Well, now he can properly follow Jesus.

When I was a teenager, I thought it was super cool that my friend Scotty lived alone. Scotty was... something else of a person. His #1 goal in life was to try every drug (he is clean now).

Anyway, he hung around sketchy people and at some point, 3 guys took over his house. They were invited to party there and never left. They would force him to do chores and buy/cook them food. He could never report them or he would be exposed for living without parents. He was basically turned into a ghetto butler, sometimes I wonder how he got out of it.

You get out of that by buying a few fire crackers, smoke bombs, and a gun.

Identify theft is a bitch

Bilbo Baggins?

How did Scotty live alone as a teenager? How did he afford rent/mortgage?

I never understood the whole situation. From what I did understand, his dad was never around and mom ran off but owned the house (inherited I think) and he kept it running by selling drugs - adderall and weed

This happened last year, why is it cropping up again?

In the U.S., anyway, many county recorder's offices now offer a free email notification service which sends you a message whenever any document is filed with your address: notice or release of lien, a new mortgage, quitclaim or warranty deed, etc. This goes a long way towards stemming deed fraud.

No wonder need for Adderall is great considering it can be used as amphetamine (as it is amphetamine).

They do this in the UK too. He should have subscribed.

That said, it seems to me that despite what the Police say, a crime definitely was committed here.

That's what happens when you rent.. a condo is not land, a condo is four walls where you only own the drywall but not the structure

What is this called in the UK? I tried to Google it but didn't come up with much, I'd like to register

The Land Registry property alerts service. See this.

One of the worst things about drug users are the random people they will bring into your house. I lived with my brother, he like pot and really liked Adderall, and he would just bring in the most random people. Thankfully, most of them left. But this was always one of my fears, that some of them just wouldn't leave.

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I remember my ex-girlfriend getting into drugs when we kind of split apart (cause of my mental health deteriorating at the time). I met her at a house party (drink only) the next year and she was going on about how she got so into drugs at one point that she was doing them pretty much every night and waking up in random strangers' houses without remembering how she'd gotten there. Fuck that. I imagine she was always quite eager to leave after waking up.

God works in mysterious ways.

No it's not fraud. Hmm some guy goes into your home and everything from your TV to your Toilet paper and maybe your cat and gold fish are there and fully stocked fridge and the guy who bought it didn't so much as think hmm something is wrong here? What they sold all the guys stuff also? And gee wonder how they pulled off closing lol

A binge can go on and go. And many of addicts are homeless.

You aren't kidding!

I allowed my cousin to stay in my house temporarily as I had an extra room and she and her 4 year old son had nowhere to go. We had grown up together, I thought of her like my own sister.

This turned out to be one of the biggest mistakes of my life. That temporary situation turned into nearly 3 years of hell. She would bring random people in at all times and sometimes they would stay days (without permission), moved 2 boyfriends in without asking. One of which completely took over my garage; had it piled so high with junk I could barely get my car in. They never paid for or contributed anything.

I tried to kick her out, she called the police, as under state law she was considered a tenant. I had to start legal eviction procedures to get her out. It took months; she knew exactly how to game the system. Continuance, after continuance. I felt trapped, they completely took over my home. Every other week was a big scene, between her boyfriend and/or random people. Police had been to my house so many times. I started to stay in hotels occasionally just because I didn't want to be there anymore.

The room she lived in was destroyed. She had let her son poke hundreds of holes in the drywall. One of her boyfriends was trying to charge a battery and caught fire and burned a hole all the way through into the crawl space. Another one punched holes through the walls and into the doors. Near the end of her stay, she started bringing in a dog, that she never let out, it pissed and shit all over the room. I had to completely gut the entire room; drywall had to come out, and even the entire OSB subfloor. I ended up completely re-doing my entire house, new flooring and all, because the destruction had started to spread outside her room.

I am never letting someone move into my home ever again.

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Scott still doesn't know

A bb gun specifically, some paint cans on strings, a blow torch or two, random tarantulas couldn’t hurt…what else?…

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Depressing that it is common knowledge though.

This reminds me of Larry Underwood in the beginning of The Stand. He supplied the party and never noticed that his true friends had left him.

>No it's not fraud.

The police at the location said there is no fraud here. They were not wrong. The new property owners had everything they needed to show that they legally owned the place.

The fraud happened at a different time/place by someone else.

My brother is legally barred from renting an apartment because of the damage he did to one. Like a Hoardes episode. Then he moved into my mom's sun room because I was living in the second bedroom and his kids had taken the third (I was living at my mom's to help her take care of my late stepdad.)

He covered the windows and sliding door in cardboard and just left trash and drugs everywhere. He stole my Darth Vader compact mirror to use as a little crack mirror. I could make a whole post about that

Yeah, I hadn't intended to make the long post I did... but once I started typing, it just came rushing out. My cousin for a while was basically ostracized from the entire family after I finally got her out of my house. They all got tired of the lying, the begging, the stealing. Everyone tried to help her, but she would just take advantage of them in any way she could.

Surprisingly, something finally seemed to click.. For 9 months now she has held a steady job, as has her boyfriend. They are even getting ready to move into their own place. For the first time in her entire life (she is 39) she finally seems thing have things together. I only hope it holds.

I'm happy she's doing better, but fuck, dealing with someone like that is traumatic!.

Read up on Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys. Charles Manson moved in, eventually brought his entire entourage there. Wilson finally moved out of his own home because he was scared shitless.

I think what the article means is that the good faith buyer didn’t commit a crime

Quickest solution was to Theos her out and Change the locks. After first time telling to leave, its trespassing. - tenants pay rent. My perspective

Fraud at another time or place is still FRAUD gee. And, so again someone goes in and sees a fully furnished home with everything in it and all the utilities in the persons name and doesn't even remotely question things. I once bought a junk fax machine from the trash man. No fraud there I know the guy he was the trash guy and grabbed things out of the trash for me. Paid him like 10 bucks fixed it and used it to test it someone called the police or something as the number of the previous own was on it when I tested it. The police came and picked up my trash fax machine that was now gleaming with new toner and repairs and I lost my 20 bucks and all my work because someone else might have stolen it in the past. But, I was oh gee. I cooperated with the cops and shrugged it off. So when it's obvious that you buy a house and show up and it looks like someone is living there with milk in the fridge and stocked cupboards and no one says a word? Hmmm but no fraud here the police say. I say wrong

I'm surprised I get a minus. Gee for stating a fact? Seriously? I was being sarcastic in the first sentence but everything else if factual? I mean if anyone has ever sold a house before. You go through a process. Including walk through and closing. And no one at any point every for a minute thought this house fully stocked down to the sock drawers was odd?

Thankfully I don't own anything. The roomates and others already stole it.