What They Don’t Tell You About the $1 Property in Michigan

What They don’t tell you about the $1 property in Michigan is that you’re not just going to pay $1 and immediately start renting it out for $700 a month or so! They give the impression that many out-of-state investors are buying property, usually vacant houses, in Michigan, and renting them out for $700 a month or so, but there are a few other things they “forgot” to tell you: First of all, you’re probably going to have to spend a FEW THOUSAND DOLLARS to make it liveable, as it may have been vandalized (meaning a lot of stuff is gone, such as metal objects - light fixtures, appliances, and such - that can be sold easily for CASH)! But the MAIN THING they don’t tell you is that Michigan has a peculiar law that requires ALL PROPERTY TAXES to be paid up front AT CLOSING, plus you’re going to have to pay for an inspection by the city, as well as other fees such as a brokerage fee (you didn’t think the real estate people were going to WORK FOR FREE, did you?). If the previous owner has paid all the property taxes already, then Michigan law says that YOU MUST REIMBURSE HIM\HER!

How do I know this? I contacted a Michigan real estate firm and told them I was interested in buying some of their $1 properties, and they “wised me up” pretty quickly. They said all the above fees might amount to around $3,500 PLUS REPAIRS! So, like most things in life, there ain’t no FREE LUNCH! I’ve never had much luck with buying things that were “too good to be true” and then reselling them for a profit! We usually get what we pay for, don’t we? And a house for $1 is probably not worth much more than that! Think about it!

Copyright 2014 by Preston Smith

Mozilla Firefox Add-On Problems

Mozilla is promoting some add-ons that "sound too good to be true." I ran a search for "forum: price gong scam" & "forum: TMart scam" & found that BOTH OF THEM are considered to be scams by MANY people who have sent their hard-earned $$$ to TMart as a result of a low price, as a result of a price gong recommendation, only to find that they got nothing but a bunch of questions & requests for an order number, which they were not given; they got NO merchandise, NO refund, NOTHING in return for their $$$ but a LOT OF GRIEF that they didn't need. They need to screen these outfits before they "recommend" them as an add-on to Mozilla & Firefox. I've had bad experiences with eBay & PayPal, who took the side of the seller instead of helping me, which caused me to get scammed out of $45, which is a LOT OF $$$ TO ME (may not be to you, but it is to me). As a result, I've closed both my eBay & PayPal accts. Now, I "do my homework first" when I run onto a "supposed price break." I run a search to see who else found them to be a scam (yes, even Windows considers one of these to be a scam). Many people have not learned this lesson yet. So, they take the price gong recommendation, send their $$$ to TMart, & get NOTHING. They get scammed. The folks @ Mozilla should help us by not "recommending" this adware crap before they do their own homework & check it out.

CRAP OFF OF YOU!

Crap off of you! Have you ever heard anybody say they didn’t have to take any crap off of you? Or maybe you’ve said this yourself! Ever wonder where the expression came from? Well, here’s the unofficial story:

Back in the days before sanitation laws were passed, probably in the 14th century or so, people who lived up on a hill would simply empty their pots out the window, or set up their toilets (very primitive, usually a hole in a piece of wood) so that the “crap” & other unmentionable substances would drain over onto the next lower apartment or house! How did I figure this one out? I watched a TERRIBLE show on YouTube about sanitation conditions, or lack thereof, back in the 14th century or so. This particular show dealt with London, but the same fellow made some other TERRIBLE shows about other major cities at the time & later. I didn’t watch them, needless to say. He went into the fact that butcher shops in town would simply toss the unusable parts of animals out into the streets, & people passing by would have to put “extenders” onto their shoes & boots in order to be able to walk thru all this garbage. Eventually, of course, it all attracted rats, the Black Plague developed as a result, wiping out A THIRD of the population of London, thus waking people up & getting some necessary sanitation laws passed. These required butchering to be done outside the city limits, & they required everyone to hook up their sewer system to the sewer system, so that one’s downhill neighbors wouldn’t have to “take any crap off of...” - well, you get the picture!

