@@frozenhanren4928it's not anymore. Ppl actually get away with murder in nyc too bc the previous mayor de bozo said its a discrimination that most of the criminals are ppl of color.
But incarnation means someone else will be covering all of the squatters living expenses once again. This is a loose/loose situation for the tax payers.
@@shotgunsam23 I saw and heard no evidence that the squatters had to prove they had been living there for 30 days. They just had to claim that. And that claim taken as gospel by the police meant the squatters were not breaking any law. So no PROOF required as I said.
@@davidtherwhanger6795 I’m in GA but don’t these squatters have to be paying utilities and getting mail delivered in their name on top of making improvements on said home, only after a property fell into disrepair for a prolonged period of time. If a current person is a resident or property owner, these protections should not apply as a squatter. You’d think it would have been breaking and entering with some theft and trespassing thrown in.
Occupants should have to put up a bond in order to avoid a default judgement in an eviction case. The slow moving court system is the real problem. New York could fix this but attorneys love being able to keep clients on the hook for years and judges have no accountability.
@@jeremiah_12 It said it in plain english at around 1:20. You can't evict someone who claims to have lived there for 30 days. Dude said he had proof, but never showed it in court and only showed some other document that was not a lease like he claimed it was, and that only on his phone, a picture, not a document. And the DA couldn't find any proof either of the dude, that's why the DA finally did charge the dude with all kinds of things. And even the DA outlined exactly what happened here at around 2:12 when she said "You can't just walk into house that is not yours and claim you have a right to be there." Meaning this dude did just walk into the lady's home and claim he had a right to be there. And the cops just left it at that. So no, they do not have to have any utility bills or such. And no they will not be charged unless the Press gets involved. As shown here.
@@jeremiah_12. The answer to that is no. These criminals, yes, I’m calling squatters criminals, show up, move in, claim rights, and it’s the homeowner who has to PROVE the rightful ownership and seek ways to evict the squatter at their own expense. Now, how messed up is that?
Don't forget unwanted touching of a persons or property is considered battery the attorney put his hands on the camera the lawyer is a lowlife too. imo
All of this could be solved if our government wasn't colluding with big banks to steal the poor mans house. It's hard to see the squatter as the criminal when you have empty skyscrapers where homes used to be and homeless people everywhere. New York could house every homeless person if they wanted to but unfortunately they would much rather criminalize home ownership and sell everything to a handful of billionaires, for a small fee, of course. The country is mostly empty yet everything is federal land and NO you're not allowed to live there. "We the people" used to have a right to exist but not anymore!
@@relone4744 if a property has a tax lien against it, the government body that the taxes are owed to can also seize the property and sell it. Usually it is auctioned. It happens that way where I live.
The Media only reports things unharmful to democrats it's disgusting that's why the left is so gullible they eat it up, Trump made it rain today , back to you George
Fox advice from people on the Internet can be very wrong. No, they will arrest you for no reason. Unfortunately the squatters know the law and the homeowner doesn’t.
@@neilkurzman4907It was not a legitimate interpretation of the law. The police departments are being cowardly about this. The guy didn't even have a lease.
@@neilkurzman4907Also, imagine saying "the homeowner doesn't know the law" when you're talking about some homeless meth head literally stealing her house...
True, but that's also what the media is for in societies: Putting a spotlight on issues and making them a priority for the public consciousness. Good on these journalists and reporters doing good journalism and reporting.
The government is happy to trample all over your rights until you make it impossible for the public to ignore. I don’t blame anyone for going out of their way to make a spectacle of infractions committed against them, because it’s the only way you get justice anymore.
@@kylehahn4410 Exactly. Derek Chauvin also wouldn't be in prison right now if it weren't for the media. Like it or hate it, the media is actually quite important.
When it's riskier for a criminal to shoplift than it is to steal someone's home you know the time has come for radical change. That woman homeowner should never have had to put up with the abuse from not only the lowlife squatter, but also the abuse from our legal system.
New York and California have reclassified a much higher level of petty theft as misdemeanor. This isn't new, its a philosophical failure - forcing the innocent and less fortunate to deal with real crimes like these thefts without support.
@@xdae Except shoplifters actually have a chance of being removed at the minimum if encountered by police in the act. Squatters are burglarizing your property and police will tell you it is a "civil matter", even though breaking and entering is in every State criminal code in the US.
They exist to prevent wealthy individuals/corporations to hoard land and not use it. Property that sits empty and rotting away doesn't help the population at large, so if someone lives in there long enough and the owner never realized this, then who really has more use for the property? Of course, in a reasonable country this has to be going on for many years to apply.
@@hughwotmeight2453 Hoarding land and not using it is exactly what a wildlife preserve does. Perhaps you mean hoarding buildings and not using them. Why would someone do that? Maintaining a building costs money, and there are taxes. An empty building is costing the owner. So there is already strong incentive to keep a building in use, an empty building is a sign of a much bigger problem, a bad economy.
The laws were created to prevent people from being unfairly kicked out of their homes such as spouses going through divorce and renters. The squatter part is a loophole that is being exploited
@@vvitch-mist20 The biggest thing coming out of *"New York City NEWS"* is the migrant problems. And I think they probably also have "Squatters" here and there. Along with stores shutting down, because of thef.
@@icosthop9998 There's a segment called "7 on your side" and where you can actually get the journalists to help with a problem that has otherwise been ignored.
It should be a federal crime for squatting. No one should fear leaving their home for any duration of time to avoid having their property seized by squatters. And the federal government needs to end quick deeds nationwide because ppl are losing their homes with this law too.
I get it’s an issue but in 99% of these cases the homes are from people who own 5+ properties and aren’t there for multiple months, if not years. If it’s not a multi-millionaire then it’s someone’s house that was caught up in probate. And I’m sorry but if you have multiple properties and aren’t keeping enough tab on your property to the point where someone else is living there and charging rent to several other people, then chances are it’s not your ‘home,’ it’s a property you own that’s just sitting there for months at a time useless. Do I think it’s crazy that these squatters can’t be removed? Absolutely. It should be piss easy to do so, it’s obvious they shouldn’t be there. But I think it’s hilarious to think that the media has blown this so out of proportion when most people are barely getting by renting, let alone owning a single property.
@@ToxicOsOk You sound like a squatter. Who cares if someone has multiple unoccupied homes? It doesn't give anyone the right to squat in them. If you own multiple cars, does someone have the right to take one of them? No!
Exactly. It's not their fault they're able to afford to purchase X amount of property. Once you own something, in my opinion -- you can do whatever the heck you want with it. You bought it with your hard earned $$. Something I never understood of ppl who hold a vendetta to property owners -- Why you mad of how many places someone owns and how much they charge? Don't like it? Alright...manage your $$ better to get your own. Or...move to The Projects and deal with their management.
