Latasha Chairse at the south Jackson home she has lived in with her family for nearly three years, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. Charis has been informed that she has no rights to the house and was ordered to move. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
Latasha Chairse has a bizarre story. Equipped with a copy of someone else’s property deed, some elbow grease and a deluded interpretation of the state’s tax forfeiture process, Chairse claimed she thought she was acquiring one of Jackson’s many abandoned homes.