Kentucky homeowner forced out of his own house by judge after squatter 'friends' moved into his garage - then refused to leave

A Kentucky homeowner was forced out of his house after his 'friends' moved into his garage while they fixed their broken-down car and then they refused to leave. 

'I was just trying to be kind', said homeowner Daniel Toma after he allowed a friend, Amy Davis, and her boyfriend, Tyler Sencuk, into his home in Louisville, Kentucky. 

The pair were visiting him during the summer when their car broke down. He offered his garage as a place for them to stay while they worked on it. 

'Working on the car for days in the driveway, I didn't want to throw them out on the street. I was trying to be kind,' he said. 

But in mid-July, the couple brought a mattress into the garage, set up a Spectrum box and then changed the locks. They eventually started getting mail and refused to leave, telling Toma they had 'squatter' rights. 

Toma, however, received no rent payments, the couple had no lease, and the homeowner didn't want them there. 

'I asked them to go, my roommates asked them to go, they wouldn't leave. 

'We tried to tell them to leave. 

Around Labor Day, Toma put up a 30-day eviction notice which further escalated tensions among the tenants. 

Sencuk and one of Toma's roommates got into a fight, resulting in Sencuk filing for an emergency protective order against Toma. 

Once this was granted, Toma was forced to stay 500 feet away from them or his house, reported Fox 19. 

But rather than Sencuk being thrown out, Toma was told he had to go. 

The protective order claimed Toma was Sencuk's roommate. He had told the judge he did pay rent in the form of 'maintenance' and the judge took his word for it. 

Sencuk, with Toma's dad and sister watching, finally moved out. 

'I feel like I have no power. I feel like I have no rights,' said Toma, who has an upcoming court date to challenge the protective order, 'I just want to sleep in my own bed.'