Corporate Services & Associates, Douglas Burnett IS A TOTAL SCAM! SERVICES WERE NEVER DELIVERED! DOUG NEVER RETURNED ANY MONEY - HAD TO DISPUTE! Las Vegas Nevada
This letter is a WARNING for those who are considering doing business with Corporate Services & Associates and Douglas Burnett. It is based on personal experience with same from March 23, 2008 to January 23, 2009.
Through Doug Burnett's repeated calling suggesting I use his services, I reluctantly signed up with him on March 23, 2008 by giving him $5000.00 on two credit cards. I thought I was getting my real estate investing business set up as a C-Corp in Nevada, and my 2007 taxes done, and would be given great real estate investing deals for highly profits and that he would handle all the details as I was a newbie investor.
I was strongly considering getting out of real estate investing. But with Doug's coaxing that he would handle the details and make me a lot of money with his real estate investing deals I decided to get involved.
Doug Burnett did NOT do the following:
1. Set up my real estate investing business as a C-Corp in Nevada
2. Do my 2007 taxes he said he would do them in January 2009
3. Bring great real estate investing deals for highly profits.
What Doug Burnett did do:
1. He sent several e-mails with some information about incorporating and C-Corps in Nevada. Value to me near worthless could get in library with some research.
2. He called me a lot to get me involved and to take my money (total time approximately 80 hours). This was a big waste of time! He talked about other deals he was involved in with pro athletes and his desire to do Section 8 housing in the Detroit area. These other deals never came about for me.
3. Doug Burnett brought me one deal near mid May 2008 in Michigan. He signed the initial papers with another investor, and me and the realtor. Later the other investor dropped out and early July he got rid of the realtor to save giving her the commission so there would be more money in the deal for us.
Initially he said the house was worth easily $900,000 and in a good market could go for $1,200,000. Later when an appraisal was done it was valued at $725,000. We initially offered the seller $600,000 and later Doug was able to get it reduced to $580,000.
Doug lined up financing for the deal by including my wife's salary while knowing my wife did not want to be involved with any of my real estate investing. And with my $28,000 salary I could not get a $580,000 loan. So if it would have been handled correctly the deal would never have gotten off the ground from Day 1.
Doug did have a conditional clause stating that if I could not get financing that the deal would be null and void which I took advantage of. I was concerned that if the loan would have gone through that Doug would have used the property for his purposes without making payments out of his pocket. He said there was going to be enough equity in it and an account set up so he could use the account money for a year to make the payments. After that period the house might go into foreclosure and my credit would be ruined. Notice: Doug is not the buyer and it would not affect his credit rating if the deal went through! I was not willing to take that chance!
Doug did convince me through repeated phone calls talking about all the real estate deals and all the money I would make that he was trustworthy. He used other people in 3-way and 4-way calls talking about the deals. So I mistakenly and naively gave him a credit card with a credit limit of $12,500 in June 2008. Big Mistake!
First thing he wanted me to pay his $640 cell phone bill. And then give him $6500 for an Inbound Call Center. Doug was in a big hurry to get this Inbound Call Center going and he wanted me to invest $75,000 in it and he said I would be able to get back five times my investment within a year. Doug said I could easily make $200,000 in 2008 with the real estate deals and Inbound Call Center investment.
But Doug did NOT pay me back even a penny for all the money I gave him! Doug wanted me to get more credit - $75,000 to $100,000 he said I should be able to get this business credit with my 800 credit score.
The credit company only gave me $15,000 credit which I gave to Doug for the earnest money on the Michigan property. It never went to an attorney or Title company or escrow account. Doug kept the $15,000 until I did a dispute with the credit company and told them I thought Doug Burnett is a scam artist!
Doug had the audacity in October after the deal fell through to dispute that the $15,000 was for his services and not for earnest money which I clearly had PayPal documentation for!
In July 2008 he became unavailable by phone for two-weeks. I called his cell phone many times and he did not return the calls. It was at this point that I was becoming concerned about Doug's legitimacy. I was asking him when I was going to get money from him to make the credit card payment and I needed money to help pay for my property taxes coming due soon.
