LI Squatters Fail To Pay Mortgage For 14 Years, ‘Abuse’ The System To Stave Off Eviction

[Sugar Cookie]

A “shrewd and devious” Long Island couple failed to pay their mortgage for at least 14 years, dragged out their foreclosure for more than a decade, and refused to leave after a new family bought the house from the bank, court records show.

To make matters worse, one of the alleged interlopers was caught on video telling the legal owner to “go back to Pakistan.”

The frustrated owners of the Jericho home claim they’ve shelled out $85,000 and counting to keep up with taxes, mortgage payments, and other bills, while alleged squatters Barry J. Pollack and his wife, Barbara, live in their house and keep a Mercedes in the driveway.

“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,” said Bobby Chawla, who teamed up with his dad and other relatives to pay $762,200 for the home in February 2022.

They plan to give the home to Bobby’s six-month-pregnant sister, Gege, and her husband.

Barry Pollack, 72, at first promised to leave in a month.

But the family blew off a March 31, 2022 exit date and hasn’t budged since.

The Chawlas sued to evict the Pollacks in Nassau County Housing Court.

“This is not a typical case where a tenant thought they could vacate within a certain period of time and found they needed a bit longer,” according to the legal filing. “This is a calculated, shrewd, and devious litigant who has perpetrated a scheme on the judicial system for the past 15 years.”

The Pollacks bought the four-bedroom, two-bath, 1,536-square-foot home on Friendly Lane in September 1990 for $255,000, records show.

Though they paid off one mortgage, financial trouble followed.

They’ve fought in three different courts for 17 years to stay in the home — frequently without regularly paying.

In 2006 the Pollacks were sued for foreclosure, having failed to pay a $310,000 second mortgage.

They settled for an undisclosed amount.

By 2008, they were foreclosed on again in a case that plodded along for 11 years as they sought 13 different delays, their debt ballooning past $600,000.

In 2012, the Pollacks filed the first of seven bankruptcies, what the Chawlas describes as “frivolous” and “skeleton” petitions that are a “direct abuse of the bankruptcy system.”

The latest bankruptcy came in November — with the couple showing up with bankruptcy paperwork to stave off the Nassau Sheriff and movers who were about to clean out the home.

“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,” said Bobby Chawla, whose parents are originally from India and now live in Lawrence, LI.

Barry Pollack claimed in court papers filed this summer that his family’s efforts to move to Florida had fallen through, and moving was too difficult at their age.

“I will not survive on the street if I am ousted,” he said in the litigation, citing heart problems.

He denied abusing the court system to freeload in a house that is not legally his.

“Inaccurate,” he told The Post, without giving details. “Right now, I’m just trying to survive.”

He insisted he is “looking for a place to live,” and said the court proceedings are still being contested. Pollack accused the Chawlas of harassment, without providing evidence.

The Chawlas denied the allegations and said they were desperate.

Squatters dodge mortgage for 14 years, ‘abuse’ system as legal owner ‘devastated’ he can’t move pregnant sister in: court docs

The frustrated owners of the home claim they’ve paid $85,000 to keep up with taxes, mortgage, utilities, and other bills, while squatter Barry J. Pollack and his wife, Barbara, live there.

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[Future_Milf]

Scum. The rest of us pay rent, but this wrinkle farm is somehow superior?

 

[Sejanus]

Deadbeat trash.
Evict him with a cattle prod.

 

[knockout]

Definitely something wrong with a legal system that allows this

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Allegedly racist Long Island squatters who apparently hadn’t paid their mortgage in more than a decade and repeatedly gamed the court system have finally gotten the boot.

On Wednesday, the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office arrived to change the locks on the Friendly Lane home in Jericho after the Chawla family won their 23-month legal battle to evict Barry and Barbara Pollack.

“We got it!” owner Bobby Chawla told The Post of the successful eviction.

“The sheriff handed us over the document finalizing the eviction and it was just an amazing sense of relief,” Chawla, 32, told The Post. “These last two years have just been so exhausting for me battling the Pollacks in court and I am just excited to finally move on.”

He is now faced with the deplorable condition the four-bedroom, two-bath house was left in.

The basement is soaked and smells “rancid,” the home’s oil tank is empty, the boiler needs $550 in repairs, and the garage is littered with debris.

Chawla, together with his family, bought the home at a bank auction for $762,200 in February 2022, intending to give it to Chawla’s now-pregnant sister, Gege, and her husband.

Barry and Barbara Pollack, both 72, purchased the 1,536-square-foot split-level in September 1990 for $255,000 before falling into financial trouble.

The couple was foreclosed on twice, dragging out one of those proceedings by asking for 13 delays over 11 years before the house was auctioned.

Once the home went on the block, the Pollacks turned to bankruptcy court, filing seven times but failing to follow through, pay court fees, or respond to court requests, records show.


Chawla accused the Pollacks of filing “skeleton” bankruptcy filings. A judge eventually barred Barry Pollack from filing any more bankruptcies.

Oddly, among the items the Pollacks left behind was a statement showing the Pollacks had more than $58,000 in the bank last month.



“I never felt fully confident I would get my house back today,” Chawla said of Barry Pollack. “I was definitely concerned that he would pull some new scheme to stay in the house. Only once the sheriff handed us the document confirming the completion of the eviction, did I truly feel that the home was in our possession.”

Amid several clashes with the Chawlas, Barry Pollack was caught on video telling Bobby Chawla, whose parents are from India, to “Go back to Pakistan.”

A moving truck appeared in the driveway last month after the Pollacks’ alleged abuse of the court system was exposed by The Post.

Though he seemingly left, a neighbor who didn’t want to give their name said Pollack returned several times a day and would leave notes on their car in which Pollack apparently wrote that his “life was over.”

“Like he was a cat or dog marking his territory,” the neighbor said. “When I brought it to the police attention they said it didn’t rise to the level of harassment. …Why I was the lucky recipient I don’t know.”


Barry Pollack, who also left one of his vehicles parked on the block, did not return a message seeking comment.

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[Crazy Cat Lady]

FINALLY!

 

[Rickuda]

Squatting and avoiding mortgage payments for 14 years seems like a stretch. It's unfortunate that some abuse the system, causing trouble for others.

 

[Rickuda]

Squatting and avoiding mortgage payments for 14 years seems like a stretch. It's unfortunate that some abuse the system, causing trouble for others.

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[cubby]

Asked and then answered his own question!

 

[Metalfan]

Asked and then answered his own question!

My medicinal wacky tobacco makes me do that sometimes.

 

[cubby]

My medicinal wacky tobacco makes me do that sometimes.

Medicinal, you say? I think the word you want is recreational.

jk, I loves you lots, whether on wacky tobacky or not.

 

[Ghost83]

It's people like this that push buttons to the point someone who doesn't deserve it, ends up in jail. From my point of view, they've broken and entered, they're trespassing, and the owners should have the right to deal with that as they see fit without repercussions.