NOT breaking and entering?
Posted on 04/19/2024 4:45:09 AM PDT by CFW
An alleged squatter accused of living in a $1 million home while earning money by renting out bedrooms to others has finally been charged.
Brian Rodriguez was indicted on Thursday on charges of burglary, grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property, criminal trespass and criminal mischief.
Homeowner Adele Andaloro had been checking on the home in Flushing, Queens, in February that she inherited when she realized the front door had been changed
Prosecutors say that over several days Andaloro witnessed Rodriguez inside the property, and he claimed he was leasing the property.
Andaloro is said to have saw several others living at the home, with one leaving the door open. After gaining entry she changed the locks to gain back access.
After Rodriguez returned, he had Andaloro dramatically handcuffed and led off the $1 million property after claiming that he was the legal tenant.
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District Attorney Katz said: 'Criminal charges will be pursued when you unlawfully occupy someone else’s home.
'You cannot just enter a home and claim you have a right to stay. You cannot first enter a home without permission, then stay without permission and later claim vested rights simply because the legitimate owner is unaware or has been unable to remove you for 30 days.
'The defendant in this case is alleged to have entered and stayed in this home unlawfully. He has now been charged with burglary and grand larceny.'
If convicted, Rodriguez faces up to 15 years behind bars and was ordered to return to court next month.
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As soon as a Californian plops down double or triple the going rate on just one property in a county in Texas, the robber baron tax assessor decides that every muddy floodplain inch of soil in the county is worth six times as much.
Every homeowner the county decides they are sitting on a lottery ticket and baits the hook for the next Californian to come along with a wad of cash to burn.
Eventually the wave subsides, the foreclosures come for all the idiots caught up in it who didn’t plonk down California cash. The robber baron tax assessholes don’t move an inch, except for the foreclosures selling for 30 cents on the dollar where they have no choice.
The only good news in this is that every election cycle Texans are starting to view property tax the same way they see income tax and the politicians are starting to notice.
democRats own houses too
The change of policy is because it’s an election year. The populace is fed up with liberal BS. Politicians run more to the right after elections they return to marxists ways.
That house is in a higher end community and is on the water - open views of the bay.
I almost spent my life there in Bayside, but give me Alabama.
Also there was a sudden change at Columbia where they cleaned up the Pali occupation. And there was another cleanup in Queens where a bunch of illegal aliens were selling stuff on the sidewalks.
Why the sudden changes?
Could it be because Trump is in town and the Democrats can't afford another Bodega show of force by Trump?
I think so.
Let go to Disappear & do the same elsewhere
It’s hard to judge without sq footage/floor plan, property size, interiors conditions & materials, appliances, if the above-the-garage area is all tricked out. I think I’d enclose a walkway b/t the upper floors, sort of like a greenhouse.
NOT breaking and entering?
My modest 3.5 acres with a 1991 mobile home has gone up in value (according to the mostly-honest tax assessor - tongue deeply in cheek) a slight 7% on the land and 3% on the structure.
Have you ever seen a 1991 Mobile home with single pane windows go UP in value by 3%?!? ME NEITHER! Mobile homes are like cars...they only have a one-way value plane...down! And UNLIKE cars, they do NOT become “classic” after 25-30 years...they become pieces of sh...tuff!
I have had to protest my taxes every year because they continue to try to make my mobile home worth MORE $$. This year the land value is the same and they are saying my mobile home went up in value by 5.5%!?!?!
Tax collectors are just legalized robbers!!
From what I read, the owner observed a squatter leaving, and that person left the front door open. Owner went into the empty home and had the locks changed. Perfectly legal for the owner to enter the home. If squatters leave the home unoccupied, the owner has every right to enter if the door is left open.
Also, the bad illegal "tenant" came back to the now changed locks, and forcibly gained entry pushing himself past the owner. That is the reason the courts have now charged the squatter. The cops who arrived for that incident wrongly arrested the home owner.
Gaydar pinging!
There's none of this left.
Hicks from the sticks live there - they'd be your neighbors.
They have guns.
Have been known to dance with their wives.
They tend to respect authority.
Whatever you do, do NOT investigate or even contemplate moving there!
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