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Hardworking homeowners have had their properties stolen and savings depleted. Many have had their credit destroyed as well. Some have been left homeless.

If you are aware of a known squatter or extortionist, please register them here to warn other homeowners!

The Squatters who Inspired it All

Robert Yurkewitch and Ashely Lane of East Hampton, New York intentionally violated their lease terms with the sole purpose of taking what wasn’t theirs. They utilized the police against their landlord and caused terrible destruction to the single mother who fell on hard times and needed to sell her home upon the termination of the non-renewable one-year lease term.

Yurkewitch and Lane remained gainfully employed and leaned into COVID mandates to take advantage of their landlord, who only tried to work to help them, despite not being able to.

The end result, the landlord lost countless buyers for her home, Robert and Ashely owed her over $60,000 in rent and damages – yet they got away with only paying $25,000. They even had the nerve during negotiations to ask the landlord to sign a non-disparagement agreement, which she was able to successfully refuse. Never agree to hide someone’s crimes.

Do not rent to Robert Yurkewitch or Ashely Lane.

See how Robert Yurkewitch chose to speak to his landlord, who was only at the property due to more lease violations.

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November 27, 2021

Bridgehampton squatter leaves artist’s home after public outcry

[Matsuoka]… credits public outcry in Southampton and Sag Harbor, where demonstrators appeared outside of her home calling for Solomon to leave, with getting him out. “Literally hundreds of people came out of the woodwork furious about what he was doing and rallied around me,” she said. “I had three lawyers. What got him out was the public saying, ‘No way! We’re not putting up with you!’ They shamed him, and that’s what got him out.”

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November 14, 2021

Long Island mortgage deadbeat finally booted after 23 years

The free ride is finally over for a Long Island man who went more than two decades without paying a penny on his mortgage — while courts failed to evict him.

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November 13, 2021

Fed-up landlord makes website outing squatters

“You can go to jail for stealing someone’s refrigerator out of their house, but you can’t go to jail for stealing someone’s home? It makes no logical sense,” said Nava, 37, who lost her job in November 2020 but was unable to sell her only asset, the three-bedroom, two-bath house that her squatters refused to leave.

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October 26, 2021

Bridgehampton Woman Helpless As Man Refuses To Move Out Of Her Home

“When I heard Lynn’s story, I had just spent a whole day going in person with a sign and a picture of my child — I’m a single mom — to the courts, to the police, to the sheriff’s office. Nobody can help me. I have a great attorney. He’s doing the best he can, but he can only do so much. It’s like even the best attorneys have their hands tied behind their backs because of all of these unconstitutional … moratoriums.”

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October 23, 2021

Hamptons artist struggles to boot house guest turned squatter

She put out the welcome mat — and had the rug pulled out from under her. A Hamptons artist claims a temporary house guest turned into a squatter who has refused to leave her Bridgehampton home for more than a year. Lynn Matsuoka, a painter and author who was once married to a sumo wrestler, says alleged interloper Gregg Solomon even forced her to cancel a desperately needed knee surgery because he is occupying the sole bedroom she says she can use for her recovery, and allegedly threatens her with violent outbursts whenever she demands he leave.

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October 22, 2021

We rented our home when we moved into an RV. Now, eviction moratoriums have cost us our entire savings.

When my husband, who’s 74, and I, a disabled 65-year-old woman, decided to live out of an RV, we leased our house in California, with an option to buy to a young couple with a toddler. Shortly after they moved into the house in February 2020, the pandemic struck and they quit paying rent. With eviction moratoriums in the US – which have been off and on since the beginning of the pandemic, and were most recently ended by the Supreme Court in August – they’ve now cost us our entire savings.

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Help Landlords out of these Nightmare Situations

Holdover tenancies create hardship for most landlords and homeowners. With the court system overloaded by the eviction moratorium, landlords are forced to reach financial agreements that allow both parties to move on. This is more often much to the detriment of the hardworking landlord. 

If you’re able to help provide relief for landlords who have been financially destroyed during the eviction moratorium, please donate here.

If you are either a landlord or tenant in need of cash for a settlement toward a landlord/tenant resolution, please submit for help.