Detroit homeowner, squatter forced to live under same roof until court decides

[jamesrage]

How can someone trespass into someone's home and not be removed by law enforcement.

Detroit homeowner, squatter forced to live under same roof until court decides | Fox News
A Detroit woman says when she returned to her home last week after being away for a year, she found a woman living there who neighbors say has been staying in the house for a few months, MyFoxDetroit.com reported.
"She thinks that this is a program in Detroit to take people's homes and fix them up and then she gets to keep them," Heidi Peterson, who bought the home in Detroit's Boston-Edison District for $23,000, said. "I don't know what her capabilities are. We're afraid of her mindset of entitlement."

Peterson claims the squatter, who was a tenant of Peterson's and leased the home in 2010, changed the locks, reworked the plumbing, replaced her appliances, put a lien on the house and will not leave. So now they are forced to sleep one room away from each other, Peterson with her 1-year-old daughter.
"I thought if the house is not safe, how can I come here with my child? There's an issue with that. But should I lose my house to a squatter because I don't have rights to my property or should I fight to get it back," said Peterson.
The alleged squatter's name is documented all over the house as Missionary-Tracey Elaine Blair, a write-in candidate for president. She denied that she was squatting and said she has a lease.
"I have a construction lien for the repairs that I put into the house. Someone had (broken) into the house on July the 4th and they stripped the radiators and I made a report," she added.

 

[Sherman123]

I have no idea how this could happen and not be instantly resolved.

 

[Donahue]

The whole article could have been summed up by "Detroit".

 

[Jerry]

How can someone trespass into someone's home and not be removed by law enforcement.

Detroit homeowner, squatter forced to live under same roof until court decides | Fox News
A Detroit woman says when she returned to her home last week after being away for a year, she found a woman living there who neighbors say has been staying in the house for a few months, MyFoxDetroit.com reported.
"She thinks that this is a program in Detroit to take people's homes and fix them up and then she gets to keep them," Heidi Peterson, who bought the home in Detroit's Boston-Edison District for $23,000, said. "I don't know what her capabilities are. We're afraid of her mindset of entitlement."

Peterson claims the squatter, who was a tenant of Peterson's and leased the home in 2010, changed the locks, reworked the plumbing, replaced her appliances, put a lien on the house and will not leave. So now they are forced to sleep one room away from each other, Peterson with her 1-year-old daughter.
"I thought if the house is not safe, how can I come here with my child? There's an issue with that. But should I lose my house to a squatter because I don't have rights to my property or should I fight to get it back," said Peterson.
The alleged squatter's name is documented all over the house as Missionary-Tracey Elaine Blair, a write-in candidate for president. She denied that she was squatting and said she has a lease.
"I have a construction lien for the repairs that I put into the house. Someone had (broken) into the house on July the 4th and they stripped the radiators and I made a report," she added.

...watch me burn the house down out of spite....

 

[jamesrage]

...watch me burn the house down out of spite....

I think if the homeowner was smart she would have shot the trespasser at first site and claimed she saw a burglar.

 

[Jerry]

I think if the homeowner was smart she would have shot the trespasser at first site and claimed she saw a burglar.

That reminds me, I need to renew my self-defense insurance.

 

[Chaddelamancha]

I think if the homeowner was smart she would have shot the trespasser at first site and claimed she saw a burglar.

This is worst than the squatter.

That being said, it is ridiculous that the squatter has any claim to the house.

 

[haymarket]

The whole article could have been summed up by "Detroit".

So in your 'mind' one news story speaks for a city of over 700,000 people?

 

[MaggieD]

How can someone trespass into someone's home and not be removed by law enforcement.

Detroit homeowner, squatter forced to live under same roof until court decides | Fox News
A Detroit woman says when she returned to her home last week after being away for a year, she found a woman living there who neighbors say has been staying in the house for a few months, MyFoxDetroit.com reported.
"She thinks that this is a program in Detroit to take people's homes and fix them up and then she gets to keep them," Heidi Peterson, who bought the home in Detroit's Boston-Edison District for $23,000, said. "I don't know what her capabilities are. We're afraid of her mindset of entitlement."

Peterson claims the squatter, who was a tenant of Peterson's and leased the home in 2010, changed the locks, reworked the plumbing, replaced her appliances, put a lien on the house and will not leave. So now they are forced to sleep one room away from each other, Peterson with her 1-year-old daughter.
"I thought if the house is not safe, how can I come here with my child? There's an issue with that. But should I lose my house to a squatter because I don't have rights to my property or should I fight to get it back," said Peterson.
The alleged squatter's name is documented all over the house as Missionary-Tracey Elaine Blair, a write-in candidate for president. She denied that she was squatting and said she has a lease.
"I have a construction lien for the repairs that I put into the house. Someone had (broken) into the house on July the 4th and they stripped the radiators and I made a report," she added.

That's fine. But the court should have to decide in 72 hours. Ridiculous. The crux of the matter is probably that a month-to-month tenancy was established at the end of the written lease. Even though the tenant apparently wasn't paying rent, there are legal steps that have to be taken to remove a deadbeat from a rental property. What's the homeowner been doing for the last year or so? Didn't even check in on the house?