Ok, so here is how the situation has gone so far. After roughly 2 hours, I got a call back from the police. They stated that there was indeed vehicles on the property, I told him the place was vacant and anyone there was not welcome. He told me "they have every right to be there" (this blew me away by the way). I asked why he says this, and he says "because we just bought the place right?" I said that we bought the place over a month ago, we served a termination notice, which the tenant signed, then the tenant sent us a text message stating "He is done, he is out of the place" and that we changed locks yesterday, nothing was left in the house and only the garbage was left outside around the dumpster. The cop said "Did you serve an eviction notice?" I said no, why would I have to evict someone, who left after the termination notice and told us they were gone, and that nothing was left so we changed locks, no need for eviction. He said "Well there is nothing they can do without an actual eviction notice, that they had every right to be there, it would be as if you and your spouse got in a fight, and she kicked you out. You would have every right to come and kick in the door with no repercussion." I asked him if he was telling me, that I could go kick in the front door of any house that I ever lived in, because I had the right to be there since I lived there once before? He said no, and I asked whats the difference, theirs a time frame or something? Plus I don't even know who is at the house, I am pretty sure its not the guy that was living there though. Ok so I am gonna basically cut the story short here. Basically they did nothing and told me all I could do without an eviction notice was to have any vehicles on the property towed away and that if they got there cars taken away, they would think twice about coming back. I am not sure if that would even work, it would probably end up backfiring on me and I would end up paying for it somehow. Anyways, so after work, we went back to the house, and found that the basement windows had boards just pushed up to the holes, so we actually anchored them, sandwiching the foundation between the outside board and a board inside, so they can just crawl through. Then we boarded up the garage doors so they couldn't hang out smoking crack (or whatever it was they were doing) inside it. We boarded up the windows on the back side of the house, screwed the back door shut so it couldn't be opened (it needs replacing anyways), put a board over the front window. Set up no trespassing signs around the property, and ran some caution tape (mainly for effect). We haven't heard anything from the neighbors for 3 days, so here is to crossing our fingers. Going over today to take some measurements and draw out existing lines so we can figure out what to do with it, so I will see if anything looks like someone has tried to gain entry.
Here are the pics of the place as it sits today:
