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    hazeleyes0322 Posts: 1, Reputation: 1
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    Jan 26, 2013, 08:04 AM
    Squatters rights!
    If I have lived in a house that us being forclosed on and paying utilities and upkeeping the house for over 1 year can I claim squatters rights?
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    Jan 26, 2013, 08:07 AM
    Sure you can claim them, they don't exist, but you can try and claim it.

    I am not sure what you are expecting to get here, were you the owner being foreclosed on ? Or are you just someone else who moved into an empty home.

    There are many laws, there are no squatters rights
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    Jan 26, 2013, 08:12 AM
    Squatter's rights went out 100 years ago. I don't suppose you were paying the mortgage and property taxes? Either the lender or the town or both is/are owed those. Talk to them about buying it or renting while it's for sale, which may or may not be a long time.
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    Jan 26, 2013, 08:22 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by joypulv View Post
    Squatter's rights went out 100 years ago. ....
    If you mean the ability to establish title by simply moving in to land to which you have no claim, probably a lot longer than that. In what is now the U.S. and Canada, even before the American Revolution, people had claim of title they got from someone.

    If it's being foreclosed upon, the bank normally cannot get possession until the foreclosure process is complete. So one cannot begin adversely possessing against the bank until that has happened anyway.
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    Jan 26, 2013, 12:05 PM
    The way I read this you were illegally trespassing on a property that was abandoned by its owner and is in the foreclosure process. And you think that since you have been paying utilities and maintaining the property, you are somehow entitled to that property.

    Sorry doesn't work that way. You will be lucky you don't get arrested for trespassing.
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