@@ToxicOsOk So what exactly is your point? If someone has more than one property you think they should give them away? Property is money, if you have more than 1 dollar then you should give the rest of them to someone else.
Imagine a relative passes away. No cameras on their property. You can't make it to the property for 2 months. Now you're a landlord and have to shelter and pay for the crimi- I mean "tenants" for the next 2 years. Imagine you're in a terrible accident, leaving you in the hospital for an extended period of time. You return home to "tenants". Imagine going on a long vacation or road trip. You return home to "tenants". Amazing how you become a landlord without any documentation whatsoever.
It's sickening that that happens and it's sickening that there's some fleabag bottom feeding ambulance chaser lawyer who's actually out there defending people like him..
@@NYC86 I just found out New York finally caved by changing the law. Squatters are no longer allowed to be labeled as tenants. So Florida and New York are good, in terms of your property being yours. Let's hope other states follow.
I hope this new New York law goes far enough to stamp out the squatter problem in the state. Here in Georgia, Governor Kemp just signed a law that made it a felony to present a fake lease to law enforcement. The law in Georgia also authorizes any off-duty law enforcement officer to serve evictions. Hearings are scheduled for 7 days out.
The reason why it’s a question is to protect actual tenants from shady landlords. It’s messed up but if a landlord could easily just call the police and claim someone is squatting.. people would be getting arrested and pulled out of their homes when the landlord decides they don’t want them there anymore. Most of these squatters didn’t “get scammed”… THEY are the scammers and create the bogus lease agreements. The same way the squatters make fake leases, landlords could do the same and easily evict if the laws were more laxed. The system is ufcked. There should be a mandatory regulator for all rentals which requires all leases to be registered with them.
@@newyorkernewjersey - It’s a global issue, happens in Europe and Canada too. I have a customer who has a property in Morocco. Someone went and sold his property after squatting in it and the government won’t do anything to help him.
It’s usually Jewish-owned activist nonprofit law firms that represent these squatters for free. It’s pretty evil. But they only represent you if the homeowner is white or conservative
DeSantis is a corrupt, egomaniacal scumbag who literally changed the law so that he could campaign to be President without having to surrender his position as Governor.
Stealing a home should be illegal. The legal homeowner should have the right to have the squatter forcibly if necessary. This is a national problem and we need a firm remedy to be able to eject squatters.
These squatters better be really careful. The next homeowner will take it to the street, and it course be a different outcome.. don't mess with people's homes.
All states should have put into law a long time ago. Gov. DeSantis was the first Governor to recently put into effect this law. Now it looks like other states are starting to follow his lead.
*Any lawyer perpetuating someone’s “right” to steal property should be immediately disbarred.* Was the guy going beyond the legal representation that his client is entitled to? If not, no, this is a shitty idea (essentially punishing a lawyer for doing his literal job). The guy attempting to do what he did to the cameraman though was way out of line, fuck that shit.
@@terripebsworth9623Yes. The homeowner was wrongfully arrested in her own home. It's bad enough her home was violated, but then her rights were violated as well. Just because the charges were "dropped" later, doesn't change anything.
Also, they said there's STILL people living in her home. The original squatter supposedly "subleased" out to other people. So now, they're saying THOSE people have rights.
@@gregsimoes8645Again, all of that is secondary. This woman was in her own property, when armed men arrested her, took her freedom, and violated her civil rights. She was already the victim, and broke no laws. I get that the other "squatters" complicates things. But none of them were arrested.The only person who was illegally detained, arrested, and rights violated was the woman. So there were multiple failures here.
Well, because it has to be proven they're squatting. Imagine if you're renting a place and your landlord can just come in and say "Yep, you're a squatter, kick him out", even though you have a signed lease. There's an issue of people having fake leases, or it having to go through the court systems. Or of people letting someone stay with them for x amount of time and then they become a tenant.
@@shadowace940 Yeah but this guy didn't even have a fake lease, lol. The way the NY law is written is that someone is automatically a "tenant" if they've been there for 30 days. I live in Virginia and there is no such rule here. You don't have a lease? You don't have a right to the property. Simple as that.
Make an Example of This Guy Give Him 15 Years. And Also Make A CAP on How Many Houses Investors and Individuals Can Own. And. A CAP On Property Value ... Make Rent Affordable And You'll End Squatting.
These people are thieves plain and simple 😠 Hope that 1st guy gets 15 years in prison so he has a place to live 😂 2nd guy is a thief and thought he could steal the house after the owner died 😠 lawyer says he needs money, than get a job like the rest of us 😠
The first bum broke into this lady's inherited house, rented out rooms and supposedly spent 30K on repairs. He had the nerve to say in another video that he wasn't leaving until the homeowner gave him back the money he spent 😡 I hope this situation makes Governor Kathy Hochul change the laws in New York. 2:18
And those repairs were obviously piss poor. Look at the door frame at 1:49 it's not installed correctly and the casing is no longer sealed to the brickwork.
Kathy Hochul would have given Ryan Rodriquez a plate of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies and welcomed him to the neighborhood. "Change the laws"? Her? That's a laugh.
So, if I stole a car, put new tires on it, and rented it out, I do t have to give it back until I am reimbursed for the tires? 😂 That's what this sounds like.
The law change also needs to specify that whoever is living in the house is the one responsible for the power bills and water bills and that the owners of that house that someone has taken over isn’t responsible for paying the bills that other person racks up. Right now…in that 2 million home…that squatter leaves the windows open and all the power blasting…racking up enormous bills…and the owners are being made to pay those bills….and that shouldn’t be allowed at all while they are waiting for this court case to go to court. That man shouldn’t be allowed to do that…and he shouldn’t be allowed to delay the court case from going to court…which is what he’s been doing. AND the law also needs to address that just because a person might have been hired to take care of an elderly person….once that elderly person dies they can NO LONGER be allowed to legally remain in that house…they should have to leave immediately because their job is over. Also…new owners who either take over or buy property shouldn’t have to deal with evicting anybody….they should have to leave immediately…they shouldn’t have to deal with someone remaining in their house after they bought it….they paid the money for it….the other woman got her parent’s house because she’s their heir….no one else should get to stay in those properties…not even for one day. And the fact that the illegal guy rented out property that wasn’t his shouldn’t mean that those people should get to stay either and the owner shouldn’t have to evict them in court…she’s the owner…she didn’t rent it to them…they should have to leave and the guy who frauded those people should have to pay them back their money and should also be charged with fraud. There are so many things they need to add to this law…because if they don’t…the scammers will find a way to keep scamming at the expense of the property owner and the property owner shouldn’t have to pay a dime for any of this.
