The
website was promoted on the web, was on the first page for
"Daytona real estate" Daytona Beach real estate"
and had 100's of first page listings in the search engines.
According
to the agreement made between us with Janet Fetterman in
November 2006, formally recorded February 2007. Funcoastlife
was to receive 20% of commissions for all sales that came
from leads from the sites Strongcastle Inc created and/or
maintained.
To
date, May 10, 2009, Janet Fetterman has not reported a single
sale from these websites.
This
in spite of the fact that in 2006 Ms. Fetterman was lucky
to have 3 listings in 2006.
She
now, in her own words has 16 or 17 sales per month, over
a 100 listings, and in the year of 2008 had over 16 million
in sales.
The
websites Strongcastle Inc implemented brought over 3000
unique visitors per month to the sites marketing for Janet
Fetterman, and over 80,000 unique visitors in 2
years.
In
spite of the greatly increased sales, beginning at the time
of Strongcastle Inc’s marketingMs. Fetterman has failed
to account for a single sale resulting from the websites.
We
believe their have been many.
Until
August of 2008 we believed Ms. Fetterman was struggling
in the real estate business just like most realtors. In
a visit in August 2008, when questioned about poor sales,
she “accidentally revealed” that on the contrary she was
doing great, registering 16, 17 sales per month.
The
obvious question which we did not ask at that time, was
where was our share?
We
do not know what went through Ms. Fetterman’s mind, perhaps
she regretted the slip of tongue revealing her current income.
We do know that from that date forward we have been harassed
and vilified by both Ms. Fetterman and her partner Eugene
Monkevitch.
Whereas
we had an agreement on friendly terms with Mr. Monkevitch
as to the building, payment and completion of this websites
as late as mid August, suddenly August 29 2008 he was threatening
chargeback. He again threatened chargeback in September
2008.
When
we responded that we had provided exactly what he ordered
and had agreed to, and that we could not complete his site
so long as he continued to threaten he was not going to
pay us and furthermore might initiate a chargeback, he stopped
complaining.
In
October Janet Fetterman began complaining to everyone she
knew, including many friends and acquaintances that we had
in common, that Strongcastle Inc was ripping her off by
mixing their bank accounts with hers.
This
entirely fallacious complaint was supposedly precipitated
by the fact Strongcastle Inc was in dispute for five or
six hundred dollars with their merchant processor in an
entirely separate manner, and therefore in Janet Fetterman’s
narration, the processor that we shared was charging her,
in her merchant account.
That
this was entirely fallacious was easily demonstrated. We
were disputing with the merchant processor over five or
six hundred dollars, all of Ms. Fettermans chargebacks and
NSF charges were in the order of $6.95, $10 or $20, with
subsequent NSF fees for failing to maintain adequate funds
in the Funcoastlife account to cover charges costing roughly
$37 in merchant account processing fees per month.
Ms.
Fetterman accused us and told everyone that we were stealing
from her, and to us that our difficulties were contaminating
hers. When we clarified to her in writing in November 2008
that our accounts were in no way mixed with hers we thought
the matter was over with.
We
were wrong.
In
February Ms. Fetterman began the unfounded complaints all
over again.
At
this point Mr. Monkevitch began his attack too.
What
was interesting about all Mr. Monkevitch’s attacks, as well
as Ms. Fetterman’s attacks was that we could not meet their
demands even if we wanted to.
This
was one of the prime indicators that their attacks were
not about what they claimed, but about something else, namely
not paying the money they owed.
Ms.
Fetterman demanded that we repair and fix bank NSF fees
that she herself had incurred.
Ms.
Fetterman had her assistant destroy the rankings of her
own websites in Janurary February 2009, and demanded that
Strongcastle Inc fix these damages for free.
Ms.
Fetterman publicly accused us of having her credit line
reduced to $50,000 from $70,000, when the very bank she
was accruing hundreds of dollars in chargebacks in an effort
to blame us, was the bank she also had her line of credit
with.
Ms.
Fetterman offered in writing to pay us the 14% in commission
we were owed to date for Funcoastlife sales, for future
sales only, if we would fix and return the rankings of the
websites she herself had her assistant destroy.
Ms.
Fetterman deleted her own domain March--- less than 36 hours
later, without giving us a chance to properly consider her
offer. We do not know why Ms. Fetterman deleted her domain
but suspect she realized that for the first time she had
acknowledged in writing just what she owed. It appeared
to us that rather than acknowledge or pay what she owed
Ms. Fetterman was determined to destroy the evidence.
