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My sister and I, along with one surviving elderly aunt, own our Great Grandfather's property. It's both valuable and sentimental to us as we remember playing on the property as kids. We have always kept up the taxes and usually check on it about once a year as it's about 60 miles away. We recently learned there are squatters living on the property, in a mobile home. So we are having to make a trip down this week to check on the property. We own the oil and all mineral rights for this property and we've vowed to always keep it that way - and keep it in our family. The squatters are someone we know - from the OTHER side of our family. This property is from our maternal grandmother's side of the family and the squatters are from our paternal side and they have zero rights or connections to the property. In addition, there are no utilities on the property. IF they have managed to get electricity, a water well and a septic system, that will REALLY make me angry. The water well and utilities that were there many years ago are all removed, filled in - or obsolete.

I might add that I check the property regularly online for any oil drilling activity as there are working oil wells and gas wells all around the property. We have already received lots of funds in 'damages' from oil companies as sometimes they have to cross the property for the other functioning wells.

So now we have to go and see for ourselves - and take photos and give them a 30 day written notice and then go to the court house and file an eviction. What a pain. Our elderly aunt who is 91 found out about the squatters and we will pick her up and take her with us. She lives much closer to the area than we do. Another relative told her about the squatters. She's angry too!

People are SO entitled to do exactly as they please and that makes me furious.

Anyone else had to deal with squatters?

I;ve not dealt with squatters but my neighbors did. A couple had a lot of land and it was hilly and wooded. They were elderly and spent 4-6 months a year in Palm Springs. People tapped in to their water lines and put in a MASSIVE pot farm. Their water bills sky rocketed to thousands per month. Took them a while to get them off— no one would confront b/c they tend to get violent.
So yeah, squatters suck.

Good luck getting them off.
Entitled assholes.

I plan to make short legal work of this squatter. He is the grandson of a second cousin on the other side of the family. So he's young. I also know the DA in the county where the land is and can get some action if he refuses to get off the property quickly. But still it's time and money and certainly not convenient for our Aunt as she is elderly and my sister and I are so close to her. Just the fact this is worrisome to her makes me angry.

Jeanie
That is aggravating! Thought of you and thr tornado, my family is scattered around Kingston and other parts of Texas Ok. My Dad is reaching out to relatives. Tornado ally is not always fun!

Tornadoes in between Austin and San Antonia and also Wichita Falls and Kingston, Ok. And a white out blizzard in the Oklahoma panhandle. What crazy, crazy weather.

Going to confront the squatters on Thursday and then to courthouse to file eviction notice. Should be interesting. My parents were married on this property at my Great Grandparent's home. No way will a little 23 year old squatter win THIS battle.

Update == No squatters on the property, thank goodness. New people to the south, on their own land. So it was a mix-up from the person who thought there were squatters on our land. Problem solved.

Good news! I am sure it is a relief.

Whew!