You are right. New York government hostility towards the actual property owner is a disgrace. It makes owning real estate in this state a waste of time and money
This homeowner's arrest record should be completely expunged and those responsible for arresting the owner should be charged. There is no reason why an owner should be arrested when it is so easy to prove who the owner is. If the owner is removed due to a long court battle, everyone should be removed, not just the owner but the squatter as well. There is no reason to allow a squatter to stay in a home and destroy the place and steal the contents. All laws that favor criminals over victims are ridiculous and must be removed.
You go girl. Stand strong. Having my mom's house stolen 50-60 miles from your parents house was my worst fear. I got the local police to do a daily check on the house. I told them no leases were made and no one had permission to be there.
Squatters should not have any rights. They are stealing peoples property and it is wrong. The government needs to put a stop to this. No squatters rights in my opinion.
15 years…. good! The audacity is that the guy was also making money from renting out rooms. I’ve seen it before and they’re bums. This has gone on for way too long!
Our elderly neighbor without family has been in the hospital for months. People are already throwing her things out on the sidewalk. I’m convinced someone from the hospital knew she didn’t have family and came to take advantage of her. It’s disgusting. We also had squatters across the street, it took years to get them out.
How in the world are legal property owners' rights not 100% protected in the USA? That is what the American dream is all about: work hard and buy your own place! You pay property taxes, and that is what lets all those bureaucrats exist, along with the police, DAs, and the rest of the legal system. How can there be any laws protecting thieves and lawbreakers? It’s insane! This world has gone mad!
Sad situation, now the home owner has to fight the other tenants too. Why people want to live in people property for free? If there's no lease, they should be evicted immediately.
That’s not how evictions work though. Every occupant needs to be named in the court filing, otherwise they can’t be immediately kicked out if they’ve been living there for over 30 days.
I have squatters in my house from 2021 until August 2022. Took me about 16 months to remove them. 9 people, and the law in Broome County NY requested to have the actual name of the 9 people living in my house, in order to evict them. It was not easy. They destroyed my house, and trashed the property so badly that the inspector from the city fined me multiple times for the garbage they left outside. I was collecting all the garbage from the past 16 months to avoid fines. Meantime I was paying mortgage, insurances, taxes,and water bill. They have a public defender. This is crazy!!
Just make a law giving the homeowner their rights to their property as it should be and give zero rights to the squatters. We did it here in Florida. You find a squatter on your property go to law enforcement/sheriff fill out a form and they'll come remove and arrest them. If people use that form to improperly remove a tenant, they are arrested. Common sense laws.
Um, no Florida did not take away squatters rights. All that was done was speeding up the process to 30 days instead of a year or more for the eviction of the squatter.
@@alanyoder7629 House Bill 621 authorizes property owners to request action by the sheriff's office to immediately remove unauthorized persons from your home.
@@ohdaUtubeyes nyc has different more strict law and restrictions about housing and tenant protection. In Long Island it’s not as bad if an issue , actually not much of an issue . Not sure about Upstate and other areas of NY. Basically city homeowners are most scared by these squatters
....but rather rent the house out to a family member and get the family member to move into the house when the squater goes shopping, etc. Immediately change locks. Tenants have more rights. The squaters will lose.
This is illegal trespassing and breaking and entering. There should be no court dates. Just arrest the squatters. This injustice has gone on for too long.
Florida already has it DeSantis, signs LAW to remove squatters ‼️ New York needs to apply the some for squatters 🙏🏻🙏🏻 they need to be in jail to the maximum penalty ‼️
I mean, I fully understand why it isn't a quick process. You don't want to close one loophole that squatters abuse against home owners just to create a new loophole for landlords to abuse against genuine tenants.
Absolutely ridiculous that a valid homeowner has less rights than a squatter. The landlord tenant laws need to be changed to make clear than any squatter(s) and illegally rented properties by scammers will be immediately evicted and prosecuted.
They don't have less rights than a squatter though. Technically, there are no "squatters rights". That's just what they say when people abuse tenants rights. I think you're right about tenant laws needing to be changed, but we need to be careful and not just do away with them. They were put in place because landlords would abuse their tenants. And people were up in arms about that. The laws aren't that big of an issue, it's the court system that's the issue. It takes time to prove someone is a squatter or has a fake/illegal lease.
How many times before have these men done this? Undoubtedly not their first, would like to know how many times they were paid by the homeowner to leave, for how much, and/or what happened in previous trials. Dan??? It's illegal now to look at "tenants" prior housing court cases. That needs to change too. It protects crooks.
He shouldn't have been there and he shouldn't have been renting out the rooms himself. Why can't the homeowner have this right? Idc if she never moved back. It's HER house.
A simple way to fix this is to have the rental agreements at a courthouse where they have to be stored and notarized with both parties present. No more squatters but no one really wants to fix this problem.
@KLondike5 exactly, I bet some of these cases aren't actually squatters either, and they have legitimate paperwork, but for some reason, the landlord needs to move the property. I knew this elderly couple who rented for 30 years from a woman they knew from church, as soon as she died however the daughter kicked them out and sold the house because the housing market was booming at the time. Renting always sucks one way or another.
@KLondike5 yeah I felt bad for them as a child, but as an adult it's hard for me to understand how they rented so long. They weren't strapped for cash.
The phony lease trick. Ha. Stealing something doesn't make it yours; it makes it stolen. I don't even know how these squatter laws came to be. There are no short answers that I've found on the web.
This Comment is always a Special kind of Stupid. Your Lawyer's only Obligation is to You. You are Entitled to a Vigorous Defense and All of us Innocent or Guilty are entitled to that Level of Protection under the Law.
@@maxforce Really,. No, the fact that garbage like this can be offered up without repercussions is stupidly. I know about the "vigorous defense" obligation. But to have no boundaries and to knowingly lie is unethical IMO. Who is to say that such outrageous tactics cannot be accounted for with a change that unless there is proof, a statement like that cannot be said. The abuse and misuse of that protection of the law that you speak of was never intended to be used in such a fashion. Frankly our criminal justice system as well as our civil justice system is seriously flawed, and both need major overhauls.
He's just one of many. The only reason this case got addressed is because the cops looked so awful in the initial news coverage. Shame on the state of New York for embracing crime.
Man thank GOD!!! I was a victim of a long term squatter in my million dollar home in NYC for 5 months! I'm so happy that this will no longer happen to anyone else.. God is so good!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻💯
You weren't a victim, you're an American you chose to let the squatter stay. You have the right to enter your property, you have the right to defend yourself in your home. You chose to let the government handle it, stop complaining you rich loser.
