“I’d much rather make a squatter homeless than have a landlord lose property,” James added.
Keeping it classy.
“I’d much rather make a squatter homeless than have a landlord lose property,” James added.
Keeping it classy.
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.
So it was him making all those pro-landlord memes...
“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.
Especially empty properties.
that cannot be a real quote from a real person. it just can't be.
In fact, this is something I could genuinely see multiple people in my own extended family saying.
...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.
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
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.
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.
this is a puff piece about the kind of gangster who turns up murdered and unmourned
“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.
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?
sword-wielding man
ASAP Squatter Removal has a 95%+ success rate
Every now and then, you run into a spearman.
These people think evil quest givers in games are role models, not warnings.
I feel like this is a time to vouch for an element of a story I'm writing.
In this world, there's an Adventurer's Guild. It's named, and oriented, very much like the generic guild that appears in so many generic Anime-MMO medieval fantasy worlds. In it, travelers with weapons, be they swords or bows, complete missions for money.
As one would expect from that setup, the only people with money who ever hire the Adventurer's Guild are wealthy merchants with cargo to protect, or land developers with an excuse to enact aggression on innocent people, or anyone who can veil their murderous intent with some legal excuse. The first way the story introduces them is that a city has contracted with the Guild to use them as extra peacekeepers, and it's a horrible setup because they have no deescalation training. The guild itself lures in members with ideas that they'll "take down troublesome animals for troubled townfolk" and maybe even sometimes have those quests, but primarily, most of the other characters in the story just refer to it as "The Mercenary's Guild. Oh, I guess they call themselves Adventurers' Guild now."
It's my way of getting people to analyze their desire to kill things for rewards, which is fine for a simple game made for children, but shouldn't be part of your fantasies as you grow up.
We must defend the empty properties!
Also, we must solve the housing crisis by building more houses!
Everyone here sucks except the squatters.
Edit: This is very contraversial for some reason nobody cares to defend but consider that a house is first and foremost a tool and squatters are the only people in the story correctly using a house for its only real purpose. I'm not saying they're good people, just that they're the only people not enganged in some kind of elaborate fraud or thinly vieled attempt to murder humans.
Then I’ll train and purposely squat so that this stain can be humbled
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.
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.
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 wish to God squatters would quietly drill out the locks on an old abandoned property, occupy it and slowly fix it up and just go over to whatever agency 5 years later with the documentation to show it and say "by right of labor and occupancy this house is mine."
I just doesn't seem to be how it works in places with tolerant squatting laws. The way it seems to go is some enterprising criminals will run off some fake leases, gain entry to a home that's only temporarily unoccupied, and then when the owners come back they ask them for money to leave. And then the owners give them money, and the squatters either leave or they don't.
There seems to be the implication within that quote that because he’s brought a melee weapon, the party being attacked is bound by honor not to use a firearm.
In fact he’s probably putting himself in much more danger by bringing a sword (thereby providing a self-defense defense) than if he showed up unarmed.
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.
Yeah, it does seem a little weird in our hyper capitalist society for that law to be on the books. I also think it's extremely wasteful for somebody to not even use a property for 5 years in a world where land is a finite resource. I think a better solution would be escalating tax rates based on number of properties owned and then if a property goes unused for fucking years it can go to the state to then be auctioned off for cheap. It might help reset property values instead of the ever rising investment market we have now too.
I'm a big proponent of use it or lose it. And a functioning society wouldn't have a squatter problem.
they sorta strongarmed a similar incident in oakland, a family from missipi/or missouri plus a group of other 5 families were living in a house the govt, and public supported the takeover it. the house was sitting empty because of a corporate landlord, hoping the empty house would raise in value over time, which is a problem all over the us. and the corporate landlord sold the house to the families, through a "organization". they had hordes of other houses sitting empty all over the place.
Yeah, in Arizona it's 2. Much better.
(If an owner is so disconnected from their property that they don't notice someone living there that they didn't allow, have they really lost anything?)
donning full plate armor and a dagger "Luckily I'm no average squatter"
I hope they eat bullets
deus_vult.mp4
[reference to the person who took a sword to counter-attack a BLM event and got beaten until their limbs almost resembled a swastika : CW blood]
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.
I've read about this guy before. He's got an amusing variety of methods. Squatters ruin homes, sometimes destroying them entirely. House across the street from me burned this morning because of squatters who kept breaking in. Someone would have saved the house eventually, now it'll be a parking lot. Who is helped by that?
is it even legal for "this vigalante" to threaten the squatter with a sword, it seems like something it can backfire.
Totally random and off topic, but that dude looks like ~~a yoked up version of~~ Josh Strife Hayes.
Update: Apparently its been a while since I've watched Josh, he may actually be more yoked up than this dude.
Hayes has yoked up so much by seemingly working a fitness routine into his regular gaming habit that apparently a lot of people think he's on steroids???
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