For several months starting in January 2023, a Houston, Texas, elementary school teacher has been squatting in a luxury house with her family. The public school teacher, who is not paid a good salary for all the hard work she does with the youth in Houston, has now been evicted from a home where she was living illegally with her beloved family after they fabricated a fake lease to trick the police into thinking they were supposed to be living in the luxury home.
In the wake of her eviction, Amberlyn Prather was confronted by reporters from ABC13 who wanted to receive a comment from the fourth-grade teacher. Nevertheless, Prather remained tight-lipped and silent about how she managed to live in the luxury Houston house for free for half a year. Prather and her family had been ordered to leave the Houston home by the end of the month of June.
Prather moved into the luxury home in January while it was vacant. Although she had no claim on the property, she managed to live in it without repercussions from January to the end of May. She was eventually taken to court in June, where a judge ordered her and her family to leave by the end of the month.
For months, real estate agent Shanequa Garrett has been trying to get into the house so she could sell it. She is the authorized agent in charge of the sale of the Houston house. However, she has been forced to battle with the squatters since January since they have been living in the home illegally for months now.
Now, Prather and her family have moved out of the house as of June 15, 2023. This has given Garrett her first chance to go into the property and assess the possible damages that the elementary school teacher and her family might have caused while living on the property illegally.
Garrett wanted to figure out how the squatters got into the house so she could prevent other would-be squatters from doing the same while she tried to sell the home to a respectable family
“They could climb on a trash can and climb on the roof,” Garrett (above) told ABC13, speaking from the second-floor bedroom of the house. “From this window (which was loose), they can just open it from the outside and jump in. Because we kept getting the house rekeyed, and they kept getting in.”
When the house was listed for sale in January, Prather realized that it was vacant and decided to sneak inside the home. Once she was inside, she opened the door and let her family move in with her. Neighbors noticed that the squatters had brought a moving truck to the home and were moving in illegally. They called the police, but the cops were not able to do anything since Prather had already moved her family into the home. They had to wait for Garrett to take the case to court to get a judge to evict the elementary school teacher and her family.