Stole a $3,000 earnest money deposit from me, and it's not his first time !
I met with mr.
Taplin, he even showed me properties that could get me financed as he explained it. It all seem reasonable to me, after showing me at least six homes i settled on the one that appeared to offer the most value, not the cheapest and not the most expensive either.
As mr. Taplin explained it to me, the deal would be a "lease option", meaning that i would have the option to buy the home at the end of the deal, but until then the house would remain in his company name and i would make payments because my credit was not above a 650 score.
Once again this all seemed legit to me and i followed along in that mr. Taplin appeared to be a experienced realtor and this was my first time out ever even attemping to purchase a home, all i've ever done up until now is rent homes my entire life and i guess i got over-excited and let my guard down.
Upon asking me for the $3000 "earnest money deposit", i simply gave it to him "cash", this is what i mean by "over-excited" !, with high emotions of finnally having the first time opportunity of owning my own home, stupid me i did not even bother to ask for a freaking reciept for my cash, this was on a friday. Mr. Taplin then instructed me to meet with him on the following monday at his scottsdale office.
Monday comes and i head out to his office, upon arrival, his secretary tells me that "mr. Taplin has gone on vacation and will not return until 2-weeks", at first i thought well maybe he just got his wires cross and simply forgot about our appointment, so i waited the 2-weeks.
After 2-weeks and all of my calls to mr. Taplin's cellular phone going straight to voice mail i once again set out to his office numerous of times over a period of 30-days to be told each time by his secretary "mr. Taplin is out of the office showing clients prospective homes !"
I would like either one or the other, the return of my $3,000 cash, and or to be placed in the home that mr. Taplin promised me on the property lease option deal that we first agreed on, thus allowing me to finally live out the "american dream", otherwised this has all been a "pipe-dream" and at the end of it all i'm out of $3000 dollars, money that i cannot affort to lose, it was all i had.
Then to add insult to injury, i got to searching in the internet to investigate mr. Taplin and discovered that he had previously been barred from the state of california for selling real estate without a license, makes no sense to me, how did he manage to get an arizona real estate license after being kicked out of california, are the computers not connected nationwide ?, your guess as good as mine !
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Stole a $3,000 earnest money deposit from me, and it's not his first time !
I met with mr.
Taplin, he even showed me properties that could get me financed as he explained it. It all seem reasonable to me, after showing me at least six homes i settled on the one that appeared to offer the most value, not the cheapest and not the most expensive either.
As mr. Taplin explained it to me, the deal would be a "lease option", meaning that i would have the option to buy the home at the end of the deal, but until then the house would remain in his company name and i would make payments because my credit was not above a 650 score.
Once again this all seemed legit to me and i followed along in that mr. Taplin appeared to be a experienced realtor and this was my first time out ever even attemping to purchase a home, all i've ever done up until now is rent homes my entire life and i guess i got over-excited and let my guard down.
Upon asking me for the $3000 "earnest money deposit", i simply gave it to him "cash", this is what i mean by "over-excited" !, with high emotions of finnally having the first time opportunity of owning my own home, stupid me i did not even bother to ask for a freaking reciept for my cash, this was on a friday. Mr. Taplin then instructed me to meet with him on the following monday at his scottsdale office.
Monday comes and i head out to his office, upon arrival, his secretary tells me that "mr. Taplin has gone on vacation and will not return until 2-weeks", at first i thought well maybe he just got his wires cross and simply forgot about our appointment, so i waited the 2-weeks.
After 2-weeks and all of my calls to mr. Taplin's cellular phone going straight to voice mail i once again set out to his office numerous of times over a period of 30-days to be told each time by his secretary "mr. Taplin is out of the office showing clients prospective homes !"
I would like either one or the other, the return of my $3,000 cash, and or to be placed in the home that mr. Taplin promised me on the property lease option deal that we first agreed on, thus allowing me to finally live out the "american dream", otherwised this has all been a "pipe-dream" and at the end of it all i'm out of $3000 dollars, money that i cannot affort to lose, it was all i had.
Then to add insult to injury, i got to searching in the internet to investigate mr. Taplin and discovered that he had previously been barred from the state of california for selling real estate without a license, makes no sense to me, how did he manage to get an arizona real estate license after being kicked out of california, are the computers not connected nationwide ?, your guess as good as mine !
Foolish customer