Takisha Long Deadbeat Tenant

Takisha Long, (or Tekisha Long) was a nightmare tenant that never paid.  She came up with every excuse in the book as to why she was late with all the payments.  From using friends posing as her old landlord when I called for a reference, to posing as bank tellers at the bank when I called “direct line” numbers to figure out why checks were bouncing…

Takisha Long, (or Tekisha Long) was a nightmare tenant that never paid.  She came up with every excuse in the book as to why she was late with all the payments.  From using friends posing as her old landlord when I called for a reference, to posing as bank tellers at the bank when I called “direct line” numbers to figure out why checks were bouncing.

She never paid one cent from the 3 months of rent that she owed us.  She gave ever excuses imaginable about why her bank screwed up, my bank screwed up, etc.  She even tried to lie to the police officer and detective that called her…

Takisha (Tekisha) Long paid me with checks that were for accounts that were closed for a year.  She even paid me with her grandmother’s credit card checks and that bounced also.

Since it is a law in Illinois that if a tenant bounces one rent check it’s a misdemeanor, two, it’s a felony if the money is not paid within 7 days.  I proceeded with the charge but the detective informed me that the District attorney would not prosecute because she has a prior felony of forgery on her record...doesn’t make any sense!  But the good thing is that when someone does a criminal background check, it will appear on her record as pending, so at least that will warn others about her.

We ended up evicting her which took about 1.5 months.  Takisha (tekisha) Long never showed up to court.  We went through our savings so we wouldn’t foreclose since we were paying double mortgage.

I count this $6000+ towards our education in Real Estate, but hopefully others will do their due diligence and check background, landlords, employment history, checking account balance, etc.