Hop Horvatinčić

Hopinek Abishai 'Hop' Horvatinčić is a Croatian hoarder who bought Norman McFinger's room off Gumtree.

Born in 1979 in the city of Zagreb, then a part of Yugoslavia, Hop is the younger brother of Mateo Horvatinčić, a distinguished soldier of the Croatian War of Independence. Always in the shadow of his more successful brother, Hop fled his new nation of Croatia as he associated its independence with his brother.

In 2002 Hop emigrated to Easter Island to start a new life, however he struggled to find stable employment and became homeless within a few months. Running out of ideas, Hop decided to create a get-rich-quick pyramid scheme, back in a time when these were still able to fool a lot of people. Now a professional con artist who had amassed a ludicrous profit from the scam, he invested in real estate on the island.

By 2017 he owned 35% of all homes on Easter Island. At this point, authorities were alerted to Hop's con and he was tracked down and arrested, losing his ownership in the properties and, in order to post bail, almost his entire accrued wealth. With only $100 left in his possession, Hop purchased a bedroom which was on offer on Gumtree, owned by Norman McFinger. He thus became his tenant and now lives there, hoarding all the knick-knacks he can find in hope to sell them all one day in a massively profitable garage sale.