Squatters – How can I prevent squatting?

Squatting can cause a huge headache for property owners in legal fees, eviction costs, repairs and delays to refurbishment projects. A combination of physical preventative and electronic responsive services is best. By ‘target hardening’ the site access to set up a squat is made more difficult. By adding monitored alarms, any successful breach of the property is known immediately and a fast response team can attend before locks have been changed or a formal squat established. The alarm evidences the time and date of the breach so that the police can be informed who should remove the squatters as criminal damage was caused.