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Marco Kozlowski Luxury Home Group - Fraud, Scam, Con, Beware ...
By: May 26, 2015Marco Kozlowski arrogantly boasts to be a "World renowned platform speaker. Business automation expert. Luxury real estate guru" Charging upward of $5000 per person to attend his seminars. Arrogantly chanting his mantra "We are in the helping people business" and "I always want to leave people better than when I find them".
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His proprietary formula is a sham .... tried, tested and FAILED .. time and time again. Simply google his name to see the plethora of complaints from financially ruined and frustrated former clients and homeowners.
His "incredible" formula for which he charges $5000 to teach basically involves having the "student" contact every home owner listing on sites such as Craigslist and FSBO, BuyOwner etc. He finds his prey by looking for key words such as "must sell", "motivated to sell" "desperate" or "assume my loan" etc. He informs his students to go to the very last listings on Craigslist as these buyers are more "desperate".
He has them send out the first email "is your home still for sale?"
Second email "can I call you? When do you want to sell? Are you flexible on the price?"
He then has them follow through with a call and the goal is simply to determine if the seller will hand over the keys to their home (and their furnishings, boats, cars, possessions ...or "goodies" as he likes to call them) These goodies he will keep for himself or sell for more personal profit.
He then writes up a contract for deed where he promises to take over payments, pay off the mortgage after one year (selling the home to his exclusive tenants that he has access to), he will keep an escrow for the taxes, insurance etc. He will pay all bills in a timely manner or .. as with my clause ... he will pay a $4000 penalty if he is in breach of the contract.
Skip to one year later ... after a stressful year of having to chase Kozlowski relentlessly after he "purchased" my home in a contract for deed agreement (this was after he put his girlfriend's name on the contract instead of his name, hoping I would not notice the change of buyer) for missing payment after payment after payment. He stopped paying for the pool and landscaping, he never complied with the HOA violations, he constantly had the insurance canceled due to lack of payment, the home now has a tax lien on it as he was unable to come up with $3K to pay taxes, he has not paid any HOA fees (he cannot scrape together $700), despite constant assurances that he was transferring ownership of the property into his name, this never occurred. He put BANKRUPT tenants into the property and then was unable to evict them as the property was not in his name. I was never informed. Subsequently, I am now left with the costs of legal proceedings against him, a house that is trashed and needs complete rehab before it can be rented out or s old, a tax lien on my property, HOA lien on my property and many more unforeseen headaches.
In typical Kozlowski style, he refuses to answer his phone or respond to emails. He hides behind an attorney (who subsequently refuses to represent him) and his portfolio manager, David Early, from At Will Events. Early states that there are half a dozen properties in the same situation as mine.
In conclusion - this real estate guru who scams people out of their money to teach them investment strategies (and no, I am sure the SEC will verify he is not licensed to do this), does not have a penny. He does not own any properties .. he takes over properties, takes what he can from the rental and then washes his hands of the problem homes .. leaving the original homeowners sucker punched with financial ruin and stress. He drives around in his Audi A8 and boasts about his riches and how much he cares for others ... the truth is, he remains a penniless fraudster who preys on others. He scammed a group of Australians and New Zealanders out of $170K and claimed his company was closed down and therefore he was unable to refund them. We encourage all to contact us with their horror stories. Kozlowski dreams of being a television celebrity, a household name ... we wish to grant him this wish .. on the next episode of "American Greed".
The irony of Kozlowski's new, free-to-create, Wix website: http://marcokozlowski2015.wix....-
My demands:
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Taxes, Insurance, HOA, Penalties, Fees, Fines, Repairs, Replace Stolen Goods, Legal Costs, Damages
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User Recommendation:
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I don't recommend them
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Resolution:
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Unresolved
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Also reported:
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Monetary damages:
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$1,000,000.00
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Comments:
Vic G
Jun 07, 2017 10:16 PM
I am interested in helping you. Marco sold the Luxury Homes boot camp where he talks about round robin auction to sell a house. I tried his method and was not successful. After showing him all the procedures that I followed to the T he said he would not give the money back like he promised when we bought his bootcamp. Get these scam artists out of the market. Let me know if you need any help.
EconJohn
Apr 15, 2017 6:02 PM
This sounds familiar! Was this property on Bay Point Drive? Marco found a property for an easy flip, got 150K from investors, put that money in escrow, told the homeowners he would take over payments and if he missed a payment they could access the 150K in the special escrow account. He moved into the house we expected to flip. After HOA issues, letting landscaping die, tenant issues, feces on the walls, etc, and yet no one could get a hold of Marco. After about a year, sellers, or owners, and us, the investors, sued for the escrow money. After about 40K in legal fees, both parties agreed to split the money leaving us with (150K / 2 or 75K less legal fees of 40K) leaving us with 35K of the original 150K invested. Marco convoluted the process with delays, refused process services, delays, legal maneuvers while hiring a lawyer to threaten me for libel and defamation of character for posts like this. I, too, have now thousands of emails and documents for a jury and expect to present it in San Diego Superior Court on October 6th 2017.
