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1. Casa Simpatico, Santa Cruz, Nayarit, Mex - unlawfully retained security deposit


Wonderful place, the complaint is not about the place. Mostly as advertised - and we had a wonderful time. This complaint is about the dishonest behaviour of the owner, Andy Stock.

In email communications with us he confessed that he had not charged us as much as he wanted, and therefore was keeping the security deposit, 25% of the fairly large rental fee. We have the signed agreement and the place was left even better than we found it. We asked him several times to reconsider, to no avail - it was clear he did not care and was well aware of what he was doing.

We can produce the email trail and the signed agreement if anyone is interested. See also for a copy of the rental agreement:

http://fun-vacations-in-mexico.blogspot.com/2010/01/bad-experience-at-casa-simpatico.html

and the email trail:

http://fun-vacations-in-mexico.blogspot.com/2010/01/bad-experience-2-at-casa-simpatico.html

Thanks.
Category:   Mexico

Date Added: Feb 1, 2010
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2. Do Not Use VacationHomes.com (Scams all Over)


Here is an email I sent to VacationHomes.com today. I found multiple fake listings while looking for less than 10 minutes today. I called VacationHomes.com, but we directed to a voicemail each time. This site is absolutely bogus. Do not rent a home on there.

I am with Five Star Beach Properties in Destin, Florida. We received a concern from a guest who saw a 'cloned property' on your website at a 1/5 of the price. Someone has stolen our property information and photos and created a listing here:

http://www.vacationhomes.com/Luxurious+Beach+Front+Living-30534
http://www.vacationhomes.com/Destin+Exculsive+Villa-30529
This is also fake- http://www.vacationhomes.com/Luxurious+Beach+Front+Home-30526
This is also fake- http://www.vacationhomes.com/Brand+New+Gulf+Front+home-30538

You will see Casa Blanca on our website here: http://www.fivestargulfrentals.com/property.aspx?PropertyID=16

We tried calling both numbers listed and did not get a person. Please remove this listing. I do not know if there are any other of our properties that have been copied, but you probably should remove. I am forwarding all of this information to www.vrwd.org. If you guys can't control your website I am going to let everyone know not to use it. I am also sending this to the BBB.
Category:   United States > Florida

Date Added: May 19, 2010
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3. Vacation rental home fraud


Advertised as oceanfront. In reality is oceanview with direct beach access. Home sits behind two homes and the walkway goes in between. Can see the ocean, but not the beach from the home. Realty company insists it is oceanfront.
Category:   United States > North Carolina

Date Added: Jun 21, 2010
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4. They never will leave you - they too addicted to your money...


I rented an average studio apt at 209 North Ft. Lauderdale Beach Blvd, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33304 nine years ago. It was very bad time for US - when 9/11 happened. I rented it from David Shwaery and Clifford Cone (on 11 floor)- for7 months and all 7 months payed top dollar for their empty, average, with dirty wall studio, when no one could pay no rent - economy went dramatically down and people lost their jobs...
Next door, in same building, people were renting marble floor, with great furniture apts for twice less than I payed to these guys - I was sending them every month to RI checks, issued by JPMorgan Chase Bank.
What happened next... When after 7 months I was moving out, I, practically was robbed by these guys. I left in apt series of big expensive canvases/ paintings (with an agreement to sign and send to me) so D. Shwaery could put them on display in his hair salon in RI (this is what he said we'd like to do).
When I called after couple of weeks, asking where paintings are, Clifford Cone said that they were demolished by workers who came to repair this apt after I left. Imaging my feelings...
And this is not all... I had many friends in that building, but doorman didn't let me come inside to the building after I moved out - my ex-landlords asked him not to.
Reason: these guys-Shwaery and Cone- after they performed their crime, decided to destroy me emotionally and make me look like a bad person in front of others, so I couldn't fight for my rights. And it almost happened.
As an active artist, I cannot function without my work.When I said to Shwaery that I will sue him for what he did, he said that he will tell to police that I didn't pay him rent, this is why he got paintings. (Rent was payed by checks and it is fact,)
Eventually, after many-many months of calling and askinng other people to talk to Shwaery, I got my paintings back. But damage had made. Emotional and physical.
I would never go back to this old story, if these crooks - or how to name them? (then they were around 65, and now over 70) didn't remind me about themselves. Before, in 2004, I was receiving from Shwaery lots of spam - emails, infected with spyware, he also did other damaging stuff online. After was a break for about 2 years, and now again this person bothers me with his spam and otherthing. I do not want to be bothered!
WARNING other people who going to rent property from those guys... They are never give up their bad activities (and you maybe even won't know it) and you risking stuck with them for many-many years even you won't remember their names - because they remember yours. Dangerous and nasty people, who use internet for their bad purposes.
Category:   Central America
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United States > Florida

Date Added: Jul 29, 2010
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