Squatters found in $900,000 foreclosed home, arrested (AZ)

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By The Daily Courier
April 13, 2016 11:47 a.m.

PRESCOTT – A man and woman who were living in a $900,000 home that had been foreclosed by the bank claimed they had a legal right to occupy it, but were arrested on Tuesday, April 12, for burglary, theft and criminal theft ...

“The investigation revealed that the Skates’ ascribe to a set of beliefs often described as the ‘Sovereign Citizen Movement.’ In this case, the Skates’ learned that the home was bank owned and unoccupied. They entered the home, claiming it as their own under their beliefs that banks are not people and therefore have no actual right to real property,” Bonney said.

The couple filed a deed for the property, which, Bonney said, gave them no actual legal claim to the house, and put up signs in the windows “indicating their right to be at the home and their willingness to defend the property” ...

Randall and Jennifer Skates were booked into the Camp Verde jail.

http://dcourier.com/news/2016/apr/13/squatters-found-living-900000-foreclosed-home-arre/

[saturnsring]

1. cliven bundy crowd

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. They should put signs in their cells claiming ownership.

[jomin41]

3. Thousands of empty houses and

thousands of homeless people and thousands of multiple-house-owning people. What's wrong with this picture?

[KamaAina]

4. Oh, puh-leeze. We had a guy in SF squatting a $17 million mansion.

He is even believed to have absconded with some of the art!

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Cops-say-squatter-in-S-F-home-for-sale-tried-to-6578323.php

San Francisco police say they foiled an art thief who, while squatting in a multimillion dollar Presidio Heights home that was for sale, stole and sold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of paintings, most of which were quickly recovered.

On Saturday, around 11 p.m., officers responded to reports of a suspicious person at what Officer Carlos Manfredi, an agency spokesman, described as a “mansion” on the 3800 block of Washington Street.

Though police would not confirm the exact address, the only house for sale on the block, according to online listings, appeared to be an 8-bedroom, 7-bath “single family home” listed at just over $17 million — and that’s after being cut from the original asking price of $25 million when it first went on the market in 2012....

At the home, officers contacted Kaylor, 39, of Dragoon, Ariz., who told police that he was in the process of buying the home and produced fraudulent legal documents to back up his claims, Manfredi said.

Of course, the guy is from Arizona. Can it be?

[tammywammy]

5. There was a few news articles in the last few years

Here in the DFW area people squatting in foreclosed homes somehow thinking there was a loophole and they'd get the house. I think they all ended up being arrested.

[Ex Lurker]

6. My SO owns a home in New Orleans that belonged to her parents

it took a while to sell because of being tied up in succession issues. Squatters are active in NOLA, and it was always my nightmare that some of them would move in to this house.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

7. On of my friends is dealing with a squatter in his deceased mother's home

Total whackjob that nobody in the family has ever heard of who claims to have been married to his mother and has a supposed will and everything.

I wouldn't wish a squatter on anyone.

[Archae]

8. I just saw a case in Idaho, on ABC news.

A squatter there who is a druggie is blocking the sale of the house, and doing damage while the eviction could take months.

One of my sisters had to go through courts to evict a guy who wouldn't pay the rent.