NYC homeowner gets arrested after changing locks on her own home that was taken over by squatters | SettingBrushFires

➡ SettingBrushFires channel talks about Adele, a woman from Queens, is struggling to reclaim her home from squatters who moved in and refuse to leave. In New York, squatters gain rights after 30 days, and Adele fears they will legally take her home. Despite having the property deed, she was arrested for unlawful eviction after changing the locks. The squatters claim they have a lease and demand payment for work done on the house, but have not shown any proof.

I have videos. To understand how this day ended, we need the police right away. With multiple 911 calls and arrests. We have to start at the beginning, Adele. The hardest question is, how do you say your name? We met Adele and Deloro outside the home her parents left her in Flushing, Queens. She’s in the process of selling it. No, he loved it. But she’s been locked out. She claims squatters moved in on February 6 and refused to leave.

What’s it like being here, knowing you can’t go inside of your own home? It’s enraging. It really is. New York squatters have rights after 30 days. By the time that someone does their investigation and they do their work and their job, we’ll be well over the 30 days, and this man will have stolen my home. And now she’s back. Just after wrapping up our interview, a woman showed up.

What are you doing in the house? Are you renting this house? Why are you here? She unlocked the front door, saw our cameras, and took off. It’s open. Let’s go in the house. It’s open. Adele and her daughter, with the property deed in hand, went inside. This is my furniture. These are my curtains. She didn’t just find her belongings inside. There’s a man sleeping right there. Get out of my house.

She found two men. How long have you lived here? I moved in about two days ago. They’ve called the police on me, and I’ve called a locksmith. I didn’t come in illegally. The door was open. Police started interviewing neighbors and looking for documents. Do you have something that shows that you’ve been here for more than 30 days? They took the man who told me he had been renting for two days out in handcuffs.

They got one out and escorted the other guy off the property. Now you’re afraid to come out? I’m not coming out. This house is empty. This is my home. My locksmith is on the corner waiting to change my locks, and that’s not fair. It’s not fair that I, as the homeowner, should be having to go through this. How you doing? Minutes later, a locksmith showed up, but police gave her a warning before they left.

I may end up in handcuffs today if this man shows up here and says that I have illegally evicted him. I said to them, let him take me to court the way I’ve been told to take him to court. But today, I’m not leaving my house. Less than ten minutes after police left and the locks were changed, the man who claims to be the one actually leasing the house shows up, call the police again with the other guy.

Police took off the property. Do you see this? This guy just literally broke down my door. Broke through myself and my daughter to get in here. This guy just forced himself into my house. Yes, he did. And so did you. You broke through the front door. All of a sudden the man called the police on her. So why is it that I have to leave and he doesn’t have to leave? Because technically, he can’t be kicked out.

You need to go to court. They consider this a landlord tenant issue. And by law, it has to be handled through the housing court, not with police. If you own this house, you would not want her inside house. I don’t own this house. Exactly. She does. Yes, but then once again, you should know how the law works. I do know how it works. There’s rules to the as.

You got to go to court and send me to civil court. He says he signed a lease in October, but wouldn’t tell us with who. I got proof longer than that. Show us the proof. Who are you for me to show? I showed it to cops. Dan with channel seven news. If you don’t want to show it, you don’t want to show it. Come here, brother. I would like to see it.

He didn’t show me a lease. This is a bill. A bill for work he says he had done to the house. He didn’t show police a lease either. The police department doesn’t have the lease? No, he’s got no documentation. That’s bills. So, Adele, you’re getting arrested right now. Being arrested for what? For being in my own home. And where’s your lease? She’s fighting the house. It’s not her house anymore.

My deed is current and legal. Arrested for unlawful eviction. She changed the locks on a man who claims he lives there. So how does this all end then? When do you leave? The way it ends is either she pays me my money that I put into the house, pay me the money and I’ll leave. Or send me to court and we deal with the judge in court. It’s that simple.

Bye. .

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