When he did call me he said he would give me $5000 or $10,000 soon and he never did pay me anything. Promises but no money! When the first credit card bill came due I asked him to make a minimum payment of $200 which he said he would do I should just invoice him which I did and he never made any payment to that credit card after many attempts to get him to pay. He said he was having problems with his e-mail account.
He did wrack up the credit card I gave him to almost a $13,000 balance in less than two-weeks ($500 over the credit limit)! I was left having to make credit card payments while Doug Burnett paid $0! He used it to buy many things including limousine service in the Detroit area.
The seller's attorney saw Doug getting driven by the limo driver and for some reason thought it was me. I know this from the email the seller's attorney sent me when the deal fell through due to not being able to be financed
I have been informed by Mr. T. that he does not qualify for the loan required to purchase the seller's residence. I have been informed by Mr. T. that Mr. Burnett indicated to the mortgage broker in Ann Arbor, that Mr. T. had income of $85,000.00 per year when in fact that is nowhere near the truth.
Accordingly, Mr. T. will not come anywhere near qualifying for this loan. I would like to know how a buyer that cannot qualify for a loan arrives at the seller's residence in a chauffeur driver limousine and how, what are supposed to be professional, educated people that surround the buyer, can allow so many people to expend so much wasted time. How can a mortgage broker be so involved with not only with the buyer, but with the financial adviser (Mr. Burnett) and myself, and not know the annual income of a Buyer he has pre-qualified?
How can a financial adviser, Mr. Burnett, so badly misrepresent to everyone in this transaction so many details and ignore so many promises of Offers, discussions with the Buyer, other Brokers, and this attorney.
In my opinion, Mr. Burnett, you are the single reason for the most inept, misrepresented handling of a transaction I have seen in 35 years as both an attorney and licensed real estate Broker.
That includes your misrepresentation to me that you and Mr. T. were partners and that countless Offers would be forthcoming, your misrepresentation to the mortgage broker that Mr. T. had income of $85,000 per year, your misrepresentation to the realtor that your were on your way to her office with a deposit check, and whatever your representations were to Mr. T. to induce him to give you $15,000.00 for a down payment on this deal that never made it's way to an escrow agent or back to Mr. T.
This does not include other monies that have been given to you by Mr. T. without repayment. I would like to know if you knew what Mr. T.'s real annual income was, because Mr. T. indicates you did.
Lastly, Mr. T., you get the award for being naive. How could you trust a person, Mr. Burnett that you never met?
Lastly, you all should all apologize to the sellers for there aggravation and the fact that this house has been off the prime market time for almost an entire summer.
In summary, I would suggest anyone considering investing any money with Douglas Burnett and/or Corporate Services & Associates to think twice and read this letter carefully you have been WARNED! If Doug tells you that he will use your high credit score RUN THE OTHER WAY!
There is a good chance he will take your money and give you nothing in return while you get to dispute it through the credit card company or make payments to your credit card company if you don't dispute it within their time limit.
One of my credit cards, would not allow the dispute because it was after two-months when I figured out Douglas Burnett was a scam artist. I lost $2,000 for the lateness in filing a dispute due to not realizing he was a scam artist until mid July 2008.
Note: Doug didn't come up with a real estate investment deal for 7-weeks after I gave him $5000. I was able to dispute the other $3,000 from the other credit card company, which they did get the money back.
With the help of an attorney doing Internet searches including the property in Michigan and previous attempts to sell it at $699,000 and $659,000 which did not happen and Doug's previous experience where the attorney found out Doug was ripping off customers before coming to CS&A (National Audit Defense Network).
Do a Google search on National Audit Defense Network and see what Doug was associated with!
The attorney said in this real estate market that he did not think the house was even worth $580,000 and didn't know where the large amount of equity Doug was talking about was. The attorney stated he would NOT do this deal. That was all I needed to hear.
