Queens squatter faces judge and promises 'revelation' in case
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
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The lawyer is a bigger cockroach than the squatter!
You may believe that, but guilty or not everyone deserves representation and if you can't understand why, then YOU are the one who should never be able to get representation when you need it. When a lawyer takes a case, they are bound by law to provide the best representation possible. Again, if you don't understand why, you're a F'n fool.
@@marcuslinton310the lawyer is still a roach regardless. You must be a criminal advocate. 😂😂😂😂
@@marcuslinton310shut up
They can be represented outside of the house, which is where MR Florez belongs. If the new owner cant' live there, neither should Mr. Florez be allowed to live there. He wasn't living there for 30 days after the house was sold so you can't even invoke the 30 day rule. This is not what the law was written for and you and everyone else knows it.
Representation yes if the lawyer is honest the represent you go right ahead if you're right . What do you do if a lawyer is a devious double talking conover? I got two squatters and two different apartments in my three family I've taken these two and four other during the pandemic cuz they had no place to live. Three of them became hoarder with over 150 bags of food given from the school rotting away in a cube refrigerator. left on the rug with soda bottles; spilled on the rug. a cat litter box that smell here to high heaven.. they left eventually. I got two squatters one of them had me attacked by homophobic pizza store owner.. just 2 years ago. and the police refused to make a report so I can claim some victims compensation to help pay for my medical bills,meds physical and psychological therapy. It's caused me a lot of depression cuz I can't hardly walk anymore they just 73 I was still very athletic. but now with the torn meniscus in my left causing me scoliosis and lack of balance... so this is thanks again for helping homeless people you never know they were homeless cuz they're more well-dressed than I am.. I'm the one limping what does permanent injury and I see people crossing the street avoid passing me by because they think I'm homeless I presume when I'm walking with my cane now.. so that's the American Justice we have with squatters destroying new owners like me. I've been out to get homeless and tenant activist since 1977.. I've lost over $200,000 with these two squatters in 2 qpts. I got to pay all the bills electricity gas water heaters mogage repairs plenty of them cause by squatters so that's what you get for helping orher. they get free representation and I got to pay for psychiatrist and medical bills American Justice is a joke.. Our fathers fought qnd died to destructive thieves the police and cheap politicians and 20 senior citizen; agency s. Wouldn't help me get Justice or even a police report.. American justice a joke that cause me above all my mental and physical health. c@@marcuslinton310
He was paid 3K a week for caretaking, sounds like he took advantage of the old person that lived there. Nonetheless he needs to get the F out.
Immediately
Wonder if he had anything to do with the death of the owner.. Sudden death or old age death? An old age on should had been hiring a CARETAKER, not housesitter..
That's exaggerated. No way would anyone pay that much for a caregiver.
@@davidwright873 That depends if he was doing the cooking , laundry , cleaning the house , bathing , dressing , taking care of the elderly man , cutting grass , gardening , grocery shopping , driving him to appointments , on call at all times etc .
He has a recording in TikTok voice saying “son…I leave this house… to you…”
What a smug attorney and even worse client.
Ambulance chaser
He needs to get his azz out of them people's House PERIOD!!😡
Wait a minute, this guy left the house to go to court? That's when you change the locks and have Vito, Rocco and Guido inside the house. When he tries to come back, they convince him that he doesn't want to live there anymore, fuhgeddaboudit.
🤣 ikr! Maybe they already did that! 🤣 it's a bait to get him out
He faked paperwork to get the house in his name on legal paperwork is a story running a few days ago.
That would be a crime unfortunately. Squatters have rights
@@rickrollrizal2747 Not if you have a legit LEGAL lease. There was another case where the Son got a proper lease drawn up and moved in and change the locks. This guy has fraudulent paperwork he doctored up, and they know he did too lol. unreal
I agree, minus Vito, Rocco and Guido. lol If he tries to re-enter the home after changing the locks I would have the cops remove him for breaking & entering. He won't be able to prove he is owner or allowed to live at this residence.
He has money to pay a lawyer yet he can't use that money to rent an apartment.
he has right to the property. he was included in the purchase price of the property; why do you think the bank reduced the rate of the property? they sold it with him included.
@@astroprotectorLOL. 🤦🏻♂️ Is this pathetic clown included in the residential purchase agreement?
@@astroprotectorthat is bull
@@rickrollrizal2747 it's not BS. My father sold his property the same way. Before you yap at the mouth, ensure you are properly informed.
@@astroprotector so he’s a slave ?
How can you live with yourself doing this, it's embarrassing, this man is an embarrassment.
Agree
People have no shame and no accountability
Soooo embarrassing
This is today's young people! Just look at colleges they think they own them too!
@@edra2005I'm a 73-year-old now disabled was crippled by one of two squatters still living here after the pandemic. they have no either. One threatening me and then eventually having me attacked by his pizza store friend and the other one living in another apartment in my three family running away from ice. America land of corruption specially the police who don't want to make a report of the crime when I was attacked a few months after Ray one squatter who threatened violence
That guy should be ashamed of himself.
He doesn't have the capacity to feel shame. Look at his smug face.
What about the rights of the home owner
they purchased the property with him included. That is the reason for the reduced rate on the property. The seller (bank I assume) didn't want to go thru the hassle of evicting the guy, so they adjusted the rate to place the liability on the owners.
@@astroprotector Regardless, the guy is a leech.
It seems that home owners don't have rights.
This is ridiculous. The employer is DEAD. This squatter does not now and did not EVER own the property. He cannot keep on working for someone who is DEAD. The house has been sold. This squatter was not on his employer's list of beneficiaries. OUT.
Who knows if he has the WILL of the owner on this house 🤣 He was paid 3K/wk for being in the house, what do u think they were doing? Or their relationship? 🤣
he does not need to own the property. He was living there so he is afforded squatter rights. The onus is on the owners to legally evict him which is a process.
Did the buyers not see the interior of the house before they purchased it? How is it that they were not aware that an individual was residing there? Perhaps there was a price reduction due to the thorny issue of ridding the premises of the persistent squatter.
Oh but that doesn’t make the news 🗞️
$12k a Month = $156k !!!!! And you’re squatting WTFFFFF
Bro you don't know your times tables 😂🤦♂
@@AS-fd9jc educate yourself dummy. 3k x 52 weeks is exactly what he said
@AS-fd9jc the math is right. $3000 a week. 52 weeks in a year equals $156k. Go back to school lol
@@josephmulvaney4595 what if it’s a leap year, dipsht? Also he said $12k a month… there are 12 months every year 🤡
@@josephmulvaney4595 Dude, 12 x 12 is not 156 🤦♀️ you have no education!
$3000 a week !!!! He was blowing the guy !!!!!!
The owner probably left him a spoken will with the house.. 🤣
Why does squatter’s have rights? It doesn’t make any sense to me
the same reason the US was founded Lol
Exactly....
@@astroprotector- you need to read some history books on China unification, the Aztecs, Incas, & Mayans, the Islamic invasion of Europe, the history of England (Anglo v Saxon), & the tribal wars over land between the Native Americans. It *might* help you to not make idiodic comments.
@@darthmom1019 you’re an idiot
Because our country is run by idiot politicians.
I never understood why people don't just go up in their houses what is stopping them from just going in there?
I know. They can just move in and live with the guy.
The law
@@frankluo9240 The law allows you to enter your own house. They just can't evict the guy. So the property isn't exclusive for the swatter.
@@lHurtYourFeeIings cuddle with him too?? LOL
Try that in Texas.......lol ...
Did you hear that? He got paid 3k a week!
I wonder what he claimed on his taxes ???
@@joeanon5788 $0. I bet he pissed off that guy died. 3k a week how could he not be!?
Nfw!! Lol
yes because he was a live-in care taker.
@@astroprotector so a live in caretaker would get paid less since he literally lives rent free...correct?? You don't pamper a live in AND pay em top salary. I'm an rn and he makes more then I! Impossible.
The bottom line is it does not matter what revelation he has. If something was worked out between the last owner and him then he should have had a legal document stating something like a will or a lease.
