A con man. Even looks like one. Promises great things in rehabbing and renting the property he has helped you find. He hires the cheapest labor he can find and does everything as cheaply as possible.
I bought an 6 apt. building through him in 2012. It was in great disrepair. He said he would have it up and running in just over 3 months; that it needed to be all electric because it was cheaper in Kansas than gas; and he would have it renovated up to Section 8 standards.
I live on the West Coast. This bldg. is in Kansas City, MO. I could go on and on and on about all the extremely low life things he did. He broke more promises than I could number. The quality of the job was unbelievably bad. eg. the carpet was taken up but the staples remained. The workers painted over the filthy floors- over nails, money, staples, and dry wall that was lying on the floor. They then polyurethaned over that. It took me weeks trying to fix that mess. One more of countless eg. They put up light fixtures in the halls where they simply took the fixture out of the box and screwed it up without attaching the wiring or even taking the wrapping off the wiring.
I received fines from the city over the garbage in the yard that he said he would have removed but not in time before I had to pay fines. He had the boiler removed from the basement that had asbestos on it and an upaid employee complained to the city and I had fines for asbestos removal and clean up. I had fines for no permits.
The electricity was the biggest mess. He told me for months and months and months that it was the electric company's fault. I was in contact with the man responsible from the electric company and he called John on his lying. Made no difference. He just kept lying. The sub-contractor he had hired, Dennis Raje,(another really low life person) took out the 220 wiring to the apt., and replaced it with 110 amp wiring that was insufficient for an all electric bldg. Cost me thousands to get that straightened out.
The whole thing is still a nightmare to me. I hired another contractor 2 years later when John disappeared not completing half of what was promised. That contractor played a similar game. I don't know how I even made it through but for God.
As it turns out, the bldg. is worth $50-$80k. I have far, far more than that in the bldg. I consider this the biggest disaster of my life. Our choices really do matter. I can't say his name without feeling sick.
I do blame myself but I had to let that go too. Nothing good comes from it. So many lessons learned and a lot of faith in humanity lost.
Keep as far away as you can from him. He is the lowest form of life.
Homes.com. Solicited me for SEO. Long presentation. Started with Mark. While talking with Mark, i heard bells ringing in the background and cheers for another victim they captured. I was moved upline to a supervisor/closer named Benjamin who couldn't fluff the limited benefits his company offered and when I said let's just cut to the bottom line. "how much". He said $20,000 or we could work something out at $3,000 a month... I said that I don't have something like that in my budget even if I felt the value was there. He said, "If I don't sell it to you, I'll sell it to one of your compeititors". I said, "I think you should sell it to one of my competitors." He got pissed and said before abruptly ending the call that he will be sure to tell my competitors that "we are closing our doors and going out of business." What an pompous a*s!
In short, rude, arrogant, contemptuous of the customer, product benefits a grade schooler could duplicate, and priced...well, you decide.
HOMES.COM is yet another online website that has popped up, designed for the sole purpose of scamming realtors into paying big monthly fees ($100/month) to ensure that they data reported on their site under your name is accurate.
HOMES.COM automatically lists every person with an active real estate license, working or not. However, in order for your data to be accurate and acurately show a full-time realtor's listings from the Multiple Listing Service (MLS), a REALTOR must pay HOMES.COM a monthly fee.
Consumers, please know that the only comprehensive and accurate source of data for ALL properties listed for sale in the Bay Area is the realtor-owned It's free of advertising and posts new active listings just as soon as they hit the market.
All other sites simply feed from our site, and rarely, if ever accurate. Stop the madness!
They lure you in by listing homes at low prices and do not have the property address listed. I was able to pull up the homes using the sq footage, year built and accommodations that were listed on the site.
All of the homes they listed on their site were either expired or sold properties. They had a property that my friend purchased in September listed on their website.
You have to sign up to view the address or place a bid on the property.. If it seems too good to be true, it usually is.