I was able to get the $15,000 earnest money returned to the credit card company through the dispute process. I was able to get $6500 of the $13,000 charged up by Doug's usage of the credit card including his $640 cell phone bill and Inbound Call Center investment of $6500 and Doug's many frivolous quick charged items through dispute process with the credit card company.
I lost $8500 net after the disputes were completed through two credit cards and a lot of time at least 80 hours of Doug's misleading BS and at least 20 hours in the many disputes I did. I gave him a total of $33,000 and got back $24,500 through the disputes.
I received $0 back from the $8500 net I gave him for his "services" and the Inbound Call Center which may also be bogus. So my experience through hindsight is -- give Doug Burnett no money or time!
This letter is to help those considering working with Douglas Burnett and/or Corporate Services & Associates to realize they may be taking a big risk with their money and time and may not get anything in return like me. I can only suggest that you not participate in Doug's services.
You have been warned it's your risk if you proceed. I will never give Douglas Burnett and/or Corporate Services & Associates any more money - ever!
I suggest you use a local attorney and CPA whom you trust for these types of services. I hope this letter helps you make an informed decision and keep your credit rating without any loss of time or money.
P.S. Doug will call you a lot when he is looking for money from you, but will be reluctant to return calls when you ask him for money! I wish I had this information before I made my initial $5000 mistake in March 2008!
Corporate Services & Associates and Douglas Burnett of CSA is a TOTAL SCAM! His promised services were NEVER DELIVERED! And note Douglas Burnett is not working with me!
Jeff
Erie, Pennsylvania
U.S.A.
8 Updates & Rebuttals
jojoblaze1
las vegas,Nevada,
doug burnett
#9General Comment
Sat, August 16, 2014
Doug is staying at the US VETS on (((REDACTED))). I found his rip-off report on rants and raves. We dont need trash like this staying here around good people like we have here at the US VETS.
Doug T
Steelton,Pennsylvania,
United States of America
I beg to differ, Mr. Burnett
#9Consumer Comment
Mon, September 10, 2012
Mr. Burnett,
You can write-off what I say as false and/or misleading if you choose but you know as well as I do the type of business you did with me. Not only did you scam me but you grossly misled the family member who referred you to me.
Perhaps in all of your brilliance and new successes (congrats on the Stars program, by the way), you might have forgotten the people who invested in you when you were small - the ones like me who only lost in the process. Maybe it's because I never spoke out negatively against you in a public forum or filed suit for the $1000 you literally took from my family's mouths. Your claim of being an African American trying to make it out here gave you added credibility with me, just as it disappoints me that you are not of the business character you represent.
Modeling yourself after our esteemed president is quite interesting, indeed. I for one refuse to entertain the notion that our President would sign a B2P contract with someone and completely dishonor ALL of the terms set forth therein. That is exactly what you did with our contract, Mr. Burnett. The only part of our written and signed agreement that you did honor was the part where I sent my money and you received it. I still have the receipt from the wire transfer along with the signed contracts.
All I wanted in return from you is my original investment without the profit you promised and you refused to give me even that, much less a solitary penny towards it. After months of broken promises to pay I simply accepted that you, a brilliant mind, are certainly NOT a man of your word (or signature) when it comes to business.
It has never been in my heart to tear a person down or judge him/her unfairly for his/her shortcomings. However, the views expressed in this forum regarding YOU are strikingly correlative with the business experience I had with you a couple of years ago. Thank God I did not invest the $5000 you initially asked for.
Again, you can write this one off if you choose but that only will further confirm you as an avoider of truth in what you say and do. If you are the integral businessman that you claim to be then you will make good on your promises to investors. I believe THAT to be the only way of ensuring integrity in your future successes.
Ross
Las Vegas,NV,
USA
Believe in what you have read...
#9UPDATE EX-employee responds
Fri, April 27, 2012
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Please believe what you have read in relation to Mr. Burnett. The accusations presented here are factual. Mr. Burnett, in fact is an extremely talented person when it comes to influencing others, unfortunately he has not found a constructive way of applying this skill.
