You could search Zillow for off-market properties. Look for stuff that's way below market for the area. Cross reference state property tax records. Title records. Maybe it's boarded up and in obvious disrepair. Particular look for one that's owned for a long time by an LLC. The owner there has enough business accumen to fix it up, but believes that he'll profit more by waiting around until market conditions change. Look for the LLC owner, for one who doesn't live nearby. Now you have someone whose distance and dereliction of social duty shows through in the condition of the property. He's harming the neighborhood, keeping housing empty and off-market, and not even paying attention. That's the one.
The time frame it takes to resolve this issue is the primary problem.
It should be fast and easy to determine if a rental agreement is invalid. I don't know what that system needs to look like exactly, but we've been setting and improving standards for document validation for generations so it shouldn't be that hard.
The kind of squatters that you have to fight in court to get rid of are downtroden in the sense that all petty criminals are downtrodden. In the sense that the guy that robs you at the bus stop is downtrodden even as he treads down on you.
Now I don't much give a fuck about people's return on investment and shit, but property, if you actually give a shit about it, is expensive to maintain and repair. That plus an arduous legal process highly incentivizes property owners to capitulate to unjust demands from squatters, much like any other robbery uses a threat of harm to coerce compliance.
Squatters don't usually go for genuinely abandoned properties, but rather ones that are empty in the short term for normal reasons (vacations, sales, grandma got moved to a home). If they went into abandoned properties then there might be repairs that need to be done, some of the utilities might not be able to be activated immediately because of connection issues, it might not be safe, and certainly the owner might not notice and then come to ask them to leave and then they would never be able to ask the owner for money to make them leave.
It's a horrible quote, but most squatters from what I've seen are just scammers. They squat, they muck up the eviction process with fake documents, and they generally extort money from the property owner in exchange for leaving early and not damaging the place.
I wish to God squatters would quietly drill out the locks on an old abandoned property, occupy it and slowly fix it up and just go over to whatever agency 5 years later with the documentation to show it and say "by right of labor and occupancy this house is mine."
I just doesn't seem to be how it works in places with tolerant squatting laws. The way it seems to go is some enterprising criminals will run off some fake leases, gain entry to a home that's only temporarily unoccupied, and then when the owners come back they ask them for money to leave. And then the owners give them money, and the squatters either leave or they don't.
Shadija Romero has been making the news recently turning a 30-day or less Airbnb rental into a 9-month drag out fight, but she's a probably only made the news because she's mentally not all there. Most squatters aren't delusional enough to try to defend themselves publicly or lie about things to the press.
When I look up squatters most of the info seems to pop up around DC and Maryland so if I wonder if it's a particular issue around there.
Basically all of the AI companies get away with violating basically all IP laws and norms, and manipulating the PC hardware market to the detriment of consumers. I believe that's what he meant by "getting away with murder". As a point of comparison to this relatively minor kerfuffle.
I wouldn't mind a web browser being part of a broader system of trusted software, but shoving an AI chatbot into my web browser does not make me trust it more.
I think in this particular case at least Mozilla decided to introduce something that their users didn't want without asking, and our backpedaling and are being mocked for having done the thing in the first place.
Frankly I don't know what's going on in their collective brains. What Firefox needs more than anything else is refinement. There are no features that it's missing as far as I can think of.
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