Homes.com Reviews
A con man. Even looks like one. Promises great things in rehabbing and renting the property he has helped you find. He hires the cheapest labor he can find and does everything as cheaply as possible.
I bought an 6 apt. building through him in 2012. It was in great disrepair. He said he would have it up and running in just over 3 months; that it needed to be all electric because it was cheaper in Kansas than gas; and he would have it renovated up to Section 8 standards.
I live on the West Coast. This bldg. is in Kansas City, MO. I could go on and on and on about all the extremely low life things he did. He broke more promises than I could number. The quality of the job was unbelievably bad. eg. the carpet was taken up but the staples remained. The workers painted over the filthy floors- over nails, money, staples, and dry wall that was lying on the floor. They then polyurethaned over that. It took me weeks trying to fix that mess. One more of countless eg. They put up light fixtures in the halls where they simply took the fixture out of the box and screwed it up without attaching the wiring or even taking the wrapping off the wiring.
I received fines from the city over the garbage in the yard that he said he would have removed but not in time before I had to pay fines. He had the boiler removed from the basement that had asbestos on it and an upaid employee complained to the city and I had fines for asbestos removal and clean up. I had fines for no permits.
The electricity was the biggest mess. He told me for months and months and months that it was the electric company's fault. I was in contact with the man responsible from the electric company and he called John on his lying. Made no difference. He just kept lying. The sub-contractor he had hired, Dennis Raje,(another really low life person) took out the 220 wiring to the apt., and replaced it with 110 amp wiring that was insufficient for an all electric bldg. Cost me thousands to get that straightened out.
The whole thing is still a nightmare to me. I hired another contractor 2 years later when John disappeared not completing half of what was promised. That contractor played a similar game. I don't know how I even made it through but for God.
As it turns out, the bldg. is worth $50-$80k. I have far, far more than that in the bldg. I consider this the biggest disaster of my life. Our choices really do matter. I can't say his name without feeling sick.
I do blame myself but I had to let that go too. Nothing good comes from it. So many lessons learned and a lot of faith in humanity lost.
Keep as far away as you can from him. He is the lowest form of life.
Homes.com. Solicited me for SEO. Long presentation. Started with Mark. While talking with Mark, i heard bells ringing in the background and cheers for another victim they captured. I was moved upline to a supervisor/closer named Benjamin who couldn't fluff the limited benefits his company offered and when I said let's just cut to the bottom line. "how much". He said $20,000 or we could work something out at $3,000 a month... I said that I don't have something like that in my budget even if I felt the value was there. He said, "If I don't sell it to you, I'll sell it to one of your compeititors". I said, "I think you should sell it to one of my competitors." He got pissed and said before abruptly ending the call that he will be sure to tell my competitors that "we are closing our doors and going out of business." What an pompous a*s!
In short, rude, arrogant, contemptuous of the customer, product benefits a grade schooler could duplicate, and priced...well, you decide.
HOMES.COM is yet another online website that has popped up, designed for the sole purpose of scamming realtors into paying big monthly fees ($100/month) to ensure that they data reported on their site under your name is accurate.
HOMES.COM automatically lists every person with an active real estate license, working or not. However, in order for your data to be accurate and acurately show a full-time realtor's listings from the Multiple Listing Service (MLS), a REALTOR must pay HOMES.COM a monthly fee.
Consumers, please know that the only comprehensive and accurate source of data for ALL properties listed for sale in the Bay Area is the realtor-owned It's free of advertising and posts new active listings just as soon as they hit the market.
All other sites simply feed from our site, and rarely, if ever accurate. Stop the madness!
Look out for Homes.com!
They lure you in by listing homes at low prices and do not have the property address listed. I was able to pull up the homes using the sq footage, year built and accommodations that were listed on the site.
All of the homes they listed on their site were either expired or sold properties. They had a property that my friend purchased in September listed on their website.
You have to sign up to view the address or place a bid on the property.. If it seems too good to be true, it usually is.