I'm not really disagreeing with you. I do believe strongly in tenant rights because I've seen what bad landlords can do, and I've have close friends (now basica

I'm not really disagreeing with you. I do believe strongly in tenant rights because I've seen what bad landlords can do, and I've have close friends (now basically family) suffer because of the spiral of of homelessness. What I was suggesting was that no, it wasn't really unreasonable for the buyers to be surprised and expect squatters to not be present in their newly bought property. That is the responsibility of the seller. The seller sounds to have been fairly irreputable and tried to pawn off a problem property. At no point did I suggest, or am I suggesting, that a buyer should be able to immediately force legal residents or tenants to vacate. I'm saying that they probably had every right to be a bit surprised and annoyed/frustrated to find that the seller hadn't really done their duty. The story is farcical enough without inventing more ways to be upset at the buyers in the story, and such outrage really isn't useful for anyone.