He has chosen the path that many of the posters describe. He is looking to create a fast income for himself with providing little in return. He feels that the business development approach is best for his goals. I am a former employee of his NBDS operation. A few examples, his call center that he created was nothing more than plywood and two by fours with computers and phones. His training was basic. Also when payday came around he could never pay he had to borrow the money from a client to pay his employees, and even then the checks were from out of state and did not have his company name on the check. I could never cash it in Nevada.
Mr Burnett did major damage to many individuals including myself. Because of his choices in life, it trickled down to his employees, for one thing, because of the check fiasco, I became homeless, living out of my pick up truck and the office of the man who rented him the space for NBDS. I eventually moved to where I am now and have started over again.
So basically, please do not do business with Douglas Burnett, he will take you for everything, and the FBI needs to stop his actions.
Ross M. Former employee (2003-2004)
Corporate services & associates
Las Vegas,Nevada,
USA
THES REPORTS AND PHONY I WILL TURN IN REPORTS FOR NEVADA STATE CORPORATE NETWORK GREG ZAPPER, SUSAN MILLER, DAVE SLIKE AND SEVERAL OTHER REPS AT THAT OFFICE!!! READ THIS REPORT SO YOU KNOW THE TRUTH!!
#9REBUTTAL Individual responds
Fri, June 11, 2010
It give me great a sense of pride and renewed strength to respond to the latest phony post in regards to my companies thebizresources.com, Corporate Services & Associates, LLC along with the other seven hundred plus marketing, and business consulting companies set up with my company through out this year due to the recent merger and equity deal.
The IT department at CSA can now determine who is posting and re-posting false information on my company and the several terrible phone calls from disgruntled former independent distributors like DAVID SLIKE and the Owners ofNEVADA STATE
This company is now a competitor and several years ago in my youthful age in business stole my company name NATIONAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & SERVICES, INC. they tried to take advantage of me when I was just starting on my own and their former partners who took money from the ADULT PORN INDUSTRY among clients stole from the former company the were just TELEMARKETERS.
These post are phony and the only post that is legitimate is that of the gentleman from Ohio is not using is real name or location due to the fact that he is hiding assets, income and using phony IRAs to fund real estate deals and my team caught him. His name is James Thomas and he signed a contract with me for $100,000..0 that was never paid and cost my company several financial storms during at the peak of the recession. I should have never expected those funds never to clear with a man who sent me toMichigan
CSA purchased airplane tickets, brought hotels, paid for closing costs and real estate agents and legal fees to make this deal work along with rebuilding his corporation for funding purposes. To make a long story I would never refund you your money and there is nothing that I did wrong for this is the only place people like that can make posts. We service 3500 clients from website development, business credit building, incorporating, tax saving strategies, network marketing and process thousands a calls a week with only one complaint at the BBB and no lawsuits.
I realize that I have to be ten times sharper, smarter and better than all my competitors. I look at people and what they say about DONALD TRUMP through his great, good, bad and indifferent business deals but he keeps pushing to do his best!!!!!! Well guess what you are going to have a lot more to talk about with DOUGLAS BURNETT and for the better for I have learned from Donald Trump and watch him over the years and proud of a man who puts in name in the forefront despite people and their ways.
The main reasons these fake items are being posted (and by the way I never heard of any of these people on this particular post) is because Susan and Greg could not stop my business model and only wanted to steal it and their clients are turning to my service and support. (SUSAN IS FAKE AND A DRAMA QUEEN by the way and one look at ZAPPER AND YOU KNOW TRAILER TRASH and poor DAVE SLIKE IS AN ALCHOLIC) and half the reps and support team were trained by me are ignorant, racist and jealous. This is a very dangerous combination and my family, clients, and loved ones often fear for my life. I plan to make sure this story is told in its entirety acrossAmerica
I am the change that most love and the few like you make so difficult. So like President Obama I have decided to take my full legal right as an African-American and take this one to the court of law. I will deal with the Attorney General, Federal Trade Commission, Security Exchange Commission and the IRS is time thatAmerica NEVADA
THE CHANGE,
DOUGLAS M. BURNETT, CEO/Chairman
Corporate Services & Associates, LLC
866 595 9575 ext. 230
702 358 3013 direct
888 498 225 fax
Corporate services & associates
Las Vegas,Nevada,
USA
THES REPORTS AND PHONY I WILL TURN IN REPORTS FOR NEVADA STATE CORPORATE NETWORK GREG ZAPPER, SUSAN MILLER, DAVE SLIKE AND SEVERAL OTHER REPS AT THAT OFFICE!!! READ THIS REPORT SO YOU KNOW THE TRUTH!!
