If confidence were currency, Tameika Goode would be a billionaire.
Picture this. A $2.3 million mansion sitting pretty in a suburb of Washington DC. Tall ceilings, fancy kitchen. The kind of house that whispers, “Old money.” And somehow, a woman with $946 a month in income, including food stamps, said, “Yes. This is mine now.”
No mortgage, no lease, just vibes.
According to reports, Tameika didn’t just squat quietly. She upgraded the storyline. She posed as a financial adviser. An expert, a money mentor selling $800 courses. Teaching people how to win financially while allegedly living rent-free in someone else’s mansion.
You can’t make this up.
It’s giving “How to Build Wealth 101” while actively breaking and entering. It’s giving “Boss Babe Energy” with a side of trespassing.
And wait. There’s more.
While living this luxury cosplay life, she reportedly allowed her school-aged daughter to work instead of sending her to school. So while mom was flexing mansion life, the kid was clocking shifts. The irony is so thick you could spread it on toast.
“She is a shyster. She built this presence online, showing off the house, teaching people how to do bankruptcy stuff, and charging $800 to do your bankruptcy paperwork, and she herself doesn’t know how she is doing, and the courts are trying to hold her in contempt,” 19-year-old neighbor Ian Chen told the Mail.
Chen, a pre-law student at William & Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia, became suspicious after Goode moved into the next-door mansion in leafy Bethesda, Maryland, when the previous owners faced foreclosure and the bank took possession of the home in the summer of 2025.
He uncovered paperwork alleging that, far from a self-made success, Goode was actually a bankrupt layabout who sent her school-age daughter to work in a nearby Paris Baguette bakery.
“Her parents did not work,” Chen said of Goode’s daughter. “She wasn’t going to school; she seemed to be working and was the only source of income for that family.”
Chen, who set up cameras to film Goode living high on the hog in the mansion, claimed that multiple neighbors reported the situation to Child Protective Services, but no action was taken.
What followed was months of intimidation from Goode, including a brazen lawsuit against Chen, accusing him of stalking and trespassing, which was quickly thrown out by a judge in the District Court of Maryland.
Goode was finally convicted of breaking and entering and trespassing in late January and was sentenced to 90 days at Montgomery County Detention Center.
The lesson? You cannot out-confidence property law, you cannot “mindset” your way into ownership and you definitely cannot teach financial literacy from a house you don’t legally occupy.
In the end, the mansion stands tall, the courts did their job and the internet got a story so wild it sounds fictional.
