[Laneco]

Here are three things that you should do (taken from someone who did sleep in a hotel 6 once time):

1. Google the term "adverse occupancy"... When you are weirded out enough to realize that you will sign the mortgage then find you have a surprisingly limited number of options for getting them out, then proceed to step 2.
2. Refuse to close until the property is vacant or the squatter has signed a month to month lease (you can get people to leave pretty easily with a month to month lease).
3. Hire an attorney if needed to extricate yourself from the purchase agreement if you did not already put vacancy down as a condition of sale.

If you are lucky, you can get the person to leave, even PAY them to leave (it is cheap in the long run). But you must have them leave before you take possession. Otherwise, you are stuck with them and could be stuck for a very long time.

You cannot harm them, harass them, and they have nothing to lose by you suing them. Proceed with caution.

angela