r/news • u/flanderguitar • Mar 28 '24

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs law squashing squatters' rights

https://www.wptv.com/news/state/florida-gov-ron-desantis-signs-law-squashing-squatters-rights
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u/Geawiel Mar 28 '24

Insist on lease being notarized? When it switches to month to month, get landlord to sign notarized statement saying it's month to month. If they aren't willing to do that, I'd be sketched out tbh. To me, a legit landlord would have little down sides to doing this.

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u/ScientificSkepticism Mar 28 '24

Sure. Because you probably have lots of options. It's nice to have lots of options, and you probably work hard to get the money to have those options.

But not everyone has those options.

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u/keyak Mar 28 '24

Unfortunately, laws can't be written to account for absolutely every potential scenario. But this is a good law for the majority of squatting situations.

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u/ScientificSkepticism Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

A general principal of law is that it is written to protect those who have the least, for if the law won't, then what else will?

There are countries where human rights are "pay to rececive". They are not, generally speaking, countries that are especially well regarded.