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>> Jesse: SO I’M FASCINATING BY
SQUATTING.
NOT THE POSITION.
THE REAL ESTATE MOVE.
THE VAGRANT SEES AN EMPTY HOME,
BREAKS IN, MAKES IT THEIR OWN.
THEY LIVE IN YOUR HOUSE AND YOU
PAY THE BILLS THERE THEY HAVE
RIGHTS TO DO THIS.
THEY CALL THEM SQUATTERS RIGHTS.
DON’T CALL THE COPS BECAUSE THEY
WON’T HELP.
THAT’S WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR
FRIEND DARTHULA IN CHICAGO.
>> NO, THEY CAN’T DO ANYTHING
ABOUT IT.
WHEN I FIRST WENT OVER THERE AND
YOU COULD SEE THE WINDOW WAS
BROKEN.
THEY BROKE IN.
THEY CHANGED THE LOCKS.
MY MOTHER’S FURNITURE AND HER
PERSONAL BELONGS ARE STILL ON
THE PROPERTY.
WHEN I ASKED THEM TO REMOVE HIM
FOR BREAKING.
HE TOLD US THAT HE IS A
PROFESSIONAL SQUATTER AND HE
KNOWS HIS RIGHTS.
>> Jesse: SO IF YOU CAN’T DO
ANYTHING AND A JUDGE TAKES
FOREVER TO HEAR YOUR CASE.
SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO TAKE
MATTERS INTO YOUR OWN HANDS.
THAT’S WHAT THIS HANDYMAN DID.
FLASH SHELTER.
FLASH’S HOME VAGRANT.
SECURITY MOVED.
IN BROUGHT IN ALL OF HER STUFF.
HE FOUND OUT AND STAKED THE
HOUSE OUT.
GOT THERE REAL EARLY IN THE
MORNING.
WAITED INTO THE SECURITY LEFT.
SWOOPED IN.
PUT SOME CAMERAS UP AND WHEN THE
SECURITY CAME BACK HE CONFRONTED
HER.
WATCH.
>> I HAVEN’T BEEN ABLE TO DO
ANYTHING WITH THIS HOUSE FOR
MONTHS BECAUSE EVERY TIME THEY
COME OVER HERE, THEY TELL ME
THAT THERE’S PEOPLE HERE AND
THAT THERE IS FURNITURE IN THE
HOUSE.
SO,.
>> AND WHO IS TELLING YOU THAT?
>> THE REALTORS.
>> THAT THERE IS PEOPLE HERE?
>> YEAH.
SO, NEIGHBORS TELLING ME THAT
THEY SEE PEOPLE COMING IN AND
THE LIGHTS ON.
SOMEONE WENT IN AND TURNED ON
THE POWER BECAUSE THE POWER WAS
OFF TO THE HOUSE.
SOME OTHER PEOPLE LIKE YOUNG AND
OLD AND SOME MIXTURE BETWEEN
FEMALE AND MALES COMING IN TO
THE HOUSE AT NIGHT AND THE
LIGHTS ARE ON AT NIGHT.
>> THAT WAS NOT US.
>> THERE ARE NEIGHBORS.
THERE ARE NEIGHBORS.
>> THAT WOULD NEVER BE US.
>> THOSE ARE THE ONES CALLING ME
AND TELLING ME.
>> Jesse: FLASH GAVE THE
SECURITY AN ULTIMATUM IF SHE
DIDN’T MOVE OUT HER STUFF HE
WOULD.
>> IT ALL HAS TO BE OUT BEFORE I
LEAVE.
I HAVE GOT GUYS SCHEDULED TO
COME TAKE THE STUFF OUT LATER
TODAY.
SO, EITHER YOU TAKE IT OUT OR I
HAVE TO TAKE IT OUT AND PUT IT
OUT ON THE DRIVEWAY UNTIL IT
GETS PICKED UP.
>> Jesse: THIS IS HOW IT’S DONE,
PEOPLE.
FOUNDER OF THE UNITED HANDYMAN
ASSOCIATION FLASH SHELTON JOINS
ME NOW.
THAT WAS A SMOOTH MOVE.
SHE LIED TO YOUR FACE THOUGH.
DID SHE AT LEAST ADMIT MAYBE SHE
WAS CAUGHT COLD.
>> FIRST OF ALL, JESSE, I JUST
WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR HAVING
ME ON.
