How would you feel about squatters taking over your home?

by **eilis** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 11:39 am

Yes I really don't get this stuff about squatters rights. Who makes these weird laws that protects what are essentially burglars? I know how damn mad I'b be if I went on holiday and came back and had people living in my home, I'd be fuming and to think the law would be on their side would make me even more angry! My parents go away for 2 months every year on holiday to India from London and the neighbours have a key, so do I and so does my brother and we check the house every day to make sure it's all ok but where would we stand if squatters moved in? I'd want to beat the cr*p out of them as my parents are elderly and have worked hard all of their lives to pay for their house and the idea that some lowlifes could move in there and not get thrown out or arrested by the law is just unbearable to think about!

by **winfrid12** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 11:45 am

The only rite a squatter should have is to be bricked up behind a wall in the house they are squatting in.

by **beacher** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 11:48 am

The only rite a squatter should have is to be bricked up behind a wall in the house they are squatting in.

Haha love it! Only problem is then you'd have them stuck in the house that you want back...

by **gillivray5** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 12:05 pm

Hi Anonymili, my friend. NO, I do NOT think your opinion on squatters' rights is too harsh. I was of the opinion that the law stated that they were not regarded as squatters, but burglars, if they actually broke into a place and squatted. Their entry had to be legitimate, by key, or open door/window. I can't imagine that this was the case in either of the instances of which you speak, so they were illegally squatting so to speak and should have been evicted forthwith. Good on that couple who slung the squatters out of their deceased aunt's house. More people should be that way... any trespasser should be marched off your land irrespective of whether they're a squatter, and no, I don't sympathise with the dirty, low life creeps who enter people's homes, uninvited and wreck them, leaving total chaos and filth everywhere. What is there to sympathise with? They want to get off their backsides, give up the meths, get themselves a job and find a home for themselves instead of ruining somebody else's. Why is it, indeed, that the English law is on the side of the offender? I'll never understand it.

by **gideon** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 12:09 pm

Yes it is shocking that English law is on the side of the offender in so many cases. Don't get me started on the fact that there are so many services available to ex-cons to help them when they're released from prison but just Victim Support available to the victims of crime, it's digusting! People can't even physically defend themselves if they come across a burglar in their own home even if they have children that they want to protect as they'll get done - even if the burglar has weapons! It just stinks!

by **macquaid35** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 12:16 pm

We've had similar problems with the boy/girlfriends of the kids (they're grown up and dating LOL) staying in the house while Hubby traveled. This was before we were together in person (we met on line) and i wasn't living there. We had a hell of a time getting them out and had to have them arrested!! We're not having people look after our house anymore.

by **aescby** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 12:18 pm

That's really cheeky! I have friends who have house-sitters look after their homes when they're going away but they've never stayed longer than the people have been away on holiday, that's just really rude! I guess one way to keep unwelcome guests out whilst one is away is to install a decent alarm system...

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