squatters

mrbnewc

What an awful situation, i really hope you get sorted soon.

Surely the law on this needs to be changed to protect the innocent owner of the property. I would be absolutely furious if i went on holiday for 4 weeks and came back to squatters living in the property i pay a mortgage for.

You should avoid breaking the law, as Halaku said, but if it was me i'm afraid they would be out no matter what.

Can you beleive the cheek of some people!

MrB

socks_uk

Just a thought...

Does the OP's mum actually still own the house? Has she sold it on without the OP's knowledge? Has she used one of those equity release thingy's without telling her daughter? It can happen, as it's happened to us.

I have just found out recently that my dad sold his house, 2 years ago, to my brother!! My brother then used the money from the sale to buy into a business! My dad is now living off his pension with none of the money coming back from my brother.
I have a very trusting, nieve father who was taken in by my brother and got nothing in writing. I (no longer!!) have a brother who has legally 'stolen' my dad's house and left him living in poverty. My sister, other brother and myself don't know what we can do about it all.

Jill

nej

I can't offer any advice, just sympathy. This kind of thing makes my blood boil. What are the consequences if you just physically throw them out? Can they then report you to the police and have you arrested?

Personally, if it was me, I'd physically chuck them out of the house, change the locks again, dump their stuff and if they show up later with the police ask them for the proof and deny all knowledge of what they're talking about. "Who are you going to believe Mr Officer, an honest, tax-paying British citizen, or an illegal immigrant?".

Mind you, these days, who knows who they'd believe?!

Fran

nej wrote:

.............."Who are you going to believe Mr Officer, an honest, tax-paying British citizen, or an illegal immigrant?".

Poland is part of the EEU, so they are not illegal immigrants.

Halaku

A fine of up to £5,000 and or a jail term of up to 6 months, as well as slashing the likelyhood of getting them out anytime soon. The law sees them legal occupiers unless proven otherwise, and its for the landlord to go out of his way to show the squatters are residing illegally.

Hopefully OP has taken on board my advice, and is already planning for a IPO. What you don't want to do is wait for a full possession order, these can take upto and over a year to grant.

Bermuda_John

Tell the tenants to stop paying.

Wait for the "landlord" to come round and then have some heavies ready to do him over.

Then tie him up and take him to the police station, fraud and obtaining money by deception being the reason you brought him in.

May not be everybodies cup of tea but it may be the only way. People are getting too soft on criminals.

:xmassign:

nej

Fran wrote:

Poland is part of the EEU, so they are not illegal immigrants.

Fair point, but doesn't change my opinion!

yallapilko

Good luck with this. We are all thinking of you. Keep us posted!

Angie8

This happened to our family a few years ago, a gang of them decided to move into my uncle's house while he was in hospital recovering from cancer. We called the police who weren't interested. So my dad decided to sort things out the 'old-fashioned' way. He rounded up all the blokes in the family, went round and turfed them out. We never heard anything after that.

It makes me fume that scum like this can just walk into your home and think they can take it over.

Rave

By the sound of it the dodgy landlord is the one to blame in this situation, the Polish people may well be innocent victims as well. I like the sound of Bermuda John's suggestion best- the landlord definately needs to go down:mad:.