A "sickened" homeowner says he's been forced to pay 14-years’ worth of mortgage fees after a squatting couple refused to leave his home.
Bobby Chawla says he's shelled out $85,000 (£65,000) in mortgage payments, taxes and household bills while Barry J. Pollack, 72, and his wife, Barbara have been living in his four-bed family property.
He claimed the Mercedes driving pair have used legal loopholes for decades to continually ignore requests to leave the family home, which is in Jericho, Long Island.
And even after Bobby amassed $762,200 (£600,000) with the help of his family to buy the home outright in February 2022, he says they still won’t budge. Bobby is now desperate to hand the property over to his pregnant sister, Gege, and her husband and is using further legal methods to try and evict the couple for good.
He said: “It’s sickening. . . . I have no guarantee when this guy is leaving. It kills me, you know, to see him just acting like he owns my house.”
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The couple racked up $85,000 in mortgage fees, taxes and household bills over the period they've been living in the four-bed property (Google maps)Records revealed how the Pollacks originally paid $255,000 for the 1,536-square-foot home in 1990.
But after suffering financial setbacks, they spent 17 years fighting to remain in their home through numerous court appearances. In 2006, they were sued for foreclosure after failing to pay a $310,000 second mortgage, New York Post reports.
They faced similar fate in 2008 after their debt rose past $600,000, and they later declared themselves bankrupt seven times as they tried to hold onto the property. Bobby said he had been hoping to move his relatives into the home and had seemingly brokered a deal for the couple to leave last year before that fell through.
The couple's Mercedes has been parked near their home while they dodge eviction (Google maps)He said the pair were adept at ensuring that they were always one step ahead of being evicted.
He told New York Post: “Right before they’re about to end the eviction, the sheriffs are going to sign off on the eviction, magically, they pull up and hop out of the car with this paperwork in their hand like they had just won the lottery.”
Barry Pollack said in legal documents that he and Barbara had planned to move to Florida during the summer but this had not been successful.
And later said that he was “just trying to survive” amid health difficulties.
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