Seattle residents are fed up with a Korean squatter who has taken up residence in a $2 million home in Bellevue for almost a year, demanding the “con man” get out.
Sang Kim is the name of the man squatting in the home. Adding insult to injury, he and his wife were making $400,000 a year until just recently.
“A ‘serial squatter’ refusing to leave a $2 million Seattle home pulled the same trick on his previous landlords, failing to pay rent for two years and costing them up to $200,000, it is alleged,” the Daily Mail reported.
“Sang Kim has sparked fury in the upmarket neighborhood of Bellevue after squatting for almost a year in a five-bedroom property owned by Jaskaran Singh, who has claimed in legal filings that his tenant owes him around $80,000,” the media outlet added.
NEW: Seattle residents are publicly shaming serial squatter Sang Kim for squatting in a $2M property despite allegedly making $400k a year.
Let’s make publicly shaming squatters a new trend.
According to the landlord, they are unable to get Kim out of their home who owes… pic.twitter.com/ExvcSCO7nP
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 20, 2024
The man’s brazen actions led to a protest outside the home where approximately 200 angry residents raged at Kim, holding placards and chanting “No pay, no stay!” They are publicly shaming the squatter with large photos and signs to get him to leave the property.
King County Republican Party Vice Chair Kory Hahn led a “Get out, con man!” chant in Korean at the home and railed, “If you’re not going to pay, you shouldn’t stay there.”
Protesters started banging on the door of the home causing the police to intervene before the protest turned violent.
The Daily Mail reported on Kim’s squatting habits, “But now DailyMail.com can reveal Kim and his family are alleged to have moved straight into Singh’s property from a previous squat nearby, where they used similar delaying tactics to avoid paying rent of around $4,000 a month on a three-bedroom, $1.3 million home.”
“Kim and his wife Yougin were also earning a combined income of $408,000 a year working for medical consultancy SiriusIQ when they moved into Singh’s property, according to a proof-of-income letter seen by DailyMail.com. They lost their jobs shortly after,” the media outlet continued.
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Singh is beyond furious over the squatters who are living it up in his home. He accused them of “living a lavish life” that includes “barbecues, buying new cars, living in the best neighborhood, and sending his kids to the best schools.”
Singh claims as a landlord he is holding down multiple jobs to pay the mortgage on the house.
“He [Kim] has no shame and he does not care about society,” he charged.
The squatter has accused Singh of making up stories about him. He is throwing the victim card claiming he is just a Korean national trying to make it in America.
“Kim, a father-of-two, rented Singh’s home in the summer of 2022, but has since only paid for one month’s rent out of his own pocket, relying on legal aid until May 2023, when payments stopped entirely, Singh claims,” the Daily Mail wrote.
They’re getting very bold.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 20, 2024
“Singh filed eviction proceedings when his tenant first started missing payments, but the Housing Justice Project (HJP), a non-profit, stepped in on the Kims’ behalf, applying for a stay on the eviction and paying some of the back rent,” the outlet stated.
That didn’t resolve the matter either it would seem.
“The HJP even paid a three-month advance on the rent to give the family time to move out. But when the three months were up in May 2023, Singh says the family still did not leave and they started missing rent payments again. Despite this, he claims the Kims have bought two Mazda 3s, which retail at upwards of $20,000, that are parked in the front of his home,” the Daily Mail said.
“But the squatter’s freeloading dates back almost four years, according to a declaration signed by local estate agent Jani Spencer in support of Singh’s eviction proceedings against Kim,” the outlet noted. “In her statement, Spencer claims a couple she had sold a $1.3 million Bellevue property to contacted her in September 2020 complaining that they had rented it to Kim but he was no longer paying up.”
This will start to get violent if things don’t change.
— Elevated Ape (@Learnyousome) March 20, 2024
A 90-day eviction notice was served to Kim which he promptly ignored. A court date over the case was not set until March 2022. That summer, he was evicted from that particular home. When the Kims finally left the property, it was trashed.
Spencer spoke to Kim numerous times and he “always had a story about getting money, waiting for some partner or employer to pay him.”
In the end, the landlords lost two years of rental income which amounted to roughly $100,000, $5,000 in unpaid utilities, $20,000 in repairs, and approximately $100,000 in the value of the property once they were finally able to sell it according to Spencer.
She commented that the Kims “are doing the exact same thing to [Singh]… not paying rent and utilities, promising rent money within the week, promising to move, none of which is true as evidenced by the fact that they refuse to vacate the property…”
What I think about when I seen that is the laws were created to protect the squatters before they started squatting. Another preplanned script from the communists.
— Wendy Patterson (@wendyp4545) March 20, 2024
“I can’t understand how such behavior is allowed to continue,” Spencer told the Daily Mail.
A court hearing is scheduled on April 5 for the case.
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