The eviction company Lanzaokupa wanted to defend its actions in the Teguisol apartment complex, where it intervened to evict about six homes. One of those affected went to La Voz to question the "forms" used by this company, even assuring that she planned to file a complaint for coercion, but Lanzaokupa responds by assuring that she was the one who "threatened" and "attacked" the workers.
Furthermore, contrary to what this woman claims, they maintain that it is not true that she had a rental contract with the previous owners of the property, which was auctioned along with other apartments in the complex, and which were acquired by a company from the peninsula. "She is lying in this regard. We have the deed of the new owner who hired us, which states that there was no lease agreement," the company's lawyer, Natividad González, told La Voz.
For the lawyer, this point is key because it is what determines, according to her, that her action was "legal." "We only act by placing that access control in the home in case it is an occupier," the lawyer states.
Precisely what the affected party denounced is that last week she found security guards sent by this company, who prevented her from accessing the home. "The private security law does allow the owner to put a sworn guard at the door of the home or at the entrances to the home when it comes to squatters," says the company's lawyer in this regard, who clarifies that this cannot be done in the cases of a tenant who was legally residing in the house but has stopped paying rent.
However, the company also accepts assignments from owners who are in that situation and are waiting for the trial to be resolved. "In those cases, we can act to mediate, but through peaceful methods, not by putting access control," she says.
Claims that they presented contracts but that they were "false"
Therefore, she insists that it is not true that in this case there was a rental contract with the previous owners of the property, as the affected party claims. In this regard, the lawyer admits that both this woman and the rest of the evicted neighbors presented some contracts in their day, but assures that "they are false."
According to her, there is a report from the Udyco, of which she does not have a copy, "which says that several squatters went to testify" for that alleged falsity of the contracts they provided. "When they hire Lanzaokupa, the first thing we see is the property deed, and there is a notary who attests to it. A public deed that says that there is no lease agreement is enough for me," the lawyer insists. According to her version, at that moment of the purchase before a notary "it is mentioned that there were squatters, but no title of lease whatsoever."
In addition, the lawyer claims that the woman has finally left the home and questions the state and poor conditions in which she claims they found the house, "in which she says she had a pregnant minor daughter."
