I am betting that Louisiana has la prescription acquisitive rather than adverse possession.  

My instinct told me that this guy was tweaking/jonesing and needed to sell the ladder for cash for drugs.

(Brandon Turner nice "thug lean" in the family pic) ;) Chris, if you can deal with helping people wean off drugs and all that goes with that, you will translate that compassion and understanding into working with distressed sellers/renters.

BUT I like to sit down and have a beer with them and counsel them and explain why it is better for THEM if they move out, I tell them ïf they get out in X (3 for one who was doing drugs and 7 for the one not paying rent) amount of days I will forgive them of the debt and we can all still be friends...

I lost money for several years and eventually donated the building to the church next door to convert to a halfway house to help former drug addicts get the help they need to recover.I would like to eventually own some apartments as a long term investment.Seeking to network with successful real estate investors and eventually reach my real estate goals by helping people rather than taking advantage of them.

We got an offer from... a young lady who knew the neighborhood from her student years and had been looking for a old house and hadn't been considering new construction until her agent drug her out to this house.

She didn't like our no-smoking policy, no drugs policy and our partnership with law enforcement.

Everyone knows that vacant homes lead to squatters, drug dealing, etc.

He says he's lived there for 27 years and is about to list his house and move to a different part of town due to drugs in the area.

But then drug dealers sell junk on the street to people who have great expectations without knowing what they are buying. :)