{"id":56473,"date":"2020-08-29T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-developer-allegedly-squatting-in-hamptons-home-thanks-to-eviction-ban\/"},"modified":"2020-08-29T20:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T17:39:00","slug":"nyc-developer-allegedly-squatting-in-hamptons-home-thanks-to-eviction-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-developer-allegedly-squatting-in-hamptons-home-thanks-to-eviction-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC developer allegedly squatting in Hamptons home thanks to eviction ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYC developer allegedly squatting in Hamptons home thanks to eviction ban<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n A Hamptons house has been quite a steal for a Manhattan developer and his real estate broker gal pal \u2014 who have been squatting in the home thanks to the state\u2019s pandemic eviction ban, the furious owner\u2019s charge.<\/p>\n

Marco Ricotta, 76, has refused to leave the Westhampton Beach house for months, even allegedly telling a local official, \u201cI don\u2019t have to leave because the governor said so.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ricotta, a developer who once briefly owned the Tunnel nightclub in Manhattan, and broker girlfriend Jodine Russo, stopped paying the home\u2019s $3,000 monthly rent in April \u2014 even though both list a spacious, two-bedroom two-bath Midtown pad on their business records.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve never rented before and God knows, I\u2019ll never rent it again,\u201d lamented homeowner Elyse Zaccaro, who has been trying to boot Ricotta from her four-bedroom, three-bath home since his lease ended May 3.<\/p>\n

Zaccaro, 53, and husband Tommy del Zoppo, 55, say they have nowhere to turn.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe eviction moratorium is very well intended for those in need, but it\u2019s being misapp<\/a>lied with no due recourse,\u201d said Zaccaro, who had planned to spend the summer in the Westhampton Beach home with her aging in-laws and her teenage son.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt one point my husband said to [Ricotta] you know it\u2019s our house right?\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n

Before the coronavirus pandemic put a hold on evictions, Ricotta had first demanded to stay through the summer, then offered to buy the home for seven figures, said del Zoppo, who refused.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t even get to court and plead my case,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n

Cuomo banned evictions in March, citing the economic fallout from the coronavirus. The state\u2019s Chief Administrative Judge, Lawrence Marks, later expanded the moratorium to include all evictions \u2014 not just those caused by the pandemic \u2014 and extended it until Oct. 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s created a tremendous amount of collateral damage,\u201d said del Zoppo.<\/p>\n

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Tom Del Zoppo and Elyse Zaccaro<\/span>Edward Linsmier<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ricotta is now a \u201choldover\u201d tenant, the term for those who won\u2019t exit when their legal right to stay has expired, said attorney Christian Killoran, who reps Zaccaro and del Zoppo.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe difference with the holdover tenants is they don\u2019t have the right to be at the house, they don\u2019t have that underlying claim to deserve the protection that\u2019s being afforded,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s never claimed COVID impact. He\u2019s not sick and he\u2019s never claimed financial hardship \u2014 so why is he still in the house?\u201d Zaccaro said of her rogue tenant, who was once accused of building condos in Middletown, N.Y., that were so shoddy, grass grew through the floors.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time for Cuomo to step up, said state Senate candidate and Assemblyman Anthony Palumbo, R-Long Island.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe executive order needs to be amended to only those individuals that are truly financially impacted by this pandemic,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Zaccoro and del Zoppo have owned the 1,800-square-foot Sunset Avenue home for 13 years and began renting to Ricotta about four years ago when they moved to Florida for work. In today\u2019s hot Hamptons real estate market, they could easily get $12,000 a month rent, said the couple, who would prefer to move back into the home.<\/p>\n

Ricotta, who hung up when reached by The Post, was less than an ideal tenant, they charge, moving in Russo without permission and putting the upstairs bedrooms up for rent via Airbnb, creating thousands of dollars worth of plumbing and appliance repairs, Zaccaro said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no way to get my house back, zero,\u201d she said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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