Won't leave? They would leave my house in a minute.

Only in California would there be such a ridiculous law to protect a thief. Ok, maybe NY and Chicago.

This is Why we don't live in California.
 

Just remember, this is why so many people from California are moving here. Hopefully they don't vote like they did in California. Remember, stupidity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Fortunately this is personnal knowledge, not something you read in an article.

Exactly. It's laws that favor tenants over landlords in virtually every situation which are a hallmark in large cities that have "progressive" policies.

I don't feel bad for them because they voted for this insanity. Elections have consequences.

I get that this woman abused the system to get free rent. I think it's atrocious. But you can't blame politics for this. The city has zoning laws. The owner of the property violated the law. If the owner hadn't violated the law, then that tenant wouldn't have been allowed to move in, in the first place. OR, the property would've been brought into compliance, and the tenant wouldn't have been exempt from the eviction process.

Sort of like - you can run a red light. There's nothing physically stopping you from doing so. And if there's no cop to witness it, you'll probably get away with it. But if you run it, and someone its your car - you really can't blame the city for putting the light there. It's your own fault for running it.

The landlord ran the red zoning light. The landlord has only themselves to blame for breaking the rules. As they say: FAFO.

It’s like that movie Pacific Heights with MIchael Keaton, Melanie Griffith

Yes and no. She did break the rules but the elected officials put those "protections" for other criminals into the law.

To me, it's pretty simple. If you own a property and someone is occupying it without a valid lease, you should have the right to force them to leave. Elected officials have no right to protect a squatter with stupid laws.

In Florida there are homestead laws. The laws protect tenants just like the laws in California.

What are the odds that two different people at different times released 'harmful substances into the air"? The first one's release damaged her personal items, & the second one released a harmful substance - according to the article in the Daily Mail. Is this criminal allergic to someone passing gas? The nerve of these property owners.

Very true. Wonder what would happen if one of these elected officials has to deal with a squatter in rental property they own?

In FL there is an option "Unlawful Detainer". No money awarded but tenant or live in can be lawfully told to leave. I used this to get a relative out of my home.

Did you have to go to court to do it?