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Mark stevenson owner/broker of townsville real estate trading as remax excellence was an unlicensed financil adviser for storm financial which went bankrupt the losses total $3 billion mark stevenson conned his elderly clients some suffering from dementia into using equity in their homes to invest in the share market mark would have his elderly clients sign loan applications he would later falsify clients income details to obtain margin loans to purchase shares

mark stevenson owner of remax excellence was an unlicensed financial adviser with storm financial which went bankrupt with losses of $3 billion mark stevenson conned his many elderly clients some suffering from dementia in to using the equity in their homes to invest in the share market mark would have his elderly clients sign loan applications and he would later falsify clients income details to obtain margin loans to purchase shares

mark stevenson principle of remax townsville was an unlicensed financial adviser for storm financial storm went bust with losses set to top more than $3 billion mark conned investors many of them were elderly in to using the equity in their homes to obtain equity loans to buy shares mark falsified the income details to obtain loans many elderly investors were on pensions and had no way of obtaining equity loans had their true incomes been known to the banks

I rented from Re/Max in Wilmington, NC through an Agent named Karen and when we moved into the house it was disgusting. Nothing was cleaned like we were advised it would be. lights were blown and not all lighting fixtures had bulbs. So I took pictures of the place just in case. After a few months of dealing with there problems and not getting the help we needed for things to be taken care of we (roommate) decided to leave and move to a better place. Our deposit was taken away for a water bill that was so called not paid (we have proof of payment) and they power washed the house and redid the paint job all on our deposit. We asked for a paint job prior to moving in and the outside of the house was nasty. VERY crooked if you ask me.. Going through a legal battle now.. BE AWARE!

I am a Realtor with RE/MAX Coastal properties in Wilmnington NC, . I did a referral with Kenneth Faustin in Aruba. My clients went down there and bought a condo from his office. Closed the deal aug. 2008 and to date I have not recieved my commission check. My Broker sent emials to him and he kept saying he was sending the money per wiring instructions we sent.. Never came ...Now he is gone from Remax and the buyers agent he gave my buyers too has RE/MAX and she got paid on the deal. She will not pay me the referral either. This is Bad practice in Aruba.. Please note that I called the international RE/MAX and because it is out of the States they could not do anything about this issue... Janice Hanna RE/MAX Coastal Properties

Mr. Ballagh has a sour method to practicing real estate. After a contract was placed and agreed upon on a house he was selling, he pulled out to take a better offer. It put a single mom and 3 kids out of a home and placed a few more dollars in HIS pocket. He has no regard for morals.

The experience started well : All smiles and courtesy was handed to us until we paid $ 8000.00 in advance and signed the contracts. After that, rudeness and arrogance replaced smiles and professional mannerisms.
As the following points required for us to visit Remax, it suddenly felt like we had brought with us a massive task for them to tend to. Rolling eyes and deep sighs was our most common welcome !
1- No keys to the letter box, (greatly needed to receive important documents from France)
2- Mold and dust on walls and doors (it was promised upon inspection that this would be taken care of!)- Cleaner did not ever come back
3- Dryer not working (5 weeks to get someone to come out and fix!)
4- Stains on carpets not mentioned on inspection report

*These are just the main problems encountered in the 1st 2 weeks
In the matter of the letter box keys, i went Remax every second day and kept getting the same answer :” We are still trying to reach the owner...you should show some patience”
Having reached my wit’s end, i contacted a friend who’s been in Australia for over 20 years and asked him to come in to their office and help me talk to them.
As we once more asked what progress have been made, he sat there quietly until he heard our property manager simply tell us that things like this” just happen this way in Australia”. The moment he started to talk in Australian, and not in a struggling “Frenglish”, demanding that a locksmith be called in straightaway etc, she changed her behaviour very quickly and started asking exactly who he was etc...
Magically, within the next 5 minutes, she had managed to finally contact the owner, got permission to send in a locksmith the next day! The next day, they, once more magically, found the original keys?!?!?!?!?
In mid January, we decided to extend our stay in beautiful Noosa and went in to Remax, asked to talk to the property manager to extend but she wasn’t available. I left my details with the receptionist. No one returned my call so i called a few days later, was transferred to our managers answering service and left a message...Still no response until a week later, on Friday 30th January.

I called her back on the following day, Saturday 31st. She made it clear that she was not happy to be disturbed on a Saturday but did tell me that she would contact the owner on the Monday and would call me back...I am still waiting for that call today!
In the meantime, I started to look for another place to rent for our last 6 weeks in Noosa, as my lease with Remax was almost over ( 3rd March) and found something close by with another agency(starting on the 5th March).
On the 25th of February I went in to Remax to see what i needed to do to finalise the unit and get the bond back, as the process is very different back home.

