• BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
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    bay area homeowners about to lose homes

    if you have trouble with squatters, i am willing to sell professional advice on how to get them to leave. it never fails.

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    “I’d much rather make a squatter homeless than have a landlord lose property,” Jacobs added.

    These are the pieces of shit your politicians listen to every time they increase funding for police enforcement against the homeless, and deny zoning changes, even if it would improve the housing crisis. “theft is always bad no matter what 🤓☝️”

    You have to be genuinely mentally ill to believe that someone going homeless is better than someone with more properties than they need to live in losing one of those properties so someone has a place to live.

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    “The average squatter has no melee experience,”

    But what about magic? Magic beats melee in the combat triangle.

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    its very important that the property remains empty, you see. if we allowed people to pay too little for it that would drive the prices of our other properties down.

    literally just the passage from grapes of wrath.

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    “I’d much rather make a squatter homeless than have a landlord lose property,” James added.

    Keeping it classy.

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        Hear me out: I don’t blame landlords for wanting to protect their investments. But, I do have a problem with them (and guys like James here) who do it at the expense of the downtrodden. Being a landlord should not have to be mutually exclusive with helping people.

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          I don’t blame landlords for wanting to protect their investments.

          I’m a landlord (not by choice, but shit happens). I’ve never hired goons and never would. I do blame landlords for resorting to this kind of bullshit.

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          I’m not seeing it.

          For there to be squatters, the landlords had to have this property open and unrented for a while. The only way that happens is if the rent is too high.

          What kind of landlord can afford to have a rental property vacant for a significant period of time and not accept a lower rent? Ones who own lots of property and would prefer to lose income rather than reduce the average rent price in the area.

          In the industry, withholding housing from people because you want to make more money, when you can clearly afford to get no income from it, is called “a dick move”.

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            For there to be squatters, the landlords had to have this property open and unrented for a while.

            Huh? A squatter is most commonly simply a former renter who stops paying without moving out. The property is not vacant at any point.

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              You’re describing holdover tenants. Those are not the same as squatters. Holdover tenants have more rights in California.

              Edit: worded that wrong.

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          OK I heard you out. But I absolutely do blame them. It is mutually exclusive, they’re parasites and aren’t helping anyone. The guy who helps fix up your home is the property manager, for which landlords occasionally hire themselves using your rent money.

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        Its all well and good to hate on the Bourgeois until you become one at which point the proletariat are your problem.

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          Its all well and good to hate on serial killers until you become one at which point the victims are your problem.

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            Yeah but being a serial killer doesn’t add anything to society. Bourgeois ownership of property and the competition that creates (capitalism) put a man on the moon and given you a better life than the aristocrats the bourgeois overthrew. How many people have serial killers raised out of poverty?

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                The USSR never put a man on the moon. And what your implying here is that the USSR was communism? If so the genocides and mass starvation it caused should be enough evidence against communism.

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              Sorry if I’m getting whooshed, are you being sarcastic? NASA is government-run. Feudalism was even more property-based and less democratic than capitalism is.

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          So as long as the bourgeoise exist, there will always be a problem?

          Sounds like the only solution is to collectively agree to delete the bourgeoise.

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            OK Marx sure. So what do u replace it with? Someone has to “own” ie control all the things and if u just hand it all over to some entity “the state” you have just reinvented aristocracy.

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              Someone has to “own” ie control all the things

              That’s an extremely silly statement. Do you really believe in a single global landlord that owns everything that everyone else must pay rent to? If one person owns everything like you say, you just destroyed private ownership.

              You managed to accuse me of being both Marx and a monarchist all while you call to end any private ownership in just one post.

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    …with professional-grade tactical gear.
    The gear includes firearms, ballistic full-body armor, flash bangs and smoke grenades, tear gas…

    Where the fuck are you sourcing explosives and tear gas as a civilian, and more importantly…
    Where can I get some? Purely for home defense, of course. Definitely not wanting it for defrost purposes.

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    this is a puff piece about the kind of gangster who turns up murdered and unmourned

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    Squatters rights are an important part of common law and they serve as a foundational means of ensuring valuable real estate remains in use. Adverse possession requires openly living somewhere for years without permission or resistance from the owner

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    sword-wielding man

    ASAP Squatter Removal has a 95%+ success rate

    Every now and then, you run into a spearman.

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      I assume it’s a joke, but the guy said professional tactical gear and firearms apparently, as well as teargas and such. If he’s not joking I’d say their odds of going to prison are pretty good. Premeditating and provoking a situation with deadly weapons instead of contacting actual authorities and following the laws/procedure doesn’t seem like it would work out well for anyone.

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        Isn’t that the exact gear that cops use to break up homeless encampments?

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          Whether we like it or not, those cops are the proper procedure/authorities in said situation. Thus they are allowed by law. I can’t just hire a neighbor to show up to a homeless camp with said gear and expect when something goes wrong for them not to get arrested for murder/battery, and probably be arrested for something else. Paying them to do so probably has a different terminology than an accessory. Might fall under the rico shit, not sure

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    Ads for this type of services show up in craigslist regularly where I live. Named organizations like Viking Acquisitions or FAFO LLC post weekly. I bugged the local newspaper about it, but they were disinterested.