How to squat a house in Detroit

[Richard]

You answered you own question , They could amend it though because a real tenant would have a lease to prove a more permanent status squatting is fairly new concept here compared to overseas and the rules have not caught up yet.

Three hours later the house was firebombed ? why should the house have to suffer it was not selling drugs.

[HistoryNotHisStory]

if you are looking at vacant properties there are many things you can do to be safer

- always go with someone else, never alone
- take a walk around the entire outside of the home first and check for kicked in doors or open windows, signs some has been there or is still there
- on the outside check pay particular attention to the porch tops, ive seen so many places where a knife is hidden in easy reach, not sure if this is just coincidence, or a stashed knife by the occupant - "just in case"
- check the electric meter for an illegal jump
- after you check, open ALL the doors, front, side, and rear, and don't go in
- go to the front and yell in the door that you are just an inspector and will be coming in in 10 minutes, this gives the squatter time to gather a few things and run out the back door that you have already opened, also, the open doors give you more fast exit points if you suddenly encounter a hostile occupant
- when you go in, take the pad lock in with you, i've heard stories of people getting locked in the homes

nothing sucks worse than being in the basement of a vacant home and then hearing footsteps upstairs... thank you CCW......

most squatters you encounter are not trying to take over the property, most are drug addicts just looking for a place to sleep out of the weather.....

like other have said, if the current owner has "abandoned" the property, its probably not worth anything and it would be easier for you to just buy the property for $1 and take over the tax bill than try to live unnoticed in the place for 15 years....

If you are going to be a house squatter, go for the gusto!

House squat in an upscale home in a nice neighborhood. Consider this...the penalty is still the same. So why not go for the gusto.

Take a look at this article

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39312450/ns/business-personal_finance/t/squatters-moving-upscale-neighborhoods/#.TqtT4UMr2so

[Jimaz]

If you are going to be a house squatter, go for the gusto!

House squat in an upscale home in a nice neighborhood. Consider this...the penalty is still the same. So why not go for the gusto.

Take a look at this article

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39312450/ns/business-personal_finance/t/squatters-moving-upscale-neighborhoods/#.TqtT4UMr2so

Thanks for that link!

That story exemplifies why the Occupy Wall Street movement set the figure in their "We are the 99%" slogan so high. If property at even that high of a level can't be protected from predatory lenders then even those super-wealthy homeowners are included in the 99%.

What's most interesting in that story is that once the property can't be protected from the predatory top 1%, it isn't being protected from the bottom 98% either! It's a free-for-all. It's socioeconomic chaos brought to you by the ever-so-proud deregulated toxic mortgage banksters!

The loot has been piled up so steeply and narrowly that it can't help but fall like the house of cards that it is.