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What does a squatter cost you in Connecticut?
Change the numbers to match your property. The rent is Connecticut's own, from HUD; how long it drags on is your call; everything else is yours to overwrite.
Connecticut estimate
$36,136
Your numbers.
These are national starting points, not claims about your property. The one figure that drives the total — how long it drags on — is yours to set. Nobody can source it, so we do not pretend to.
How long before you get it back?
6 months
Your assumption, not ours — courts do not publish how long this takes. A contested removal runs in months, not weeks, almost everywhere; how it goes in Connecticut is in the guide.
How many bedrooms?
Sets the rent from HUD’s published Fair Market Rent for Hartford — $2,236/mo.
Mortgage / loan payment — per month
$
Only you know this one. The placeholder is roughly a $300k loan at current rates.
Lost rent or delayed sale — per month
$
HUD's Fair Market Rent for this metro, at the bedroom count you picked. It is the 40th percentile of recent-mover rents, so on a renovated or market-rate property it is a floor, not a valuation.
Attorney fees — one-off
$
No public data exists. Our estimate — nothing published backs it. No state bar and no court in any of these markets publishes fee data for an ejectment. Get a written quote and put it here.
Property taxes — per month
$
Your bill, divided by twelve. The placeholder is roughly a $250k property at Philadelphia's 1.3998% — Newark runs 1.845%, Los Angeles 1.187%.
Insurance — per month
$
No public data exists. Our estimate. Vacant cover genuinely does cost more, but the published figures for how much more disagree by a factor of five — anywhere from +25% to 5x. Use your own premium.
Utilities — per month
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A national placeholder, unless your state overrides it below — Philadelphia's is the Water Department's own published bill. Whoever is inside, you are the ratepayer of record.
Damage and clean-out — one-off
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No public data exists. Our estimate, and we want to be blunt: NO government body in the United States publishes squatter-damage data. Every figure you have seen quoted traces to one news story or to a lobby survey that counted houses, not dollars. We are not going to launder a number we cannot stand behind — put yours here.
If it happens in Connecticut
$36,136
at 6 months— and every extra month adds $4,606.
Against a $0–$120k range, so the bar means something as you drag.
Carrying it, empty ($4,606/mo × 6 mo)
$27,636
One-off costs (attorney, damage)
$8,500
What ruins you is the carry — the months. On top of this you will pay to file, for the sheriff to serve and remove, and for a lawyer. Those are set locally and we do not print a number we cannot cite — but next to the months, they are a sliver.
Can you get any of it back? NO. Connecticut's summary-process statute lets a prevailing owner recover statutory "costs," but chapter 832 is silent on attorney's fees — and a squatter has no lease to supply a fee clause — so under the American Rule the owner eats their own legal bill.. "Costs" are statutory court costs, which under Connecticut's American Rule do not include attorney's fees; no provision in chapter 832 shifts a prevailing owner's attorney's fees in a summary-process action against a non-tenant. This is an inference from the statute's silence, not an express fee-denial provision.
Why Connecticut costs what it does
Connecticut sends squatters through the same fast eviction track it uses for tenants, but a judge still has to sign. The state's summary process law has a line written specifically for a person who never had any right to be in the building, so the owner serves a written notice giving at least three days, files a complaint, and wins a judgment. Only then does the court issue a removal order, which a state marshal carries out — no one is put out on the owner's word alone. And a judge can hold that order back for up to six months, so "fast" still means months once the occupant fights.
“when such premises, or any part thereof, is occupied by one who never had a right or privilege to occupy such premises”
Connecticut's summary-process (fast eviction) statute reaches squatters by name in subdivision (2), so the owner uses the same fast track a landlord uses — but a judge still enters judgment and a state marshal, not the owner, executes the removal.
The statute
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47a-23 — summary process; § 47a-23(a)(2) reaches one who never had a right or privilege to occupy the premises
“when such premises, or any part thereof, is occupied by one who never had a right or privilege to occupy such premises”
Cited to the CGA's dated 2025 chapter URL, not a /current/ (latest) URL.
Rent, by bedroom
1 bed $1,477 · 2 bed $1,865 · 3 bed $2,236 · 4 bed $2,537
All four figures (and the 0BR $1286) are the official HUD FY2026 schedule. FY2025 for the area was $1306/$1653/$1992/$2363, a consistent year-over-year increase.
Do you get your legal fees back?
NO. Connecticut's summary-process statute lets a prevailing owner recover statutory "costs," but chapter 832 is silent on attorney's fees — and a squatter has no lease to supply a fee clause — so under the American Rule the owner eats their own legal bill.
“the court shall ... enter judgment that the complainant recover possession or occupancy of the premises with the complainant's costs, and execution shall issue subject to the provisions of sections 47a-35 to 47a-41, inclusive”
"Costs" are statutory court costs, which under Connecticut's American Rule do not include attorney's fees; no provision in chapter 832 shifts a prevailing owner's attorney's fees in a summary-process action against a non-tenant. This is an inference from the statute's silence, not an express fee-denial provision.
Is there a fast sheriff route?
No. Connecticut has no affidavit-to-sheriff (or marshal) removal statute — a judge must enter judgment and a state marshal executes the court's order. A 2025 bill (H.B. 6116) that would have created an affidavit route was referred to the Housing Committee and never advanced.
“the plaintiff may obtain an execution upon such summary process judgment, and the defendant or other occupant ... and the possessions and personal effects of such defendant or other occupant may be removed by a state marshal, pursuant to such execution”
Removal follows a court execution carried out by a state marshal — there is no sworn-affidavit bypass.
This is the bill for finding out too late.
Nothing on this page will get an occupant out, and be wary of anyone who says otherwise. What DeedProof does is earlier and duller: it verifies you own the property, structures the statement you swear before a notary, and files it — so that if someone does break in, the officer at the door has something to work from instead of a lease they cannot check.
The decision still belongs to the officer. Our job is to make it an easy one.
This page is the money. The law behind it is on Connecticut’s guide — whether police can arrest, whether a sheriff can act on your affidavit alone, and how long occupation takes to become a claim. Every answer quoted from the statute.