This is when she told me that i would have to pay rent until the 10th of March, making up a 14 day notice. Hmmmm, interesting but nevertheless written on our agreement.
So i contacted my friend again as the language barrier was too great once more. (Everybody i have met in Noosa is nice, patient, understanding and make efforts to speak a little slower so I can understand better; all except Remax staff who just seem to get so very irritated when they speak no slower and have to repeat themselves.)
The property manager came out and when my friend asked firstly why my messages had not been returned, all she could repeat (3 times!) was that the receptionists at Remax were not trained as property managers so what happened between the front desk and the property managers, she had no control over!?!?!? Sorry, even today i still cannot see the connection between her not calling me back over the period of 6 weeks and the receptionist not having any training for property management!
Anyway, i told her that my experience with Remax had been terrible from the start and she simply replied : Well, I can’t talk about previous events or the property manager who gave you the rental contract back in November because she is no longer working for us.(Mind you, my friend and did see the previous manager walk past twice in the corridor, wearing her Remax shirt) Another amazing Remax unsolved mystery
All in all. She didn’t have very much to say through this meeting, other than, in a very serious, suddenly informative yet quite threatening voice, she said that if I chose to contact the RTA or go as far as the tribunal to argue this extra 7 day payment, that I would quite certainly not see a cent from my bond for weeks if not months!
Well, we are certainly not desperate for this money at all but, out of principle, refuse to pay.
Had we been treated with professional mannerism and a little respect at any point through our dealings with Remax, instead of having to endure rudeness, arrogance, insults, incompetent service, endless sighs and eye rolling when we had to physically come in and attempt to get results for ourselves, we would certainly not be in this situation today...
Do the owners have any idea how their properties are being managed? I wonder!
My friend’s work involves working with real estates and he says that it is by far the worst service he has come across in the 15 years of being in business.

he man is the wost person in all the real estate that I know of. What he is a broker then he turns around and collect by being the landlord also. Because the houses is in his name. He also sleep with women who have money so he can use some of their money for his purposes. sunil makes shady deals with people to get them approve for home loans so they can buy houses. The clients don't know until it's to late. basicly it's this he get someone to approve on a loan for a home, make a deal with the loan applicate to get a piece of the loan. then turn around money off of property that he sold because he 's the broker. If the home ends up back on the market he do the same process all over again. Now with his own property he get one of his buddies in his office to do the paper work for him. He puts the house on the market pull the equadity out still collect the attends rent make money off the sell as the home owner plus get a cut from the buddy that did the sale. This did'nt sound right to me the first time I heard it but to many people that delt with him that I came across says the same thing that SUNIL SIGNH can't be trusted.

My husband and I were looking to purchase a home and we worked with FRED DIPRENDA owner/agent at Remax in Caldwell. We asked to view some specific properties and we refused. He said we were not right for the area and it or we werent suitable. At first we didnt say anything. But after time passed we became more and more enraged in this day and age he would do such a thing. He is unprofessional and deserves to be cited and fined for his behavior. We are now consulting with out lawyer and will be filing a formal grieveance.

Transaction Fee Today I went to the above broker to retrieve a paper called a Listing Agreement that seemed to be missing from my file. When all of these papers were signed, the real estate agent took them and dropped me off copies the next day. Anyway, when I got the Listing Agreement, much to my surprise, I had supposedly signed an agreement to pay the broker a "transaction fee" of $695 plus his commission. I truly do not believe that line was filled in when i signed the agreement, but if it was, it surely was never explained to me that I would be responsible for that charge. Strange thing is; there is no transaction between the broker and myself, they have never shown my house, advertised it ... no open house ... nothing. The buyer passed by and saw the sign. Is this transaction fee legal? What can I do about it?

We made an offer on a single family home in Towamencin township on May 16th contingent on a successful home inspection with a deposit of $1000. We choose "option 1" on the agreement of sale. The inspection did not go well and we elected to continue our home search. The realtor says he cannot release the $1000 deposit to us without the seller's signature and the seller refuses to sign. The home inspection was done May 24th and the seller's agency (Remax) has continued to show the property despite a breach of contract.

The company used a very appealing sounding lead program that turned out to be completely bogus and after we canceled the account they kept sending leads and charging our credit card. Company was unwilling to refund the money. Stay clear.

I moved out of my rental property at 1034 Cantabria Heights, Las Vegas, NV 89123 for over 30 days. Based on the original lease the company has 30 days to return the deposit. I have sent an email in an attempt to obtain verification that the deposit was returned with no response. The original deposit was $1400.00 which there would be dedcutions for cleaning and changing of locks.

showed house without permission then will not even return a phone call when i questioned her about leaving the door open. she also lies about houses she sells such as new roof, fully remodeled(black mold).so on and so on. just a bad person.period!

showed house while my wife was not home and i was at work with no notice. my wife came home to cars in the driveway she thought we were being robbed but alas it was just the landlord showing the house that is in foreclouser that we told her that we would be out of on the following tuesday with no phone call or anything we have given our number to her several times still she has no morals

REMAX LTD Select [protected]; [protected]. Can a Broker not be held responsible for her agents acts? According to Darlene (broker) she does not "mother" her agents. Roy Garcia, realtor, has mislead me in promising to property manage, free rental guarantee, 100% financing of loan and signed an agreement to pay a portion of the difference between my total mortgage (1st&2nd) and the monthly lease in excess of $350.00 just so that he could lure me to close a real estate sale. Furthermore, he promised to pay $500.00 as a referral fee for allowing his company to do real estate presentation at my house and inviting a party of at least 5.

He has been on default for more than five months and refuse to call me back to resolve the matter. He did call me once, and made promise to stay current in his obligations. Up to this time, he remains on default. This has caused me severe financial hardship.

He has also failed in his responsibility as a property managment and has not responded to my demand for him to release the current tenant's security deposit inspite of being notified that property management service has been terminated.