When Flash Shelton found squatters in his mother's home in Northern California five years ago, he figured out how to work around a system that often appears to protect the squatter and not the property owner: he decided to turn the tables on the squatters.'These people feel like the law allows them to do it, so why not me?' said Shelton, who has become known as 'The Squatter Hunter.
'It's good for a year and it's there on record. This way, it gives the authority for the officers to respond, because it's already been registered that no one is allowed in that building,' Archuleta said.Florida also has a new law, which takes effect on July 1, allowing police to evict squatters immediately who don't have a valid lease; several other states have passed or proposed tougher measures on squatting.