Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Pennsylvania

Squatters

I live in a not so good neighborhood in philadelphia recently we have an abandon house 2 doors down that is in sheriff's sale and now we have drug addicts not just one i mean like 20-30 living in the house using it for the habit i know their squatting what can i do to try to get them out since i don't own the property they leave needles everywhere and i have a 3yr old so how can i get them out


Asked on 7/08/09, 8:55 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

Miriam Jacobson Retired from practice of law

Re: Squatters

Try calling AND writing to the bank or sheriff [for whomever the foreclosure is being done] and ask that they secure the house. Also, you might call the City and ask it to declare the house a nuisance and board it up.

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Answered on 7/08/09, 11:30 pm


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