Don’s Thoughts II

A little over two years ago a young man (mid 40’s) whom we will call S went to his Mom, whom we will call V (mid to early 70’s) and said, “Hey Mom, look at this great property. We can buy a great town house at a great price, we only need 10-15K down. She told him no. More than once, but he said, “Let us at least go check it out!” (On the way there he asked if she brought her check books, she had.)

Now, in S’s defense, the property area was GREAT, the house was Great, and the name of the Developer was great in the form of name recognition, Sullivan Homes. From my investigation it is not THE Sullivan Homes that is known all over the US though. It is a guy that a little over 2 years ago decided to make some money and “build houses”.

It seems he raised a bit over 6M dollars from people in this attempt to make money. He is now closed shop within the last few weeks, having not made one dent in making his “promises” true. No ground was broken, and nothing was done.

Now, back to V and S. When they reviewed the contract, that S talked V into reading, V asked that any deposit be put into Escrow. The Developer said no, they wouldn’t do that, as there was too much overhead and hassles for one and all. They said if they didn’t want it, the location would be sold to the next person sitting in the waiting room (which was full). So, they were given two or three copies of the contract, which they signed and initialed each page. They kept on full contract unsigned for some reason. V then wrote checks for the total sum of $21,000 as a down payment.

A few weeks later they received two PHOTO COPIES of the document MINUS page 8. Now page 8 happened to be the page that lists the recourse available to the buyer should the seller not make their commitments. Why was this page missing? My first comment was this fills like an intent to defraud. When V, just this past week, forced S to look into getting her money back, which part of her inheritance from her husband who passed away a few months before they signed this contract, because the ground hadn’t been broken yet, and there had been no response as to when they would start on the house, and she could really use the money, and the contract gave Sullivan two years after the signing to finish construction, which was now up, they were unable to get any response from Sullivan.

I found out why:
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/tcoast/epaper/2007/07/14/m1a_SLSULLIVAN_0714.html

Not good.

This WHOLE event sets of the investigator in me, and has me very much feeling like this was fraud from the word go. V’s attorney things so too. I think Mr. Sullivan’s intent was to raise money and move on. He did a good job.

Now V has to live on an even tighter budget than she should have to. It’s not a good thing. Now, mind you S is partially to blame too, on several levels, but Sullivan is the bad guy here…

Good luck V, and your friends are here for you!

I have a lady friend, whom we will call D, who has a lady friend, whom we will call T. Now T is a married white girl, but separated for a little while now. (Not sure how long.) In recent months she started dating a large (6′1″, 245ish lbs) black man. Now this man has demanded that she date no one else, that she call him any time she leaves home, work, etc, and any time she is at a new location. He has threatened her with a gun, choked her, and has told her if he ever catches her with another man, he will kill the man and her. He keeps a REAL tight leash on her. He is still married and lives with his wife, and says he “will divorce her soon”.

Her friend D, as well as myself and others, have told her that it is not a good situation, and she complains about it all the time. She says she wants to break up with him, but she “hurts inside” at the thought and doesn’t want to leave him.

Recently she asked me to do a background on him, and in the process tells me that she had a letter from a court house giving him permission to leave an area while on probation to look for a job. When she “challenged” him on it, even though she had the letter “in hand”, he denied it and go mad with her again for “looking into him”. Remember, he has choked her and threatened her with a gun and death. One of her friends, a local (to her) cop, won’t even talk with her anymore because of her actions over this event, after he warned her that she needed to leave this looser.

So, I did the background investigation on him. I was not happy with I saw, but I also felt if I gave her the info, she would challenge him again, and that he may hurt or even kill her this time, so I told her basically that he was a bad person, which I think she kinda knows anyway, and that she really needed to dump him, change her email addresses, phone numbers, etc, and get a restraining order against him (based on the threats, choking, etc.).

She responds basically with “I just ran a local check on him, and he doesn’t have any record here. I think he is a great guy, and you all are just out to ruin a good thing.” Actually tells D that I can “Kiss Her A??”! Go figure. First she asks me to look into him for her, which tells me she deep inside herself knows that he is bad, but then when I tell her he is bad, she gets mad at me?

Now she is demanding the info (which I did without any fee, so there is no obligation to provide her the info) I came up with. In seeing her “profile” based on past actions and her attitude, I am afraid if I do give her the info she will take it straight to him and he will once again get mad and do some harm. She tells D “No, I know better than that.” then in another breaths says “I won’t challenge him in person anyway”. ANY way she challenges him could be bad for her I’m betting.

Should I share the, not so good, info with her?

I have two paintings of Anne Marie Kolatcar that I need to sale. This lady has some very strong talent and her art is lovely, but for various reasons, I need to sell two of the three pieces that I have of hers. (I need the money. )

The first is:

Rice Field in South China
$8,000(US) plus shipping/insurance based on location (from Florida, USA)

and the second is:

Sierra Spring
$10,000(US) plus shipping/insurance based on location (from Florida, USA)

These are framed paintings in excellent condition and beautifully done!

Send your interest to me at dbell@tdbellenterprises.com.

Thanks,

Don

Well, AT&T stuck hard this morning. They accepted my payment a few days ago, then say someone called in as me and asked for the account to be shut down. After paying $99.00 for the month of July. And they kept the money too! I need to pay another $99.00 to get the service turned back on. My account is SUPPOSED to have a password on it that they are supposed to ask for, but it appears they didn’t. (They haven’t asked me for it the past three or four times I’ve had to call over the last 6 months or so myself…) IF they had asked for the password, and they are not to ask for anything OTHER than the password, as the rest of the things they would asked can easily be compromised, this would not have happened.

So, for those of you that have my phone number, it’s dead at the moment. I am working on getting it back up soon!