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What she thought was a good deal soon turned into a nightmare.

A few months after Pirelli moved in, Caverhill went to inspect the work and she says she found the entire kitchen and bathroom had been gutted. All the doors inside had been removed and the floor of the master bedroom had been painted black, she says.

But Caverhill quickly learned she had much bigger problems.

“He walks me to the door and he’s yelling at me, ’I’m a Freemen-on-the-Land,”’ Caverhill says.

“I said: ’This is my house, not yours.’ He said: ’No. This is an embassy house now and it’s mine and you have no rights’, so then he slams the door.”

She says she discovered the locks had been changed and pounded on the door.

“I said: ’How come the key doesn’t work?’ He said: ’I changed the locks.’ He said: ’It’s not your home.”’

Caverhill depends on the rental income to supplement her pension.

Pirelli, who sources confirm also went by the name Mario Antonacci, informed her he was willing to pay $775 a month in rent, less than half the $1,500 plus utilities that she says had been agreed to.

She says she later received an invoice from Pirelli’s company — CPC Universal Group — for $26,000 in work done to the home.

“I receive a thing in the mail from the Land Titles Office, that the property has been liened for $17,000,” she says.

“I’m at wits’ end and somebody says to me: ’Oh they’re just a bunch of kooks’ and I say: ’No, they’re not. They’re not kooks — they’re crazy, yes, they’re dangerous, yes.’