Woman shocked to discover ‘stranger living in her apartment’ while she was out of town

A woman says she was on holiday and left her 'luxury' New York City apartment to explore beyond the area and shockingly discover a stranger using her home after checking her security camera.

The person, known as yamkimmm on Instagram, real name Yelim Kim, posted two separate videos of what allegedly occurred at their apartment – beginning just yesterday (7 August).

In the initial post, Kim revealed a clip of what appeared to be her living room, via a Ring security camera.

Written across the screen, Kim claimed this was footage of a supposed stranger living in her home without her express permission.

It read: "pov your 'luxury' NYC apartment handed your spare key to stranger while you were out of town."

The clip then showed motion tracking footage of a brunette woman wearing a grey asymmetrical dress, walking across the lounge and promptly plopping herself on the sofa.

Then, it also seems to show the same woman disconnecting the camera once seeing it.

Yelim Kim says a 'stranger' was in her home when she was out of town (Handout)

People were shocked by the footage and story, with one person in the comments determining how she should react.

They wrote: "SUED!!!! Then moving out! It would feel violated after that!"

However, there was more to come.

In an updated post to her social media, the apartment holder claims a friend confronted the woman at the home, which appears to show her holding her hands up, calling herself a 'patient' before voluntarily leaving.

According to the caption, the woman is allegedly mentally unwell, and police were reluctant to pursue things further.

It said: "we called the police (108 precinct in Queens) and they told us they cannot arrest her because she’s mentally unstable. They dropped her off at a hospital instead. We asked to press charges, and to file a police report, and the officers refused."

In amongst the comments, some hit out at her apartment management, Goose Property Management Company, for apparently allowing this to happen.

Others were simply miffed about the details of the case, who the woman is, why she is there, and how any of this came to happen.

With so much going on, Kim has since spoken with LADbible.

She explained that at the time, she and her partner 'were out of town on vacation when our security camera notified us that someone was in our apartment.'

Kim continued: "When we opened our app, we saw a woman repeatedly entering and exiting our apartment. We called the police and contacted our friends who live in the area.

"Our friends rushed over to our apartment while we were on the phone with the police."

She revealed that she watched the woman allegedly 'rip' the camera away from the wall after noticing it in the living room and shortly afterwards, her friend arrived to confront her before police for there.

Allegedly, the intruder then reappeared, telling the friend she had left her car keys in the bathroom, but noticeably had 'multiple spare keys' to hand and allegedly 'used one of them to open our door to get back in.'

The woman apparently had 'multiple keys' (Handout)

Kim said: "That's when the police arrived, and they caught her inside our unit. The police escorted her out of our apartment and took her down to the lobby to question her."

She was then apparently taken to a hospital for observation.

Kim went on to claim they saw the woman attempt to gain access to the building, but was apparently turned away.

Again, she claims police did not want to go ahead with pressing charges against the woman.

As for the building company, she revealed they allegedly responded to her to say they had 'initiated a comprehensive review in partnership with its concierge services provider' and 'permanently removed' the employee involved.

The company also appeared to share an updated security checklist to implement in the future to avoid something like this happening again.

As for Kim, she says she and her partner, Bill, have been left in bits over it.

She said: "Since then, we've asked to break our lease but haven't received a response. We are traumatized by this experience and we feel unsafe in our apartment."

She added: "And whenever we get an alert from our security camera that there is motion in our apartment, we get a bit paranoid that something similar is happening again. It's always our dogs moving around triggering the motion detection, but we still check just in case."

LADbible reached out to the NYPD police commissioner and Goose Property Management Company for comment.