Posted on 03/19/2024 8:58:40 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A New York City property owner recently ended up in handcuffs following a fiery standoff with a bunch of squatters she has been trying to boot from her family’s home, tense footage of the ordeal shows.
Adele Andaloro, 47, was recently nabbed after she changed the locks on the $1 million home in Flushing, Queens that she says she inherited from her parents when they died, ABC’s Eyewitness News reported.
“It’s enraging,” the homeowner said of the squatter saga. “It’s not fair that I, as the homeowner, have to be going through this.”
Andaloro claims the ordeal erupted when she started the process of trying to sell the home last month but realized squatters had moved in — and brazenly replaced the entire front door and locks.
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Because a demonRAT would just let them keep it and cry about how inheriting anything was "White Privilege" or some such nonsense.
It kind of is.
But the police do not want to do it. So they go, "it is a civil matter now our donuts are getting cold so go away."
In fact if you dig a little into the law, and not very far, you find that indeed they can do something.
If you go to the media with chapter and verse about how they can do something (do not expect the media to do ANY research) and manage to get them on a slow news day and you have a bad enough "trauma story" you might be able to get them off their steadily expanding butts to do what was their job all along. Once upon a time when the organized police force in NYC was a new thing (and run by the Irish) you had to offer a "reward" to have a crime "solved". And by "solved" I mean they picked out some poor blighter and beat the bejabbers out of him until he confessed.
This was somewhat changed when Teddy Roosevelt became the police commissioner but as the twig is bent.
Tell me how he does it!
Way too many Lib have been annoyed and they've PROMISED to leave, but they are still here!
What can I do to push them to keep their promises?
I don't know the details. I first saw it on YouTube on the Steve Lehto channel. He's a lawyer that reports on interesting legal matters. You can search on YT for him and scroll his webcasts. He's a fairly interesting guy.
Thanks for the link. New York clearly places a lot of restrictions on how and when tenants can be removed. But what about not renewing a lease when the term expires? One would think that even ultra-liberal New York would allow that, otherwise a tenant would have the power to prevent a landlord from selling his or her property. How should apply all the more to squatters since there is no contract, written or otherwise to specifying a term of “the lease”. Are squatters now being given open ended leases? If so then they’re no longer renters but owners. What a mess.
Many years ago a buddy of mine was what could only be considered as a slumlord. He owned several dozen shacks that he rented out to Section 8 types.
His solution to tenant removal was very clever. He kept the water service in his name rather than having the renter pay the utility deposit and monthly charges. When a tenant went 45 days delinquent the water was shut off.
He said the longest it ever took for the deadbeats to either get current on rent or leave was ten days. Things tend to get stinky when the toilets won’t flush.
They are getting ready to ban that under “Good Cause” legislation. You can’t just end it. I’ve had some PITA tenants that pay late but they pay so under “Good Cause” we won’t be able to just not renew anymore. Nor will you be able to evict them unless the JUDGE thinks it’s a good enough reason.
In BLUE states and cities, that’s illegal and he would incur MASSIVE fines per day.
Wow. Is selling the property considered a good reason?
IF the government as an active participate by supporting and abetting the squatter’s actions not to vacate, on demand of the property owner, I would think this contitutes and illegal “taking” of private property: a Constitutional matter.
Andaloro claims the ordeal erupted when she started the process of trying to sell the home last month but realized squatters had moved in — and brazenly replaced the entire front door and locks.
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So it’s a break and enter crime if a thug ‘breaks and enter’ and then leaves... but if the breaker and enterer stays after gaining entry, they are just a squatter if they stay?
Ok... got it.
OMG!
When a tenant went 45 days delinquent the water was shut off.
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Good to see a practical solution working. I’m thinking that it likely would be good to have about 5 solutions all ready to go along the same lines. The problem with doing something similar to electricity and gas for example is that no landlord wants to carry the cost for that in case a renter totally abuses it and drives costs through the roof. I’m thinking that it would be good to have all kinds of noise, smell, vibration, lights, electrical/gas disconnects that can all be activated remotely....
The illegal invaders will learn how to work the system and every vacant property will be at risk.
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Was thinking about that statement. It is actually rare that my house is ‘empty’ but then it made me think.....what if the front door was unlocked while I was chatting with a next door neighbor or I was cutting the grass in the backyard. If someone went in (locked or unlocked door) and set their bag down in one of the unused bedrooms, what would stop them from claiming ‘squatter’s rights’ and saying that they had been there for a month when you call the police?
One thing about this that does give me concern... As the owner of a ‘recreational property’, it could be half a year before I’d even know someone was there....
And will anybody do anything? Naaaaaaaahhhhhhh
They will probably eliminate that. Some places such as Seattle state that you have to give the current tenant the first right of refusal and make them a low ball offer to buy the home, then wait for them to get financing which usually falls through (that’s why they are renting in the first place).
I have a vacancy opening up approx 5/15-6/1. 3 bdrm downstairs apt newly rehabbed with off street parking. Twenty responses so far, all are duds. Credit score below 600, living in a hotel, criminal records, mega pets, pitbulls, getting evicted from their current place, etc. Biggest reason for moving is the “landlord is selling.” I’ve found several over the last year who really aren’t selling but want to get rid of the PITA tenant so they use that excuse. Usually takes me 60-100 responses to get one good one who is stable, has a credit score over 600, a good PREVIOUS LL reference and a decent job.
What’s an ADU?
Sounds like a fun job.
It would be so fun that I’d annoy people for no pay.
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