Florida Sheriff William Snyder and Gov. Ron DeSantis each appeared on Fox News to give their takes on the new anti-squatting bill which enables property owners to take back their power.
Squatters rights have been eliminated in the Sunshine State thanks to a bill signed this week Gov. Ron DeSantis. The new law granting state law enforcement officials the power to remove offenders and increasing penalties for squatters, comes as property owners nationwide complain their homes are being seized by strangers while they have limited options to take back what's rightfully theirs. 'What New York does, what California does, Florida will do the opposite.
We've got people that will be here for seven months of the year, and then they'll go to Michigan or New York or even Canada. You come back after the summer and someone's in your house, and then they just get to stay there for six months. Now in Florida, you call up, you fill out a form, the sheriff comes, and the sheriff kicks him out of your property.
There's a real technicality when you go out to a home and somebody proffers that they live there, then the legitimate owner has proved that it's their house,' he said Thursday on 'Fox & Friends First.' 'It gives us teeth to enforce the law and to return the home to the rightful owner.
We'll go right out there, and it's our intention here in Martin County to get that home back into the hands of the rightful owner and get the trespasser out,' he said. 'And then I will provide them housing. They will not be unhoused. I'm putting them straight into my jail.' Landlords in the Sunshine State previously complained of lax property rights as squatters invaded homes and wreaked havoc, leaving legitimate homeowners to foot the bill.
We would be in jail,' she said when asked what would happen if she tried to take matters into her own hands and remove the offender. 'In fact, I couldn't even turn off the electricity and the water. We are prevented from doing that. So not only did they steal a home to live in for a period of time, but they lived in relative comfort with a washer-dryer, which they stole, a fully stocked kitchen with all of the appliances and heat, air conditioning and water.
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