No obligation to store a tenants trash: Squatter rights changing in NYS [Video]

ANGOLA, N.Y. — A landlord in Angola has been arguing with a squatter about his ‘possessions’ appearing to be a pile of trash that is disrupting local business. A local lawyer shared input on that landlord’s rights.

For four months, Phil Vankoughnet had to see a large pile of garbage sitting outside his hardware store, Shultz & Co., on Main Street in Angola.

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Everything in that pile came from a long-closed restaurant next door.

“It looks like the dumps,” Vankoughnet said. “Nobody seems to have an answer about when it will go away.”

7 News reporter Derek Heid got to work for Phil, and he made some calls.