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NYC squatters are cashing in on legal loopholes and crowded courts to take over homes — and good luck getting them out: experts
New York Post ^ | April 7, 2024 | Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

Posted on 04/08/2024 3:24:21 AM PDT by george76

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1 posted on 04/08/2024 3:24:21 AM PDT by george76
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NYC should be happy.. real estate is filling back up.

Getting squatters out is easy, grab some friends and some baseball bats if you don’t want to use guns.


2 posted on 04/08/2024 3:47:47 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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I equate squatters to looters. If you are in my home or business without my specific consent, you are trespassing and stealing. In this situation, I believe the Castle Doctrine applies.


3 posted on 04/08/2024 3:48:02 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (If it's Boeing, I ain't going!)
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In days gone by, in NYC some goons from one of the 5 families would have strongly suggested to the squatters to leave or maybe their legs would get broken.

It’s going to come down to that again, locals will begin to take matters into their own hands when people start getting injured, no one will know what that happened.


4 posted on 04/08/2024 3:51:13 AM PDT by srmanuel ( )
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Please explain to me how it’s getting harder to toss them out. Just go in and kick them out! They don’t belong there and any police force should back the people and not some liberal B/S law.
Who the F do these squatters think they are ?


5 posted on 04/08/2024 3:51:26 AM PDT by spincaster
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Sucks to be new york.


6 posted on 04/08/2024 3:52:02 AM PDT by exnavy
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“Elections have consequences and then everyone suffers the consequences”. even in Florida it took literally YEARS to finally pass legislation to stop this scourge on society. squatters are bullies. democrats say out of their collective mouths that they hate bullying and yet they not only support bullies but are themselves the consumate bullies. sad.


7 posted on 04/08/2024 3:52:23 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star n )
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Try that in a small town ……


8 posted on 04/08/2024 3:56:31 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them. )
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DeSantis solved this problem in two seconds in Florida yet Democrats in New York let it go on and on and on and on. Just a prime example of the difference yet morons keep electing them.

I’m glad I don’t own any real estate in NYC even though I grew up there. My temper would get me locked up and sued into oblivion if I had to deal with squatters. These squatters already killed a woman who came home to find them in her place, and they killed her. And STILL NYC will not do anything! And of course the media never mentions that this is ALL because of DEMOCRATS!


9 posted on 04/08/2024 3:57:17 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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One of the few reasons to live in an HOA? then again the squatters would ignore the HOA and all the "letters of violation" and the home owner would be stuck with the fines.

short of violence or force of will by moving in yourself or hiring some one else to make their lives miserable, without law enforcement physically removing illegal squatters, what can you do?

10 posted on 04/08/2024 3:59:07 AM PDT by Ikeon (I get up nice every morning and then, I run into stupid persons one after another until I give up. )
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You are now learning why the mob owned all the crematoriums in the mid 20th century.


11 posted on 04/08/2024 4:00:06 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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INVADERS


12 posted on 04/08/2024 4:00:38 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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If they squat successfully, they become tenants. Then you have to go through the multi-month process to evict them legally.


13 posted on 04/08/2024 4:00:56 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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The only solution I can see for the good people of New York is to vote in more democrats such as Letitia James, Eric Adams, and Alvin Bragg. These type warriors will right the ship and get them what they deserve good and hard.


14 posted on 04/08/2024 4:01:28 AM PDT by odawg
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It’s going to come down to that again, locals will begin to take matters into their own hands when people start getting injured, no one will know what that happened.

Except in some cases, the migrants will outgun the locals.

And MS-13 ain't afraid of the "five families."

15 posted on 04/08/2024 4:01:36 AM PDT by Angelino97
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Just do it. Counter squat. Find a will and a way.


16 posted on 04/08/2024 4:03:26 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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To: no-to-illegals
Try that in a small town ……

I've been hearing this sort of conservative tough talk for 30 years. Yet things keep getting worse.

And with all the migrant dumps, "small towns" are turning blue, one by one.

17 posted on 04/08/2024 4:04:19 AM PDT by Angelino97
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They will. We can’t even stop the invaders of the country.


18 posted on 04/08/2024 4:04:44 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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“I believe the Castle Doctrine applies.”

I know many states have that in law. I wonder if NYS is one of them. If so, every squatter is fair game.


19 posted on 04/08/2024 4:07:45 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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Re: 13 - had this happen in a county in Western NY several years ago, where some relatives live. Some meth heads broke into a house of some snowbirds who were in Florida for the winter. They were prepping the place to cook meth which essentially ruins the room in which they cook.

Some neighbors down the road saw cars one day in the driveway and called a couple of “friends” to check on the house. The friends checked in and the squatters said they had permission from the owner to live there. The squatters were told they had 1 hour to get out of the house while the friends waited there. Once they got their crap out, the sheriff was called and they busted the people about five miles away with already cooked meth from a previous house they had squatted at.


20 posted on 04/08/2024 4:11:04 AM PDT by Fury
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