if you see a house boarded up in the outskirts can you make it your home?

Question

there are a lot of old houses on land in the country that have been boarded up. They look run down and decrepit. Can you move in and fix em up and make that your house, since no one is living there in them?

Answer 1

WTF? You can't be that stupid. Seriously, no one can.



Of course breaking into someones property does not give you ownership.

Answer 2

You cannot legally move into boarded up property. The property belongs to someone, and that would be considered trespassing.

Answer 3

No.

Answer 4

Of course not. Those properties still belong to someone, occupied or not. You would be accused of trespass if you tried something this silly.

Answer 5

Sure, as long as you contact the owner first and ask if he's interested in selling his house and pay him the amount of money he wants for it.

Answer 6

No you would be committing a crime. You do NOT have legal permission to be there.

Those homes are boarded up because they are condemned

Answer 7

You can't be serious.