The owner of a $1.1 million New York City home purportedly set ablaze by a squatter declared squatters keep returning to the residence and “have more rights” than he does.
Squatters have caused Zafar Iqbal, 53, to pay a $6,000-per-month mortgage for a Brooklyn home he purchased in 2017 that he is now too afraid to visit, according to a Monday report.
“Every two or three weeks, I go there, but I don’t approach,” Iqbal said. “I don’t know if these guys have weapons or whatever. My safety is precious, too.”
For more than three months, the landlord has waited for an insurance claim to process that would allow him to renovate the Dyker Heights home, he said.
“I got a couple of contractors. They started working on the house,” according to
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