ABC 7 captured the standoff that happened on the million-dollar property owned by Adel Andaloro. She inherited her family's home in the Flushing neighborhood in Queens, and was in the process of selling it. However, she noticed that someone illegally moved in and changed the entire front door and lock of her home – with a woman attempting to enter until the TV station cameras captured her.
Andaloro confronted the woman, who immediately walked away after unlocking the door. At this point, the property owner accompanied by her daughter, ABC 7's Dan Krauth and his team entered the home. While she found her belongings such as her furniture and curtains intact, she also found two squatters inside – one even slept in a bedroom.
She then told both men to leave the house, but they called the police on her. The first man told Krauth and his team that he moved in two days prior, but the second man refused to answer questions.
"They've called the police on me and I've called the locksmith," Andaloro remarked. "We didn't come in illegally, the door was open."
Police officers arrived shortly and started interviewing all parties involved, plus the neighbors. They also asked for documents – with Andaloro and her daughter showing law enforcement the deed to the property. As the illegal occupants did not provide documentation, police escorted them off the property.
However, police officers warned Andaloro about changing the locks of her house. Current law in the notoriously blue Empire State makes it illegal to turn off utilities, change the locks and remove the belongings of someone who claims to be a tenant. Despite this, she called for a locksmith to do the job.
"I may end up in handcuffs today if a man shows up here and says I have illegally evicted him," Andaloro told Krauth. "I said, 'Let him take me to court as I've been told to take him to court,' because today I'm not leaving my house."
Squatters have more rights than property owners in New York
Less than 10 minutes after police departed and the locks were changed, Brian Rodriguez – one of the two who illegally occupied the property – barged through the front door with the other squatter. Rodriguez and his companion were adamant about their illegal occupancy of Andaloro's property. The two squatters then called the police once more on Andaloro, claiming illegal eviction.
Police did show up, telling the rightful property owner that Rodriguez can't be kicked out. They consider it to be a landlord-tenant issue, so it has to be handled through housing court and not with police. They also arrested Andaloro for "unlawful eviction" and changing the house's locks – violating state law.
"[They arrested me] for being in my own home," she protested. "My [property] deed is current and legal."
Krauth and his team asked Rodriguez for documentation to prove his claims that he had a lease for the property but presented none. He instead showed bills for work he claimed he had done to the house.
According to the squatter, he moved into the home in October 2023 and signed documents with a realtor. However, he did not divulge who this realtor was.
"You got to go to court and send me to court," Rodriguez told ABC 7. "[I'll leave] if she pays me my money that I put in the house. Pay me the money and I'll leave or send me to court. It's that simple." (Related: Queens squatter takes over $2M home, rents out rooms and uses legal loopholes to prevent owners from evicting him.)
But contrary to the squatter's claim, it's not as simple as going through the housing court process takes time. According to the Rent Stabilization Association of NYC, it takes an average of 20 months for an eviction case in the Big Apple to have a resolution. In contrast, squatters in the city have rights after 30 days.
Andaloro says she now has no choice but to start an eviction filing in housing court. Unfortunately, her name is the latest addition to a growing list of victims of a scheme hatched by Democrats to render lawful property owners homeless.
Watch this video that discusses the arrest of Adel Andaloro for insisting on her legal property rights against squatters.
This video is from the Recharge Freedom channel on Brighteon.com.
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1 year ago
Loved the way a friend did it:
(1) He sent notice to pay [significant] rent or vacate by a date certain. He gave them time to respond by U.S. Mail, then went on to inform them a non-response would be presumed to be acquiescence.
This document was sent both by registered mail and with "return receipt requested."
(2) After the established time passed, he arrived, chainsaw in hand, and presuming their non-response signified their agreement with the terms of the mailings.
(3) He started cutting through the front door. Once inside, he said it was ALMOST like someone was there but left in a hurry.
1 year ago
Socialism, by any other name and however described. . . .
1 year ago
That's why it's important to make sure that the laws of your country is not swiss cheese.
1 year ago
send a crew of " gardners " over.. to "clean up the yard"... and the squatters are never seen or heard from again... fafo?
1 year ago • edited
Real simple explanation. The law here is an @ss. A few of us would have needed to to call paramedics for the squatters. If you're unwilling to fight, LEAVE NEW YORK. NOTHING IS IN YOUR FAVOR TO MAKE IT WORTH STAYING.
1 year ago
This proves what cops really are. They're nothing but cockroaches that ought to be fumigated out if they'd be so willing to do this. They should not be treated with any respect, should be treated as pedophiles. And I'm just sick of pig cops doing all injustice and saying that effed up Nazi excuse, "I was just doing my job." As for vermin squatters, they're thieves, no worse, they're like literal rats, just cap these rats and dump them in the garbage for their arrogance. You'll never win trusting the system, the cops will enforce whatever tyranny they're told and go home to their families and not have a second thought about the wrong they commit, because, so long as there's a "law", no wrong, or so long as what they do is done wearing the uniform and badge, no wrong.