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Squatters S01e06
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00:08hey squatters here guys squatters here he's looking at the suv a little hesitation
00:18i'm gonna go ahead and open the door
00:24hey roomie hey what's going on i know your roommate i understand you've been squatting
00:28in this house why you got cameras in my face you have a lease you get out of here i'm
00:35flash shelton
00:36in 2019 squatters took over my mom's home the sheriff couldn't get him out so i did
00:43turns out my family is not alone across america thousands of homeowners get locked out when a
00:49squatter moves in now my team and i were coming in travel across the country confronting these
00:54squatters leave me alone face to face we're not going anywhere to help families get their homes
01:00back go back the up out of my face get out of my house
01:11i'm here in dearborn heights michigan right outside of detroit where lenient squatter laws have created a
01:17disastrous situation for homeowners
01:22i'm here to meet with nabi and khadija they have a squatter in their house
01:27how are you flash khadija how are you so i i understand you guys have a nightmare situation
01:34going on right now yes tell me about you know your interaction or when the first time you realized it
01:40was
01:41probably the third week that i purchased the home i pick up my wife we go buy some furniture we
01:47come
01:47inside we put all our furniture in there close up we leave two days goes by i go back to
01:54the house
01:55i go up to my door and i try to open the door but my key's not working i knock
02:01on there's somebody
02:02inside my house i have a squatter inside me and her are sleeping and my in-laws we really don't
02:08know what
02:08to do yeah and you know the sad part is we have a little one that keeps asking when are
02:14we going
02:14to go back to the house when are we going to move she she picked out her room and everything
02:19how old
02:19is she's four oh four yeah yeah she's got my room her color everything yeah she's old enough to
02:25understand that there's something going on yeah i feel very sad it's horrible to go through this he
02:33could be in our daughter's room i don't know god knows what he's doing in there uh we have our
02:38daughter's birthday coming up that it's depressing it's very easy for me to find motivation in that
02:44situation i have a daughter they have a four-year-old that's asking them why can't we move into our
02:50house
02:50and they have to look at her with no answers that's horrible do you know who this guy is
02:55his name is jake canal i don't know if that's real or do you have an approximate age
03:02maybe 30 35 in his 30s did you happen to take a photo or anything no so what did you
03:08do i called
03:09the cops and told them i have a deed to this house and he told me sir this is a
03:14civil matter there's
03:15nothing we can do for you so this guy squatter is telling the cops that he has a lease
03:22the lease is part of the game for a squatter it's a strategy he says he has a lease well
03:28i want to put
03:29myself in a position to where i can say i have a lease okay but i'm actually going to have
03:34a lease
03:34you know i i brought a lease here with me today i'm going to have you have you sign that
03:49what i can't do is lock him out and i can't force him out okay but i can make him
03:56want to
03:57leave that's my goal okay i know you've gone through a lot but right now i just want you to
04:02let my team and i worry about these details and just enjoy a birthday party with your daughter okay
04:08okay thank you so much all right i'm gonna get to work thank you we appreciate you so our next
04:25step we need to visit the property you know check out the area yeah so we're gonna pull up in
04:33front
04:33of the house here remember i want you to pull out your phone and start and record me
04:38i'm gonna get my notice together and go post a notice on the door under michigan law my lease
04:47makes me a lawful occupant but i still post a 24-hour inspection notice to ensure that i can enter
04:54the
04:54property safely and by the book all right yeah i see that oh where somebody's out there wow our squatters
05:06out there what freaking luck all right looks like he's out smoking a cigarette look right here
05:15he's looking uh is he seeing me not directly yet so we have to be prepared if he's armed
05:25tape you sure you don't need me to hop out with you no man i'm just gonna go up and
05:29post a notice
05:30we don't know anything about this squatter we don't know if he's alone we don't know if he has
05:34any weapons anything you got eyes if you feel i need you you jump out okay okay all right
05:50how you doing what you got there uh it's notice yeah want to know about it just check it out
05:59buddy
06:16what the hell
06:24all right now we're gonna just pull away here
06:32so let's set up and let's watch
06:36all right look at this i got a couple really good photos of this guy see that how the hell
06:41did you
06:41cool that off yeah he was too busy looking at the notice in my hand and here he is getting
06:47up he
06:48was got up aggressively we have 24 hours before we can enter the home so i want to make the
06:54most of
06:55that 24 hours
07:05i want to put a camera up so i saw a neighbor come out of that house so i'm going
