“Transform Villa Cucaracha into a house”. With this positivism, Claudia Marco, a young Valencian, faces the renovation – or rather the reconstruction – of her apartment every morning after having made her “inquiokupas” leave after twelve years of rent and 21 months of arrears. But it’s not so much because of the money as because of the deplorable state in which they left the house, full of parasites and with piles of garbage in every room.
The young woman has several videos on her social networks, which have gone viral in TikTokhow the legal process took place to make them leave the apartment, located in the Cabanyal district, and especially how they found it after months of litigation. “We managed it thanks to the tenants’ daughter, who convinced them to leave before the launch,” he confesses in front of the camera.
Beforehand, he details the context of the situation and draws up a detailed chronology. First of all, he points out that the house belongs to his father, who inherited it and, given the young woman’s young age, decided to rent it to a couple. Now, twelve years later, he wanted his daughter to live there and so he informed the tenants that they had two months to vacate the house, as required by law, because it was intended for a parent on the first degree.
“When we inform themand they took it surprisingly well and they told us that they knew it was going to happen at some point and that there was no problem,” he explains. So, two months after the notice, in March 2023, they did not do not leave the house and in addition they do not pay these monthly rent payments because they were looking for alternative housing.
“We gave them an extra month’s leeway, helped them look for accommodation, offered them help with moving, even paid them the van rent and forgave them for the previous months as long as they were leaving,” admits Claudia. However, they did not do so and, what’s more, they stopped responding to WhatsApp and calls.
Faced with this situation, they hired a lawyer who helped them sue the “inquiokupas” for breach of contract and not for non-payment, it was then that the “despair” began in the face of a long legal process that reached February 2024, the date on which they manage to obtain a favorable judgment which condemns them to abandon the property, as well as to pay the months of rent due.
“Everything gets delayed even more as time passes until they manage to notify them of the sentence because they didn’t open it. It arrives in July and since August is a non-working day, we go to September for the launch”, explains the young Valencian. During this whole process, they have not stopped receiving calls from neighbors warning them to “foul odors” which came from the gallery, so they decided to report it to Health, who gave them ten days to clean the house, which they “surprisingly did to pass the cut”.
“Urine and dog droppings in leaks”
However, the episodes of dirt in the community did not stop happening, as they had three dogs that did not come out and did their business inside the apartment. “Health took away two of the three dogs,” he adds. Finally, in September, another neighbor reported to them that he had leaks in his house, where “a liquid that smells like pee and house“, because they were cleaning the inside of the house with buckets of water. “The insurance company asked us what kind of people lived there,” says Claudia.
Faced with all this and in order to avoid expulsion by the National Police, the young woman decided to contact the tenant’s daughteralready older and who does not live with them, to be able to “do something”. The next day, “he took his parents and the dog and they left the house after giving us the keys,” he admits cheerfully.
From that moment on, the “Villa Cucaracha” operation began, which is told through social networks. For the moment, he has already managed to empty the apartment thanks to a specialized company and he already has two fumigation pests, since the cockroaches were hiding behind moldings and tiles that had to be removed by force.
“It’s surreal, I don’t know how they could live there without mental illness,” he says in the video, which ends with “I can’t wait for this to be over and go live there.” .
