Santa wasn’t the one one displaying up at this Florida house uninvited!
Mark and Kathy Hyatt, recognized for his or her annual “Hyatt Excessive Christmas” show in Plantation, Florida, have allegedly been outed as squatters who weren’t paying lease, taxes, or a mortgage for an estimated 15 years.
In line with courtroom paperwork, the Hyatt household has been ordered to pay $34,724.68 for seven years of uncared for tax funds. The household was reportedly given a homestead exemption claiming that they have been the house owners of the house, which they weren’t.
The investigation goes again to 2013, because the statute of limitations solely permits investigators to look again 10 years, with 2020-2022 nonetheless counting as part of the investigation although the show itself was not lit up throughout that point.
The show has not been up in 6 years because the couple divorced in 2017, and Mark Hyatt died in 2020.
Throughout a deposition in September, Kathy Hyatt admitted that she and her then-husband damaged into the Plantation house and adjusted the locks after making a pretend deed claiming them the house owners of the property after it was found that the then-owner Miami Dolphins participant Brett Perriman was dealing with foreclosures and did not have a sound deed to the house.
“Properly, we broke in,” Kathy Hyatt informed investigators, per the New York Publish. “I’ve by no means performed that earlier than in my life. We by no means paid any cash to occupy. We have been squatters.”
The house, which is situated at 11201 NW 14th St., is at present listed on Google Maps as “Kathy Sells South Florida” — an actual property enterprise that Kathy Hyatt runs.
On Zillow, the house is estimated to be price $1.72 million.
