We are facing the same, if not worse situation. We are in San Diego county.
There’s a homeless squatter here in this beautiful valley, full of large acreages. We are on 10 acres with our home, the guest house and unfortunately a couple of rustic cabins. This squatter has taken over one of the cabins and it’s been 18 months of the courts allowing him to stay!!
His beef was originally with the Landowner who leased the ranch to us. As soon as we moved in he started harassing us. He walks on our property videoing non stop in our faces.
Once after he scared my teenage daughter by following her home and videoing 2 feet from her face, I squirted him with my hose to shoo him away …and the police threatened to arrest me! Spraying water is a crime in California !
But lately he’s been in our guest’s faces - which is very unsettling and scary for them. He then leaves papers with derogatory comments on their car windows saying we are dangerous. And the final straw is he takes photos of their license plates, goes to DMV to get names and addresses, then sends them scary letters after they have left!! DMV sends out notices to each person notifying them that he tried to get personal information- THAT SCARES THEM!!
He even dared to do this to heads of the local theatre company after they used our house for Boston actors. The entire company was panicked and outraged and there’s NOTHING we can do about it.
He has even visited an ex-wife in LA trying to dig up dirt on a neighbor!! He yells out: “We’re going to put you in jail Michael for a long time!” “I know where your kids and grandkids live…”. “I’m going to take you down! You’re a piece of sh-t and an f’ing looser!” “ I love Satan!!”
This is by far a threatening stance against innocent people who simply live peacefully in this valley. He has numerous law suits going on against everyone. Neighbors are going nuts. We are so frustrated.
We have been denied restraining orders since he’s not violent. He has been granted access to the entire 10 acres since his home is on the property and he’s entitled to all of it. He causes our dogs to bark but if we let them out he tells the judge we tried to kill him. He admitted to the judge that he goes through our garbage looking for incriminating evidence. Which isn’t against the law.
Our friends are afraid to visit us. The AirBnB guests last weekend left at 2:45AM because they were afraid. This weekend he’s taking everyone the house isn’t up to code so they are freaked out for 5 days. He lied to get a response.
Whats amazing is the police won’t do anything because it’s a civil case, and the courts let him stay. I don’t know why. His brother is an attorney so they can do this forever. He’s hurting so many people. He’s wasting court resources. The clerk says he spends all day at the courthouse. It’s a game for him. Think of the good he could do if he used all this time to fight for something worthwhile. But then he’d have to actually pay rent.
We now live in a nation where the victims are screwed by the system and the nut jobs get a free ride. God Bless America.
DanandJenny