DeSantis: The Squatter Scam Ends in Florida

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DeSANTIS: "It's ridiculous. No, Sean. I mean, you think about things like this idea of squatting, when Americans were settling like the Old West, you didn’t know who owned it, there weren’t records, so people started a community there, then someone came six or seven years later and claimed it was theirs, well, that was different, it's an adverse possession. It was never intended that you could just go into some subdivision and break into a house and start living there and then all of a sudden have all of these rights vested. In New York, there was a case, and it was reported, where the homeowner went, when someone had taken over her house, and the police did not evict the squatters, the police ended up arresting the homeowner. What kind of a country is that? And so, like on so many issues, what New York does, what California does, Florida will do the opposite, and so the squatter scam ends today with our legislation. And it’s important because, Sean, you know now, being a Florida resident, we’ve got people that will be here for seven months of the year and then they will go to Michigan or New York or even Canada. So what, you come back after the summer and someone’s in your house, and then they just get to stay there for six months? Now, in Florida, you call up, you fill out a form, sheriff comes and the sheriff kicks them out of your property."