What Makes You My Tenant?

[Jake Kucheck]

So last week I posted this:

http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/52/topics/67520-tenants-former-homeowners-squatters-and-their-rights-to-utilities

Didn't get the conclusive answer from Holdman that I wanted... so was hoping someone could tell me what exactly defines a tenant. If you live in a house that I own, and cannot produce a valid lease with the former homeowner, what are you exactly? The word tenant doesn't seem correct.

More to the point... how quickly can I get you out, without doing what the guy in the link below did?

http://100gf.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/china-landlord-accused-of-dumping-50kg-of-scorpions-in-flats-to-make-residents-leave/