If there was a will stating he should get the house, then it wouldn’t have gone on the market to be sold. Sue the squatter, the realtor, and everyone involved in letting this happen.
owner should let biker gang move in and let them party 24hrs a day.
I hope they watch this and can help this couple
As much as the squatter is in the wrong, no one has addressed the real cause of this issue. Bret Flores (Fisher)'s client's family sold that property to the Landa's knowing there was an existing squatter issue that could take a long time to resolve through tenant/landlord court. The Landa's should have every right to make the squatter and the prior owner's responsible for their legal expenses.
Doesnt make sense. Wouldnt the buyers have done a walk through and wouldnt an inspector need access as well? Fishy story.
He’s the old man’s lover, makes sense for 3k weekly c’mon lol
😂
🍌 thats what I'm saying too !!!!
live-in care taker. that is about how much they make when employed by rich people. His duties, I am sure, would include cleaning the guy up.
@@astroprotector he sucking him dry for sure
If this was not disclosed to the purchaser than the real estate brokers insurance should cover any losses occurred by the purchaser
Losses incurred.
2:00 this lawyer is shady af. 😂😂 can’t even make a proper argument.
Why do squatters have more rights than the homeowner. They took over the house and live free. Thats theft. Laws need to change.
no its not lol. they knowingly purchased the property with someone still living there.
It keeps the lawyers in business.
2M dollars?!?! That's the true crime.......
How can the bank sell it with him still in there? Did she not walk through the house before she bought it?
Only in America this B.S can float any other country he wouldn't dare try that..
You can do it in Canada. Lots of stories on UA-cam, you'd be surprised....
UK
France, Spain, Portugal... the list of countries that give squatters rights just go on~~
The owners are complete idiots for not signing leases immediately to renters of their choosing and having them immediately move in. The squatter will NOT have superior rights to the legal tenants and have to abide by exactly the same rules that can only be resolved in court- and have to live with those owner chosen tenants which can and should make the squatter’s life miserable.
They are complete idiots for wanting to live in the home that they bought? They didn't buy it to lease out, they bought it to live in. So it seems like the only complete idiot here, is you. Try not being ignorant or buffoonish next time and definitely don't combine them together, ignorant buffoon.
Hear me out, could’ve been an older man/boy toy arrangement? Evidence may show that and he doesn’t want to put that out there? Maybe reason he was paid so much for caretaking “services” and he was promised the house. Crazy, I know, but these days anything is possible…🤔
Yes Sherlock. He was a live in gigolo. They were fucking. He has escort profiles online.
Squatting law is outdated and needs to go. Congress or at least states need to pass laws repealing any and all squatting and adverse possession laws.
3k a week … he needs to get out
All they need to do is wait till he goes out to run errands and call locksmith and change the locks..
Pay some good old guys to get him out
That does work ypu know.
@@davidwright873 right; haven't seen it fail yet!
Honestly the owners are only wasting there time, energy and money going to court. Just meet with the squatter, and ask him his price for vacanting the property. That is way cheaper and quicker in the long run. Yes they will spend more money but at least they can have there home. Also by doing this the squatter won't feel less tempted to damage there property.
Your comment about property damage made me think of our own experience. Years ago when we were house hunting in Toronto, we looked at a foreclosure. Bank got rid of the tenants & the place was empty but the previous people that lived there dumped cement down every drain in the house. I don't think they were squatters--just disgruntled tenants or previous homeowners that were pissed off. Fortunately, we found another house that we are still in. I often wonder what happened with that sale because we would never buy that !
It's probably already damaged.
This is going on on my block. Squatters broke into a home that was bought via foreclosure and the new owner is trying to get them out. All kinds of illegal activity is going on. This is in Queens as well.😡
Get this clown outta there!!! The laws in this country is a joke!!! Feel terrible for the actual home owner. Unbelievable.
What a selfish, violent scumbag he is...His actions with his wife say everything...He definitely does not deserve to live there...Unbelievable how the courts, or whatever, keep these squatters rights laws...What's up with that...?...They bought it, it should be a "Cut and dry" case...If those people ever get to move in, they should sue him for damages to the house, wait time, etc....i don't know about these defense lawyers who support criminals, just for money....