#9REBUTTAL Individual responds
Fri, June 11, 2010
It give me great a sense of pride and renewed strength to respond to the latest phony post in regards to my companies thebizresources.com, Corporate Services & Associates, LLC along with the other seven hundred plus marketing, and business consulting companies set up with my company through out this year due to the recent merger and equity deal.
The IT department at CSA can now determine who is posting and re-posting false information on my company and the several terrible phone calls from disgruntled former independent distributors like DAVID SLIKE and the Owners ofNEVADA STATE
This company is now a competitor and several years ago in my youthful age in business stole my company name NATIONAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & SERVICES, INC. they tried to take advantage of me when I was just starting on my own and their former partners who took money from the ADULT PORN INDUSTRY among clients stole from the former company the were just TELEMARKETERS.
These post are phony and the only post that is legitimate is that of the gentleman from Ohio is not using is real name or location due to the fact that he is hiding assets, income and using phony IRAs to fund real estate deals and my team caught him. His name is James Thomas and he signed a contract with me for $100,000..0 that was never paid and cost my company several financial storms during at the peak of the recession. I should have never expected those funds never to clear with a man who sent me toMichigan
CSA purchased airplane tickets, brought hotels, paid for closing costs and real estate agents and legal fees to make this deal work along with rebuilding his corporation for funding purposes. To make a long story I would never refund you your money and there is nothing that I did wrong for this is the only place people like that can make posts. We service 3500 clients from website development, business credit building, incorporating, tax saving strategies, network marketing and process thousands a calls a week with only one complaint at the BBB and no lawsuits.
I realize that I have to be ten times sharper, smarter and better than all my competitors. I look at people and what they say about DONALD TRUMP through his great, good, bad and indifferent business deals but he keeps pushing to do his best!!!!!! Well guess what you are going to have a lot more to talk about with DOUGLAS BURNETT and for the better for I have learned from Donald Trump and watch him over the years and proud of a man who puts in name in the forefront despite people and their ways.
The main reasons these fake items are being posted (and by the way I never heard of any of these people on this particular post) is because Susan and Greg could not stop my business model and only wanted to steal it and their clients are turning to my service and support. (SUSAN IS FAKE AND A DRAMA QUEEN by the way and one look at ZAPPER AND YOU KNOW TRAILER TRASH and poor DAVE SLIKE IS AN ALCHOLIC) and half the reps and support team were trained by me are ignorant, racist and jealous. This is a very dangerous combination and my family, clients, and loved ones often fear for my life. I plan to make sure this story is told in its entirety acrossAmerica
I am the change that most love and the few like you make so difficult. So like President Obama I have decided to take my full legal right as an African-American and take this one to the court of law. I will deal with the Attorney General, Federal Trade Commission, Security Exchange Commission and the IRS is time thatAmerica NEVADA
THE CHANGE,
DOUGLAS M. BURNETT, CEO/Chairman
Corporate Services & Associates, LLC
866 595 9575 ext. 230
702 358 3013 direct
888 498 225 fax
How could you do this to people? Th
United States of AmericaDouglas Burnett trying to hide
#9Consumer Comment
Sun, April 11, 2010
For those that have been ripped off by Douglas M. Burnett and 4 corporate and a*s. He has formed a new company called www.thebizresources.com and is doing the same to people like has been doing for years. DO NOT give this man or his company a single dime. HE WILL STEAL FORM YOU!!! Like he did to me and many others. He kept promising to pay back money and never did.We talking thousands of dollars. How can this guy sleep at night and even still be in business??? What savings did Doug help me with? MMMM.. put me in more debt and caused my financial situation to spiral into bankruptcy and losing everything. He doesn't care since he just lined his pocket with our money. Doug we have familes too!! Your not the only one! You have ruined many lives by your unscrupoulous business ethics. All we wanted was what was paid for. You didn't even deliver. SO PLEASE BEWARE OF DOUGLAS M. BURNETT!!!!!!!!!!
http://4corporateservices.com/index.php
www.thebizresources.com
Mr. T.
