Pay To Leave

How to get rid of squatters:

“Squatters put in rooms that should not have been built,” Choudhary said, noting that intruders had erected temporary walls to create more bedrooms. Once he notified the DOB about the illegal construction, that was a way to legally evict the squatters. In December 2022, the NYPD and a fire marshal, operating under a DOB vacate order, ousted the ringleader and nine illegal occupants. Still, Choudhary was taking no chances on them coming back. “I paid some of them $500 to $1,000 to leave quietly and permanently. The police said I did not have to do it. But I didn’t care,” he said. “They finally left and we got our houses back.”

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