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Hey, squatter's here, guys. Squatter's
here.

He's looking at the SUV.

A little hesitation.

I'm going to go ahead and open the door.

Hey, roomie.

Hey. What's going on? I know you're a
roommate. I understand you've been

squatting in this house.

Why you got cameras in my face?

You have a leaf?

You get out of here.

I'm Flash Shelton. In 2019, squatters
took over my mom's home. The sheriff

couldn't get him out, so I did.

Turns out my family is not alone.

Across America, thousands of homeowners
get locked out when a squatter moves in.

Now my team and I are coming in,
traveling across the country,

squatters face to face. We're not going
anywhere to help families get their

homes back.

I'm here in Dearborn Heights, Michigan,
right outside of Detroit, where lenient

squatter laws have created a disastrous
situation for homeowners.

I'm here to meet with Nabi and Khadijah.

They have a squatter in their house.

How are you? Flash.

Khadijah. How are you? So I understand
you guys have a nightmare situation

on right now.

Yes. Tell me about, you know...

your interaction or when the first time
you realized it was probably the third

week that i purchased the home i pick up
my wife we go buy some furniture we

come inside we put all our furniture in
there close up we leave two days goes by

i go back to the house i go up to my
door and i try to open the door but my

key's not working i knock on there's
somebody inside my house i have a

inside me and her are sleeping in my in
-laws.

We really don't know what to do.

Yeah. And you know, the sad part is we
have a little one that keeps asking,

are we going to go back to the house?
When are we going to move?

She, she picked out her room and
everything. How old is your child? She's

Oh, four. Yeah.

She's got her room, her color,
everything.

She's old enough to understand that
there's something going on. Yeah. I feel

very sad.

It's horrible to go through this.

He could be in our daughter's room.

I don't know.

God knows what he's doing in there.

We have our daughter's birthday coming
up.

It's depressing.

It's very easy for me to find motivation
in that situation.

I have a daughter. They have a four
-year -old that's asking them, why can't

move into our house? And they have to
look at her with no answers.

That's horrible.

Do you know who this guy is?

His name is Jake. I don't know if that's
real.

Do you have an approximate age?

Maybe 30, 35. In his 30s. Did you happen
to take a photo or anything?

No. So what did you do? I called the
cops and told them I have a deed to this

house. And he told me, sir, this is a
civil matter. There's nothing we can do

for you.

So this guy, the squatter, is telling
the cops that he has a lease.

The lease is part of the game for a
squatter. It's a strategy.

He says he has a lease. Well, I want to
put myself in a position to where I can

say I have a lease, okay? But I'm
actually going to have a lease. You

brought a lease here with me today. I'm
going to have you sign that.

What I can't do is lock him out, and I
can't force him out, okay?

But I can make them want to leave.

That's my goal. Okay. I know you've gone
through a lot. But right now, I just

want you to let my team and I worry
about these details and just enjoy a

birthday party with your daughter, okay?

Okay. Thank you so much. All right. I'm
going to get to work. Thank you. Have a

good day. We appreciate you. You too.

So our next step, we need to visit the
property.

You know, check out the area.

Yeah, so we're going to pull up in front
of the house here.

Remember, I want you to pull out your
phone and record me.

Okay.

I'm going to get my notice together and
go post a notice on the door.

Cool.

Under Michigan law...

My lease makes me a lawful occupant, but
I still post a 24 -hour inspection

notice to ensure that I can enter the
property safely and buy the book.

All right, yeah, I see that. Oh,
somebody's out there.

Wow, our squatter's out there. What
freaking luck.

All right, looks like he's out smoking a
cigarette.

Let's look right here.

He's looking.

Is he seeing me?

Not directly yet.

So we have to be prepared if he's armed.

You sure you don't need me to hop out
with you? No, man.

I'm just going to go up and post a
notice.

We don't know anything about this
squatter. We don't know if he's alone.

don't know if he has any weapons,
anything.

You got eyes. If you feel I need you,
you jump out, okay?

All right.

How you doing?

What do you got there?

Just noticed.

Want to know about it?

Check it out, buddy.

How you doing?

What do you got there?

Just noticed.

Want to know about it? Check it out,
buddy.

What the hell?

Now we're going to just pull away here.

So let's set up and let's watch.

All right, look at this. I got a couple
of really good photos of this guy. See

that? How the hell did you pull that
off?

He was too busy looking at the notice in
my hand. And here he is getting up. He

got up aggressively.

We have 24 hours before we can enter the
home. So I want to make the most of

that 24 hours.

I want to put a camera up.

So I saw a neighbor come out of that
house.

So I'm going to see if I can sneak up
there to talk, see if we can put a

I need you to keep your eyes open.

All right.

