A man who helps homeowners fight against squatters is trashing the “broken” system that allows such abuse.
Flash Shelton, who now hosts the show “Squatters,” is no stranger to watching strangers legally take over a home that doesn’t belong to them. In 2019, he was told that there was nothing the police could do about the people squatting in his late father’s house, and in that moment, everything he knew about property rights was turned on its head.
Speaking to Fox News Digital, Shelton revealed that he had moved his grieving mother into his home in the wake of his father’s death, but what came next was not an era of healing, but rather a nightmare at the hands of entitled strangers that no law can touch.
“All of the rights, not just some of the rights, but all of the rights fall to the squatter,” he said, adding that homeowners may be shocked to hear “that a squatter just has to create reasonable doubt to be given full rights as a tenant. That there isn’t a system in place that says that you have to have a lease, or you have to be able to show rent payments to be a tenant. That if you have possession, you have rights.”
“Squatters figure out different ways to take properties, and they know what to say. The whole system is wrong,” he added.
In cases such as these, homeowners have very little recourse against the strangers who have claimed possession of their property. They can even obtain leases as long as they promise to pay rent, regardless of whether they follow through on it.
“Originally, the system was designed because they were looking at homeowners as being rich, and they were looking at tenants as being poor. So they created a system to level those terms. But what they forgot is the fact that homeowners are not all rich and just because you own a mortgage, it doesn’t mean that you have money. It is unfavorably unbalanced right now and it is failing homeowners,” Shelton explained.
Meanwhile, lawmakers continue to defend the system.
“I think they need to understand and try to relate to somebody that doesn’t have the money to go through these situations and understand that some of these people are losing homes over this because they can’t afford to fight.”
Now, Shelton helps homeowners fight back by using the same tactics as squatters. While he has been called aggressive by critics, he argues that nothing he does breaks the law.
“I had to take it into my own hands and figure it out, and I learned everything about squatters. I figured out that if they could take the house, I could take the house, and I was gonna go take my house back,” he said.
“I am taking the laws and, in a way, I’m doing similar to what like – squatters are taking a law that allows them to do something, and they are taking a home,” he added. “I am doing things in a legal way to take the home back, and I’m not going in with firearms in any way. I am not putting myself or my team in harm. We are doing a lot of research to make sure that everyone is going to be safe … not everyone is going to agree with what I do. But how I defend what I do is preparation research and I do everything that I can to make sure that it’s safe and legal.”
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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