I went through the same problems Don and Peggy Bain (“Couple want backyard back,” April 17) are going through five years ago when my younger brother moved to Boise and had me keep an eye on his mobile home, which he had a verbal agreement to rent to his friend.

The friend paid the rent fine for six months but then he lost his job and stopped paying. After a month we tried to evict him and the police were called. They told me he had “squatter’s” rights and could not be removed from the mobile home.

For two more months this guy lived rent-free till I got a call one night from his mother informing me that he “had been arrested on a drug warrant.”

I immediately went to the mobile home and switched the locks, but the man notified the police and I had to let him in.

Finally I got smart, hired a lawyer and we got a judge to kick the bum out. I cannot believe the law protects these people.

Rick Garvin

Post Falls