I got myself organized and budgeted the lowest amount of money I could survive off week to week while putting the rest in my savings.

You do not have the skill set to survive in this business.Why would you ever have the slightest bit of compassion for someone that has stolen from you.

You can set your own terms, but if you intend to survive in this business, visit this site: https://www.illinois.gov/dhr/FilingaCharge/Pages/H...

She's probably paying less than $2,000 which means the prorated rent is even lower and even less likely to cover the cost of a hotel.I mention people have survived without hot water for thousands of years to show the ridiculous idea that this tenant is somehow suffering.

I don't think there's an easy way for a friendship to survive well when one of the friends ends up owing money to the other that doesn't get paid back. 

Amazingly, he managed to survive. 

If your going to survive in this business you need to be firm and you need to be honest.

Lease agreements survive ownership transfers, so you can't raise the rents until each lease comes up for renewal. 

If you want to survive the correct answer is start the eviction.

You get a bad tenant, you'll survive - just evict.