This stuff always ends up being propaganda for landlords
Why even go to the authorities. Get your cousins, some baseball bats and evict them.
in the UK you would need to live there for 10 years
If you shoot someone in your home who you previously invited into your home, you’re going to prison.
If you tell someone sure. This seems like a situation where the government is almost encouraging you to deal with it on your own. Just make sure you hide any evidence
Per the article, takes 15 years of adverse possession to claim squatter’s rights in KY. Order that got homeowner kicked out was a protective order that stemmed from a physical altercation between the “squatter” and one of the homeowner’s roommates.
It takes 15 years of squatting to gain adverse possession. That is to gain ownership of the property, you have to live there for 15 years without the owner making an active effort to stop you.
In most states it’s the opposite, the owner has to attempt to stop you and you have to hold it hostility.
Nebraska for reference
The squatter’s presence and use of the property must be continuous, actual, visible, notorious, distinct, and hostile to the actual property owner’s rights.
Meaning you must openly try to prevent the owners use and they most attempt to prevent yours.
I don’t think that’s what that means. I believe “hostile” in this sense is closer in meaning to “contrary.” It’s hostile to the owner’s rights, not hostile to the owner.
You have to make it clear that you’re living there with regular upkeep. Mow the lawn, fix up the house, etc. You can’t hide the fact that you’re living there from the owner or neighbors.
If the owner shows up one day and discovers you’ve been living there, they can politely ask you to leave and now you’re officially trespassing and you lose your claim to adverse possession.
If you’ve made it clear that you live there, and your neighbors all know you, but the real owner has never showed up in 15 years, or just doesn’t care and never asked you for rent or asked you to leave, congrats on your new property.
Doesn’t that only mean that you have to be hostile to their rights, not the other way around?