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To: Sobieski at Kahlenberg Mtn.

Florida couple behind famed Christmas light display home ‘squatted’ in residence for years

https://nypost.com/2023/11/18/news/florida-couple-mark-and-kathy-hyatt-squatted-at-home-made-famous-with-outrageous-christmas-lights/

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Squatting around the Christmas tree!

A Florida couple that became infamous for decorating their home with outlandish holiday lights and props befit for the North Pole allegedly lived illegally at the residence, once owned by a Miami Dolphin player.

Mark and Kathy Hyatt “squatted” inside the upscale Plantation, Florida neighborhood where they transformed every year into the “Hyatt Extreme Christmas” house for 15 years without paying, according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

Broward County officials seek $34,724 in back taxes from the property after a team of property appraiser detectives investigated the family for seven months, interviewing neighbors and uncovering apparent fake deeds used by the Hyatts.

The Hyatt family was granted a homestead exemption the county said should never have been granted because they were not the rightful owners of the house.

.....The extravagant Christmas display was last lit up in 2017 as Mark and Kathy Hyatt divorced.

While in divorce court arranging for child support and alimony, Kathy Hyatt was asked to sign the deed to the estate when she revealed they had never owned the property and the deed was fake.

Mark Hyatt died three years later at the age of 56.

.....The Hyatts had come to reside in the contested home after a private investor bought out $50,000 of the home’s original mortgage, changed the locks and planned to flip the home after its original owner former Miami Dolphin Brett Perriman failed to pay off his $400,000 mortgage and faced foreclosure in 2004.

The investors were given a quit-claim deed to the property instead of an assignment of mortgage, according to the paper.

At the time, the couple was looking for a place to live in Florida when they came upon the Plantation Acres home that looked abandoned and were told that the original owners had moved to Georgia.

Mark Hyatt, a then mortgage officer discovered the Perriman didn’t have a valid deed and accused the investor of squatting, even going as far as calling the police.

Hyatt then created a fake deed of the property before breaking into the home and changing the locks, Kathy Hyatt said during an August deposition, according to the Sun Sentinel.

The couple found their way into the home and threw out everything the investors had inside so the investor “could not come back and say that he did have possession before we arrived.”

“Well, we broke in,” Kathy Hyatt told investigators. “I’ve never done that before in my life. We never paid any money to occupy. We were squatters.”

In 2014, the house’s decorations became a national hit, as the city of Plantation sued Hyatt deeming the popularity of the lights would cause an accident due to the amount of traffic it generated.

In 2017, Mark Hyatt unseated an incumbent city council member, only weeks after he declared victory over the city hall during the legal battles.

The city had spent about $427,000 in legal bills fighting the case, which Hyatt called an example of fiscal mismanagement during his campaign, the Sun Sentinel reported at the time.

The house is currently listed on Google Maps as a real estate agency run by Kathy Hyatt.
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1,957 posted on 11/19/2023 8:52:22 PM PST by Sobieski at Kahlenberg Mtn. (All along the watchtower fortune favors the bold.)
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To: Sobieski at Kahlenberg Mtn.

1,958 posted on 11/19/2023 8:53:16 PM PST by Sobieski at Kahlenberg Mtn. (All along the watchtower fortune favors the bold.)
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To: Sobieski at Kahlenberg Mtn.

On November 19, 1863 Lincoln Gave the Gettysburg Address:

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/abraham-lincolns-gettysburg-address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.


1,963 posted on 11/19/2023 9:09:12 PM PST by Sobieski at Kahlenberg Mtn. (All along the watchtower fortune favors the bold.)
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To: Sobieski at Kahlenberg Mtn.

Is that not the definition of Chutzpah?


1,987 posted on 11/20/2023 6:04:24 AM PST by Lakeside Granny (IN GOD WE TRUST with TRUMP WE STAND)
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To: Sobieski at Kahlenberg Mtn.

Good read interesting Thanks Sob!


2,016 posted on 11/20/2023 8:50:26 AM PST by DollyCali (Don't tell God how big your storm is ~~. tell the storm how BIG your GOD is! )
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