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    Default Getting Rid of Someone Who Isn't Exactly a "Tenant"

    A person I've casually known for several years asked if he could stay for two weeks with my mother and I in our house while he found a job and a permanent place to stay. We said yes. After the two weeks, he said he needed more time and we gave it to him. After another couple of weeks we told him he had to go. He didn't. We've told him a couple of times since to leave. It's been a little over two months now and things are getting bad. He refuses to leave. During his stay we haven't asked him for money or given any kind of indication that this was to be an extended stay. I don't think he qualifies as a tenant or lodger, he's just a freeloader who refuses to leave. What can we do?

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    Default Re: getting rid of someone who isn't exactly a "tenant"

    call the police and have him removed as a tresspasser, if they will.
    You may end up needing to evict him as if he was a tenant if the police will not look at this as a tresspassing situation.

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    Default Re: getting rid of someone who isn't exactly a "tenant"

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    call the police and have him removed as a tresspasser, if they will.
    You may end up needing to evict him as if he was a tenant if the police will not look at this as a tresspassing situation.
    Good luck with that approach. I have the same problem and called the local police. They copped out (pardon my pun ) and told me I would have to have them evicted in court (they chose to assume a landlord-tenant relationship which did not exist).

    Now my squatter is falsely claiming paid rents and it is now incumbent upon me to file an emergency petition in court to remove them. I keep wondering how far the police will go to not do their job once I hand them an eviction order to have them forcebly remove the tenant.

    In my case, I have known this person for years and had assumed some level of trust with the person. This is like marriage- you really don't know how screwed you are until you learn how far law enforcement community and the courts will go not to enforce it.

    What a lesson this has been for me- NEVER allow someone to stay with you on a temporary basis for any reason. The only exception I can possibly see making going forward is if the person resides out of the area, preferably out of state, and it is clear there is no evidence whatsoever that they might stay beyond an agreed period of time.

    Good luck with that...

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