At
this point we became ill, an illness that lasted two whole
months, largely precipitated by delayed realization of Ms
Fetterman’s treachery.
Meanwhile
in spite of being informed of our illness Mr. Monkevitch
instigated and continued his relentless barrage of attacks,
which also could not be acted upon even if we had wanted
to.
Mt.
Monkevictch demanded we update within one hour domains for
him that we had no interaction with or control of.
Mr.
Monkevitch repeatedly threatened that if we did not do what
he wanted he would chargeback the money he had already paid
for the websites he had already had for a year.
Mr.
Monkevitch sent several emails demanding we make changes
to the websites we did manage as well as several we did
not manage without ever specifying what the changes he wanted
were.
Mr.
Monkevitch sent several more emails berating us for not
making the changes we could not make because we did not
know what they were.
Mr.
Monkevitch then demanded that we give him access to our
server so he could make the changes himself.
We
do not give clients access to our server. However, in this
case, we were also very concerned that Mr. Monkevitch intended
to delete the websites we had built, in order to destroy
the evidence that we had ever done anything, as his partner
Janet Fetterman had already done.
Mr.
Monkevitch and Janet Fetterman sent a joint email in late
March demanding that we change passwords to the server to
words he provided within 24 hours or he was going to have
us thrown in jail for internet fraud etc.
In
early April Mr. Monkevitch began chargebacks. At that time
we put a notice on his website that it was suspended for
lack of payment.
Mr.
Monkevitch moved the website back to his registrar godaddy.
Meanwhile
Janet Fetterman began threatening us with eviction as we
were staying in one of her houses that she could not rent.
The
house had been offered in January 2009 in lieu of the money
that was owed and never specifically stated as an amount,
but which she had been declaring and promising we would
in fact receive one day, once she could implement tracking.
In
August of 2008 Ms. Fetterman had made this promise for September
2008, again in November 2008, then December 2008. Previously
it had been made March 2008, July 2008, December 2007, summer
2007 and in the very beginning November 2006 through April,
May June 2007. Throughout all this time Ms. Fetterman promised
we would receive our promised commission when she actually
had a sale.
We
had no idea until August 2008 how many sales she was having.
Currently
Ms. Fetterman is trying to have us evicted as tenants, which
are not.
We
are not tenants but we will gladly leave once we are paid
what we are owed.
Concord Real Estates Borderline Activities.
1)
Concord Real Estate specializes in REO properties or what
is commonly called foreclosures.
What
most people fail to consider is that in Florida any property
that does not have air conditioning begins to get contaminated
in 4-5 days with mildew and mold. Anyone who has been without
power in Florida after a hurricane begins to smell the mold
or mildew within days, as well as discovers the doors have
swollen and are difficult to close.
Most
foreclosure or REO homes in Florida have been left without
power for far longer that 4 or 5 days.
It
is required by Federal law that the bank, homesellers and
realtors disclose all damage of which they are aware.
The
official position of Concord Real Estate, as explained to
us by Ms. Fetterman, is this statement: The home is sold
as is. “As far as I know” there is no mold, or other damages.
The implication is, she and Concord Real Estate are just
the realtors or broker and how would they know.
Concord
Real Estate and the realtors working for Concord Real Estate
would know because in many if not most cases members of
Concord Real Estate did the interior BPO house inspection.
This
BPO house inspection is a very thorough multi-page inspection
that usually reveals most of the homes’ faults, the very
same faults Concord Real estate claims not to be aware of.
This
BPO home inspection, whether carried out by Concord Real
Estate or another realtor is also given to the Bank or mortgage
holder or management holder of the property. Therefore there
is no one in the chain of sale that does not know most if
not all the faults of the home, which by convention they
dismiss with “As Far as they know”
This
is a class action suit waiting to happen which if aggravated
enough we may pursue.
2)
When an REO home is sold by Concord Real Estate, they charge
the buyer an additional $300-$500 processing fee. It started
at $300 but last we saw May 10 had grown to $500. They charge
this processing fee in spite of receiving commission for
the sale.
3)
Palm Coast Real Estate vigorously tries to persuade you
to let them be your buyer’s agent. In order to get buyers
to commit to this Concord Real Estate promises the buyer
daily updates of all the listings, (which can be acquired
with no commitment from most realtors).
In
return for the daily listings Concord Real Estate requires
the buyer to sign a contract that they will pay Concord
Real Estate a commission for any house they buy within the
next year. This means that Concord Real Estate will receive
a commission for any house the potential buyer buys, even
if Concord Real Estate does nothing.
Caveat
Emptor. Buyer beware. Deal with Concord Real Estate at your
own risk.