A Kentucky homeowner was recently forced out of his own home after his guests turned into squatters and demanded “squatter rights.”
Kentucky homeowner Daniel Toma told Fox 19 that he initially invited his friend, Amy Davis, and her boyfriend, Tyler Sencuk, to come to his house over the summer. After Davis and Sencuk ran into difficulties with their car, Toma told the couple that they could stay in his garage until the car was fixed.
“[They] were working on the car for days in the driveway, I didn’t want to throw them out on the street,” Toma said. “I was just trying to be kind.”
Now, after his guests stayed for three months and eventually obtained a court order against him, which forced him to leave his house, Toma told Fox 19, “I just want this nightmare to end. I’ve been homeless the last few days.”
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While Davis and Sencuk were allowed to stay in Toma’s garage over the summer, the guests put a mattress in the garage by the middle of July and never left the Kentucky homeowner’s residence. Toma told Fox 19 that the couple had Spectrum cable installed in the garage, started having mail sent to his residence, and changed the lock on his garage without any rental agreement.
“I asked them to go, my roommates asked them to go, they wouldn’t leave,” Toma said. “We tried to tell them to leave. He [Sencuk] started saying [they] had squatters’ rights.”
Around Labor Day, Toma gave the couple a 30-day eviction notice, creating additional tension between everyone at Toma’s residence, according to Fox 19. The outlet reported that a fight between one of Toma’s roommates and Sencuk resulted in the squatter filing an emergency protective order against Toma. A judge ultimately granted the emergency protective order, forcing Toma to remain 500 feet away from Sencuk and his house.
“I feel like I have no power. I feel like I have no rights,” Toma said in a statement to Fox 19. “I just want to sleep in my own bed.”
Fox 19 reported that Sencuk has moved out of the house amid the squatting legal dispute.
