Police advise Delaware vacation home owners: Beware of squatters
Delaware News Journal Imagine returning to your Delaware beach home to find that strangers had been living there – using your heat, water and cable for days. This misfortune has been a familiar one for resort towns where many residents vacate their homes during the winter, only noticing that something is wrong when their electric bills spike or a neighbor calls about suspicious activity. In towns like Dewey Beach, where most of its 2,000 homes are emptied in the winter, squatting or burglary incidents are an inherent risk, said Sgt. Cliff Dempsey, spokesperson for the Dewey Beach Police D...
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