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The Dr. Phil Podcast

Squatters: Battling For Your Home

The Dr. Phil Podcast

Dr. Phil McGraw

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness

4.413.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Phil discusses the unsettling scenario of coming back from vacation to find squatters occupying one's home, highlighting the complexity and frustrations of dealing with squatters legally. Anti-Squatter Activist and Squatter Hunter, Flash Shelton, shares how he effectively removed squatters from his mother’s house within a day, and Texas Real Estate Attorney Mark Girling provides his expertise in eviction law. Learn the importance of knowing one's rights and the challenges you may face as a homeowner in some states where laws are not favorable towards evicting squatters. htps://drphilintheblanks.com Advertise with us! https://advertising.libsyn.com/philintheblanks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

In some cases, they don't even need to show anything.

0:02.7

They just have to say they have a lease.

0:04.4

You're talking about people that have cars and white collar jobs?

0:08.2

It all comes down to possession. Imagine having the opportunity to take your family on a dream vacation. You worked hard

0:21.8

to implement it a plan and made it a reality.

0:25.0

Now, while on this dream vacation, you post on social media, beautiful pictures of

0:30.3

your adventures and daily activities. A week later, your vacation

0:35.0

vacation draws to an end and you arrive back home

0:38.0

and find a scary and horrible squatting situation happening.

0:44.2

Now people have taken over your home.

0:46.2

They literally moved in while you were away.

0:50.4

And in some states, there is nothing you can do about it.

0:55.0

I am not one to support bad behavior,

0:58.0

and I want you to be informed of your rights as a homeowner, landlord, or a renter.

1:04.0

In 2019, squatters took over Flash Shelton's mother's house.

1:10.0

Those squatters messed with the wrong guy.

1:14.0

Flash is an anti-squatter activist, squatter hunter,

1:18.0

and host of outside the box with Flash.

1:21.0

He's going to tell us how he got the squatters out in less than a day and that

1:27.2

sadly is unusual. Also here in studio is Mark Gerling, anirling attorney at Girling Law.

1:34.0

Now, he is a Texas real estate attorney

1:37.0

serving landlords and has expert knowledge of Texas eviction law.

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