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Someone whose entire real-estate strategy is showing up and refusing to leave.
means A person occupying land or property they neither own nor rent, usually without legal permission.
from From squat, the crouching posture — by the 1780s it described American frontier settlers who hunkered down on unclaimed land and dared anyone to remove them.
Legal twistStay long enough and adverse possession may grant ownership.
Australian flipThere squatters became wealthy landowning gentry, not trespassers.
Movement1970s Europe saw organized squatting as housing protest.