Renters not wanting to leave.

There’s been two recent articles that I’ve read dealing with squatters , one in the New York Times and the other in the BBC news . In Spain they are called Okupas and in the US they call themselves Moorish Sovereign Citizens . It makes for interesting if somewhat scary reading , leading one to wonder if this is an increasing trend .

Google if interested :

She bought her dream home , then A sovereign citizen changed the locks (NYT)
The hard men removing squatters in Spain (BBC)

About 5 years ago when my daughter and her husband returned from living for 3 years in Ibiza in Spain (he is from there ) she would tell us stories about Okupas and how summer residents would deal with them when they returned .

Similar to Rob’s suggestion they found the most effective method was to employ the local chapter of the Hells Angels , costly but effective .