Whenever you go to stay in a hotel, you stay for 3-4 days. If it’s too much, perhaps you will stay for a month, but then return to your home. But an American man spent 5 years in a hotel (Man live free for 5 years in hotel). That too without rent. He did this by taking advantage of a local housing law. But when it was his turn to leave, he started claiming himself to be the owner of the entire hotel building. Not only this, he hired tenants and started collecting rent from them.
According to the report of news agency Associated Press, a 48-year-old man named Mickey Barreto became the owner of a hotel located in Manhattan, New York, where he was living without paying rent for 5 years. He was arrested last Wednesday because he filed false property records claiming that he was the owner of the hotel. Mickey expressed surprise that his case should have been considered a civil case and not a criminal case.
The person made a hotel in Manhattan his home. (Photo: Canva)
Got a hotel room in my name
Let us tell you that the legal aspect of this matter started last year. It so happened that Mickey and her boyfriend had booked a room in the 1000-room Art Deco New Yorker Hotel, built in 1930, for 200 dollars (Rs 16,500) 5 years ago. He did this when Mickey shifted from Los Angeles to New York. As soon as she arrived, her boyfriend told her about the irregularities in the law related to booking hotel rooms. Under this legal loophole, if a person is living in a single room in a building built before 1969, he can ask for a lease of 6 months. Mickey said that he had paid money to stay in the hotel for one night, so according to this law he had become a tenant.
order received from the court
He demanded a lease but the hotel refused. So the very next day he reached the court regarding this matter. When the judge did not allow him in the initial hearing, he reached the State Supreme Court, where he won. The court ordered that the hotel should give Mickey a room to stay and provide him the key. Since then, he was living in that hotel without paying rent till July 2023. He got possession of the room from the Housing Court, but in 2019 he uploaded a fake agreement letter on a city website and claimed to be the owner of the entire hotel.
Things related to hotels can be compared after getting your name registered.
After this, he started taking over many aspects related to the hotel, such as he started collecting rent from a hotel tenant, he tried to register his name for water and sewage payments with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, in addition Tried to register my account in the hotel’s bank transfer. Now a case of fraud has been registered against him. However, Mickey said in his statement that he did not commit any fraud and did not earn even a single rupee from all these things.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: February 17, 2024, 09:28 IST