07:11to see if i can
07:13sneak up there to talk see if we can put a camera i need you to keep your eyes open
07:19all right
07:23okay hi sir how you doing my my name is flash sheldon i travel the country and i get squatters
07:28out
07:29would it be possible for me to mount maybe a camera on your tree just tonight yeah sure um it's
07:36just
07:36going to be recording across the street okay all right i got cameras too all right man so yeah
07:42appreciate it you got cameras up yeah i got cameras here that okay here we have one in the garage
07:47well because i had a problem with funny you say that squatters behind me that had
07:51two people i have really so you know it's a it's a huge problem here it's very bad yeah yeah
07:57all
07:58right all right thank you appreciate it okay having a neighbor step up tells me the people around here
08:03care about what's happening pretty good yeah it's perfect and having this camera up will give us 24-hour
08:10access to what's going on so our main objective today is to try to find a uh a window of
08:25opportunity
08:25to make entrance to the house okay there was no movement on the security camera last night which
08:33tells me the squatter is still in the house look we just have to be careful we don't know who
08:37he is
08:38oh wait i see movement all right we got we got movement here he goes could we be this lucky
08:50there he goes he didn't even look at us he doesn't know
08:59all right
09:08now that the squatters left it's time to take over this house
09:12got your phone okay let's do this okay body cams
09:22cam it's unlocked i'm in come in right here watch this door watch the street i'll let you need me
09:29man okay
09:31sound out if anyone's here
09:36okay clear
09:47okay clear close and lock the back door and come in follow in bathroom clear house is all clear
10:00squatter is gone we don't know how much time we're going to have
10:03but we are going to set up our cameras and then wait for them to return
10:10yeah
10:18hey squatters here guys squatters here he's looking at the suv
10:24a little hesitation
10:29i'm going to go ahead and open the door
10:33hey roomie
10:34what's going on here hey what's going on i know your roommate
10:36hey but you know what i have a lease for this house this is my house now
10:40i understand you've been squatting in this house
10:42i signed the lease with the owner
10:44why you got cameras in my face i need you to understand that you are being recorded
10:48you get out of here so if you want to show me where your bedroom is
10:51my room right here all right this is where you're going to have privacy you're going to be allowed
10:54to be in this bedroom and the bathroom any other common areas of this house you're on camera do you
11:01understand that that's bull you're going to be going out you have a lease i'm not leaving you're
11:05going to be going all right we'll see all right so i'll be waiting to see the lease okay all
11:09right we'll
11:10be here you have to get out of my house right now you have to get out of my house
11:22right now you know
11:24what that's what all my roommates say
11:31hey uh by the way i got a bedroom here looks like a young daughter's room
11:35is this your daughter no so you rented a home you have a lease there's a bunch of little girl
11:42stuff in here and you don't know whose it is and i'm here legally you're here legally yes so you
11:50should have some sort of emails text messages communications with the property owner if you
11:55can prove to me that you rented this house i don't have to show you anything okay you can't kick
12:03me out
12:03just like i can't kick you out all right we're roommates just like i said okay well i guess then
12:08we're gonna battle the wits we'll see who's gonna last longer
12:20maybe thinks we're not here we're gonna be in this house and having him truly understand that we're
12:26not going anywhere and the only way for him to believe we're not going anywhere is if we're making
12:36ourselves comfortable the refrigerator is included it's all mine so that means contents are mine
12:46i'm gonna get this door locked we're gonna secure the laundry i need to start doing some things to
12:51step it up make him understand that he has no control of anything in this house any further
12:57the squatter has the right to utilities he has the right to water and power i can't take that away
13:02from him however laundry is a privilege laundry secure hey jake can i help you hey by the way my
13:12lease
13:14is a renovation lease that allows me to do some stuff on the house so uh i've made some modifications
13:20hope you enjoy them now i want to let him discover that he's losing control of this house
13:34he noticed starlock
13:41yeah you didn't need to wash any clothes did you are you serious man are you serious
13:48i'm just trying to remind you that this isn't your house now you're now you're in trouble hello you
13:55going to talk to these jerks you and maybe set them straight come on lawyer all right i love it
14:02hey
14:03lawyer how you doing what's your name you don't need to know my name do you understand though you're
14:08doing a self-eviction i have a lease and i'm your client's roommate i am not telling your client he
14:14has to
14:14leave but if he chooses to leave on his own that's not considered self-help
14:32when you want to talk to me like a real attorney and not some fake friend pretending to be his
