Squat the world!
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OK I fist started squatting about a year ago. I was living in a shared house with three other people. One of the people I was living with and me were not getting on the best. No major fights but just a little uneasiness that starts to add up when you have to see them every day. So I decided to move out and gave them my months warning. The week before I moved out some one (I latter found out to be the same person I was not getting on with to well) snuck into my room and stole all my money and a bunch of other positions off me. Leaving me absolutely broke. On top of this the same person also held my bond to the house and refused to give it back until the last of the bills from when I was there came in. (I still haven’t got it back to this day.)
I was left with absolutely no money to my name and as a result of one messed up individual was left homeless and not even enough money to stay at a backpackers. I was sleeping on friends floors for a week or two until I could get my bond back. But every time I tried to get it back my ex-house (so called) mate came up with other excuses or simply would not show up when I tried to meet him. Then I got even worse news the place that I was working was shutting down. I had no money, no house, no job, and was starting to over stay my welcome at friend’s places. I couldn’t get a new job because I didn’t have a house and I couldn’t get a house because I didn’t have a job.
Then it hit me! One of my friends had moved out of his old house because the land lord who lived over seas was going to knock it down and build apartments but it had been sitting the ages longer than it was meant to just rotting. The back door had been kicked in by vandals, some of the windows had been smashed and there was animal poo all over the place.
I moved in fixed up the back door, windows and cleaned the place up. It was a good place very run down, had lots of cracks in the walls and no electricity but it had gas (and a gas stove once I got it fixed), hot and cold water and was some where to live.
I lived there quite happily for several months before anyone even noticed. It allowed me to get back on my feet, find a new job and start to re-earn some of the money that was stolen of me. But by the time this had happened I was comfy there and didn’t want to go to all the effete of moving again and run in to the chance of living with another vindictive thieving cowed.
After a few months the owners or land lord noticed that I was squatting there so I tried to keep my profile low and they went about no confronting ways to try and get me out. When the first found out that some one was living there they tried unsuccessfully to kick in the door. After this they disconnected to power lines (I had no power any way so this didn’t affect me). Then they disconnected the gas and water lines going to the house. This was a bit of a hard blow and made me keep even a low profile at the place. After this they started parking a car in the drive way and I decided to start to get some of my stuff out of there. About a week latter I came home to find that some one had been inside and opened all the curtains. I decided to keep driving incase someone was still there.
A few nights latter I went back to get some of my stuff. The place was trashed! I found a note from the owner informing me he had called the police who were driving past every night and the place was being demolished in one week. I took this as the end to my little home there. It served me well and I can’t complain.