Copyright 2012 by Preston Smith

THE FEDERAL PHENOMENON

This post is made by my good friend Stanislaus Dreuckebdodevitskovitz:

I ran into an interesting phenomenon a while back - I call it “The Federal Phenomenon”: when you start talking to some of these stubborn and reluctant Companies about involving the Feds, their attitude changes completely! Obviously, they don’t want any Federal agencies coming around asking questions, nor do they want more Federal laws and regulations applying to them and their Companies. I’ve used this in the past (with Humana Right Source, for one, when they wanted to charge me $3,000 for a little bottle of eye drops and $4,000 for another little bottle of eye drops), and I had occasion to use it today with PayPal!

I ordered some software from a Company a coupla months ago, which was supposed to set up a website or 2 (10, actually, but I never got beyond #2). They insisted that I use their web hosting Company, probably because they were getting a commission off the deal! I used my PayPal account to pay for it. When the whole deal began to go sour, I promptly closed the websites and changed the nameservers (which are obtained thru a different Company, this time for FREE, which “aim” the prospective customer to the website on that particular web host). I notified the software Company and the web hosting Company that I had done this, that the software did not work as stated, that I could get almost NO technical support from them, and that I wanted a refund! Of course, they ignored my E-Mails! So, I filed a claim thru PayPal for a refund, stating that it was a FRAUD! That it had been misrepresented! That these people only wanted the $$$ and that I intended to pursue it as far as possible. Then I began a long agonizing process of calling and continuing to call PayPal, to follow up on my claim.

It is a REAL PAIN IN THE KAZOO to try to get thru PayPal’s phone system, as they put a bunch of recorded messages on first, one has to prove who is calling by entering the correct phone number + the last 4 digits of the “primary account-holder’s Soc. Security Number,” and such. Then a syruppy-sounding lady keeps asking what I want. I try to tell her that I want to talk to a live human being, but of course, the dumb machine is not programmed to recognize this as a response. They continue to kill time by trying to send me an E-Mail about some of their policies, and such! I continue to press * and # and 0 and whatever other keys I think may disconnect the syruppy-sounding machine and get me thru to a live human being. Eventually, usually after 7-8 minutes (I’ve actually timed it, and that’s no lie), it will connect me with some sweet gal in the Philippines, who knows absolutely nothing except how to speak English and halfway sound like she is in the U.S. I always ask if she is in the Philippines! Usually, they are startled by this question, as they think they are fooling someone! After killing some more time with these people, trying to explain what I want, they usually connect me with someone in the U.S., especially after they realize that they (a) don’t know what I’m talking about (b) can’t help me (c) all the above!

PayPal “dragged it’s feet,” taking the side of the seller, stating that it was not a physical product but instead that it was a “digital product,” in other words, the “purchase was for a virtual, digital, or intangible item, which is not covered under PayPal Purchase Protection.  We only cover claims involving physical items that can be shipped and tracked.” There was no tracking number, nothing was shipped (as the software was a download), there was no item to be received, nada, zilch! So, I kept calling PayPal, and the web hosting Company kept trying to tap my PayPal account! One lady suggested I close the PayPal Debit Card, which I did, and apply for another one (which I haven’t done yet until I get a final resolution on this claim). Another man said the web hosting Company had created a second invoice in order to tap my account. I kept getting all kinds of “run-around.” PayPal kept trying to decide in favor of the seller, close the claim, and such. I filed a Fraud Complaint with the F.T.C. (Federal Trade Commission), even tho the total was only slightly over a hundred $$$. After talking to PayPal again this past Mon., I called the F.T.C. again and added PayPal as a party to the Fraud Complaint, since they kept stalling, finding in favor of the seller, and such; I stated that PayPal was a part of the Fraud process, that they were making $$$ off these fraudulent transactions, and such. In talking to PayPal again this week, I (of course) got their Philippine people and Puerto Rica (I think) people first, as they feed callers there first, then transfer them to someone in the U.S., if needed. The “foreigners” could care less about the F.T.C. - in fact, some of them DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT IT IS! But those in the U.S. look at it an entirely different way! At first, I began to tell the U.S. “Help” people that I planned to add PayPal to the Fraud Complaint with the F.T.C., and nothing changed. Then I began to tell them that I HAD ACTUALLY ADDED PAYPAL TO THE FRAUD COMPLAINT WITH THE F.T.C. - and then EVERYTHING BEGAN TO CHANGE! I also added that I plan to send an E-Mail to my Congressman, recommending that new laws be passed which would regulate PayPal as a bank, which it is not! It is a “financial institution that provides Internet services to expedite payments,” but it is NOT A BANK! So, therefore it is NOT regulated by the F.D.I.C. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) like the banks are! When I began talking along these lines, about involving the Feds, their attitude at PayPal changed completely! Suddenly, instead of giving me the old “run-around,” that they would “take my case under advisement,” and “send it to the right department” (kinda like a bank loan where they have to “send it to the committee” and the committee “doesn’t meet until next Monday - I’ve heard this before!), I found that the person I was talking with, had the authority to make a decision RIGHT THEN, and it was IN MY FAVOR! He IMMEDIATELY credited my account for the amount claimed! And, of course, he took it out of the software Company’s account! I was really surprised, in a way; yet in another way, I got to thinking about it, and I realized that they don’t want any new Federal regulations or some Federal officials coming around asking questions! Remember this, as you may be able to use it to “expedite” a claim in the future!