The "other people" in the house are 100% just as illegal. It is like a stolen car that gets sold. The later buyer loses the car, which is returned to the one from whom it was stolen. They "rented" a room from someone who was stealing something and then "selling stolen goods".
Squatters rights is a misunderstanding of the law by the police. The police should've arrested the squatter in the beginning for fraud, forgery and trespass. That's why the DA had to do exactly that later. The police and other law enforcement agencies are under the wrong impression that this is a civil issue. But if the squatter breaks in then they are not a tenant, they are a criminal and therefore they have any rights to the property under existing law. No new laws are necessary.
And dirty looking goblins like Matt Binder and the other guy that refuses to wear adult clothes on TMR. These people are criminals, we should be able to all agree in that no matter politics.
They should take any savings, 401k, or social security from the squatter and give it to the homeowner to compensate her for damage, AND sue the city for further damage and false arrest and mental anguish! A punishment should have a little sting to it!
@@stevenroshni1228 That's not how any of this works, there's a difference between the government having to let you find representation for civil matters and someone taking your case. Did Jeffery Epstein have the right to a lawyer if his case went to court? Absolutely. Would a moral person take his case? Hell no. You actually have to remain in good moral standing to be an attorney.
If it weren't for ABC news, the cops and DA would have done nothing.
W ABC News!!
True, it has been going on for years.
isn't burglary illegal in NYC? there is more than just trespassing laws on the books?
DeSantis also helped with this too
@@frozenhanren4928it's not anymore. Ppl actually get away with murder in nyc too bc the previous mayor de bozo said its a discrimination that most of the criminals are ppl of color.
Those squatters deserve a place to live! Prison.
Bring back hard labor
Sharing a cell with a big buff black dude, ready for size gage lol
But incarnation means someone else will be covering all of the squatters living expenses once again. This is a loose/loose situation for the tax payers.
Perfect
taxpapers pay for the prison, that means you and me will pay for the squatters
Love how you have to prove the squatters have not been there for 30 days, but the squatters don't have to prove anything.
@@shotgunsam23 I saw and heard no evidence that the squatters had to prove they had been living there for 30 days. They just had to claim that. And that claim taken as gospel by the police meant the squatters were not breaking any law. So no PROOF required as I said.
@@davidtherwhanger6795 I’m in GA but don’t these squatters have to be paying utilities and getting mail delivered in their name on top of making improvements on said home, only after a property fell into disrepair for a prolonged period of time. If a current person is a resident or property owner, these protections should not apply as a squatter. You’d think it would have been breaking and entering with some theft and trespassing thrown in.
Occupants should have to put up a bond in order to avoid a default judgement in an eviction case.
The slow moving court system is the real problem. New York could fix this but attorneys love being able to keep clients on the hook for years and judges have no accountability.
@@jeremiah_12 It said it in plain english at around 1:20. You can't evict someone who claims to have lived there for 30 days. Dude said he had proof, but never showed it in court and only showed some other document that was not a lease like he claimed it was, and that only on his phone, a picture, not a document. And the DA couldn't find any proof either of the dude, that's why the DA finally did charge the dude with all kinds of things. And even the DA outlined exactly what happened here at around 2:12 when she said "You can't just walk into house that is not yours and claim you have a right to be there." Meaning this dude did just walk into the lady's home and claim he had a right to be there. And the cops just left it at that. So no, they do not have to have any utility bills or such. And no they will not be charged unless the Press gets involved. As shown here.
@@jeremiah_12. The answer to that is no. These criminals, yes, I’m calling squatters criminals, show up, move in, claim rights, and it’s the homeowner who has to PROVE the rightful ownership and seek ways to evict the squatter at their own expense. Now, how messed up is that?
The irony of the defence attorney calling new reporter a disgrace while defending a lowlife
Honestly, I’d expect my lawyer to go to bat for me too, so I can’t really blame the lawyer for doing his job and defending his client.
@@blakew5672 The call it the Giuliani method
That's a lawyer job.
while assaulting the cameraman
Don't forget unwanted touching of a persons or property is considered battery the attorney put his hands on the camera the lawyer is a lowlife too. imo
Finally a good story and big credit to local media and journalists. Thank you News7! This is what journalism should be about…
ROFL. You're funny.
not a complete story by any means
It’s not a good story at all, and if you and the 116+ idiots that like your post think this is Journalism I’d seriously rethink getting “educated”
Changing the definition of a word has me thinking they're up to no good.
This is beyond disgusting. Flores is basically holding the house hostage for ransom money. Laws MUST change to protect the real homeowners.
Exactly. And they are footing all the utility bills.
@@blpalv15and taxes, etc!
Extorting the homeowner for money
All of this could be solved if our government wasn't colluding with big banks to steal the poor mans house. It's hard to see the squatter as the criminal when you have empty skyscrapers where homes used to be and homeless people everywhere. New York could house every homeless person if they wanted to but unfortunately they would much rather criminalize home ownership and sell everything to a handful of billionaires, for a small fee, of course. The country is mostly empty yet everything is federal land and NO you're not allowed to live there. "We the people" used to have a right to exist but not anymore!
@@relone4744 if a property has a tax lien against it, the government body that the taxes are owed to can also seize the property and sell it. Usually it is auctioned. It happens that way where I live.
It’s about time. Judges wouldn’t want to come home from vacation to find strangers squatting in their house.
Where would the homeless go then ?
Probably cause we could squat in their house these crooks smh
@@sugarhilllo9914to your house
Because problems don’t get fixed until they start to effect the rich
Better late than never
Take notes folks. When something like this happens, call the media, because the police will be coming to arrest you, not the intruder.
It’s all a charade. Media lies everyday. Surprised everyone still drink the kool-aid
The Media only reports things unharmful to democrats it's disgusting that's why the left is so gullible they eat it up, Trump made it rain today , back to you George
Fox advice from people on the Internet can be very wrong.
No, they will arrest you for no reason. Unfortunately the squatters know the law and the homeowner doesn’t.
@@neilkurzman4907It was not a legitimate interpretation of the law. The police departments are being cowardly about this. The guy didn't even have a lease.
@@neilkurzman4907Also, imagine saying "the homeowner doesn't know the law" when you're talking about some homeless meth head literally stealing her house...
Journalism at work here. Thank you to ABC for spotlighting this!
So proud of the woman defending her home fighting for whats right in the face of corrupt laws
It’s disgusting that the lady’s story had to go viral for them to take action.
