Even worse than this was one of two things:
Squat the house in order to steal the HOUSE. During the housing bust (and this was particularly bad in Florida), there were several web sites that taught one how to squat the house to claim ownership of it.
Another thing that was done was to strip everything out of the house for resale, especially the copper wiring and pipe they could sell for money. Forgot one more. They would find empty houses and turn them into party houses, where you'd find cockroach behavior like drugs, sex, drinking parties, etc.
I know someone who is moving out, and I hope it doesn't happen during their move from one house to another. I've told them that while they're moving to the new house, and I'm there, I will keep the place under guard until everyone gets out of the old house.
I'm telling you, people... Western civilization is in collapse despite the job numbers. It doesn't matter that you have the latest technology, the most powerful military, tightest paper trails - if the inner science of the human being is missing, then eventually, it collapses of its own greed, absolute power, fear, insecurities, and especially lack of spiritual knowledge.
When I say, "Just watch..." I don't mean in the next 15 years. I mean in the next 100 years, unless things are done to change the course of Western civilization. Right now, it is in danger of turning the corner and making itself extinct.