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Broward Property Appraiser Moves to Repeal Squatting Law

“Loki Boy” copy cats bedevil Broward County

The attempted takeover of a $2.5 million Boca Raton mansion using an obscure real estate law now has copycat cases — including one involving a $4.6 million oceanfront mansion complete with tennis court and pool.

Broward County Property Appraiser Lori Parrish — whose office accepted three more filings for “adverse possession” Tuesday — said she’s had enough.

She’s started asking the area’s state legislators to strike the law from the books, once and for all.

“It’s not a 21st century law — they ought to abolish it,” Parrish said, pointing out that it was passed when Florida was vast swaths of agricultural land that sometimes fell into disuse.

State Rep. Irving Slosberg, D-Boca Raton, said he agrees.

“I think Lori Parrish has a great idea,” he said.

Adverse possession allows someone to move into a house and claim the title — if they can stay there for seven years, paying the liens and the taxes on the property. Andre Barbosa, a Brazilian national also known as “Loki Boy,” made headlines filing adverse possession on a 7,200-square foot, 5-bedroom home in a weathly Boca enclave.

Parrish says that in most cases — and Broward now has 22 of them — the filing is not worth the paper it’s printed on, particularly in one case of a filing on a beach house that is not in foreclosure.

“Why should someone take possession of a house that money isn’t even owed on?” she said. “What this is doing is legitimizing breaking and entering.”

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