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lesson is: never help poor or homeless people, they are inherently bad and going to take advantage of you.
Some elvish Lazy Town energy over here.
Its a piece of cake to bake a pretty lembas
yes, caption my sarcastic comment without context… genius
I was trying to lean into the joke, not call you out. Would you rather I deleted?
(edit: just cropped your username out of the caption, if that helps)
no, i like it
well played
For what its worth, I thought both of you were funny.
me too
My great aunts in Mexico once had a spare house they cherished and would go to over the weekends. One day, they ran across a homeless family living under a bridge and offered them to stay in their spare house as long as they’d like. The family started damaging their property, tearing up fruit trees, selling the equipment that was in there and eventually tried to claim it was their house all along. My aunts couldn’t legally remove them after all the damage they’d done so they had to do the heartbreaking thing and sell the property to force the family to move out.
I pass by that property once in a very long while and mourn what was lost. I partially grew up there when I was very young and remembered hanging out under the now gone mango and sweet lime trees. Obviously not everyone who’s homeless would be destructive but their example of doing a good deed ended up being severely punished in the end.
your great aunt in mexico? sounds like my friend’s cousin’s neighbor’s story!
at any rate, there’s a huge gap between “help people” and “move a family into the spare house with no paperwork”.
and yes, you CAN evict people and press charges on people for stealing your stuff and selling it… much more can be done other than moving….
but i’m pretty sure it’s a made up story.
for one, moving random strangers into a house is just a bad idea…What do you know about Mexican law in a rural part of the country? Are you some kind of lawyer who worked there in the '90s?
I lived with my great aunts for a while. It’s fine to be sceptical but this actually happened and got to see this myself when I was very young. Don’t belittle my painful life experience just because you personally don’t think it happened. They were kind people who wanted to be good Christians and it ended up backfiring on them.
i went to law school in mexico, my area of expertise is civil law and rental law. i retired in 1999
Good for you. Too bad they didn’t have you as a consultant to get the squatters out then.
by law, santa clause would’ve personally evicted them after 30 days.
That exact sort of thing has happened in America. Can’t remember much but there was a lady in California who let a woman rent a room. She preceded to tear shit up, quit paying almost immediately, became so obnoxious that the owner had to move out while she dragged it all through court. Think the main issue revolved around a California law?
Gemini spit out 3 examples, this is one:
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/elizabeth-hirschhorn-squatted-airbnb-575-212531139.html?guccounter=1
that’s an entirely different scenario… she was renting there and planning on staying 6 months and then got into a lawsuit….
at any rate you should get a clear agreement down before you let someone stay with you for and extended time… once they get mail and have keys you have to evict them.
if you want them to be a legal tenant there’s a bunch of paperwork and license with that too.
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but that’s still nothing like the urban legend here.