Hi, sir. How you doing? My name is Flash
Sheldon. I travel the country and I get

squatters out.

Would it be possible for me to mount
maybe a camera on your tree just

Yeah, sure.

It's just going to be recording across
the street. Okay.

All right? I've got cameras, too. All
right, man. I appreciate it. You've got

cameras up? Yeah, I've got cameras here,
the ring camera, the one in the garage.

Well, because I had a problem with,
funny you say that, squatters behind me

had two crippled. I had people. Really?
So you know, it's a huge problem here.

It's very bad. Yeah. Yeah.

All right. All right. Thank you.
Appreciate it. Okay.

Having a neighbor step up tells me that
people around here care about what's

happening. Perfect.

And having this camera up will give us
24 -hour access to what's going on.

So our main objective today is to try to
find a window of opportunity to make

entrance to the house.

Okay.

There was no movement on the security
camera last night, which tells me the

squatter is still in the house.

Look, we just have to be careful. We
don't know who he is.

Oh, wait.

I see movement.

All right, we got movement.

Here he goes.

Could we be this lucky?

There he goes. He didn't even look at
us. He doesn't know.

Now that the squatter's left, it's time
to take over this house.

Got your phone on the right. Okay, let's
do this.

Go ahead.

Body cams.

Cam. It's unlocked.

I'm in. Come in. Right here. Watch this
door. Watch this street.

I'll let you in if you need me, man.
Okay.

Sound out if anyone's here.

Make clear.

Make clear.

Close and lock the back door and come
in, follow in.

Bathroom clear.

House is all clear.

Squatter is gone. We don't know how much
time we're going to have, but we are

going to set up our cameras and then
wait for them to return.

Hey, squatter's here, guys.

Squatter's here.

He's looking at the SUV.

A little hesitation.

I'm going to go ahead and open the door.

Hey, roomie. What's going on here?

Hey. What's going on? I know you're a
roommate.

Hey. You know what? I have a lease for
this house. This is my house now.

I understand you've been squatting in
this house. I have a lease with the

Why you got cameras in my face? I need
you to understand that you are being

recorded. You get out of here. So if you
want to show me where your bedroom is.

This is my room right here. All right,
this is where you're going to have

privacy. You're going to be allowed to
be in this bedroom and the bathroom.

Any other common areas of this house,
you're on camera. Do you understand

You're going to be the one out here. You
have a lease?

I'm not leaving. You're going to be the
one out here. All right.

All right, so I'll be waiting to see the
lease, okay? All right, we'll be here.

You have to get out of my house right
now.

You have to get out of my house right
now.

You know what? That's what all my
roommates say.

Hey, by the way, I got a bedroom here.
It looks like a young daughter's room.

this your daughter?

No. So you rented a home. You have a
lease.

There's a bunch of little girl stuff in
here, and you don't know whose it is.

I'm here legally.

You're here legally?

Yes.

You should have some sort of e -mail,
text messages, communications with the

property owner.

If you can prove to me that you rented
this house, this day goes a whole lot

different. I don't have to show you
anything.

Okay. You can't kick me out just like I
can't kick you out. All right? We're

roommates, just like I said.

Okay. Well, I guess then we're going to
battle the witch. We'll see who's going

to last longer.

Maybe he thinks we're not here.

We're going to be in this house and
having him truly understand that we're

going anywhere.

And the only way for him to believe
we're not going anywhere is if we're

ourselves comfortable.

The refrigerator is included.

It's all mine.

So that means contents are mine.

I'm going to get this door locked. We're
going to secure the laundry.

I need to start doing some things to
step it up, make him understand that he

no control of anything in this house any
further.

The spotter has the right to utilities.
He has the right to water and power.

I can't take that away from him.

However, laundry is a privilege.

Laundry secure.

Hey, Jake.

Can I help you? Hey, by the way, my
lease.

There's a renovation lease that allows
me to do some stuff on the house, so

made some modifications.

Hope you enjoy them.

Now I want to let him discover that he's
losing control of this house.

He noticed our lock.

You didn't need to wash any clothes, did
you? Are you serious, man?

Are you serious?

I'm just trying to remind you that this
isn't your house.

Now you're in trouble.

Hello? You going to talk to these jerks
and maybe set them straight?

You're my lawyer.

All right.

I love it. Hey, lawyer, how you doing?

What's your name?

You don't need to know my name.

Do you understand that we are doing a
self -help eviction? I have a lease.

and I'm your client's roommate, I am not
telling your client he has to leave.

But if he chooses to leave on his own,
that's not considered self -help.

When you want to talk to me like a real
attorney and not some fake friend

pretending to be his attorney, then you
come and give me...

your license number, so that I can deal
with you like a legal absolute attorney.

Oh, yes.

Got it.

