$16 house? Dallas area man evicted after squatting

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/16-house-Dallas-area-man-evicted-after-squatting-3072767.php

$16 house? Dallas area man evicted after squatting

NOMAAN MERCHANT, Associated Press
Updated 10:59 p.m., Monday, February 6, 2012

FLOWER MOUND, Texas (AP) — After paying $16 to file a one-page claim to an empty, $340,000 home in an upscale Dallas suburb, Kenneth Robinson moved in furniture, hung a "No Trespassing" sign in the front window and invited television cameras inside for a tour.

He quickly turned into something of a local celebrity, creating a website, http://16dollarhouse.com , where he sold an e-book and offered training sessions for would-be squatters. And while real estate experts and authorities say he's misusing the law, Robinson appears to have inspired dozens of imitators who moved into Dallas-Fort Worth area homes — some of which were still occupied by their owners. snip

In one case, an Arlington travel nurse came home in September to find her locks changed and two TVs missing, according to a police report. Authorities say Anthony Brown came to the front door and told her that he had claimed the home and she was trespassing.

When the nurse asked Brown for his paperwork, he offered to return the home for $2,000, police said. Brown, who was arrested in October, does not have an attorney listed and did not respond to messages left on his cellphone.

[Heywood J]

1. Sounds like more Sovereign Citizen crap to me.

County clerks in North Texas said they have seen such a spike in adverse possession filings that they've stopped accepting the claims without prosecutors' approval. In a handful of cases, squatters entered homes that weren't abandoned, but left empty for a few days.

But it takes a long time to establish those rights, typically 10 years in Texas. Until then, anyone trying to stake claim to a piece of property owned by someone else is just a squatter, Rider said.

This sounds like the same shit we heard last year about straw men and bogus accounts, plus clogging up county clerks with paperwork in an attempt to seize property. If it were the people who lived there squatting in their own (foreclosed) homes, I'd feel differently but this is crass opportunism at best. The people squatting in homes that aren't abandoned need to be charged with home invasion - the literal definition of it.

[tammywammy]

2. "crass opportunism" is exactly it

They are cracking down on others that are doing this as well around here.

http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/12/29/3624023/widow-gets-mansfield-house-back.html
http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/12/30/3626058/two-more-charged-in-mansfield.html

[The Genealogist]

3. I don't know if this is Sovereign Citizen shenanigans or not

but the article says "When the nurse asked Brown for his paperwork, he offered to return the home for $2,000, police said."

I think I have read that the sovereign citizen idiots want to be paid what is "owed" them in gold.