Squatters force Kentucky man out of his home after taking over his garage

A Kentucky homeowner is out on the street after his “friends” proved to be squatters as they took over his garage to fix their car and then wouldn’t vacate the premises. “I was just trying to be kind,” Daniel Toma said about why he initially opened his Louisville, KY doors to Amy Davis, and her boyfriend, Tyler Sencuk.

The two were staying with Toma for a summer visit when they experienced car problems. Toma said the pair could stay in his garage until the car was repaired. They were “working on the car for days in the driveway, I didn't want to throw them out on the street. I was trying to be kind,” he said.

But kindness prompted the couple to bring a mattress into the garage, hook up a Spectrum box and then change the locks, Fox 19 reported. After they started getting mail delivered to their new address, they told Toma they didn’t want to leave and believed they now possessed squatter rights. “I asked them to go, my roommates asked them to go, they wouldn't leave. We tried to tell them to leave. He [Sencuk] started saying [they] had squatters’ rights.”

With Labor Day upon him, Toma decided he had had enough and tried to evict the pair, giving them 30 days to pack up and leave. But things got even more complicated when Sencuk and one of Toma’s roommates had a scuffle and Sencuk filed an emergency protective order against Toma, who was then legally obliged to stay 500 feet away from the squatters and his own house.

As a result, Toma was thrown out of his own house and Sencuk stayed. The protective order allegedly listed Toma and Sencuk as roommates. But even though the Suncuk has moved out, Toma still has to stay away from his own house.

“I feel like I have no power. I feel like I have no rights,” Toma told the Mail. He has a scheduled court date to try to have the protective order dismissed but until then, he said, “I just want to sleep in my own bed.”

Illegal immigrant Leonel Moreno became a “migrant influencer” for telling illegals to squat in US homes. A New York City squatter, who seized a $1 million home, was arrested for burglary and grand larceny.