A realtor in Texas has been helping his clients remove squatters from properties since 2020. Since then, he has used a unique approach to peacefully getting squatters out of homes.
A Texas realtor out of Houston has leveraged a unique approach to removing squatters from properties, and it scored him a seat at a Senate hearing on Wednesday in Austin. George Huntoon told Fox News Digital during a phone interview that, since 2020, he has handled four squatter situations in which he speaks directly to the occupants and uses a cover story to gain trust.
Squatters have always kind of been a thing, obviously, but when I got called in on that very first one in 2020, I wasn't expecting anything,' Huntoon told Fox News Digital. 'Then that's when I would start getting a few more phone calls about this situation.' Huntoon calls his approach to dealing with squatters a 'counterintuitive' one in which he puts himself in the position of being a 'negotiator' with them.
went over there and created a cover story that I was with, like the church or this organization down the road, and I was there to take a look at the house because we were going to try to fix it up for them a little bit to make it livable,' Huntoon said of the property he frequently visited between January and April 2023. 'I created that kind of cover story and so I could slowly build trust from these people in there, and that's what happened,' he said.
In the squatter cases that Huntoon plays a hand in, he interacts directly with them while simultaneously going through the legal process to get them removed. 'We did go through the court process as well, in parallel to what I was doing, and we ended up getting the eviction, finally,' he said of the Murrayhill home. 'But what I was able to avoid was some showdown between the police and them.
In a lot of neighborhoods these days, and I see it as a realtor, people don't know each other, you don't know your neighbors, everyone's so busy,' Huntoon said. 'We're all just busy and no one talks to anyone anymore.' Huntoon told Fox News Digital in an email that it seems that Texas is serious about laws to make the process of dealing with squatters easier for homeowners.
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