“squatter’s rights” is basically because well meaning lawyers got good tenant protections passed (your landlord shouldn’t be able to just assert you’re a squatter and kick you out), didn’t really think through that the court systems take forever to resolve these cases, and so created a situation where some bad actors figured out they could squat on a property and run out the clock while living rent free and this is the story of many many many things in America
political system dominated by lawyers funnels everything through the legal process and then we are surprised when bad actors (who are frankly more often on the landlord side of the equation) take advantage of the arduousness of that process to nakedly abuse the law
But also like the way to avoid these “squatter’s rights” scenarios is to have a rental registry where leases are recorded with the government, but guess who is the biggest opponent of those??? that’s right, LANDLORDS
@ArmandDoma It seems like it's more often, but I think it's about 50/50. There's a LOT of bad tenants out there.