I wonder how Mr Flores would feel if someone went into his family’s home and claimed it as their own
How did the realtors list the house with someone living in it? Did they visit the property before buying it?
It's ridiculous that the courts keep adjourning and wont just do their job. If the court day came and went and the defendent didn't show up with the evidence, then screw them!
Thank God I live in Maryland. Squatters have to occupy the living space for 20yrs before their rights to the property kicks in. In New York after only 30 days they have rights to the property. This is a lesson for everyone to educate themselves on squatter rights/laws prior opening your home to family, friends, caregivers, air bnb/rentals, etc. for extended stays.
before you close on a house you do a final walk through, the house should be 100% empty before you sign the documents, no sign of someone living there....empty. Right after closing you change the locks...
This is crazy! I live in GA and they are now passing a law to help owners from these squatters. Like FL
Shut off the utilities ‼️‼️
that is illegal Lol. learn the law before you yap at the mouth
He is a meddlesome individual 😂
Please tell me that this guy is out. This is ridiculous.
So sad for the home owners, does it pay to own a home in NYC I don't think so. Lawmakers need to do something
I’d go after the estate of the previous owner.
If he was earning $3k per week, he should have more than enough to live somewhere else...Much more to this story than meets the eye....Who spends $2m on a house w/o a walk throug, and home inspection, the REA that listed the property, did so w/o a walk through.....all these ppl walked through the house w,lo detecting someone had set up shop there???
An audio recording is not a legal, signed document and won't stand in court. This squatter is just buying time and will try to drag this out in court.
NEVER purchase a house with someone living in it - legally or illegally. When I purchased my last home, the owner asked if they could have a tenant until the deal closes - I said "no way."
this lawyer has no shame.
OK HERE'S THE BIG QUESTIONS. Was the property EMPTY when the buyers went to view it ANNNNND before they closed on the property did they do a day before/day off walk thru? If that property was empty DIRT BUM squatter moved in after and he needs to go. The courts are trash, this need to be separate from landlord tenant court.. WHY would anyone allow a stranger to live in a any property for free especially a 2 million dollar.. UGHHH
Someone needs to move into that attorneys house when he goes on vacation
It's past time to end squatter's laws.
You mean create them.
New York is on another level.
No inspection where they would’ve seen this guy living there? Was the home in foreclosure?
No recording will legalize the squatter owning the house unless he coughs up 2 mil and pay the people back.
The 2 million wasnt given to him so why would he have to pay it back ?
Thank you again for reporting on this issue weeks before you did the '7 On Your side" bit for Adele also in queens who got arrested. And thank you for cracking this whole squatter issue wide open.. At the beginning of the pandemic l helped and took in 5 nicely dressed clean who were homeless thought that'd be thankful but they became back stabbers. 3 the moved out because they became hoarders and caused roach infestation. No I got two left. 0ne undocumented who I saved from ice picking him up. He says if I get him out he's going to fall down the stairs and sue me. The other squatter occupying a second in my three family in Brooklyn. Ray a deadbeat father just like Roberto has also threatened me by saying he'll have some friends at the pizza store change my mind if I ask him again to leave and go to the hotels in Manhattan where mayor de Basio had offered the homwless in 2020. So in 2021 one of his friends attacked me at The Pizza store destroying my knee and meniscus making me cry for the rest of my life. What's worse is the police at 68 precinct refused to make a report why people ask me. Well the store owner is good friends with police. They let him get away with anything . So this American Justice where are fathers fought and died only to keep the the corrupt status quo in America.
Lawyers Lawyers Lawyers, DIRTY lawyers ! why would you defend that dude after they pay for that house.
Maybe you guys should start a segment about this. I have a squatters in my BK property….
You sign the lease to a family yet? Apparently out squatting the squatters method works look it up
Currently going through a similar situation not too far from where this couple lives. The court system is a joke. We can't get rid of people like this because they know the system better than us landlords. Our lawyer said that people who voted for DeBlasio are to blame because he started this mess. I never voted for a Democrat in my life but it's people like me and these folks who pay the price of voters that do.