Stanislaus

END OF POSTING.

INCOME INFUSER IS A SCAM

This Report is filed by my good friend Stanislaus Dreuckebdodevitskovitz.

My story is the same as the 60 year old lady’s below: I fell for the Beta Test website first, which I had them install the website using FREE Domain, while the GoDaddy Domain they recommended was about $8-10 or so. That was ALL I saved! After the website worked for a few weeks, I bought their $37 software, which offered 10 websites, supposedly. When I went to get the first one of these installed, also on a FREE Domain, they couldn’t seem to install it & get it working. I called their “help line” numerous times, with little results. Then I got a bill from ISpyHost, the web hosting service, for $97 for Installation of the second website (it was also supposed to be FREE, when I used ISpyHost), plus AN ADDITIONAL $19.95 a month for a second account with them. I called the “help line” again, but nothing got done about it. By then, I had spent $135.85 total, for the software, E-Mail service (Aweber), & hosting. Then I began researching more in depth on the Internet, finding very little about any of these companies, except the scam reports below. That was when I realized that it was all a scam. I had done some research before getting involved in the first place, but all I found was on some forums, saying that it was legitimate. Now I realize that it was a scam, all along! Then I called the Federal Trade Commission, after alerting PayPal. Both were very supportive. In fact, the F.T.C. recommended some law enforcement-related websites for me to report them to, as well. PayPal suggested canceling my Debit Card & having me apply for a new one, which I did. I told the lady at the F.T.C. that I didn’t think the Federal Government needed to regulate the Internet, but that the F.T.C. needed to come down on some of these scam companies to protect the people. I called the F.T.C. again a few days later, to update my report and give them additional information, like names of people involved, phone numbers, addresses, and such.

Companies involved:

Dynamic Prosperity Inc, 4281 Express Lane, Suite L9662, Sarasota, FL 34238, No phone number shown on the Internet, even though I searched through Yellow Pages, White Pages, Chamber of Commerce & Better Business Bureau listings for Sarasota, Florida. Here are some of their “Help Lines,” although I didn’t get much help (nor did I ever talk to a “millionaire coach” although I was supposed to get “free coaching” as part of both packages):

1-888-485-1251, 1-888-486-4385, 1-800-289-3229. Some of their “help” is in India, some in the Philippines, some in Arizona, some in Utah. Most of the time all they do is take down a callback number & a name. Once or twice they actually put me in touch with a Tech Support person who did very little to help me. Most of the time they want to charge $20 + EXTRA!

PROMENTORSCOM  602-2412602  AZ, Phone number is 602-241-2602, 2824 N. Power Rd. #113-377, Mesa, AZ 85215,  Business Management: Neal Mody, Principal.

IspyHost.com - No known address or phone. My copy of E-Mails were included in my reports to the F.T.C. and PayPal, as well as criminal reports to proper agencies.

Income Infuser.com - No known address or phone. My copy of E-Mails were included in my reports to the F.T.C. and PayPal, as well as criminal reports to proper agencies.

www.aimbizsupport.com - supposedly their Technical Help Desk, but I never could seem to get through to them, & later I misplaced my password; when I requested a new one, I never heard from them again.

