America s most successful squatter: Long Island man, 52, avoids eviction again from house he doesn t own despite living in it for TWENTY YEARS
Guramrit Hanspal, 52, has been living for free in a Long Island house that he doesn t own for 23 years
He bought a house in 1998 for $290,000, made one mortgage payment and defaulted because he was foreclosed upon
Since then, two banks and a real estate company has owned the property and fought Hanspal in court for years
In total, he s filed four lawsuits and claimed bankruptcy seven times and uses the Bankruptcy Courts automatic stay rules to keep living in the house