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A Georgia man claims he returned home from caring for his sick wife to find that squatters had changed the locks on his home and moved in — and now local laws are blocking him from evicting the alleged freeloaders.
“Basically, these people came in Friday, broke into my house and had a U-Haul move all their stuff in. It’s frustrating. It’s very frustrating. I can’t even sleep,” DeKalb man Paul Callins told WSB-TV.
Callins had sunk thousands of dollars into the home and renovated it with his own hands after he inherited it from his late father, but since squatters moved in, he’s found himself facing nothing but obstacles to evicting the alleged intruders.
He had intended to rent the house to a government-subsidized tenant, and believes the squatters seized the home after seeing a rental ad he had posted online.
“I guess they have done this before, because when I called the police, they said since they have a fake lease, that they can’t do anything. That it’s a civil matter,” Callins told WSB-TV.
Callins said he believes two men and a woman are now living in his house, and now he has to go through a lengthy legal battle to get them out.
He must first file an “Affidavit of Intruder” in court and have it signed by a judge. Then he must appeal to the county sheriff’s office to get the squatters evicted.
“I have to go through the court system, and I understand it could take sixty to ninety days,” he explained.
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The Georgia House has introduced a “squatter reform bill,” which would make it a misdemeanor offense to take over someone’s property.
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