The Squatter Hunter on Fake Leases, Broken Laws & Taking Homes Back | Ep 274 HTBITY w/ Jamie Kennedy

About this episode

This week on Hate To Break It To Ya I sat down with Flash Shelton — better known as The Squatter Hunter — to get inside one of the craziest loopholes in the housing system. Flash breaks down how squatters and “deceptive tenants” use fake leases, tenant protections and civil law to stay in properties they don’t own — sometimes leaving homeowners stuck fighting for months just to get their own house back. We get into the worst states for it, why police often can’t simply remove someone, some of Flash’s wildest removal tactics, and the cases that pushed him into becoming The Squatter Hunter in the first place. I also tell Flash about my own experience squatting in Los Feliz when I was a broke actor in the ’90s — and what I discovered after buying a house that had apparently been functioning as a full-blown commune. Flash also talks about his A&E series Squatters, how his work went viral, and his push to change squatter laws around the country. ⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻ About Flash Shelton: Flash Shelton is the founder of Squatter Hunters LLC and star and executive producer of A&E’s Squatters. After dealing with squatters in his own family’s property, he began helping homeowners reclaim their homes