AWEBER COMMUNICATIONS, HUNTINGDON, VA PA, Phone number is 18772932371, 215-825-2196.

Income Infuser Purchase $37.

People involved:

Darren Salkeld, Dave (no last name given), Mike Antoni, Jason Howell. The video\audio didn’t work on Dave’s introduction, but nobody ever asked me about it, even though I was supposed to be a Beta Tester.

They applied for some trademarks. The correspondent listed for AT HOME WEALTH SYSTEM is RAJ ABHYANKER of RAJ ABHYANKER, P.C., 1580 W EL CAMINO REAL STE 8, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94040-2462 . He is probably an attorney.

I filed a complaint with Mesa, Arizona Better Business Bureau on 8-15-12. Also with Florida Better Business Bureau.


Total $135.85 requested for $37 software, $19.95 x 3 for IspyHost, $1.00 first month with Aweber, $19.00 x 2 for AWeber.

All their videos are shown in their http://click4access.com/ii/members/ area.

Reference:

http://www.scambook.com/company/view/20478/Dynamic-Prosperity-Inc

From http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?p=1025856 - Income Infuser is a Scam:

This is a SCAM. I am a 60 yr old woman on a Fixed Income, trying to make a little money online. I ran across the Ad for Income Infuser and checked it out. They wanted to sell the membership to me at $97, and I said "No Thanks". Then they lowered it to $47, and I said "No Thanks". Then they told me that they were "trying out a new BETA Program, and if I would test it out for them and report back what the 'bugs' were, they would give me the membership FREE", but I also had to "promise not to tell anyone, because everyone else was paying $97 for it". They suckered me with that line.

I joined the "FREE" BETA Program, and the first thing they told me was I had to spend money to get a Domain name from GoDaddy for ($8.17 for 1 year), Sign up with ISpyHost for Hosting (they would pay the one time $97 set-up fee, but I had to pay $19.95 for the 1st month and set-up with $19.95 autopay for every month ongoing through PayPal), Sign up with AWeber ($1.00, for 1st month, and $19.00 autopay for every month ongoing through Credit Card) for Marketing, and set-up with ClickBank (FREE). They told me that they had given me a "Cadillac" and I had to furnish the "Gas and Oil". And I HAD to use these companies or the Program would not work. I scraped together the money to enroll in each of these companies and went to work.

Then they told me to follow the Videos Step by Step to Install and Integrate these Systems into my Program. Meanwhile, I watched every Webinar they suggested to me...Three in the 1st week. The 3rd one, I watched 3 times, because they kept sending it to me. It was trying to Up-Sell me to "buying" their "Coaching help", which I could not afford. I continued to follow the Videos, exactly as told. I got everything installed, except I could not connect it to AWeber. I did it over and over again. I requested help from their Technical crew and was told they could "do it for me, but they would charge me", but they could not help me for FREE. I went through each of the other pieces, Go-Daddy, ISpyHost, and AWeber for help. They each checked and tried to help me sort it out. AWeber noted that one of the problems was in the Video that they told me to follow exactly. There were mistakes in it. I corrected them, but still could not get connected to AWeber.

And speaking of mistakes, the hook that they used to get me involved was that I was "testing a Beta program and needed to let them know about the 'bugs' in the system", there was no place or no one to inform about these "bugs".

Then, I looked ahead and saw that the very next piece, (after I got everything working together) was another UpSell, to get me to purchase other pieces of the program I needed to make this work.

Once I mad it know that I did not have money to hire their "Coaches" or purchase their "UpSells", they dropped me like a "Hot potato" and left me to flounder on my own.

Bottom line is this:

BUYER BEWARE: IF YOU ARE GETTING INVOLVED WITH THIS COMPANY, PREPARE TO GET OUT YOUR WALLET. IF YOU DON'T HAVE MONEY TO SPEND...THEY'LL TAKE YOUR MONEY..BUT THEY WON'T HELP YOU!!!

Shame on them. They are unscrupulous rich Gurus preying on helpless poor people with dreams of some crumbs of the pie. Yeah, the program probably works, if you have the same mindset they do...of taking advantage of other people. But if you don't have "hundreds of $$$ to throw away...don't get involved with Income Infuser. You WILL regret it.