AND, YOU KNOW, SHE DID APOLOGIZE
ON THE VIDEO.
>> Jesse: GOOD.
>> SHE TRIED TO SAY THAT IT
WASN’T HER, THAT THEY WEREN’T IN
THE HOUSE.
BUT THAT HER FURNITURE WAS IS
ACCIDENTALLY DELIVERED.
[LAUGHTER]
>> Jesse: ACCIDENTALLY DELIVERED
TO THE WRONG HOUSE AND THEN SHE
JUST HAPPENED TO BE SITTING ON
THE FURNITURE THAT WAS
ACCIDENTALLY DELIVERED TO A
HOUSE THAT WASN’T HERS?
>> AND SHE JUST HAPPENED TO BE
PULLING OUT OF THE DRIVEWAY IN
THE MORNING WHEN I WAS SCOPING
OUT THE HOUSE.
>> Jesse: ALL RIGHT.
SO THIS IS A GREAT MANEUVER YOU
PULLED.
IN IT GIVES HOPE TO ALL PEOPLE
THAT HAVE A SECURITY SITUATION.
WHAT IF THE PERSON HAD NEVER
LEFT THE HOUSE AND YOU JUST
STAYED THERE STAKED OUT ALL DAY?
WHAT’S THE NEXT MOVE?
>> WELL, I MEAN, YOU KNOW,
OBVIOUSLY I DIDN’T KNOW LIKE WHO
WAS IN THE HOUSE AT THE TIME.
SO I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE, YOU
KNOW, JUST KIND OF STAKED OUT
THE HOUSE TO SEE WHAT TYPE OF
INDIVIDUALS WERE GOING IN AND
THEN MAKE A DETERMINATION IF I
NEEDED TO JUST ENTER THE HOUSE
ANYWAY.
I KNEW THAT THE BACK DOOR WAS
BROKEN IN.
PREEMPTIVELY, I WROTE UP A LEASE
AND HAD MY MOM BASICALLY MAKE ME
THE LEGAL TENANT.
GOT IT NOTARIZED.
I HAD CURRENT UTILITY BILLS WITH
ME IN MY NAME.
I HAD KEYS TO THE HOUSE.
AND AT THAT POINT I WOULD HAVE
ENTERED THE HOUSE.
AND IF THE SQUATTER CAN TAKE A
HOME, I CAN TAKE A HOME.
IF I ENTER THE HOUSE, THEY CAN’T
KICK ME OUT JUST AS MUCH.
BUT WITH HAVING A LEASE AND KEYS
AND UTILITY BILLS, AT THAT
POINT, YOU KNOW, IF THEY CALL
THE POLICE, THE POLICE WOULD
TELL THEM THE SAME THING.
IF I CALL THE POLICE, I CAN SAY
HEY, I HAVE AN INTRUDER IN MY
HOUSE AND THEY BROKE IN THE BACK
DOOR.
>> Jesse: BOOM.
>> GIVING THEM THAT INFORMATION
THEY CHOSE TO TAKE THE SAFE WAY
OUT AND EASY WAY OUT AND MOVE
ALL THEIR STUFF OUT.
>> Jesse: YOU WERE SO SMART.
YOU HAD IT ALL COVERED.
NOTHING GETS BY FLASH.
IS THAT YOUR REAL NAME OR
NICKNAME?
>> FLASH, YOU KNOW.
SINCE I WAS A LITTLE KID.
SO IT’S THE ONLY NAME I HAVE
GONE BY.
>> Jesse: I LOVE IT.
FLASH, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
YOU GIVE US ALL HOPE.
>> THANKS.
I JUST WANT TO -- YEAH, GO
AHEAD.
>> Jesse: NO, PLEASE.
FINISH.
>> I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT, YOU
KNOW, I APPRECIATE ALL OF THE
LOVE AND SUPPORT THAT I’M
GETTING BUT I JUST HOPE THAT,
YOU KNOW, THAT THE OUTDATED
SQUATTER LAWS GET SOME
ATTENTION, TOO SO THAT MAYBE I
CAN HELP CHANGE THAT.
>> Jesse: MAYBE LINDSEY GRAHAM
CAN REWRITE SOME OF THOSE LAWS
FOR US.
I KNOW HE IS GOING TO BE A
LITTLE BUSY.
BUT HE IS ON A ROLL.