Neighbor in Chatham Squatting in our house.

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by Bishop169

Some quick law searches resulted this

There is under Massachusetts law (MGL ch.
260, sec.21), a way that you could acquire a property by
moving into it and “squatting”. Squatter’s Rights are
legally known as Adverse Possession. Under the law of
adverse possession, one can lose their real property to
another. The doctrine of this law is one that discourages
disuse of property, thus, if property was abandoned, and
someone else “squatted” on it for a number of years, the
squatter could gain ownership over the land
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But I think this has more to do with long time use


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Yeah--like 20 years or so worth of use. Continuous, open and under a claim of some right. It usually applies to things like fences that are 6" on the wrong side of the property line, not to a squatter living in someone else's house and not paying a dime in taxes on it.