You want to shake your junk at people and patronizingly 'splain them that you're a somethin' somethin' and know all about renovation, my smug bucket is full.

IF things shake out as you fear, then you treat her like everyone else and stick to what is written in your lease agreement. 

Not for nothing, when I see that kind of hoarding, as a landlord, I gasp and shake my head. 

All I can do is shake my head in disgust at that story. 

Shake hands afterwards if it all checks out OK.

update-  Actually I was not that confident at first I remember being so scared I was physically shaking !

It will be interesting to see how all this shakes out but I do plan on making it official next year. 

So get ready for the short-arm inspection on every job you've every done.It's worse than some mafia shaking you down, and it's perfectly legal for them. 

It looks to be shakes.

I'm imagining the squatter climbing into the vent, making all sorts of noise, the tree limbs shaking as he/she struggles to get into the vent. lolI'm wondering if the squatter ever spent a night in the attic while the new tenants were living there.