Squatters

I really don't get this. The laws in the State of Florida really suck. MONTHS ago an agency put some people in our apartment complex. There are only 4 triplexes on our court so there aren't a whole bunch of us. Being here 10 years people have come and gone, yet we have had some very good people move in. That is until the Holiday Season of 2008. I could make this a long, long story, and hopefully it will not be too long.

Anyway, the people who were put in (two apartments), were not correctly checked out and we ended up with a bunch of hard core squatters, criminals and drug dealers/addicts who decided to have all of their buddies move in. The problems on a daily basis and continued throughout the night here. It was so hard for my land lord to do anything...he has spent thousands on an attorney to get these people out. They have no electricity(don't pay rent or bills) and stumble around. All of us neighbors have attempted to talk to these people, even get them help to no avail. At first we were unaware of the situation and we also contributed food, money, and some even gave them cigarettes to help out. Until the traffic started overflowing our little culdesac we had no idea of what was going on until one of the residents said that the other apartment was selling drugs and that he (another agency resident) was addicted to crack cocaine.
I will have to add some more to this later...It upsets me so much!

I have been wanting to write about this for days, but my other account on blogger disapeared, now I am brain dead with this new blog. There is so much on this situation, yet I can't think of a thing to say right now. guess this just burnt me out so much my brain is mush.
Right now I have to get some zzzzz.

Okay so two days later, I am writing about this again. I think that these people have finally left....though they have lied so much it is hard to tell. My landlord put an eviction notice 2x on their door.

This agency that put these people here I hope they never get to place any one here again. Don't get me wrong, I am all for people changing their lives for the better no matter what the circumstances. It just bugs me to no end when taxpayers spend so much money in 3 months free rent, furniture and food, for people to just abuse the system. This bunch were the worse abusers I had ever seen. Wow. It is just sad. There is NO laws to protect residents, landlords or the consumers.

A really good friend of mine who was the person that originally put these people here (and worked for the agency) did not want to be bothered by the problem. Our friendship will never be the same. Neighbors (and squatters) were alwayscalling and banging on my door all hours of the day to find out what was going on. "Where's the Landlord" "What is your friend doing about this?" I couldn't even go out to my garden without someone bugging me. So now I am just isolating from everyone. This has been such a sad situation. Any way it is quiet right now and praying that it stays that way. My health is also a mess from this, so I am healing.

Ya try to do good...sheez. As far as my friend goes, I am really disapointed in her for leaving me with this mess. We haven't been speaking. I wish her well though. She is basically a very caring person, but I think when things turned ugly, she couldn't handle it.