A woman says she is fighting to reclaim a Las Vegas property left behind by her father, who won over $13 million from the Michigan Lottery in 2013 and had spent nearly all of it by the time he died in 2023. The woman, who goes by @theartofwahr on TikTok, has been sharing updates on the ongoing legal dispute across multiple videos.
According to the TikToker, her father chose to take a lump sum payment of approximately $8.4 million after taxes. She claims he spent the money on construction equipment for a business he never started, as well as on gambling, vacations, and other luxuries.
By the time of his death, she says, he had little money left. Among the few assets he reportedly left behind was a house in Las Vegas, which has since become the center of a prolonged legal battle.
The legal dispute stems from a land contract her father signed with the tenant before his death
According to the TikToker, her father had purchased several properties in Las Vegas, including what she describes as a cul-de-sac of properties with a gate. She says the tenant in question had originally agreed to buy all of the properties from her father but stopped making payments at some point.
After the tenant stopped paying, the TikToker says her father sold the adjoining properties to other buyers. She claims this prompted the tenant to file a lawsuit against her father, which she says she took over following his death. “I wasn’t just gonna give a house away,” she said in one of her videos.
The arrangement between her father and the tenant was apparently a land sale installment contract, rather than a standard rental agreement. Under such a contract in Nevada, a buyer agrees to pay for a property over time while the seller retains the title until full payment is made. The buyer may live in the property during this period but does not hold legal ownership until the terms are fulfilled.
The TikToker says the tenant has been living in the house for six years without paying anything, and that she has been covering the property’s land taxes in the meantime. “He’s been living there for six years, not paying anything. I’m paying his land taxes,” she said. “It’s just a bunch of bulls-.” In another case, squatters in California are exploiting tenant laws to occupy homes and demand payouts.
She also says her family attempted to evict the tenant but the effort was unsuccessful. “We tried to evict him, and that didn’t work, because we didn’t go through the proper channels,” she stated. She has placed much of the blame on her lawyer and suggested the presiding judge may be biased, noting that he allegedly golfs with the opposing counsel’s loan officer.
The TikToker says her family reached a settlement with the tenant in which he agreed to pay $250,000 for the house, a figure she described as well below market value. “We had a settlement. He was gonna pay me $250,000 for the house, which is way below what we could have gotten for market value,” she said.
However, she claims more than a year passed without the tenant making that payment, which sent the matter back to court. A similar dispute involved a Vancouver woman who met a man in Las Vegas and rented a car in her name.
After checking the Zillow estimate for the property, which she said showed a value of approximately $362,900, the family revised their asking price upward. She said her lawyer confirmed the appraisal was higher than the $250,000 they had initially agreed to accept.
“The appraisal is definitely over what we were accepting,” she said her lawyer told her. The family is now reportedly asking for $275,000, which she described as “totally reasonable,” though her sister is said to have wanted to push for $300,000.
The TikToker also shared that a county official who contacted her about the property told her the tenant had been blocking access to the gated area, claiming the other properties there would soon be his as well. She says the county planned to remove the gate as a result.
As of her most recent update, the case had not been resolved, and she said the decision on how to proceed would need to be made jointly with her siblings. She has said she plans to keep her followers updated as the matter continues in court. The tenant did not address the dispute publicly, as of writing.
Published: Jul 8, 2026 03:02 pm