Linda Jiang said she is grateful she has her home back but hopes officials do something to protect homeowners after being told there wasn't anything to be done.
It was determined that the lease that the woman claimed to signed was fraudulent, prompting police to notify them of immediate removail from the homeTrespassers who had lived there for almost a month had changed the locks. Giang wasn't sure what to do, so she contacted our sister station, ABC13."Thanks for coming out here to do the story. I think that was a great help," Jiang who was still trying to process the last few weeks, said.
Jiang says it appeared that the woman, identified as Tamisha Holmes-Bey, had lived in the house with several others for almost a month. She discovered them when she came to clean up the yard.Both Harris County Precinct 5 and Houston Police Department responded to her calls but told her it was a civil matter, telling her she had to go to court."No, I'm not trespassing," she said during a live interview. "I have a lease and paid $6,000.
However, public records obtained by ABC13 show Holmes-Bey has lived in Texas for decades. She has been involved in numerous civil and criminal proceedings in Bell, Travis, and Fort Bend counties. A woman with her name has had three eviction records in Fort Bend County since 2019.READ MORE |"We're seeing a rise in this kind of fraudulent document, people breaking into nice homes, trying to squat there. We're seeing a rise," he said. "I've been doing it for 25 years.
The situation took a turn over the weekend when Houston police detectives determined the lease Holmes-Bey produced was fraudulent and told her she had until Monday to get out or face trespassing charges."It was very frustrating, having to deal with this, but now I'm happy she's gone, and I'm hoping legislators will do something and change the law and protect homeowners rather than the squatters," Jiang said.
For now, though, Jiang and her husband took the home off the rental market. She says she will add security and post "No Trespassing" signs on the property. She is also considering selling the house and not being a landlord for a while.
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