Landlord torches New York home after tenants stop paying rent, become squatters: authorities
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A New York City landlord is being accused of lighting his own townhouse on fire after the upstairs tenants stopped paying rent and refused to move out.

Brooklyn landlord Rafiqul Islam faces arson and attempted murder charges

  • @jordanlund
    78•1 year ago

    Easier to deal with insurance than evict? 🤔

    • @GlitterInfectionEnglish
      95•1 year ago

      The prison sentence might even be shorter than the eviction process would have been…

    • FuglyDuckEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      Insurance won’t pay- trying to claim your house that you intentionally torched is insurance fraud.

      • @jordanlund
        3•1 year ago

        I think the idea was he thought he could get away with the arson, or that he could blame the tenants for the arson.