Nevada Man Turns The Tables On Con Artists Squatters
By Jon Levine March 25, 2023
Every now and then the Good Guys have to win in a world filled with con artists, corruption and crime!
A Nevada handyman turned the tables on squatters who invaded his motherâs California home, after local officials said they could offer no assistance getting them out.
Flash Shelton, executive director of the Las Vegas-based United Handyman Association, said in a YouTube video that the trouble began after his father died and his mother could no longer live in the family home â which was then put up for rent.
A woman who identified herself as a prison guard reached out to Shelton looking to rent the Northern California house, but couldnât offer any money or credit.
Shelton turned the woman down, but she was apparently undeterred.
âShe ended up having a truck of furniture, and literally moved into the house,â Shelton said.
âI started hearing from Realtors âŚ. saying that there is this lady and people in the house and a house full of furniture.â
âI then started getting reports from neighbors,â who had noticed lights on at night and cars in the driveway, he continued.
Local police and the sheriffâs department said there was nothing they could do to help.
âThey said, âIâm sorry, we canât enter the house and it looks like theyâre living there. You need to go through the courts’â â a potentially lengthy process.
Shelton then had an idea on how to beat the cons at their own game.
âAll I needed to do at that point was do the same thing they did, and occupy the house,â he said.
âIf they can take a house, I can take a house.â
He wrote up a âlease agreementâ with his mother, making him the legal tenant of the property.
The he loaded up his car, packed a gun âjust in caseâ and set off on a 12-hour drive.
He arrived around 4 a.m., waited for the squatters to leave the home for the day, and then entered while they were out.
When the squatter and her granddaughter returned, he confronted them, telling them they had to be out with all their stuff ASAP.
The conversation was polite and the anonymous vagabond apologized for the inconvenience.
âIâm really sorry about all this,â she can be heard saying in his recording.
âItâs a nightmare and beyond.â
The squatters bolted a day later.
âI think just the fact that I was there was enough,â he mused.
âIt was actually fun to do it. I wonât lie about that. Iâm glad it was successful.â
In a follow-up video, the handyman cautioned others against taking his approach.
âNot everyone should walk through that door not knowing what youâre gonna find,â he said.
âItâs not always going to be peaceful like that.â