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A man did this in Sydney fairly recently. He discovered a vacant house whose occupant had died, changed the locks and tidied the property before renting it out
by satori99 3y ago
A man did this in Sydney fairly recently. He discovered a vacant house whose occupant had died, changed the locks and tidied the property before renting it out to other people. After 20 years he applied for the deed. Relatives of the deceased owner were tracked down, and tried to fight him in court, but he won.
He got to keep 20 years of rent payments and a multi-million dollar property.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/developer-wins-court-battle-to-become-owner-of-vacant-sydney-house-20181031-p50d4v.html https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/developer-wins-court-bat...
- Eisenstein 3y agoSeems fine to me. No one cared enough to do anything with it and people need living space, so he utilized it. After a while if you tend a property and no one complains it is yours -- squatter's rights.
- vintermann 3y agoI would agree, except that he rented it out. He should get compensated for the part of cleaning the place up, but the people he rented to got scammed - he lied to them, took their money and let them carry the risk of getting thrown out if the real owner turned up.