Facts because she would've lost her home
True, but that's also what the media is for in societies: Putting a spotlight on issues and making them a priority for the public consciousness. Good on these journalists and reporters doing good journalism and reporting.
Only moved on it because it became a public embarrassment. And that's so foul.
The government is happy to trample all over your rights until you make it impossible for the public to ignore.
I don’t blame anyone for going out of their way to make a spectacle of infractions committed against them, because it’s the only way you get justice anymore.
@@kylehahn4410 Exactly. Derek Chauvin also wouldn't be in prison right now if it weren't for the media. Like it or hate it, the media is actually quite important.
When it's riskier for a criminal to shoplift than it is to steal someone's home you know the time has come for radical change. That woman homeowner should never have had to put up with the abuse from not only the lowlife squatter, but also the abuse from our legal system.
New York and California have reclassified a much higher level of petty theft as misdemeanor. This isn't new, its a philosophical failure - forcing the innocent and less fortunate to deal with real crimes like these thefts without support.
And day by day the Government is heavily fighting to take away law abiding citizens Firearms,
Just the start to a dictatorship country
shoplifting is just as rampant as squatting lol both criminals are getting away with it all
@@xdae Except shoplifters actually have a chance of being removed at the minimum if encountered by police in the act. Squatters are burglarizing your property and police will tell you it is a "civil matter", even though breaking and entering is in every State criminal code in the US.
@@xdae Thank you "Cashless Bail" aka catch and release and "Raise The Age."
Squatters rights shouldn't even exist.
They exist to prevent wealthy individuals/corporations to hoard land and not use it. Property that sits empty and rotting away doesn't help the population at large, so if someone lives in there long enough and the owner never realized this, then who really has more use for the property? Of course, in a reasonable country this has to be going on for many years to apply.
@@hughwotmeight2453so you’re cool if I steal your house while you’re on vacation for a month?
@@mikalcobbs9402I don’t think he’s fine with it per-say. He’s providing clarification on why the policies exist in general.
@@hughwotmeight2453 Hoarding land and not using it is exactly what a wildlife preserve does. Perhaps you mean hoarding buildings and not using them. Why would someone do that? Maintaining a building costs money, and there are taxes. An empty building is costing the owner. So there is already strong incentive to keep a building in use, an empty building is a sign of a much bigger problem, a bad economy.
The laws were created to prevent people from being unfairly kicked out of their homes such as spouses going through divorce and renters. The squatter part is a loophole that is being exploited
It’s stories like that prove why local news is so important
Yes, if the NEWS care to take up your case.
@@icosthop9998
I live here and NYC news is fairly decent at helping highlight problems. Like this.
@@vvitch-mist20 The biggest thing coming out of *"New York City NEWS"* is the migrant problems. And I think they probably also have "Squatters" here and there.
Along with stores shutting down, because of thef.
@@vvitch-mist20
TY
@@icosthop9998
There's a segment called "7 on your side" and where you can actually get the journalists to help with a problem that has otherwise been ignored.
It should be a federal crime for squatting. No one should fear leaving their home for any duration of time to avoid having their property seized by squatters. And the federal government needs to end quick deeds nationwide because ppl are losing their homes with this law too.
Yes, people are losing their homes. Are you sure that that isn't the point?
I get it’s an issue but in 99% of these cases the homes are from people who own 5+ properties and aren’t there for multiple months, if not years. If it’s not a multi-millionaire then it’s someone’s house that was caught up in probate.
And I’m sorry but if you have multiple properties and aren’t keeping enough tab on your property to the point where someone else is living there and charging rent to several other people, then chances are it’s not your ‘home,’ it’s a property you own that’s just sitting there for months at a time useless.
Do I think it’s crazy that these squatters can’t be removed? Absolutely. It should be piss easy to do so, it’s obvious they shouldn’t be there.
But I think it’s hilarious to think that the media has blown this so out of proportion when most people are barely getting by renting, let alone owning a single property.
@@ToxicOsOk You sound like a squatter. Who cares if someone has multiple unoccupied homes? It doesn't give anyone the right to squat in them. If you own multiple cars, does someone have the right to take one of them? No!
Exactly. It's not their fault they're able to afford to purchase X amount of property. Once you own something, in my opinion -- you can do whatever the heck you want with it. You bought it with your hard earned $$.
Something I never understood of ppl who hold a vendetta to property owners -- Why you mad of how many places someone owns and how much they charge? Don't like it? Alright...manage your $$ better to get your own. Or...move to The Projects and deal with their management.
@@ToxicOsOk So what exactly is your point?
If someone has more than one property you think they should give them away?
Property is money, if you have more than 1 dollar then you should give the rest of them to someone else.
Imagine a relative passes away. No cameras on their property. You can't make it to the property for 2 months. Now you're a landlord and have to shelter and pay for the crimi- I mean "tenants" for the next 2 years.
Imagine you're in a terrible accident, leaving you in the hospital for an extended period of time. You return home to "tenants".
Imagine going on a long vacation or road trip. You return home to "tenants".
Amazing how you become a landlord without any documentation whatsoever.
It's sickening that that happens and it's sickening that there's some fleabag bottom feeding ambulance chaser lawyer who's actually out there defending people like him..
@@NYC86 I just found out New York finally caved by changing the law. Squatters are no longer allowed to be labeled as tenants. So Florida and New York are good, in terms of your property being yours. Let's hope other states follow.
@@sallyj632please post the link of this
Now I know what the guy with the son in Walmart meant when he was stealing debit cards n phones when he said he got his house the new York way
I hope this new New York law goes far enough to stamp out the squatter problem in the state. Here in Georgia, Governor Kemp just signed a law that made it a felony to present a fake lease to law enforcement. The law in Georgia also authorizes any off-duty law enforcement officer to serve evictions. Hearings are scheduled for 7 days out.
There should not even BE a question! The "tenants" signed bogus leases. They were scammed. That is not the fault of the legal home owner.
The reason why it’s a question is to protect actual tenants from shady landlords. It’s messed up but if a landlord could easily just call the police and claim someone is squatting.. people would be getting arrested and pulled out of their homes when the landlord decides they don’t want them there anymore.
Most of these squatters didn’t “get scammed”… THEY are the scammers and create the bogus lease agreements. The same way the squatters make fake leases, landlords could do the same and easily evict if the laws were more laxed.
The system is ufcked. There should be a mandatory regulator for all rentals which requires all leases to be registered with them.
@@HiThisIsMine lol america is a big fing joke!
not the polices job to sort thru that either
@@newyorkernewjersey - It’s a global issue, happens in Europe and Canada too. I have a customer who has a property in Morocco. Someone went and sold his property after squatting in it and the government won’t do anything to help him.
