Just curious, do you know if the house from which they were evicted was also squatted? What happend to it? As he seems to have the lines about squatters' rights so handy it may be that he has been through the process previously.

Then there is the heartstring factor, a two parent family with five kids, and the grandparents in winter.

You got dealt a tough hand devman1983 no matter how you play it. Good luck.