14:37attorney
14:38then you come and give me your license number so that i can deal with you like a legal absolute
14:44attorney oh that you man hey tell your friend oh dude this is this is not right
14:51you need to get the hell out of here now he's going to extremes of having people pretend to be
14:57his attorney that i've never met an attorney that was afraid to give me their name running out of
15:02options yeah i'm going to call the cops right now and get you out of here all right you do
15:08that because
15:08you're not supposed to be here oh yeah i have somebody in my house
15:14is a trespasser he's trespassing in my home he has bulletproof they have bulletproof vests they have
15:20camera are you calling a fake cop now like you called a fake lawyer they're scaring me i don't know
15:24who
15:25they are i appreciate it thank you the cops are coming man all right awesome we'll wait for
15:30coming for you they're getting you out of here all right they're gonna get you out of here okay
15:43yeah i got a unit pulling a couple houses down law enforcement's here all right stay here keep
15:49security on the house watch our crew keep an eye on his door i want to go meet them outside
15:53in the
15:54street all right when a squatter calls the cops it changes everything it means that they think this
16:00is their home now i need to make it clear that this is not a threat and this is a
16:05civil issue
16:08lock the store after me
16:29hey the cops are here all right time for you guys to go then
16:38hey i think you got a call about me and my crew from that house yeah someone calls yeah flash
16:43out
16:43and we're dealing with a squatter situation most people panic when the cops show up i don't if i
16:49can get them to understand what's really going on that puts all of the pressure back on the squatter
16:54so if i'm not gonna do it they'll find it though yeah the owner's not there because we have it
16:58and i have a
16:59lease for the property as well i understand you have the lease okay if you have a lease but you're
17:03not the landlord right right the owner's the landlord once i explain the whole situation to
17:08the officers and show them my lease they leave they understand they recognize it's a civil matter
17:15there's nothing they can do here and they leave the premises and let me get back to work all right
17:20have
17:23a good one man thanks his big plan to get me out it backfired he could have run out and
17:32showed his
17:32copy of his lease to prove his point but he didn't do that he knew and i knew he was
17:37full of hey jake
17:40got some bad news for you oh yeah what's that look out your window
17:45law enforcement left what do you mean they left hey you know they told me to give you a message
17:51man what's that it's a civil matter and there's nothing they can do looks like you got a new
17:57roommate bud you are nuts man i don't know you gotta get out of here yeah you know just like
18:04i can't
18:05tell you to get the out of here you can't really say that to me either so you want to
18:10talk just you
18:10and me yeah i can talk to you where do you want to talk you talk right here if you
18:17like all right
18:20how about you give me five thousand dollars and i'll be out of here man it's a hard no i'm
18:24not
18:25gonna pay a squatter three thousand i need living oh man you can live somewhere look i can't pay you
18:30i can't condone it i don't pay squatters look do you want to live like this
18:39i mean personally i don't want to live like this no i don't okay right i know that you didn't
18:44rent this
18:45house from the owner look you signed an agreement with me saying you're going to leave in 48 hours
18:51and i will let you live in peace
18:56is that a deal yes all right it's a deal all right man that's the job so i got him
19:02to agree though he's
19:03going to vacate in 48 hours in that agreement it also has him acknowledged that i am a legal tenant
19:10having full rights to this property all right man i'm gonna remove my crew my cameras security cameras
19:19are going to remain in here okay now i want to let you know you said 48 hours and i'm
19:25going to be
19:25watching so if you're not doing anything packing doing anything then i'm going to come in all right
19:33do you understand that yeah okay yeah all right jake 48 hours 48 hours
20:01i'm heading over to the homeowner's mother's house to give nabi and khadijah the good news
20:06and a working key that the squatter gave me
20:13this is always the best part of what i do hey guys hey how you doing how are you how
20:20you doing good
20:21good to see you good to see you too so i uh have some good news for you all right
20:25the squatter has
20:27agreed to leave yes okay he is vacating the property as we speak right now awesome and i have
20:34an agreement it's your house again all right and we have the new key
20:40we got our key back i'm so excited you know what wish your daughter a happy birthday for me
20:46thank you be blessed man have a great day all right we appreciate you so much
20:50take care now hey flash just want to tell you thank you for getting our house back man thank you
21:02so
21:02much we're so excited and i want to show you who's really happy oh yeah are you happy you got
21:07your room
21:07back i'm happy i got my own back
21:12you
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