@@HiThisIsMine that’s crazy man😫
He was mouthy when he was in the house but, as soon as he gets what’s coming, he shut up quick. All bark and no bite.
And he's a guy who doesn't have money.
When they're rich: They steal an entire neighborhood.
@@eksbocks9438 cope
Brent Flores remember that name when hiring him, credit, renting him property, selling him property. Prison justice for Brent.
Chanel 7 and this reporter did a fantastic job.
Don't have money to rent a property legally. But, you do have money for a lawyer.
Thank you!
Volunteer lawyer
It’s usually Jewish-owned activist nonprofit law firms that represent these squatters for free. It’s pretty evil. But they only represent you if the homeowner is white or conservative
Works on commission. Lowlife lawyer
@@stevenroshni1228 probably volunteered by soros money.
They act like it so difficult to stop, it's not, Florida put a stop to it in a week, literally.
So true. Gov. DeSantis is a man of action. I think the lawyers have made it difficult in other states.
That’s why I moved to Florida from New York
Florida is also a giant dangerous cesspool.
DeSantis is a corrupt, egomaniacal scumbag who literally changed the law so that he could campaign to be President without having to surrender his position as Governor.
@word42069 .. and New York isnt? 😂😂
How can you defend this guy? He's a squatter! Send him to prison! Ridiculous!!!
U have the right to squat its a human right
@@h_3_x_ no, it is breaking and entering, fraud, trespassing if they actually enforced the law.
@h_3_x_ come by me you'll have a human right
Defendant attorney said "he needs the money"....with a smile....part of the money will go to his pocket for sure.
Just like the squatters of Israeli defense living in Palestinian lands in Palestinian houses
THANK YOU...all states need to this...Supporting Squatters is Ridiculous!!!!
The fact she stood up to this squatter is going to change everything. Good for her
Stealing a home should be illegal. The legal homeowner should have the right to have the squatter forcibly if necessary. This is a national problem and we need a firm remedy to be able to eject squatters.
DeSantis did just that in Fla about a month ago, problem solved.
These squatters better be really careful. The next homeowner will take it to the street, and it course be a different outcome.. don't mess with people's homes.
Welcome to America! Some people don't want to work for a living! 🤬🤬🤬
No it is a state problem.
Something that needs to be dealt with on a state level not a federal
@@sylviathomas4023
So a homeowner getting charged with murder is a solution?
Finally. The squatting problem has been growing worse over time, the whole country needs to do this.
Every problem has gotten worse under this crackhead administration
The whole country needs to look at what New York state has done ... and then do the exact opposite.
@@mathompson53187(excluding squatters laws) every state needs to look at florida and California and do the opposite
All states should have put into law a long time ago. Gov. DeSantis was the first Governor to recently put into effect this law. Now it looks like other states are starting to follow his lead.
Major W for Florida in this department
Any lawyer perpetuating someone’s “right” to steal property should be immediately disbarred.
Let them squat at the Lawyers House. Then what
Agreed
the lawyer ASSAULTED the cameraman too
*Any lawyer perpetuating someone’s “right” to steal property should be immediately disbarred.*
Was the guy going beyond the legal representation that his client is entitled to? If not, no, this is a shitty idea (essentially punishing a lawyer for doing his literal job). The guy attempting to do what he did to the cameraman though was way out of line, fuck that shit.
Wow! Amazing the impact a tiny bit of journalism can have. The story has been non-stop since you guys broke it. So congrats!
massive respect to ABC news for covering this
What about the first woman who's Constitutional rights were violated when she was arrested, removed from her own home, and imprisoned?
Did you watch the video?
@@terripebsworth9623Yes. The homeowner was wrongfully arrested in her own home. It's bad enough her home was violated, but then her rights were violated as well. Just because the charges were "dropped" later, doesn't change anything.
Also, they said there's STILL people living in her home. The original squatter supposedly "subleased" out to other people. So now, they're saying THOSE people have rights.
@@gregsimoes8645Again, all of that is secondary. This woman was in her own property, when armed men arrested her, took her freedom, and violated her civil rights. She was already the victim, and broke no laws.
I get that the other "squatters" complicates things. But none of them were arrested.The only person who was illegally detained, arrested, and rights violated was the woman. So there were multiple failures here.
@@MrSteak agreed, was more replying to the other person who seemed to be implying that this is resolved.
Why does this even have to be an issue. Squatting is breaking and entering plain and simple.
It should have never been an issue. The lawyers made it an issue, for their benefit.
Well, because it has to be proven they're squatting. Imagine if you're renting a place and your landlord can just come in and say "Yep, you're a squatter, kick him out", even though you have a signed lease. There's an issue of people having fake leases, or it having to go through the court systems. Or of people letting someone stay with them for x amount of time and then they become a tenant.
@@shadowace940 Yeah but this guy didn't even have a fake lease, lol. The way the NY law is written is that someone is automatically a "tenant" if they've been there for 30 days. I live in Virginia and there is no such rule here. You don't have a lease? You don't have a right to the property. Simple as that.
Take notes from FL state ,they just made squatting illegal...The way it should be all around the country.
That's the *only* note I'll take from Florida. 😆
@@LonsoleilUndoubtedly the only thing DeSantis will do worthwhile
DeSantis did a good job with that one!
@@LonsoleilBecause the rest your libtard soul can’t handle 😂
These attorneys for the trespassers are beyond disgusting.
Make an Example of This Guy Give Him 15 Years. And Also Make A CAP on How Many Houses Investors and Individuals Can Own. And. A CAP On Property Value ... Make Rent Affordable And You'll End Squatting.
Absolutely never should have happened in the first place !!!!
These people are thieves plain and simple 😠 Hope that 1st guy gets 15 years in prison so he has a place to live 😂 2nd guy is a thief and thought he could steal the house after the owner died 😠 lawyer says he needs money, than get a job like the rest of us 😠
JAIL time for the M#
The first bum broke into this lady's inherited house, rented out rooms and supposedly spent 30K on repairs. He had the nerve to say in another video that he wasn't leaving until the homeowner gave him back the money he spent 😡 I hope this situation makes Governor Kathy Hochul change the laws in New York. 2:18
Hochul is a criminal like this squatter. She won’t do anything.
And those repairs were obviously piss poor. Look at the door frame at 1:49 it's not installed correctly and the casing is no longer sealed to the brickwork.
Kathy Hochul would have given Ryan Rodriquez a plate of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies and welcomed him to the neighborhood. "Change the laws"? Her? That's a laugh.
Bullcrap he lost his money enough said it was never his house dah!
