Posted on 04/13/2024 10:56:58 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A crafty squatter bilked his landlord of at least $72,000 in rent for his Lower East Side apartment — then made tens of thousands in profit by subletting the unit, the owner charges.
For three years, computer programmer Thor Boucher hasn’t paid a cent of his bargain-rate $2,000-a-month, two-bedroom, one-bathroom Essex Street pad, claiming he didn’t have to because the building was noisy and shook, according to landlord Ed Yau and Manhattan Civil Court documents.
The alleged freeloader had no qualms renting the space out, though, charging as much as $1950 per room monthly since November 2021 on platforms including Airbnb and Craigslist.
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Dang I’m in the wrong line of work.
The powers that be are just begging for an explosion of vigilante justice.
Way past time to let a “friend” go in and beat the living crap out of the squatter. Not even close to kidding. Make the turd hurt. Really hurt. And, of course, the “friend” is not known to the owner of the residence. Enough of this crap.
There’ll be a booming business for rent-a-friends.
I have often wondered what would prevent on squatter from renting to another right before they are eventually evicted.
They could simply trade places they are squatting just before being evicted, causing the landlord to have to start the entire process over with a different squatter. This could go on forever in a place like New York.
Hochul and Adams own this
Just bring back the Mafia, old-school style. If this stuff isn’t addressed, that’s exactly where we’re headed.
They don’t care.
Their Deep State masters don’t care.
Deep State doesn’t like competition.
Me too:
$50k in gold for each unit cleared of squatters seems a bargain to the property owners.
Hmmm...
$2000 a month to rent a tiny hovel is a bargain?! $2000 a month pays for my eight year old house that I bought new. It has three bedrooms, two bathrooms and an oversize two car garage. And that’s including electric, gas, water, sewer, trash and internet. Best of all, it isn’t located in a filthy sewer hole like NYC.
I’m glad I’m out of the rental business. My attorney did have a “friend” though.
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