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