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In the US to get actual squatter's rights you need to be somewhere for years and basically not get noticed or requested to leave at all. The idea is pretty inte
by thehappypm 5y ago
In the US to get actual squatter's rights you need to be somewhere for years and basically not get noticed or requested to leave at all. The idea is pretty interesting: if a piece of property is being completely unused to the point where its legal owner does not even know someone is living there, it's better for society for the squatter to live there and keep an eye on it, and it doesn't even really negatively impact the legal owner because how can they possibly care about a place they never visit?
- seoaeu 5y agoYeah, adverse possession laws which kick in after years/decades of using some property make a lot of sense. You can even think of them as a sort of statute of limitations on property disputes
- avidiax 5y agoMy understanding is that the most common use of adverse possession is something like I have a dock on the property line. That dock has been there for 20 years, but my neighbor sells their property and the survey shows the dock is over the line by 6 inches. By adverse possession, I get that 6 inches of property and don't have to move the dock.
- bdowling 5y ago> By adverse possession, I get that 6 inches of property and don't have to move the dock. AP needs to be exclusive. So if you didn't have a fence keeping the neighbor off the dock, then what you'd get is a prescriptive easement. You'd get to keep using your dock where it is, but the neighbor would still have title to the strip of land. There may be some conditions in which the neighbor would get to access the part of the dock on his land.