Posted on 03/29/2024 2:37:45 AM PDT by Libloather
A local New York ABC News affiliate reported on the threat squatters are posing to residents and offered tips on how they can protect their homes from unwelcome guests, including putting up "No trespassing" signs.
ABC 7 Eyewitness News investigative reporters Dan Krauth and Nina Pineda detailed the threat that squatters can pose under New York law, where a person can claim squatters' rights if they have lived in a home for more than 30 days.
Efforts to change this law have gained serious traction in recent days after video of New York City property owner Adele Andeloro getting arrested for confronting squatters at what she claimed to be her residence went viral.
Andaloro was arrested at her property for changing the locks on the home, which police at the scene claimed was her illegally evicting several people at her home. Referring to one of the residents – who claimed without proof that he was on the lease – police told Andeloro "he can't be kicked out, you have to go to court."
As the local reporters noted Wednesday, Andeloro’s charges have since been dropped, "but strangers are still living inside her home." They reported that in the wake Andeloro’s story – and those of other families embroiled in months-long legal battles with unwanted squatters – they’ve received "dozens of messages from homeowners in the same situation."
"And it took another family 25 months to get the squatters out," Krauth reported. He added that this problem won’t be easily solved until there are changes to state law. Until that change occurs, "it makes it difficult for police to intervene, and requires homeowners to take squatters to court."
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No. No. No.
Everything else but the gun.
Their wrong is that they aren’t asking nicely enough.
Those signs better be in 44 different languages.
Squatters will ignore the sign just like they ignore most other laws.
What New York needs to do is call Gov. DeSantis of Florida and ask him for a copy of the law passed a few days ago outlawing squatters.
I doubt signs will deter these people. They we’ll tear the sign down and claim they didn’t see the sign. Florida has now passed an anti squatter law. Gee why don’t other states? Well because blue state Democrats think criminals need more rights than law abiding citizens.
This actually has some legal validity where I’ve lived. A property owner has a “duty to warn” potential trespassers, without which it is almost impossible to prosecute them.
The democrat grifters cater to the “downtrodden” while making more people downtrodden with purposeful destructive financial policies. Disgusting anti American spirit.
Is that the new system? You must personally affirm a crime to be a crime, put warning labels on yourself and your property, if you want the protection of the law.
Opt in or the law is not for you.
The sign on my front door reads “This home is protected by God and a gun. Come in uninvited and you will meet both.”
That’s funny. They have no problem breaking the law to steal your stuff, but they’ll pay serious attention to a SIGN.
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