<story><title>A $330,000 home for $16? Texas adverse possession law</title><url>http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Texas-Law-Lets-Stranger-Move-Into-330000-Home-125528248.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_delirium</author><text>At least as it currently stands, this case seems to mostly have to do with difficulties of eviction, especially when the house is in a weird ownership status. He hasn&apos;t been living on the land nearly long enough to actually have any real rights through adverse possession (roughly, &quot;squatter&apos;s rights&quot;), and could be evicted by the owner at any time. He just seems to think, possibly correctly, that eviction is unlikely for a variety of reasons, and so hopes to stay long enough that adverse possession &lt;i&gt;will&lt;/i&gt; become relevant, if he de-facto lives in the house long enough without being evicted.&lt;p&gt;The main thing that keeps him &quot;legal&quot; in a certain sense is that, due to particularities of Texas law, once he&apos;s filed that document, it&apos;s a civil dispute over ownership, not a criminal case, so police won&apos;t evict him for trespassing unless a court resolves the civil dispute first, and orders eviction. He&apos;s betting that nobody is going to get around to pursuing that case, even though they would probably win if they did (since he does not in fact own the property, either &lt;i&gt;de jure&lt;/i&gt; or through sufficiently long de-facto possession).</text></comment>
<story><title>A $330,000 home for $16? Texas adverse possession law</title><url>http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Texas-Law-Lets-Stranger-Move-Into-330000-Home-125528248.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TamDenholm</author><text>&quot;If he wants the house, buy the house like everyone else had to,&quot; Lowrie said. &quot;Get the money, buy the house.&quot;&lt;p&gt;My personal opinion is good on the guy, if hes smart enough to find a way to legally obtain a house like this then more power to him. Mrs Lowrie is just pissed she didnt get the same opportunity.</text></comment>