AUSTIN, Texas - Texas homeowners now have more power to protect their properties.

Two laws now in effect are aimed at stopping squatters and speeding up the eviction process.

Local perspective:

"It can be a bit of a wild, wild west here occasionally," Light Tower Property Management CEO Tim Roadnight said.

For months, the property manager at Mueller Square near Manor Road and 51st Street said he has been fighting an endless battle: trying to keep unwanted tenants out.

"It's like Groundhog Day. Every morning, different times I turn up, I'll find three or four different units broken into. They’re either squatters or homeless people camped out inside them," Roadnight said.

Roadnight said police couldn’t do much.

"Even if the door's broken into, and they're inside the unit, it's not b

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