FuriousVictimofKozlowskiScam
May 29, 2015 4:09 PM
Part 2: Kozlowski did not respond to any legal notices, emails or phone calls regarding rectifying the issues of our case. However, once a report was submitted to RipOffReport, where Kozlowski somehow has been accepted in their Corporate Advocacy Program, an enraged Kozlowski finally called me back. Note, it is interesting that Rip Off Report appears to have sold out. A consumer has a genuine complaint and states the FACTS in order to protect the general public, and the complaint is NOT published and Rip Off Report claim that members of the Corporate Advocacy Program WILL resolve the issue. Read and learn, Rip Off Report ... you need to do more due diligence. Your advocate has a tainted history and is not interested in resolution, only social presence. An angered Kozlowski, along with his portfolio manager, David Early from At Will Events, LLC, had a 20 minute conversation with myself at 2:45pm on Weds 27 May 2015. Kozlowski stated "I know you are recording this call, and that is OK, I have no problem with that". He went on to state that he was completely at fault for non-payment of taxes, HOA payments, insurance payments etc. He tried to somehow make it my problem that he had put bankrupt tenants in the house and he had not received payment from them for 6 months. He calls his history of over one year of non-payment and delinquencies and "oversight" despite that have over 200 emails saved whereby I am constantly asking him to make payments, as per the contract. Throughout the call, Kozlowski continually confirmed that he would, within 24 hours, pay the delinquent taxes, HOA fees, property insurance premium, made good all damages, pay me the $4000 penalty for violation of contract, repaint the home and restore it to the excellent condition it was prior to him taking it over. He then said that after he has completed all of the above, he will give me the keys back to my property and walk away, as he just "wanted to make everything right". I agreed. Additional: I have a 15 minute video that inventoried all of my furniture, furnishing and contents of my home, a second video and an extensive photo album that also shows clearly the outstanding condition of my home prior to Kozlowski taking it over. I also have photos of the condition of the home as it stands today after Kozlowski has allowed it to get into a state of disrepair (requiring $15K in rehab/repair/replacements) and not paying property taxes until 5pm on 27th May 2015, and only because of my complaints posted on the internet. I am happy to share videos, photos and phone recording (which Kozlowski authorized) to anybody who wishes to learn more! Kozlowski did pay the tax in the amount of $3500, the insurance premium of $290 and the HOA Fees in the amount of $1000. Incidentally, these have been incurred and past due for the last 12 months, and we had to reach the point of liens on the property and complaining online to even get these delinquent accounts paid. Kozlowski then changed his mind overnight about his promises. I sent him a cost breakdown of what it would cost to replace stolen items (well, I have since learned that the items were NOT stolen, rather Kozlowski removed these "goodies" and does not want to return or pay for replacement), repair the home, plus the penalty and the $400 water bill that he had left unpaid. Using the least expensive labor and products, and using Craigslist pricing for used goods, the cost to restore my property to its former condition was just under $19,000. Kozlowski balked and went back on his word. He emailed me to say it makes no business sense for him to restore my house to its former condition for me, and he wanted to keep the home for himself and just sell it asap. I formally rejected his proposal and told him that he had to make good his promises as per the recorded statement made only hours previously. I demanded the $19,000 as agreed upon and no more further dealings with him. At this time, he brought his Utah attorney into the communication and stated that he, Kozlowski, changed his mind after he had made his promises in the telephone agreement. Once I rejected his proposal for him to keep my home, he then instructed his attorney to take every legal recourse under the fullest extent of the law for threats, harrassment, extortion and blackmail!!!!! He told his attorney to take every step to protect himself from my threats!! Note, at no time have I threatened, harrassed nor attempted any degree of criminal acts such as extortion and blackmail. I simply stated the FACTS as they occurred and sadly, it was the only route left open to me to get a response from him. Posting my complaint (along with many others on Rip Off Report) was the only method that was successful in garnering a response from him. He claims I never contacted him prior to going "on the warpath", actually over 200 emails to Kozlowski should have pre-empted payment. For the past 3 weeks, I had been trying to resolve issues with his portfolio manager, David Early at At Will, and also copying emails and invoices to Kozlowski. Thankfully, all calls and communications from my side are time and date stamped to prove this. For approximately one month, I have asked Early and Kozlowski to refer to the contract, and each time they avoid my question of "do you have the contract?". As Kozlowski lost the first contract, it would appear that they have "lost" the second contract, too. The portfolio manager once stated that his wife, their attorney, had the contract but yet still seemed unable to get a copy of it or refer to it any way, shape or form. I sent them jpg images of each page of the contract in order to point out all of their consistent violations. I also