Handyman turns the tables on squatters who took over his mom’s home

A handyman turned the tables on suspected squatters who took over his mom’s Northern California residence.

“If they might take a home, then I might take a home,” Flash Shelton of the United Handyman Affiliation mentioned in a YouTube video. “They’re the squatter and so they have rights. Properly, then if I turn out to be the squatter on the squatter, then I ought to have rights, proper?”

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Shelton’s video detailing his quest to reclaim the California residence has garnered greater than two million views on YouTube.

Shelton mentioned his father lately handed away, and his mom could not stay in the home on her personal. So that they put it up for hire.

A lady who recognized herself as a jail guard requested to hire the home, in keeping with Shelton, however she did not have any cash or credit score so he mentioned no. Then he discovered a truckload of furnishings and different belongings had been delivered to the house.

“She mentioned that it was delivered accidentally and he or she was eliminating it,” Shelton mentioned.

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As an alternative, the handyman began listening to from realtors that the home was stuffed with furnishings and folks. Neighbors mentioned the lights have been on at evening. Shelton referred to as the police, however like many Individuals going through squatters, the reply he obtained was unhelpful.

“They mainly mentioned, ‘, I’m sorry, however we will not enter the home and it appears to be like like they’re dwelling there. So it’s good to undergo the courts,'” Shelton recalled legislation enforcement telling him.

Owners throughout the nation have been embroiled in expensive authorized battles to attempt to take away squatters, with no decision in sight.

“Regardless that you are at your own home and also you’re paying the mortgage … in some unspecified time in the future squatters really feel like they’ve extra rights than you, so they do not have incentive to depart till a choose tells them to,” he mentioned. “And that might take months, six months, it might take years. I do not know. I did not wish to take that probability.”

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So he hatched a plan. Shelton wrote up a lease settlement between himself and his mom designating Shelton because the authorized resident of the house. 

He loaded some weapons and his canine into his Jeep and set off for California, arriving at 4 a.m. to search out automobiles within the driveway. Shelton mentioned he parked down the road and waited till everybody left the home a number of hours later.

Shelton let himself in utilizing the keys to the home. Video exhibits a mattress and different furnishings sitting inside the house in addition to containers of belongings and what seems to be a California Division of Corrections uniform.

Shelton mentioned he began putting in safety cameras when two girls pulled as much as the home.

“I am actually sorry about all this,” one of many girls will be heard saying in a video Shelton recorded. “It is a nightmare and past.”

Shelton advised the girl if she did not have every part out by midnight, he’d have it hauled away. The alleged squatters missed the deadline, however have been passed by 3, Shelton mentioned.

Alleged squatters eliminated the furnishings and belongings from the home. Shelton mentioned he and his mom have been in the end capable of promote it. (United Handyman Affiliation “Handyman Solutions”/YouTube)

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“I feel simply the truth that I used to be there was sufficient,” he mentioned. “It was really enjoyable to do it. I will not lie about that. I am glad it was profitable.”

However Shelton cautioned in opposition to following his lead in a second video.

“Not everybody ought to stroll by that door not figuring out what you are gonna discover,” he mentioned. “It is not at all times going to be peaceable like that.”