Woman Arrested After Removing Squatters From $1M House In New York: Video
If you were looking for a video to get your blood pressure up, I think I may have just what the doctor (a bad doctor who doesn't understand the dangers of hypertension) ordered: a woman getting arrested while trying to get squatters out of her own home.
You're gonna need to see this one to believe it, but when I tell you it happened in New York, that might help on the belief front.
New York TV station ABC 7 was doing a story on a woman named Adele Andaloro who inherited a home in Queens worth $1 million from her parents. However, some folks decided to move in, something Andaloro realized when she noticed someone had changed the entire front door as well as the locks.
Yeah, that's a dead giveaway that you're dealing with squatters.
This caused Andaloro — who claimed to have never agreed to lease the home to these folks a real headache.
A reporter tagged along with the woman to check on the house, and sure enough they found several people inside.
The police were called and a few of them were arrested, but believe it or not, the woman who owns the house wound up getting taken away in cuffs.
Check it out:
Yes, it appears that what you just saw was a woman getting arrested for illegally evicting tenants from a house… despite the crucial fact that she says she never leased the house to them in the first place.
Just wild.
The problem is that in New York, if squatters can squat in a place for 30 days, they earn themselves rights; whether they have a legitimate claim or not.
I believe legal scholars would describe this law as "ass-backward."
"By the time someone does their investigation, their work, and their job, it will be over 30 days and this man will still be in my home," Andolaro said.
So, the person who owns the home effectively has their hands tied and the law ends up helping criminal trespassers and punishing the person who actually owns the house.
Hopefully, things work out for Andalaro and at some point, they fix the gaping holes in this law.