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Nah, such services already exist. You just have some extremely loutish, heavy-hitting-seeming dude "move in" with the squatter with a legit lease. The mission is to be so foul and unpleasant that the original squatter leaves.

In other contexts due to jury nullification, prosecutorial misconduct and similar you might actually see vigilante groups for hire. The opening scene from The Godfather was based on reality.

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My experience representing wealthy client is that you don't want to be the person worth millions of dollars in some lawsuit against someone worth almost nothing.

While the tenant can always declare bankruptcy for money they owe you, engaging in illegal activity against a tenant could easily result in you owing that person far more than the nuisance and lost rent from them living in your backyard.

Reality is the landlord has a lot more to lose than the tenant, so what you're describing is completely impractical.

In ex-USSR that would mean just having the judge either be part of the gang offering protection or have the gang "talk" to him/her for a potentially additional fee. A subscription type of fee was more common though.

That's another can of worms in itself.

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