Riverside family finally moves into dream home after 15-month standoff with squatter By Laura Diaz Squatter finally leaves, Riverside family moves into new home nearly a year later RIVERSIDE, Calif. - After 15 long months of soaring legal bills and a thousand tears, Tracie Albert finally walked through the front door of her new home on Skyridge Drive in Riverside. She walked through the house expressing a sense of disbelief. The Alberts closed escrow in January 2020. But once escrow ended — their nightmare began. The seller refused to allow the couple into their hilltop home. The former seller had turned into a squatter.