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Monday, December 12, 2011

Squatters Claim More Than $8 Million Worth Of Tarrant County Properties, Fort Worth Star-Telegram

If squatters pay a $16 filing fee, keep up with property taxes and live in a house for three years or more, the courts may not be able to stop them, because of a loophole in Texas law. One person moved from Memphis to claim a $2.7 million mansion, while another nabbed a house while the owner was in Houston undergoing chemotherapy. The owner’s belongings were tossed in a dumpster in the driveway.

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