squatters

Lisa_n

Fran wrote:

That's interesting!
forgot to answer your question, yes they said you are paying the electric and they are stealing it.

Hope you manage to get some sleep now. :rudolf:

Thanks Fran, I'm wide awake at the moment, havent slept to good since finding out about this.

Lisa

Fran

It's all very fresh so I'm not surprised and the whole experience must have been shocking too. At least you got it sorted out quickly. :rudolf:

Amba_Gambla

:T:T:T:T:T

Great to hear a happy outcome....

really glad it worked out well for ya! :D:D
(and so quickly too!)

nej

Surely the fact that they threw out all your Mum's furniture is also stealing? I mean, it's property that they broke into your house and removed without your permission? That should be enough in my eyes...

Anyway, glad that you're sorted now and that the police actually acted in the correct manner. It makes a refreshing change to see positive action taken against those on the wrong side of the law, rather than persecuting those on the right side of it.

black-saturn

Lisa_n wrote:

2 they painted the place badly and now before she can sell she has to get it re-decorated.

If your mum is in receipt of any government funded benefit or money of some kind she might be entitled to a grant for this.

Glad it has got kind of sorted out. What a nightmare. I was thinking about you all weekend.

Loretta

I wonder when a burglar becomes a squatter, if a burglar was actually caught in your house he/she could say she was a squatter and the bag of your belongings he has in his hands is just stuff he did not want in 'his' house and was bagging up ready to throw out.

madfrenchgirl

Lisa,

i have just read this thread... Jeez I really cant believe that legally they would have been able to stay there. I am so glad you got it sorted out, I think you should try to see into prosecuting them for the damage caused to the property and the lost belongings. Did the police get the name of the girl who was there when they broke in?

Please keep us posted. I can hardly imagine what kind of ordeal it was for your family and your mum.

Me_Myself_2

So pleased you got it sorted out. Hope you all have a good chirstmas.

:xmassign: :xmastree: :xmassign:

brummybloke

i like a happy ending. a good read.

the police would have had more problems had the squatters been english speaking but they did the morally correct thing, boot those mofos out. and yes you can keep their things as you honestly believe that it is yours to pay for the damage they have caused.

the reason i am guessing the police didnt want to know about the other activities is that the police who went rounds there wanted to do a quick job and have a satisfied customer ( you). if they had started seizing stuff, by the sounds of it, they would have been there for several ( and i mean several) hours going back and forth loading all the evidence up onto vans, stopping anyone from going in or out.

this would have given them years of head aches and a paper trail going on for ever. unless the specialist financial investigation team were there the officers wouldnt have touched it.

it is a happy ending as you mum has her house back, has some new hi tech stuff as recommence for redecorating and will now be moving closer to her family. it coulsnt have gone any better of you had planned it yourself.

happy xmas.


oh and im suprised the decorating was badly done, the polish peope i come into contact with mostly are builders, labourers, plasterers and painters. you would have though oleg could have asked a mate to do the job for him.

Ian_W

Loretta Tucker wrote: I wonder when a burglar becomes a squatter ...

Never. A lot of the advice has been given by landlord's and is correct in respect of, for example, empty letting property. You need a court order to get out squatters in those circumstances - in theory at least!!

But if someone breaks into your home and claims to be a squatter, as someone else said - whilst you're on holiday or as in this case whilst the lady's in hospital/care, squatters don't have those rights and you, with the assistance of the police, can remove them by force without a court order. You're classed as a displaced residential occupier and have the right to take back your home.

The law was intoduced in the 70's when there was a lot of empty commercial property owned by "property speculators" and a lot of homeless people so is fairly sympathetic to occupiers of empty property. However, it's never been the case that squatters can occupy your home and displace you.

As brummybloke said, good read and nice to see a happy ending.