Hi there! I'm, in so many words, being forced into the position of squatting with my husband by the end of March. We're still looking for somewhere to rent, a room, but it seems nobody wants to rent to a couple. And we don't want to be locked into a year lease in an apartment (if we could even afford one lmao). Because of that, we're shifting our focus on a place we're going to squat on.
This past weekend we changed the locks so to speak on the place in question, so as to be prepared for if and when we move in. We scoped out the house and the interior.
Seems to be some electricity, and no running water at all. The house is in a well-to-do area but has been all but abandoned for what I think must be almost 8 years.
The woman who owns the house supposedly changed address in 2015. I'm trying to find out if she's alive or dead even (she's supposedly 86 and knocking on death's door if she hasn't already just due to her age). Searching her name with "obituaries" and the county name didn't seem to bring anything else up, anyone have advice on that?
Also as far as I've been able to tell, someone is still paying property taxes on the house as it has no foreclosure listed on the county website.
However it seems well and truly abandoned, as the lower part of the home/basement has flood and mold damage (quite a lot, we won't be going down there except to test the beams to make sure we don't fall thru the upper floor if we sleep there), there are parts of the ceiling missing or sagging slightly on the main floor, and it has otherwise been cleaned of possessions except for clothing that was left behind in several different closets, a carbon monoxide detector, and the shell of a smoke detector. There is also a handwritten note from, when I assume this woman's grown kids likely moved her out, basically stating to leave the clothes so the woman could go through them and decide what to keep (which clearly never happened).
SO I guess I just wanted to document this absurdity somewhere because we can't tell friends and my husband and I are not interested in sharing with family for MANY reasons. Also you all seem really friendly, it's been good seeing people who are trying to help each other out.
I'm glad I stumbled upon this site. ❤️
Also, wanted to know if it might be worth it to get electricity/water all running properly. I'm not sure if it'll be an issue, or if the pipes are even in working order to have water running. We want to (hopefully) be here only until end of July at the latest. After that we wanna move to Colorado. I've convinced my husband to get our mail delivered here, change our address on our IDs and otherwise just try to act as if we belong (all excellent advice I've seen from you lovely folks. :] ). Also saw advice/a tactic to whipping up a fake lease agreement in case someone/cops come knocking to get them to back off and give us time to get out.
I'm sorry too for such a long post, just happy to get this all off my chest. It's like reality is fucking shitting itself and I've never squatted before in my life, so naturally this is a big deal to me and my husband.
Anyway, I'd like to continue detailing this journey as much as I can, here's to hoping it's hassel free and lets us comfortably (as possible while squatting of course) save money, fix some credit scores and get ready to fuck off out of state.
Thoughts, concerns, crtiticisms etc all wonderful. Discussion is really cool.
Thanks for having me here.
This past weekend we changed the locks so to speak on the place in question, so as to be prepared for if and when we move in. We scoped out the house and the interior.
Seems to be some electricity, and no running water at all. The house is in a well-to-do area but has been all but abandoned for what I think must be almost 8 years.
The woman who owns the house supposedly changed address in 2015. I'm trying to find out if she's alive or dead even (she's supposedly 86 and knocking on death's door if she hasn't already just due to her age). Searching her name with "obituaries" and the county name didn't seem to bring anything else up, anyone have advice on that?
Also as far as I've been able to tell, someone is still paying property taxes on the house as it has no foreclosure listed on the county website.
However it seems well and truly abandoned, as the lower part of the home/basement has flood and mold damage (quite a lot, we won't be going down there except to test the beams to make sure we don't fall thru the upper floor if we sleep there), there are parts of the ceiling missing or sagging slightly on the main floor, and it has otherwise been cleaned of possessions except for clothing that was left behind in several different closets, a carbon monoxide detector, and the shell of a smoke detector. There is also a handwritten note from, when I assume this woman's grown kids likely moved her out, basically stating to leave the clothes so the woman could go through them and decide what to keep (which clearly never happened).
SO I guess I just wanted to document this absurdity somewhere because we can't tell friends and my husband and I are not interested in sharing with family for MANY reasons. Also you all seem really friendly, it's been good seeing people who are trying to help each other out.
I'm glad I stumbled upon this site. ❤️
Also, wanted to know if it might be worth it to get electricity/water all running properly. I'm not sure if it'll be an issue, or if the pipes are even in working order to have water running. We want to (hopefully) be here only until end of July at the latest. After that we wanna move to Colorado. I've convinced my husband to get our mail delivered here, change our address on our IDs and otherwise just try to act as if we belong (all excellent advice I've seen from you lovely folks. :] ). Also saw advice/a tactic to whipping up a fake lease agreement in case someone/cops come knocking to get them to back off and give us time to get out.
I'm sorry too for such a long post, just happy to get this all off my chest. It's like reality is fucking shitting itself and I've never squatted before in my life, so naturally this is a big deal to me and my husband.
Anyway, I'd like to continue detailing this journey as much as I can, here's to hoping it's hassel free and lets us comfortably (as possible while squatting of course) save money, fix some credit scores and get ready to fuck off out of state.
Thoughts, concerns, crtiticisms etc all wonderful. Discussion is really cool.
Thanks for having me here.