. >> adele andaloro inherited this queens, new york, home from her parents. tried to sell the property, but when she dropped by last month, she found multiple strangers were living inside and they called police on her. >> and that's not fair. it's not fair that i, as the homeowner, should be having to go through this. >> under new york city law, a person only needs to be on the property for 30 days to claim squatters rights, meaning the legal owner cannot evict them without going to court, which can be a lengthy process. the law was designed to prevent long time tenants from getting evicted and to help improve the many abandoned buildings in the city, but now many unhoused are taking advantage of the law. as you got to go to court to send me to civil court. meanwhile, in california, a far more sinister example of people targeting properties that appear to be vacant, a woman in los angeles was sentenced to 20 years in prison for fraudulently taking ownership of an elderly man's home through identity theft, then killing him. police say she would look for proper