I own a piece of property in Florida and my neighbor asked if her tenant could put his camper on it for 6-7 months in exchange he would take care of cutting the lawn for us since we are not there. I just want to protect ourselves and make sure we are not going to be taken from our neighbor who we really don't know all that well.

A. You pay the taxes he doesn't
B. He would ALSO have to be there probably 7 yrs or more as well as pay the taxes and do the up keep.
C. His up keep covers his rent not his chance of taking the property.


WHAT you do have to worry about is in 6 or 7 months he refuses to leave you HAVE to give him a written notice. I believe Fla is 15 day notice. Then if he does not leave after the 15 days you have to go to small claims and get a court order 15 day notice. Then the sheriffs escort him off the property if he still refuses to leave after that.

Get a signed agreement from your neighbour, making HER responsible. There is no sense in making her tenant responsible, as he is only a renter and will probably feel no obligation to adhere to an agreement. I wouldn't exactly call it squatters rights. On second thought, just cutting the grass is not really a decent compensation. Just in case he does do some damage to your property, he should probably be charged a fee.

You can always refuse and that gets you out of any obligation whatsoever.

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If you give someone written permission to stay on your property then they can never have a claim for adverse possession. That's because one of the requirements for ownership by adverse possession (what you call squatter's rights) is that the person possesses the property without the owner's permission.

I have an all too simple solution to your worries, say no. If you are worried about losing any propety rights just don't agree.