Residents in South Blooming Grove neighborhood say Hasidic community soliciting them to move out. Steve Brennan explains. 

Donna McGoldrick says what happens in her village of South Blooming Grove may force her to leave.

In her neighborhood, Worley Heights, members of the Hasidic community continually approach her and her neighbors asking them if they can buy their homes, she says. She says one man actually sits in front of her home regularly.

"He yells out, 'You selling your house? You want to sell your house?' If I wanted to sell my house, I'd have it on Zillow or I would have a for sale sign in front of my house," McGoldrick says.

She says Thursday night she saw 12 to 15 cars and vans parked in the street and men walking through people's lawns.

"So I asked them what are you doing? What's going on what are you doing? They said they are looking for houses to drive, we heard we can buy them for cheap," she says.

The village recently passed a residential solicitation law that forbids brokers from knocking on doors with unsolicited offers, but residents say it's still happening, just in creative ways -- in the form of cards or gifts, for example.

"Blockbusting is clearly illegal to do,” says Dennis Lynch, an attorney for the village who has been advising residents about how to deal with the issue.

He agrees what's going on is a cut and dried case of blockbusting.

"It's not a case where an individual purchases a home, to live in that particular home. It's when people go in and not just seek to live but to change the community character in which they live," Lynch says.

"We're lovely people the Hasidic community. Lovely lovely good people," says Samuel Kaufman, a real estate broker from nearby Kiryas Joel. He says the idea that blockbusting is going on is not true.

"I didn't do it before the law and I didn't do it. No. And no one did,” Kaufman says.

McGouldrick isn't buying it.

She says with the annexation deal for Kiryas Joel tied up in court, she's afraid members of the Hasidic community want to force her and her neighbors out.

"The bottom line is, this is my home. What are my rights. I don't want to be forced to sell my home," she says.