See you, man. Hey, tell your friend. You
need to go, dude. This is not right.

You need to get the hell out of here.

Now he's going to extremes of having
people pretend to be his attorney.

I have never met an attorney that was
afraid to give me their name.

We're on other options.

Yeah.

I'm going to call the cops right now and
get you out of here.

All right, you do that. Because you're
not supposed to be here.

Hi, yeah. I have somebody in my house.

He's a trespasser.

He's trespassing in my home. He has
bulletproof. They have bulletproof

They have cameras. Are you calling a
fake cop now like you called a fake

They're scaring me. I don't know who
they are.

I appreciate it. Thank you.

The cops are coming, man.

All right, awesome. We'll wait for them.
The cops are coming for you. They're

getting you out of here. All right.
They're going to get you out of here.

Yeah, I got a unit pulling up, a couple
houses down.

Law enforcement's here, all right? Stay
here, keep security on the house, watch

our crew, keep an eye on his door. I
want to go meet them outside in the

all right? When a squatter calls the
cops, it changes everything.

It means that they think this is their
home.

Now I need to make it clear that this is
not a threat, and this is a civil

issue.

Lock this door after me.

Hey.

The cops are here. All right. Time for
you guys to go then.

Hey.

I think you got a call about me and my
crew from that house. Yeah, someone

called. Yeah, flash out and we're
dealing with a squatter situation.

Most people panic when the cops show up.
I don't. If I can get them to

understand what's really going on.

That puts all of the pressure back on
the squatter. So if I'm not going to do

it, they'll find me, though? Yeah, the
owner's not there because we have it,

I have a lease for the property as well.

I understand you have the lease. Okay,
if you have a lease, but you're not the

landlord, right?

Right, the owner's the landlord.

Once I explain the whole situation to
the officers and show them my lease,

leave. They understand, they recognize
it's a civil matter, there's nothing

can do here, and they leave the premises
and let me get back to work.

All right, man. I really appreciate it.

Thank you.

All right. Have a good one, man. Thanks.

His big plan to get me out, it
backfired.

He could have run out and showed his
copy of his lease to prove his point,

he didn't do that. He knew and I knew he
was foolish.

Hey, Jake.

Got some bad news for you.

Oh, yeah? What's that?

Look out your window.

Law enforcement left.

What do you mean they left?

Hey, you know, they told me to give you
a message.

And what's that?

It's a civil matter and there's nothing
they can do.

Looks like you got a new roommate, bud.

You are nuts, man. I don't know. You got
to get the f*** out of here.

Yeah, you know, just like I can't tell
you to get the f*** out of here, you

can't really say that to me either.

So you want to talk just you and me?

Yeah, I can talk to you.

Where do you want to talk?

We can talk right here if you like. All
right.

How about you give me $5 ,000 and I'll
be out of here?

Man, it's a hard no. I'm not going to
pay a squatter.

$3 ,000? I need to live somewhere.

Look, I can't pay you. I can't condone
it.

I don't pay squatters.

Look, do you want to live like this?

I mean, personally, I don't want to live
like this. No, I know.

Okay, right?

I know that you didn't rent this house
from the owner.

Look, you sign an agreement with me
saying you're going to leave in 48

and I will let you live in peace.

Is that a deal? Yes. All right. That's a
deal. All right, man. That's a deal.

So I got him to agree, though. He's
going to vacate in 48 hours.

In that agreement, it also has him
acknowledge that I am a legal tenant

full rights to this property. All right,
man.

I'm going to remove my crew.

My cameras, security cameras, are going
to remain in here, okay?

Now, I want to let you know, you said 48
hours, and I'm going to be watching.

So if you're not doing anything,
packing, doing anything, then I'm going

in, all right? Do you understand that?

Yeah. Okay? Yeah.

All right, Jake, 48 hours. 48 hours.

I'm heading over to the homeowner's
mother's house to give Nabi and Khadijah

good news and a working key that the
squatter gave me.

This is always the best part of what I
do. Hey, guys. Hey. How you doing? How

are you?

How you doing? Good. Good to see you.
Good to see you, too. So I have some

news for you. All right.

This water has agreed to leave. Yeah.
Okay.

He is vacating the property as we speak
right now.

Awesome. And I have an agreement.

It's your house again.

All right. And we have the new key.

Oh, we got our key back.

I'm so excited.

You know what? Wish your daughter a
happy birthday for me. Thank you. Have a

great day.

All right. Okay, guys. Appreciate you so
much. Have a good day. Take care. Take

care now.

Hey, Flash, just want to tell you thank
you for getting our house back, man.

Thank you so much. We're so excited.

And I want to show you who's really
happy.

Oh, yeah. Are you happy you got your
room back?

I'm happy I got my room back.