A 32-year-old college dropout refuses to leave her dorm room almost two years after she stopped taking classes.
Lisa Palmer has racked up more than $94,000 in unpaid residence fees while illegally squatting in the messy single room at Hunter College in
New York.
The former geography major ignored numerous eviction notices and the fed-up university is taking her to court to have her dragged out.
The Delaware woman 'almost immediately' stopped paying her bills after moving in during spring semester 2016, a lawsuit filed in the New York Supreme Court said.
'Not only did Palmer refuse to vacate her dormitory room in order to make room for incoming, eligible students... but she dropped out of Hunter College, making her ineligible for student housing in any event,' it read.
Palmer, who now works two jobs and serves on the board of the Geospatial Information Systems and Mapping Organization, still refused to budge.
'I plan on fighting the lawsuit and while I fight it, I'm going to stay,' she told the
New York Post.
Though she refused to leave, Palmer said life in her 100-square-foot dorm crammed with a lava lamp, a dream catcher, and piles of dirty dishes was 'really lonely' in her 30s, and she felt 'isolated'.
Palmer claimed she never actually dropped out and the university wouldn't let her register for fall semester classes after a dispute about her housing and tuition bill,
'I felt that it was a miscommunication initially, but after I met with the dean I felt that they were starting to treat me unfairly. It was like, 'get out',' she said.
After emails warning she would be charged $150 a day, she received an eviction notice last October titled 'thirty day notice of termination' in all caps.
'You are required to vacate and surrender the premises on or before October 31, 2017, at 12:00 pm,' the letter from Hunter's lawyer read.
'I don't think paying it off is realistic, and I also don't believe that I should have to pay it off,' Palmer told CBS of her massive housing bill.
Hunter College it couldn't comment on pending litigation.