told them that if they wished to keep my property, a new contract must be drawn up and with additional clauses added to prevent the headaches that I have endured over the past year. This included a $10K penalty for EACH violation in the future and a history clause. This was to be not only notarized, but also witnessed by additional representatives from both parties. Kozlowski absolutely and categorically refused this suggestion and retorted that I simply just wanted everything "my way". At this time, I have collated a 100 page case for my attorneys, with every email correspondence between Kozlowski and myself whereby I am constantly begging him to pay bills, transfer title of my home, not to ruin my credit and my life. Each is met with excuse after excuse after excuse as to why he has not paid. Kozlowski has since been reported to FBI, BBB, SEC, FTC, Homeland Security/Secret Service, IRS .. and more. Please know, that all victims have a right to report their experiences to these authorities who take this matter very seriously indeed. The legal duties he is bound to adhere by mean nothing to the man. His social presence appears to be his achilles heel, the only way to get any response from him is to share facts with the general public. This matter remains unresolved at this time and has now been handed over to my fraud attorneys who will take over from here. Ironically, paying the $19,000 to restore my home and walking away after having done the right thing, would have been the most professional and just resolution for Kozlowski. I would have no problems sharing the results of a successful resolution with the general public had that been the case. Ironically, shortly after Kozlowski renegged on his promises and threatened to sue me for extortion and blackmail (!!!!!!!!!!!), the tenants that Kozlowski put into my property called me as they wanted to reach out and clarify many facts for me. Kozlowski "purchased" by home under Kembo Family Trust but the tenants were "purchasing" my home under Kozlowski's other trust, "Firma Investments". I am sure the IRS would be interested in why the need to shuffle my property internally within his family of trusts? They told me that they agreed to a lease option with Kozlowski. When they moved into the home, Kozlowski told them to put stickers on items of my furniture that they wanted to keep, the rest he would remove and either put in his other rental homes or he would sell for his own personal profit. The tenants wished to keep my pool table, but from what my tenants could ascertain, Kozlowski traded my pool table for painting services inside the home. The tenants experienced several typical issues with the house, but each time they reached out to Kozlowski, as their landlord/home seller, for assistance, he refused to acknowledge them. The tenants state that they never heard from him after they signed the contract on the home. This was over one year of attempted communications with him. The tenants are currently working on a written statement itemizing all of the issues and concerns that they had with Kozlowski. They were devastated as they thought they were in the home that they wished to live in for the rest of their years, but they were alarmed when they discovered via a property search that it was myself listed as the legal owner of the property, and not Kozlowski. Their attorney advised them to move out as they were unable to determine if the property would be legally theirs, as per the contract between themselves and Firma Investments. Perhaps if Kozlowski could have responded to any of their attempts at reaching out, he could have explained to them how his creative leveraging worked! Kozlowski stated he lost the original contract between himself and I and had asked me to notarize and send a second copy of the contract in order for him to transfer title of the property from my name to his. He said he would personally walk down the court house and get it recorded. I did go out and notarize another copy in order for him to do so. He constantly reassured me that he would assume the loan. All duck and weave tactics, and throughout the 100 page case compiled thus farm, I have documents outlining clearly every single incident, all time and date stamped. I am collecting written statements which show his character and intent from former tenants, other property owners in the same situation as myself, former "students" who wish to share their experiences and (lack of) results from his formula. There are people around the world who have fallen victim, and all are encouraged and welcomed to contact me with their experience. I still am waiting for Kozlowski to prove to me he still has HIS copy of the signed contract between us, I am waiting to hear from his Utah attorney (whom I hope is licensed to practice in the state of Florida), and I am waiting to hear why, exactly, my statement of FACT is being categorized as threats, harassment, extortion and blackmail. I have upheld my end of the contract without fail, and I am now being accused of criminal acts? I am interested to hear how he justifies those accusations and I most definitely will be adding that to my suit against him. My intention is to protect the general public from having to go through the emotional and financial stress that many of us have fallen victim to. And shame on Rip Off Report for being biased and NOT posting my complaints about Kozlowski because they have sold out with their Corporate Advocacy Program, making them completely biased regardless of the truth. Maybe it is time to find a truly fair, unbiased alternative to Rip Off Report whereby consumers can genuinely add to the watchdog/protection system without being silenced due to corporate politics and greed?