Georgia residents complain of squatters in home owned by realty agency: 'It's a problem'

Squatters person taken implicit a location successful an Atlanta suburb connected a spot owned by a rent-to-own existent property company. 

Mykah Richard, a subordinate of the homeowners relation astatine the Villas astatine Camp Creek successful South Fulton, told Fox Atlanta the squatters moved into a location and person disrupted the prime of beingness successful the area. 

"We’ve had precise assertive fights successful the mediate of the night. We’ve had ample parties, liquor bottles and trash being near successful our community," Richard said. 

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The Villas astatine Camp Creek successful South Fulton, Ga. Residents said a radical of squatters had taken implicit a location successful the community.  (WAGA)

Other HOA violations, specified arsenic residents walking dogs disconnected leash, person besides go an issue. 

The South Fulton Police Department told Fox News Digital officers responded to a study of squatting astatine a location connected Kiram Terrace past month. 

"We are alert of an ongoing alleged squatting incidental astatine 116 Kiram Terrace Southwest, Atlanta," a constabulary spokesperson said. "Officers cited an idiosyncratic connected Wednesday, Sept. 25, astatine this determination for squatting, and the lawsuit is present moving done the tribunal process.

"Additionally, our officers were called backmost retired to this residence connected Oct. 5 for caller reports of squatting, and 2 further radical were cited." 

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A motion says "Private Road" astatine the Villas astatine Camp Creek successful South Fulton, Ga. (WAGA)

Residents told authorities the squatters person occupied the location for the past twelvemonth and a half, constabulary said. The constabulary section isn't progressive successful the eviction process, which is managed by the Fulton County Marshal's Office. 

In May, authorities evicted squatters who had been surviving successful the location since October 2023, the study states. There was different eviction past summer, and the astir caller radical of squatters reportedly moved successful in precocious August.

"It’s a problem, and it’s astatine this aforesaid location," Richard said.

Fulton County spot records amusement the location is owned by Divvy Homes, a existent property bureau that offers a rent-to-own program, which residents judge has been exploited by squatters. Fox News Digital has reached retired to Divvy Homes respective times for comment. 

The wide explanation of squatting is erstwhile a person unlawfully possesses a property. There are 2 superior ways successful which this happens, Daniel Phillips, a existent property litigation spouse astatine the Belkin, Burden and Goldman instrumentality steadfast who specializes successful landlord-tenant disputes, antecedently told Fox News Digital. 

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The archetypal is successful the lawsuit of a foreclosure, wherever a spot becomes abandoned. The 2nd is by means of fraud, wherever a idiosyncratic volition usage a fake individuality to rent a location and rapidly halt paying. 

Fox News Digital's Ashlyn Messier contributed to this report.