Adverse Possession

Abby asks, “You were making enough money at age 16-years-old, that you could afford to buy or rent this house?”
I laugh, “No. My old man told me about something called adverse possession. If I moved into an abandoned house, established, in my name, water and sewer service, electric service, gas service, mail service, that sort of thing, paid the taxes and lived here, openly and notoriously, I had started the process of adverse possession.”
Abby asks, “You didn't buy the house or pay rent?”
“No...