Fuxored by the long, slow dizzzzzick of the law!

[AquaPython]

Back story quick facts:
*I bought my house 2 years ago.
*house across the street from me was vacant, being attended to by the neighbor.
*he claims he knew the owners and was taking care of it for them.
*house is foreclosed on shortly after
*Last year, strange, unruly people started living there, with an "understanding" from the caretaking naighbor, IE he was probably charging rent
* they have been living there with NO electric! no water either i guess.
*I had a few unpleasant run-ins with these societal leaches over the year, but tend to ignore as much as possible.

This morning:
I walk outside to go to work and i see a squad car sitting in front of the house. I walk over , and she proceeds to tell me she is waiting for a bank employee to meet her here to lock the house down! Hell yea! Always figured squatters were not a concern / priority, especially in tough financial times and there were so many of them. But johnny, or jeanette Law finally came through a year + later.
I figured i would go for broke and tell her that the neighbor had been taking rent from them, and that has got to be some sort of scam, she laughed and agreed with me, but that was all. It was worth the shot.

Bonus Salt in the wound fact:
* all of 1 week ago construction on the brand new roof of this was completed. I still can't figure out who ponied up for the roof. Approximate retail value of $12K, but judging by the equally unruly construction crew, it was likely an off the books favor operation.

[shmike]

Glad to hear they are getting the boot.

I'm guessing the reason it took so long was that the bank just got around to actually taking possession of the property.

[AquaPython]

likely so, if the cop has to wait for the bank to take any sort of action.

[z06boy]

Maybe they found a buyer/investor type and couldn't get financing with the roof in need of repair ?

Man that sux though. I'd hate to have a house across from me just sitting there and not being kept up but even worse having squatters there. There's no telling who they are or what they are up to.

[AquaPython]

Maybe they found a buyer/investor type and couldn't get financing with the roof in need of repair ?



this is true too. I had to make the last owner of my house put a new roof on it before i was allowed to buy it.

but i saw no foreclosed / sale signs or any other activity there, like people checking out the house.

[Amber Lamps]

this is true too. I had to make the last owner of my house put a new roof on it before i was allowed to buy it.

but i saw no foreclosed / sale signs or any other activity there, like people checking out the house.

genius investors that are buying these houses up dirt cheap! They'll fix them up a little and bang double their money!

[AquaPython]

Hmm so this weekend there was a filthy older ford pickup in the driveway for two days and there were two latin gentlemen working with powertools inside the house. There has not been anyone in here since the cops shut it down. time to call the popo ?

[the chi]

I would. If only to make sure they are supposed to be there...

[Particle Man]

Hmm so this weekend there was a filthy older ford pickup in the driveway for two days and there were two latin gentlemen working with powertools inside the house. There has not been anyone in here since the cops shut it down. time to call the popo ?

Yep :)

Even if just for the entertainment value

[Gas Man]

Yep :)

Even if just for the entertainment value
This!

[AquaPython]

well the truck was back this morning so i called it in on my way to work, we shall what happens now.

[tommymac]

well the truck was back this morning so i called it in on my way to work, we shall what happens now.

Could it be actual contractors fixing up the place to be sold by the bank or whoever owns it?

[shmike]

Could it be actual contractors fixing up the place to be sold by the bank or whoever owns it?

Didn't you hear him?

The truck was FILTHY!

[tommymac]

Didn't you hear him?

The truck was FILTHY!

That show some of the contractors around here look, and was just speculating on what it could be ;)

[AquaPython]

i just asked the cops to make sure it was legit. but it was filthy and they looked like they were up to no good.

[z06boy]

Fixing it up or taking all of the fixtures out to re-sell. :lol:

[tommymac]

Fixing it up or taking all of the fixtures out to re-sell. :lol:

yanking all the copper out, thats what the crackheads do now for money.

[AquaPython]

i looked for any evidence of what kind of work they are doing. no tools, no garbage, just all day in the house with clangs and bangs audible. i saw when they left with nothing.

[z06boy]

yanking all the copper out, thats what the crackheads do now for money.


You are right...they are doing that here too...I had forgotten about that.


i looked for any evidence of what kind of work they are doing. no tools, no garbage, just all day in the house with clangs and bangs audible. i saw when they left with nothing.


Well that's good. Maybe there is a buyer or at least planning to find one.

[Amber Lamps]

Yea crackheads always come back several days in a row DURING THE DAY to steal copper and fixtures from a house...

[Particle Man]

Yea crackheads always come back several days in a row DURING THE DAY to steal copper and fixtures from a house...

they're crackheads not nuclear physicists...

[derf]

Yea crackheads always come back several days in a row DURING THE DAY to steal copper and fixtures from a house...
Crackheads are a very industrious group and can accomplish anything they put their minds to that will get them more crack. If you dangle a few rocks in front of them and tell them to build a bridge, you will get a nice rickety death trap of a bridge, but it well be a bridge

[goof2]

Some dude around here (probably a meth-head) broke in to an unmanned power substation trying to steal copper a couple years ago. I don't know if he died but he definitely got life-flighted out.

[Particle Man]

Some dude around here (probably a meth-head) broke in to an unmanned power substation trying to steal copper a couple years ago. I don't know if he died but he definitely got life-flighted out.

:lol: how did he NOT end up as a Darwin-Award candidate (or at least a runner up/honorable mention if he didn't die)?

[goof2]

:lol: how did he NOT end up as a Darwin-Award candidate (or at least a runner up/honorable mention if he didn't die)?

I think it happens often enough they would have trouble differentiating between incidents.

[Angee]

I had that situation a few years ago (The squatters were dealing drugs right in front of the house!) and I set up a HUGE camcorder right in the window aimed at the house between the window and drapes. I conveniently left a light on right behind it. Problem solved.

[101lifts2]

So the neighbor was collecting rent on a foreclosed house next to him that he didn't own. Classic...

[AquaPython]

yes 101, that is the scam.
The dispatcher told me someone would come but the wife said nobody came all day. The truck is there this morning.

[shmike]

yes 101, that is the scam.
The dispatcher told me someone would come but the wife said nobody came all day. The truck is there this morning.

Did they at least wash the truck!?

[AquaPython]

nope , still dirty.

[shmike]

That is just uncalled for!

Screw the cops, call INS.

[AquaPython]

That is just uncalled for!

Screw the cops, call INS.

first i have to make sure there are no illegal israeli's at my house.

[Apoc]

Some dude around here (probably a meth-head) broke in to an unmanned power substation trying to steal copper a couple years ago. I don't know if he died but he definitely got life-flighted out.

Same here. A local mill had shut down, so idiot decides the power must be off, and it would be a great time to steal the copper from the mills substation. He didnt need a lifeflight, he was dead a couple of days when they found him.