So, if I stole a car, put new tires on it, and rented it out, I do t have to give it back until I am reimbursed for the tires? 😂
That's what this sounds like.
The law change also needs to specify that whoever is living in the house is the one responsible for the power bills and water bills and that the owners of that house that someone has taken over isn’t responsible for paying the bills that other person racks up. Right now…in that 2 million home…that squatter leaves the windows open and all the power blasting…racking up enormous bills…and the owners are being made to pay those bills….and that shouldn’t be allowed at all while they are waiting for this court case to go to court. That man shouldn’t be allowed to do that…and he shouldn’t be allowed to delay the court case from going to court…which is what he’s been doing. AND the law also needs to address that just because a person might have been hired to take care of an elderly person….once that elderly person dies they can NO LONGER be allowed to legally remain in that house…they should have to leave immediately because their job is over. Also…new owners who either take over or buy property shouldn’t have to deal with evicting anybody….they should have to leave immediately…they shouldn’t have to deal with someone remaining in their house after they bought it….they paid the money for it….the other woman got her parent’s house because she’s their heir….no one else should get to stay in those properties…not even for one day. And the fact that the illegal guy rented out property that wasn’t his shouldn’t mean that those people should get to stay either and the owner shouldn’t have to evict them in court…she’s the owner…she didn’t rent it to them…they should have to leave and the guy who frauded those people should have to pay them back their money and should also be charged with fraud. There are so many things they need to add to this law…because if they don’t…the scammers will find a way to keep scamming at the expense of the property owner and the property owner shouldn’t have to pay a dime for any of this.
You are right. New York government hostility towards the actual property owner is a disgrace. It makes owning real estate in this state a waste of time and money
This homeowner's arrest record should be completely expunged and those responsible for arresting the owner should be charged. There is no reason why an owner should be arrested when it is so easy to prove who the owner is. If the owner is removed due to a long court battle, everyone should be removed, not just the owner but the squatter as well. There is no reason to allow a squatter to stay in a home and destroy the place and steal the contents. All laws that favor criminals over victims are ridiculous and must be removed.
You go girl. Stand strong. Having my mom's house stolen 50-60 miles from your parents house was my worst fear. I got the local police to do a daily check on the house. I told them no leases were made and no one had permission to be there.
NYS MUST get this squatter situation ended immediately. We pay a fortune on property taxes- close all the loopholes. Protect NYers now.
He should not get any money after stealing someone house
Exactly! That's extortion, which is another crime.
Squatters should not have any rights. They are stealing peoples property and it is wrong. The government needs to put a stop to this. No squatters rights in my opinion.
I subscribed because of the great work of Dan and the team
15 years…. good!
The audacity is that the guy was also making money from renting out rooms.
I’ve seen it before and they’re bums.
This has gone on for way too long!
Ankle monitor 🤪
Wow he is despicable
15 years of free housing. He's all set. But will he leave after his sentence is up?
New York is a joke for placing that homeowner in jail. What a joke.
She never went to jail. And this isn’t only in NY
Our elderly neighbor without family has been in the hospital for months. People are already throwing her things out on the sidewalk. I’m convinced someone from the hospital knew she didn’t have family and came to take advantage of her.
It’s disgusting. We also had squatters across the street, it took years to get them out.
How in the world are legal property owners' rights not 100% protected in the USA? That is what the American dream is all about: work hard and buy your own place! You pay property taxes, and that is what lets all those bureaucrats exist, along with the police, DAs, and the rest of the legal system. How can there be any laws protecting thieves and lawbreakers? It’s insane! This world has gone mad!
He didnt have a lease. Any agreement he has with other rents in rooms is void.
Sad situation, now the home owner has to fight the other tenants too. Why people want to live in people property for free? If there's no lease, they should be evicted immediately.
That’s not how evictions work though. Every occupant needs to be named in the court filing, otherwise they can’t be immediately kicked out if they’ve been living there for over 30 days.
I have squatters in my house from 2021 until August 2022. Took me about 16 months to remove them. 9 people, and the law in Broome County NY requested to have the actual name of the 9 people living in my house, in order to evict them. It was not easy. They destroyed my house, and trashed the property so badly that the inspector from the city fined me multiple times for the garbage they left outside. I was collecting all the garbage from the past 16 months to avoid fines. Meantime I was paying mortgage, insurances, taxes,and water bill. They have a public defender. This is crazy!!
That's insane..funny part is if it's the banks foreclosed house you have to be gone immediately
Disgusting the lack of humanity of the politicians and city workers . Siding with the criminals
Omg 😲 😱
Install a security system with cameras that will notify the owner and the police of a break in. They can be removed within an hour of breaking in.
2:09 His attorney just committed assault on camera in a court house.
Attorney should be arrested, and barred from the case.
They shouldn’t give him a dime. This is a con game.
Just make a law giving the homeowner their rights to their property as it should be and give zero rights to the squatters. We did it here in Florida. You find a squatter on your property go to law enforcement/sheriff fill out a form and they'll come remove and arrest them. If people use that form to improperly remove a tenant, they are arrested. Common sense laws.
DeSantis should be the prez.
Yes!!!!!!!!!
Um, no Florida did not take away squatters rights. All that was done was speeding up the process to 30 days instead of a year or more for the eviction of the squatter.
@@alanyoder7629 House Bill 621 authorizes property owners to request action by the sheriff's office to immediately remove unauthorized persons from your home.
Godspeed to your reporters for continuing to press on the defendant to show the lease, it really should be as open and shut as that
That one tough Chick! Thank you Lady and Thank you world for helping us NYC residents
Does nyc have separate rights besides from the state level?
@@ohdaUtubeyes nyc has different more strict law and restrictions about housing and tenant protection. In Long Island it’s not as bad if an issue , actually not much of an issue . Not sure about
Upstate and other areas of NY. Basically city homeowners are most scared by these squatters
....but rather rent the house out to a family member and get the family member to move into the house when the squater goes shopping, etc. Immediately change locks. Tenants have more rights. The squaters will lose.
This is illegal trespassing and breaking and entering. There should be no court dates. Just arrest the squatters. This injustice has gone on for too long.
Florida already has it DeSantis, signs LAW to remove squatters ‼️ New York needs to apply the some for squatters 🙏🏻🙏🏻 they need to be in jail to the maximum penalty ‼️
Absolutely the courts have not idea what you go through and the mental state you get in is not fair!!!!!
I mean, I fully understand why it isn't a quick process. You don't want to close one loophole that squatters abuse against home owners just to create a new loophole for landlords to abuse against genuine tenants.
I wish De Santis could have been our president.
