Santa wasn’t the one one exhibiting up at this Florida dwelling 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 hire, taxes, or a mortgage for an estimated 15 years.
In response to court docket 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 had 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 regardless that 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 dwelling and altered the locks after making a faux 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 legitimate deed to the house.
“Nicely, we broke in,” Kathy Hyatt informed investigators, per the New York Submit. “I’ve by no means finished that earlier than in my life. We by no means paid any cash to occupy. We had been squatters.”
The house, which is positioned at 11201 NW 14th St., is presently 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 value $1.72 million.
