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My 93 yr old grandmother lives with her daughter in an apt and owns a house nearby. The daughter keeps her cats there but nobody is currently living in the property. Recently she asked some homeless man to go to the house to feed the cats every day. He decided to move his girlfriend and dog and property into the house and refuses now to leave and threatened her and said she should try to spend the time and money to get him evicted through housing court. I called the police and asked them to evict the man since he has no lease, no rent receipt, no mail over thirty days old, no witness testimony and even no keys!!! The police refuse to act however. Amazingly they claim that they (the police) know that he is there over thirty days because “they saw him in front of the house some time ago” I said he was visiting over a month ago perhaps to feed cats but only two weeks earlier seems to have moved in. I told the police also that my mother is not the owner of the property and no longer lives there and that my grandmother never who is sole owner never authorized this man to even go into the property. They claim she is the custodian of the property however and let this guy in and he is there over thirty days and they can do nothing. I begged them to talk to the neighbors who would confirm that he is not there that long and I said that I myself was at the house three weeks before and he was not there. The officer refused to talk to the neighbors and said “maybe he was there and left and returned”. Now it is labor day and soon IT WILL be over thirty days due to police inaction. Any advice will be very welcome. Who do you appeal to when the police will not help you with someone breaking the law? They even said they will arrest me for illegal eviction if I lock the guy out!!!!!