Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department<\/a> (LVMPD). Although it is unlikely they will remove the occupant from the property, they can serve to make the process easier for you in the long run. It is dangerous and reckless for an owner to confront a squatter on their own. Additionally, the occupants will be obligated to present identification to the police officer, gaining you the opportunity to get the occupant\u2019s name, which is required for removal. Lastly, it is also possible that the occupant(s) will be arrested at which time you may be able to reclaim your property. In this last example, the only instance in which a landlord or property owner may reclaim the property is if all adult occupants are arrested and all minor occupants are taken into state custody. Then, and only then, the landlord may post a Notice of Retaking Possession and\/or Changing of Locks. Within 24-hours of posting this notice, you must complete an Owner\u2019s Statement Regarding Retaking Possession and\/or Changing of Locks and file it along with the initial notice of Retaking Possession in Justice Court, in the proper jurisdiction.<\/p>\nGather all Necessary Information<\/h2>\n
If you need to remove the squatter(s) there is information you will need in order to do so. The first thing you must have is the actual name of at least one of the squatters. The notice should be addressed to that person and all occupants. You will also need to state when you became aware of the squatter occupying your property and how. For example, you might say, \u201cI discovered the squatters on March 3rd, 2019 when I went to show my unoccupied home to a potential buyer and found it to be occupied by a family I did not know or authorize\u201d or \u201cI discovered the squatters on March 3rd, 2019 when my maintenance crew went to clean my vacated home and found a broken window and people living inside\u201d. This information is intended to show the judge briefly, when it goes for Removal, that the occupant is in fact unauthorized.<\/p>\n
Serving a 4-day Notice to Surrender<\/h2>\n
Once you have obtained this information, the proper notice to do is a 4-day Notice to Surrender. The 4-days are judicial days, not counting the day of service, and allow time for the occupant to respond. If the occupant does respond, it is likely the Justice Court for that jurisdiction will set a hearing which you or someone on your behalf must attend. The occupant may have a compelling reason for being in the property, such as being scammed themselves. The occupant may have a fake lease. Oftentimes, in the case of a lease created by the occupant, it is clear that it is not a standard lease and that the handwriting is theirs and not yours. It is possible the occupant has a legitimate lease given by an unauthorized party. The Judge will make their decision after seeing the evidence and hearing both parties. More often than not, the occupant does not respond and the Judge executes an Order of Removal. An Order of Removal differs from a Summary Eviction Order in that once the Order is signed, the Deputy Constable is scheduled to remove the occupant without further notice.<\/p>\n
Order of Removal Executed<\/h2>\n
When the Deputy contacts you to meet them at the property for the Removal of the squatters, be sure to be prepared to change the locks and secure the property. It is also the landlord\u2019s responsibility to properly remove all of the squatter\u2019s abandoned property from the premises after the squatter has been removed. Additionally, it is important to keep the Order of Removal once the Removal is over. That way, if the same people break back in, you can just call Metro stating the occupants have already been removed by the Constable\u2019s Office once, and the Officers will act accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Squatters are a major problem that seem to never go away for a lot of landlords, especially in Nevada. In recent years, Las Vegas has seen a huge increase in the amount of squatters around the city. Learn more here about what to do, as the landlord, when dealing with a squatter in one of your vacant rental properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6,8,9,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmievictions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmievictions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmievictions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmievictions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmievictions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nmievictions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/nmievictions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmievictions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmievictions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmievictions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmievictions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}