Los Angeles squatters sent packing as home inspectors enter, change locks, video shows

 The video shows a team of Los Angeles home inspectors giving a group of a dozen illegal residents a reality check before breaking into a home, changing the locks and boarding up the windows.

“The police are coming,” an occupant told inspectors in the front yard of a San Fernando Valley home in cellphone video recorded earlier this month.

The inspector replies, "It's fine." "We're coming in."

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A group known as Squatter Squad took the video and said it has been removing squatters from legally private property since 2018.

They use various legal techniques, which are applied on a case by case basis, to remove people who invade homes and refuse to leave.

"It was a very tricky and complicated job," said squatter squad member Lando Fehrenbach.

The intruders were under the impression that any entry into the house required three days' notice to be obtained through the court. However, they were wrong. Building inspection requires only 24 hours' notice and does not require a trip to the court, he said.

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“They were just talking nonsense,” he said.

However, the occupiers were seen filming themselves, repeatedly insisting that the inspectors must pass through the court before entering, and warning that they had called the police.

"We're going to press charges," says a trespasser with a cigarette out of his mouth and a can of soda.

"It's fine," replies the inspector. "Take me to court."

WATCH: Los Angeles home inspectors send squatters packing before changing locks

The owner sent a team of workers who came with their own port-a-potties and equipment.

The video shows that when officers arrived, they stood in the street and let inspectors do their work. The encroachers packed their belongings and left before the encroachment squad put up no trespassing signs, installed a new lock on the gate, and locked the windows.

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Earlier this month, police in New York City arrested a woman who said a group of squatters broke into her $1 million home and refused to leave.

He inherited the property from his parents when they died, then found squatters living inside.

According to the local ABC affiliate, she called the police, who escorted two strange men from the property.

However, when he changed the locks, one of the occupants returned with another police officer and accused him of breaking into the house. He was handcuffed and led out, but the police declined to file charges of theft.

An NYPD spokesperson told Fox News Digital that he was released with a summons for unlawful eviction and was not arrested.