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An outraged Texas couple is pleading with lawmakers as their contractor turned squatter refuses to leave their property.

Yudith Matthews and Abram Mendez said they hired a contractor to complete tile work for their fixer-upper San Antonio property.

But after they fired him for not completing the work, the contractor refused to leave and is now reportedly living in the house.

The couple even filmed the unwanted guest climbing through their window despite being asked to leave. 

'We don't have any protection. There's legislators that are out there, who are making headway, but we need more headway across America to protect us, the  homeowners, because there's very little,' Mendez told FOX News. 

The couple tried calling law enforcement to remove him from the property, but they said police refuse to get involved. 

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 'It's really a gimmick, I think, for the municipalities across America to make money.'

The contractor originally asked the couple if he could stay on the property while he was completing the work because he had gout.

They agreed, drew up a contract, and Mendez filmed the squatter signing the paperwork. 

But the squatter allegedly stole the phone with the footage and deleted the video evidence.

The job was only supposed to take a few weeks to complete, but the contractor kept delaying the job or making excuses as to why he couldn't work. 

After the couple fired him, he still refused to leave.

'He must be homeless. He never, never even worked in the restroom,' Mendez said.

'The first few days, he was complaining of his gout. Then after I was trying to get a work schedule from him, he would just give me runarounds.'

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