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Squatter finally gets evicted after eBook, $16 stay
Feb 8, 2012, 8:31 AM | Updated: Mar 4, 2016, 5:56 am
After eight months of squatting in a $340,000 home, Kenneth Robinson was finally forced to leave after a court ruled he did not have claim to the property. (16dollarhouse.com)
(16dollarhouse.com)
After eight months of squatting in a $340,000 home, Kenneth Robinson was finally forced to leave after a court ruled he did not have claim to the property.
Robinson had lived at the Flower Mound, Texas, home since June 2010, although he neither rents nor owns it. He has written an eBook and has a Web site, http://16dollarhouse.com, devoted to how he’s successfully squatted in the home while only paying $16 to do so.
Robinson claimed he had a right to live at the home by claiming a common law stemming from the 1800s on “adverse possession.” A judge, however, ruled that Robinson does not have a right to the home and that Bank of America, which currently is possession of the foreclosed property, has the right to evict Robinson.
The abandoned home had been in foreclosure for a year before Robinson had moved in. The mortgage company reportedly also went out of business. Robinson says to claim ownership of the home all he did was submit a $16 filing fee at the courthouse and claimed the law of “adverse possession.”