Cuyahoga Falls,Ohio,
U.S.A.
Mr. Burnett's Rebuttal Statement is Partially False - I did NOT tell him that I had additional funds in an investment plan.
#9Author of original report
Mon, February 09, 2009
I did NOT tell Douglas Burnett that I had additional funds in an investment plan. Douglas Burnett's lack of delivering promised services helped lead to filing bankruptcy or filing sooner than if I would have never been involved with him. If Mr. Burnett would have delivered as he promised You'll easily make $100,000 to $200,000 in 2008 I would not need to file for bankruptcy. If I was never involved with him I would have $8500 more and that would go a long way in paying bills.
Corporate Services & Associates
Las Vegas,Nevada,
U.S.A.
MR. THOMAS DECIDED TO FILE BANKRUPTCY AND TOLD ME HE HAD ADDITONAL FUNDS IN A INVESTMENT PLAN
#9REBUTTAL Owner of company
Tue, February 03, 2009
We have a total of 8 disgruntled clients with CSA, our company has processed over 3,000 calls in the last three years and only a few complaints. One thing you will notice with our few complaints are from the people who could not get funded for the business deals, and/or real estate transactions with problems out of our control. In this case thier are a few more details you may want to note so you the consumer are informed on the facts so you can make an educated decision.
I have not been associted with NADN since 2001 adn I had no idea of the backend support. I worked in the company in the sales department. I left that company and alot of money because I was not happy with the customer service and started CSA so we could deliver better products, services and logistics. I am not a huge multi-million dollar company ripping off hundreds of thousands of customers with any accused tax schemes, homebased businesses, or tax shelters.
We are a business consutling firm and we are going through financial problems currently and working on a major merger to get the company adequate funding.
I started this company with only 40,000 and turned into 1.3 million dollars gross in three years with only 75,000 in questionable orders and debt. This track record is great (compare most small business in this line of work and thier refund rates.)
The reason your c corp was never established was because you decided to file bankruptcy in the middle of our deals, promised me a 100,000 investment capital and backed out on all of the above. The C Corporation was not to be filed until you had closed a real estate deal and we were to place the assetst in a trust.
You even called me in the middle of this deal and explained that you hate to leave me out thier on this deal, but if you dont file bankruptcy and do this deal with out your wife knowing she may end up with the assets.
I decided at that point with the travel time, money spent, and hours of work I spent on this process that you were not due anymore refunds because you pulled 15,0000 dollars back on your paypal account.
I disputed your full refund paypal reviewed the documents and the tape and decided that your request for refund was fradulent because we did deliever partial services.
CSA is a business consutling firm, if you decided to file bankruptcy, hide assets from your soon to be ex-wife that is not our problem and if you have a legal case like the other two complaints I suggest that you file a legal lawsuit. You know that you signed the disclaimer statement in the ebook and on your invoices. We have to set up those polices to procect us from the "buyers that are Liars" like you.
First of all when you file a report use your real name James Thomas and the city and state that you are from Cleveland, Ohio. If you really want to solve this and telling the truth..Why are you using phony names and addresses?
You also forgot to add the reason you became my client is because we finished the paperwork and education process on your exisiting entity for free, and helped you get your money back..( I was the one who even showed you how to charge the money back if you were not happy with a service)
You are adversarial, a liar, and disgruntled because you decided to file bankruptcy and the income that you stated you had in an investment plan is phony.
I will glady stand in court with you Mr. Thomas any day!!!!
How can I make anything work for a client like you???
Douglas M. Burnett, CEO/Chairman
Corporate Services & Associates, LLC
866 595 9575