What if you come home and find strangers living in your house?<\/p>\n

I assumed you order the squatters out, and if they resist, call the police, and they will kick them out.<\/p>\n

Wrong.<\/p>\n

Pro-tenant laws passed by anti-capitalist politicians now protect squatters. If a squatter just lies about having a lease, the police won’t intervene.<\/p>\n

“It’s a civil matter,” they’ll say. “Sort it out in court.”<\/p>\n

Great. Court might cost $20,000. Or more. And courts are so slow, eviction might take years.<\/p>\n

In my state, New York, homeowners can’t even shut off utilities to try to get the squatter out. That’s illegal. Worse, once a squatter has been there 30 days, they are legally considered a tenant.<\/p>\n

This month, New York City police arrested a homeowner for “unlawful eviction” after she changed locks, trying to get rid of a squatter.<\/p>\n

“Squatter rights,” also known as “adverse possession” laws, now exist in all 50 states. As a result, evicting a squatter legally is so expensive and cumbersome that some people simply walk away from their homes!<\/p>\n

Flash Shelton may have a better idea.<\/p>\n

His mom wanted to sell their house after his dad died. But while they were selling it, squatters moved in.<\/p>\n

Shelton did what I would have done\u2014called the police. But the police said there was nothing they could do.<\/p>\n

So he tried a new tactic: out-squat the squatter.<\/p>\n

“I just felt, if they can take a house, I can take a house,” Shelton says in my new video<\/a>. “I could go in as the squatter myself, [and] gain possession of the property.”<\/p>\n

When the home invader left for a few hours, Shelton went in and changed the locks. Only then did the squatters leave.<\/p>\n

Now Shelton’s started a business, SquatterHunters.com<\/a>, where he tries to help others get their houses back.<\/p>\n

“People think of squatters as homeless, destitute,” I say.<\/p>\n

“They are not homeless,” answers Shelton. “They’re criminals…people taking advantage of the system.”<\/p>\n

In fact, one squatter he pushed out was Adam Fleischman, who started the Umami Burger restaurant chain. Fleischman told Shelton, “I’m a victim here.” He even called the cops.<\/p>\n

“He felt that since he had possession of the house,” says Shelton, “that he had the right to call law enforcement and have me removed.”<\/p>\n

I tried to reach Fleischman to hear his side of the story. No luck.<\/p>\n

“Where does he hear that he has this right to squat?” I ask Shelton.<\/p>\n

“The city was telling him this,” says Shelton.<\/p>\n

But now Shelton was a squatter, too, so he was protected by the same pro-“tenant” law.<\/p>\n

Still, only when Shelton threatened to bring friends to the house as backup did Adam Fleischman leave.<\/p>\n

In Los Angeles, a woman claimed to be a “caretaker” for an elderly homeowner, who said she didn’t want the woman in her home. So, she gave Shelton a lease. While the squatter was out, Shelton changed the locks.<\/p>\n

“But the squatter is still there?” I ask Shelton.<\/p>\n

“Still there,” he says, “Climbing through the window because she doesn’t have access to the main house.”<\/p>\n

She’s now been there for two years!<\/p>\n

Shelton says his team will move in and get rid of the squatter.<\/p>\n

“How do you know that will work?” I ask.<\/p>\n

“Because once I take possession,” says Shelton, “then she’ll have to fight in court to try to get back in. Most likely she won’t do that.”<\/p>\n

Why do squatters feel entitled to other people’s property?<\/p>\n

Probably because people hate landlords. They listen to silly people like Marxist New School professor Miguel Robles-Duran, who calls landlords “parasites” who “provide no social value.” Popular TikTok socialist Madeline Pendleton adds that landlords have “guaranteed forever incomes, without having to put in any labor.”<\/p>\n

No labor? Who does she think buys the land; pays lawyers to decipher the excessive regulations; hires architects, carpenters, plumbers, and electricians; pays the taxes; manages the property, etc.?<\/p>\n

It’s infuriating!<\/p>\n

I’m glad people like Flash Shelton fight back.<\/p>\n

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