Absolutely ridiculous that a valid homeowner has less rights than a squatter. The landlord tenant laws need to be changed to make clear than any squatter(s) and illegally rented properties by scammers will be immediately evicted and prosecuted.
They don't have less rights than a squatter though. Technically, there are no "squatters rights". That's just what they say when people abuse tenants rights. I think you're right about tenant laws needing to be changed, but we need to be careful and not just do away with them. They were put in place because landlords would abuse their tenants. And people were up in arms about that. The laws aren't that big of an issue, it's the court system that's the issue. It takes time to prove someone is a squatter or has a fake/illegal lease.
How many times before have these men done this? Undoubtedly not their first, would like to know how many times they were paid by the homeowner to leave, for how much, and/or what happened in previous trials. Dan??? It's illegal now to look at "tenants" prior housing court cases. That needs to change too. It protects crooks.
He shouldn't have been there and he shouldn't have been renting out the rooms himself. Why can't the homeowner have this right? Idc if she never moved back. It's HER house.
Unbelievable they arrested the homeowner
A simple way to fix this is to have the rental agreements at a courthouse where they have to be stored and notarized with both parties present. No more squatters but no one really wants to fix this problem.
@KLondike5 exactly, I bet some of these cases aren't actually squatters either, and they have legitimate paperwork, but for some reason, the landlord needs to move the property. I knew this elderly couple who rented for 30 years from a woman they knew from church, as soon as she died however the daughter kicked them out and sold the house because the housing market was booming at the time. Renting always sucks one way or another.
@KLondike5 yeah I felt bad for them as a child, but as an adult it's hard for me to understand how they rented so long. They weren't strapped for cash.
This is ridiculous! They should be arrested and go to jail.
True heroism by that lady for standing up for what’s really supposed to be RIGHT! Change is on the way now! 🙏
So can people squat in their apartments and refuse to pay rent?
The phony lease trick. Ha. Stealing something doesn't make it yours; it makes it stolen. I don't even know how these squatter laws came to be. There are no short answers that I've found on the web.
A defense lawyer making up things. He should be held accountable as well.
This Comment is always a Special kind of Stupid. Your Lawyer's only Obligation is to You. You are Entitled to a Vigorous Defense and All of us Innocent or Guilty are entitled to that Level of Protection under the Law.
@@maxforce Really,. No, the fact that garbage like this can be offered up without repercussions is stupidly. I know about the "vigorous defense" obligation. But to have no boundaries and to knowingly lie is unethical IMO. Who is to say that such outrageous tactics cannot be accounted for with a change that unless there is proof, a statement like that cannot be said. The abuse and misuse of that protection of the law that you speak of was never intended to be used in such a fashion. Frankly our criminal justice system as well as our civil justice system is seriously flawed, and both need major overhauls.
Squatting and then renting out the rooms is crazy
He's just one of many. The only reason this case got addressed is because the cops looked so awful in the initial news coverage. Shame on the state of New York for embracing crime.
This is happening all over the country, even FL & Texas.
Justice for the homeowner..
15 years behind bars, he got a place to stay and three meals a day
Man thank GOD!!! I was a victim of a long term squatter in my million dollar home in NYC for 5 months! I'm so happy that this will no longer happen to anyone else.. God is so good!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻💯
You weren't a victim, you're an American you chose to let the squatter stay. You have the right to enter your property, you have the right to defend yourself in your home. You chose to let the government handle it, stop complaining you rich loser.
It was the media and the legal system that resolved the issue, not God. But glad your issue is resolved regardless.
WHY aren't all States doing this.
I think more states will follow Gov. DeSantis lead, and put into effect laws to evict the squatters.
The "other people" in the house are 100% just as illegal. It is like a stolen car that gets sold. The later buyer loses the car, which is returned to the one from whom it was stolen.
They "rented" a room from someone who was stealing something and then "selling stolen goods".
The lawyers on both sides are making tons of money from court cases they don’t want it to end..that’s all
Squatters rights isn't anything to begin with.
Well done! This is a big win, congratulations on the media, lawyers, and Judges involved in the case.
Right. I hope she can sue the city and the cops for this madness.
About f***ing time. How outrageous that some loser can steal a home.
We have a squatter in the mayors office, pretending to be a mayor
Just know, that if renting and homeownership were affordable, this wouldn't have happened.
It should never take years to get someone out of your property that is not paying you to stay there and/or never has a valid lease to begin with.
WOW!! A NYC DA who actually enforces the law?!!?!
I don’t own a home yet, but I’m so glad this is getting attention. This is outrageous.
“Up to 15 years in prison”
Good. I hope so.
No squatting in Florida!
Squatters rights is a misunderstanding of the law by the police. The police should've arrested the squatter in the beginning for fraud, forgery and trespass. That's why the DA had to do exactly that later. The police and other law enforcement agencies are under the wrong impression that this is a civil issue. But if the squatter breaks in then they are not a tenant, they are a criminal and therefore they have any rights to the property under existing law. No new laws are necessary.
and what about all these lawyers who are facilitating these completely and overtly false squatting claims. Something should be done about them as well
They should go prison just like the squatters
And dirty looking goblins like Matt Binder and the other guy that refuses to wear adult clothes on TMR. These people are criminals, we should be able to all agree in that no matter politics.
Have the squatters move in with them 😂
Ever heard of Due Process ?
@@seansingh4421 Simping for criminals isn’t a good look.
They should take any savings, 401k, or social security from the squatter and give it to the homeowner to compensate her for damage, AND sue the city for further damage and false arrest and mental anguish! A punishment should have a little sting to it!
Do you seriously think these squatters have savings or 401K?
@@GizmoMaltese Not at all !
Taking Squatters to Court is Pointless since The Time it takes to get the case heard it's been over a Year maybe two later.
Please keep us updated with this case.
Excellent, no more house thefts!!!!🎉
That reporter should have asked the lawyer why doesn't he let that guy come live in his house.
NY tenant laws are so ridiculous, I’m glad NY is taking action against those who take advantage
And his lawyer Levine should be disbarred for this behavior.
That's not how any of this works. Anybody brought into court has the right to an attorney to defend their interests!
@@stevenroshni1228 That's not how any of this works, there's a difference between the government having to let you find representation for civil matters and someone taking your case. Did Jeffery Epstein have the right to a lawyer if his case went to court? Absolutely. Would a moral person take his case? Hell no.
You actually have to remain in good moral standing to be an attorney.
Lawyer means liar.
Can’t hate the player(the lawyer) hate the game (the law)
he's part of the tribe...corruption and theft is part of his culture.
Sue NY State too
This should be nationwide.