TheLostPhotographer

Don't call police, or initiate any legal procedure until you have found out who your squatters are, and why they are squatting. Ask around. Then approach the squatters yourself. You may be surprised. I know many people living in properties that have been repossessed by banks. They may well have assumed this is the case with your property. When they realise you actually intend/need to live there, they will happily leave without argument.

This may read as being very naive, or unrealistic advice, but it is not going to cost you anything other than time. It is worth a try.

As soon as you start legal proceedings, or simply involve the police, you are effectively notifying the squatters of their own legal rights. If they want to stay and cause you grief, they could very easily 'play the system' and stretch the procedure out for 8 months, then start the same procedure again for another 8 months, and so it goes on...

Find out who they are, and why they are squatting. Then, approach them personally before doing anything else.

wicklowjack

i think you are right will try to ngoate with out involving toe police.just need them out i need to live therein a few weeks

wicklowjack

well was there and home no probs getting them out in the end just went in when the house was empty and when thay came back refused entry to them called the guards who weer very good thay left and screwed up an 8*4 sheet of ply wood with security screws
so no probs i was lucky thanks for your help and advice guys

Rosemary

So glad that you managed to get them out without too much stress.

Rosemary

bobd22

Good news

missile

Well done :-) Out of interest what age / nationality were the squatters?

philat98

Good to learn how things turned out. A lot of times a thread never says what happened in the end.

wicklowjack

Moroccan in there early twenty's there were just 2 of them , thay were arrested later because the car thay were in was reported stolen 2 years previously in Malaga and had no insurance or itv:thumbs up:

missile

Thanks, good to hear

big wheels

Glad everything turned out ok for you

wicklowjack

thank you , i was lucky that is all

missile

I hope they don't return to trash your property

wicklowjack

i boarded up the property . put an cut down 8x4 sheet of water prof ply wood over it and secured with security bolts so hopefully things should be ok. moving there in a bit