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Archive for April, 2007

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Fire ‘No 4′ In Less Than One Year.
It’s been five days since we had the life frightened out of us by the
‘Squatters’ next door setting fire to the upstairs of their hovel. It’s Friday
evening, about 9-45pm and I’ve just sprayed some ‘freshener’ to clear
the air after the cat decided cause a stink.
My daughter came up [...]

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Fire No 3  in One Year.
A Tale Of ‘Squatters’ In West Reading, Berks. UK.
It’s Sunday morning, 22nd April,  approx’  9.00  am.
I’m working away oblivious on the computer downstairs and now it’s time to wake my 15 yr old daughter so the she can go shopping with her older sister.
It’s a four story house, and she’s [...]

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The Squatters Right Of Passage.
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A Tale Of ‘Squatters’ In West Reading, Berks. UK.
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Our personal experience with ‘Squatters’ started six to seven years ago when the property next door was sold on to what can only be described as a ‘Virtual Squatter’.
An investor who buys property simply as a ‘cash-accumulator’.
They buy a property (or properties) in [...]

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Squatters Give Their First Impression.
It was several months after the last residents of the four flats next
door had left, and the building had been empty and quiet. I looked
over at the garden next door and wondered whether I should go over
there and sort out all the blackberry bushes which were starting to
take over with a [...]

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Squatters.  Bleedin’ Squatters.
A Tale Of ‘Squatters’ In West Reading, Berks. UK.
 Have you ever had the misfortune to live next door to these low-life?
They decide they want to physically ‘Break Into’ an empty property, (Yes, even if the owners are only on holiday),  and they ‘claim’ it as their own. Doing ‘what’ they like, ‘when’ they [...]

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