One of the largest private property scandals of our time is that judges think they have the authority to decide who can live in the house you pay for. Unfortunately, one woman had to learn this lesson the hard way.

Meghan McIntyre bought a foreclosed property in Plymouth and on the day she was moving in she got some bad news.

A former resident asked McIntyre if she could move back in. McIntyre declined, but the courts overruled her decision, and now she has to pay rent for an apartment while also covering the mortgage on a home she has never lived in.

According to WHDH:

“We got a call actually the day that we were moving back up here. We got a call from someone who was living there previously. Never an owner. Never a tenant. Never paid rent. She wanted to move back in, we said no,” McIntyre recalled. “The next day we got a call from the housing court that we had a court date,” she said.

The judge ruled that McIntyre had to give the woman the keys and allow her to stay at the house.

Court records show the woman who was fighting to stay in the house was the daughter of the previous owner. She had lived in the house and cared for her mother until she died without a will. The woman told the court she never abandoned the house and was in the hospital when it was sold. The judge ruled she can stay in the house.

It’s ridiculous that the courts have required her to assume the responsibility of housing a stranger. None of this makes sense, and the fact that these local courts practice de facto eminent domain the moment someone claims to have lived there, even without ever paying a dime, is astonishing.

Real estate attorney Jordana Greenman said the case isn’t such a shock to her.

“It is another one of those things that in Massachusetts with all of the consumer protection rules, nobody can be unhoused per se, without a court order,” Greenman explained. “It might boil down to how much are they willing to pay to get this person out. And then they’ll go, which is really very upsetting. It should not be so difficult.”

McIntyre said they had to pay to restore the floors after they ripped up the carpet to replace them. McIntyre is paying the utility bills and even had to put the woman up in a hotel and pay for her meals when the heat stopped working in the home.

Can you imagine how horrifying that is? She never signed up to be a landlord and has to house this stranger and pay her utilities, despite never receiving a dime in return. None of that makes sense, and it’s a right that the government was never meant to have.

McIntyre said this is on top of her paying for the mortgage, HOA fees and rent. She estimated they are paying around $10,000 a month just in housing.

This is what happens when you treat housing as a “right” and promise free things to people just for existing. The worst part is that the left thinks this makes them the compassionate ones, even though it amounts to state-sanctioned robbery.

McIntyre did file an eviction case. To avoid going to trial and dragging the wait out more, they reached an agreement. Under the deal, the woman gets to stay until the end of March and McIntyre has to pay her $7,500 to put towards a new apartment.

So what happens if she takes that cash and decides not to leave? Will the courts help her then? That’s doubtful.

Moral of the story: Never buy a foreclosed property in Massachusetts.

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