FOX 5 Atlanta reporter Denise Dillon opens her recent report with a detail that makes every homeowner with a vacant property wince: the house had been on the market for months, and the owner thought it was simply sitting there, waiting for a buyer. Instead, Dillon says the homeowner learned a stranger had moved in without permission and without paying a dime.
It happened in Marietta, at a home on Twin Brooks Court, and the owner, Adriana Ward, told Dillon she was stunned by how quickly it unfolded. One day it was a listing. The next, it was a lockout.
And then came the line that turned the whole situation from “creepy” into “how is this even real?” Dillon reports the man inside claimed squatter rights and called the whole thing a “peaceful hostile takeover.”…