I can't get over how such a law could be written to give "squatter's rights." Wtf?
Good on this news reporter for standing with the homeowners and doing everything he can to help. You may have just found your calling. This could be your life's work purpose exposing aquatters. "Dan Krauth The Squat Hunter" Anyone got a brand name for this news reporter Dan? 😍
Taking advantage of a SENIOR and hoped he would have inherited the property after the man’s death. This is not the only case, there were many before and many more will come after. I hope this is resolved in favor of the new owners soon.
How stupid is this lawyer? 2 million for a old house
let me volunteer. I'll just speak with him
He is the biggest loser!
There should be fedral anti-squatting laws. But that'll only happen if a prominant federal politician becomes a squatting victom.
What is wrong with the laws in this country???
Two last names? Sounds like a con
I'd LIKE to know HOW the original owner of that home actually died ..... And allegedly left this employee to Squat there!
this is amazing. case study of FAFO. i love NY
We have the evidence, we just can’t show any of it. 🤔
This guy is going to destroy that house. He’s keeping all the windows open and running up the electric bills and everything.
Why oh why if you were the homeowner is this case would you pay the utilities?
they should just pay him the mouth of the reduction of the property to vacate
@@astroprotectorlol nah. But this is where you get creative; you lease it to a relative and have a family move in. Now you have a whole bunch of people living in. Will he still reside if they kick him out and say he is trespassing? Claim he’s a burglar? Or how about move in with the bunch of tough male friends. Is he a tough guy? I doubt he is
that lawyer is as guilty as this squatter. This whole US system is broken. Since when the rightful owner has no right to access their property and they have to pay that crazy utility bill for that criminal? This system is totally broken.
thats a very douchy move
3,000 a week?!
Ok so they bought the house and it was up to the bank what it was sold for it sounds like he's a loser who thinks he is owed. I think that they stop paying the utilities and I think he's had plenty of time to get his shit together. We lost our first house we moved out before the bank told us to because it was our fault we learned a lesson from it but this guy acts like someone owes him something and they don't. The old owner died and maybe that needs to be looked into also from the sound of it
The owner should have done her homework before spending two million dollars for a home she can't occupy.! I would have the electricity and heat turned off and let the squatter pay the bill and see how long he last there!
Who pays the Property Tax?
Please keep it up. Go talk to other homeowners in NYS whose homes have been hijacked
This problem is easy to solve. The owners can legally sign a 1 month lease with a male that they know and trust who can legally move in with Brett Flores and make his life a living hell. It's been done before over and over.
Is that the GMA weather guy ?
So ….. Flores’ attorney is going to go with some kind of “sweat equity” defense?
Meaning, “the home is worth $2.6 MM because I put $600,000 worth of work into it”
Fire your governor and all officials.
When he was in court they should have put his stuff on the streets and changed the locks
If the owner died,who sold the house and how?
At the end of the day, the transfer of land requires a contract. Cant be verbally given to someone.
Nobody pays $3000 a week to anyone,and why don't they cut off water ,lights and gas,
Squatters need to be kicked out immediately higher strong man and get the guy out of the house. This is ridiculous. Squatters have more rights than any homeowner. It’s unbelievable.
it's simple. The bank sold the property with the tenant included. This is why they will eventually have to buy him out. he is a "hold over" tenant. They should not have agreed to the reduced rate with the stipulation written in the contract they'd be purchasing the property with him on it. The only remedy is to legally evict him.
Good thing this going on somewhere other than Texas. 😅
@@darthmom1019eh? You seen this happened? We have more rights matter of fact we also have castle doctrine…
He must be related to Michael Lindner… from Bayside
Squatter doesn't have a "side" if he's there illegally. Watch him produce a fake will or a recording of the dead owner saying the house is his.
This is absolutely horrible. It’s nothing more than theft
I truly don’t understand squatters
There’s never more to their side of the story other than being a self righteous criminal
who was the former employer who hired bret as their caregiver. I know they are now deceased but they know what kind of monster was care giving for them.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 wtf
My guy is in real estate runs company here in nyc let me tell you he has always been the only one to be able to remove squatters! He is just that guy! Lol