Stanislaus.

BACK YARD BREEDER?

This rant is from my good friend, Stanislaus Dreuckebdodevitskovitz:

I sent a request to some outfit that claims they give computers to good causes, telling ‘em I’m thinking about setting up a non-profit to help with Dachshund & Rat Terrier Rescue. I also mentioned that I’ve been raising puppies. They sent back an “automatic E-Mail,” asking what I meant by “raising puppies!” Now this seems pretty self-explanatory, to me, so I asked ‘em if their dumb machine couldn’t figure that one out! I then elaborated on what all is involved to let my doggies mate, have puppies, then I help raise ‘em, take ‘em to get their shots, & try to find ‘em a good loving home! They sent me back a reply that made me sad, because they said that it looked like I was trying to get a computer for my own gain, “that I was taking advantage of dogs by breeding ‘em,” “that I was a back-yard breeder,” & all that nasty stuff that the rescue people have already told me both in person (when I was showing some doggies recently at WalMart) & on the phone (when one of ‘em died of a stroke & heart attack), that I “was contributing to the problem,” and such, ad nauseam! It made me so sad, I almost cried!

I’m not a “back-yard breeder,” as I don’t have any back yard! I don’t raise AKC puppies, as I don’t think Arkansans will pay that much $$$ for them, + I don’t want to go thru their hassle of filling out all the paperwork. I’m not making any  $$$ at it, & never did, after the food bills & vet bills got paid! I do it for fun, more than anything, as I really did like seeing & handling those little pups & helping to raise ‘em! I figure the doggies are gonna breed anyway, & I've had a hard time keeping 'em from breeding for the last 3 years or so! I got a REAL GOOD doggie out of the deal, Butch, that I wouldn’t take anything for! These things are worth a lot more than the $$$, to me! I try to provide my doggies with a loving home, not in my back yard, but IN MY HOME! I try to love them, I take good care of them, most of the groceries I buy are for them, I take them to the vet if they need it, I buy natural products like Diatomaceous Earth & garlic (for fleas, instead of using CHEMICALS on their necks each month that SLOWLY KILLS THEM), & such for them, & I feel that I’ve found loving homes for the other puppies. No, I don’t give any guarantee that I’ll buy them back if the people later change their mind, but the folks who sold me my car, my house, my prescriptions, & most other things in life don’t make that kind of guarantee, either. I don’t know what else these idiots expect!

Stanislaus.

HOME-MADE SOLAR PANELS

Home-made solar panels may work, but it is my understanding that one needs quite a few of them before being able to make much of a dent in the old electric bill! I happen to live on a shady lot, and I'm not sure it would work for me. I'm interested in building a few, more as an experiment than anything, to see what I can learn, and to decide if it will work for me.

I talked to an electrician friend, who knows how to hook up the commercial solar panels, which I'd probably use, and he said I'd need to be able to have them provide lots of amps and such, to power things like my heat pump\cooling system and my hot water heater. I'm still learning, so I'm open to suggestions.

There's a LOT of information on the Internet about solar systems and other "energy-saving" systems, and it looks like some of them are scams. Most want to sell an E-Book of instructions, which may be too technical for many people. I understand simple wiring, and I think I could rig up something to power a few lights, maybe as an emergency situation when the electricity goes off, which it does a LOT around here! But I'd need an electrician with meters and knowledge, to be able to power the whole house! That's why I think a lot of the information being sold, is way over the heads of most people!

I'm sure the authors of these E-Books had good intentions, but they, like many people who fool with computers, assume that everyone understands all the technical goobldy-gook, which they don't! They probably don't intend to get themselves into a scam situation, but they find themselves being accused of being a scammer, primarily because the buyer doesn't understand the technical terminology! It's still a "buyer beware" market, however!

I'd like to find a ready-made solar panel situation, where somebody comes out and installs it and all I have to do is pay for it. Problem is that most of these are WAY UP INTO THE THOUSANDS OF $$$, and it would take too long to amortize it over my lifetime or the lifetime of a house. As with other electronic items, perhaps it'll come down in price in the future! If we can keep the government and the big companies out of it, it probably will!

Stanislaus Dreuckebdodevitskovitz

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