lease as well and also rents another property from him. He's been there several years never late and never a problem. I told him I bet the husband doesn't have a clue his wife hasn't been paying the rent

If I leave my house come back and someone is in my house, they get shot. Plain and simple. Florida recognizes the Castle Doctrine, which means you have the right to use deadly force to protect your house.

fuck em.

Squatter Law

DeSantis made it easier.

I thought you had to pay the taxes on the property as well. Possession, improvement, and pay taxes. In the old days tax collectors didn't care if taxes were paid twice, these days with computers it makes it difficult. 

I can't fathom owning a home or property that you aren't even aware that someone could move into it and be there for months before you know. It's wild to be.

Lot of snowbirds down here. Depends on relationship w neighbors and how often someone checks the place.

A lawnmower man is your best friend. Cheap security in some cases.

Most county clerk's offices will let you sign up to be notified if a document is recorded in your name. I think, but am not sure, that is the same thing these companies do. 

Perhaps not under the new law DeSantis just signed. I don’t know what it says.

Under the old law if you met all the requirements, yes.

In the old days, as I heard the stories, there were a few people who found some young planted pine owned by an out of state person or company. Pick a 40 or 80 acre parcel, that had fence around it. Go to a corner, measure out a few acres and put in some fence posts and run barb wire to separate that section from the rest of the pine. Build a lean to and camp there for 7 years. I thought they also paid the taxes on the property, which wasn't much due to the exemptions. Then if they made it 7 years without anyone kicking them off, they went down and filed the paperwork to claim the acreage they cut out. I understood it had been done enough times that the big landowners started paying guys to walk every piece of property they owned every 5 years and kick off anyone they found and not be polite about it. 

They wanted a corner to be sure they had access to the road, fenced in so all they had to do was add interior fencing nobody would notice, and hide a shack or lean to in the middle. they met the requirements of adverse possession and improvements made. Anyone driving by to check the property, which was the common way to check on it, would not see anything unusual.

i think the old adverse possession laws were an offshoot of homestead laws. People in the early days would abandon property and move on if they fail to make it work. This way a settler could come it and improve it without the old owner trying to claim it many years later after the new guy built it up into a working farm. 

I was raised to buy what you want, if you can't afford what you want, adjust your wants.

Squatters and thieves like these 7-yr folks deserve some kind of penalties.  Can't be too naive in the world, folks will take advantage of you.  Probably explains why so many folks got shot in the wild west, screw someone over and die for it. 

I think you can claim abandoned vehicles in FL too.

I seem to remember people letting folks cut across their property to save time. After the seven years it became a legal easement that the courts recognized.

On commercial in Illinois you used to be able to simply change the locks. I did it up until about 1995