Complaint Review: First Real Estate Team Virginia Swanson - Glendale California

Adam probably saw Pam Konyk's reports (she writes reports about my company from herself to herself under assumed names - this will be pretty obvious to the trained eye) and it reminded him of something that happened 10 years ago.

He did work for me in exchange for real estate courses

I didnt like the work done, but I gave him the courses promised

About 1-2 years later he asked for a refund

I refused, based upon the work and also based upon all the time that had passed.

So he wrote a ripoff report 

I just wanted to make sure that you have the missing case numbers from the above post so you can see what a scam artist she really is.

Go to this website. http://www.lasuperiorcourt.org/smallclaims/
and enter these case numbers and enter Glendale as the court.
Here are a few of the Case Numbers

05S00967
05S00656
05S00611
05S01069
05S00788
05S00890
05S01312
05S00751
05c04141


Also she changed her name again to REM University or Real Estate Mentoring University.
I wonder what the next name will be after too many bad reports get filed?

There are so many inaccurate points in Virginia's post that I don't have time to address them all.

To make a long story short, Virginia was satisifed with the work I did on her house and said so at the time. She personally reviewed the work that was done and expressed pleasure at it when I was done. The courses were not "free." I took her real estate course and was unsatisfied with it. I didn't consider that being told that real estate can be obtained for no money down by using a lease option was worth thousands of dollars. Her idea was that if you simply got someone to buy the option within 30 days everything would be fine. What she neglected to cover is this strategy is extremely risky and would only work in the hotest markets. In other words, more speculating than actual investing.

I wrote her several times about this, requesting compensation for my work. At this point, she became nasty, attacking my work ethic. At that time, I knew of several other people who were associated with her real estate program and later also became disaffected with her and her teachings. They also requested refunds. She refused to give these refunds and that is the best evidence yet of the deceptive nature of her product. If she really were a real estate millionaire, this wouldn't be a big deal. She would just give the refunds.

She has been sued multiple times for cheating people on real estate transactions. Go to this website. http://www.lasuperiorcourt.org/smallclaims/ and enter these case numbers and enter Glendale as the court. Here are a few of the Case Numbers
05XXXXX
05XXXXX
05XXXXX
05XXXXX
05XXXXX
05XXXXX
05XXXXX
05XXXXX
05XXXXX

In 2000 -2001 Adam, who was about 16 came to me and wanted to improve his and his familys financial life.  I appreciated this and for the first time I allowed someone to work at my house in exchange for my companys real estate mentoring courses amounting to $4,000.  I told him I would help him as a student which means that he would have to take the real estate courses and I would help him with any real estate deal he would bring to me.  I have been buying and selling real estate in 3 different countries since 1971

I did not have the heart to tell Adam that what he did had to be redone by a professional at an additional cost to me.  Also, he took so very long to complete what a professional would have taken a few hours to do.   I have a witness to all of this.

However, despite this, I allowed him to do the real estate courses all of them free of charge.  The value was $4,000.

Adam did not go out, as had others, and do a real estate deal.  He would have had my hands on mentoring help, which I give all my students, if he had done.

Instead later in 2001 he decided to demand money from me for the services at the house he had performed (I think it was $4,000 - $8,000. I do not recall it all as it is so long ago).   But the problem was that the value of the real estate courses he had taken ($4.000.) far exceeded the value of the services he had performed, plus I had to have what he did redone at an additional cost to me.

The work of a 16 year old would not be that of a professional and ultimately it is my fault for taking him on.  If he ever reads this, then he will see in his heart of hearts that this is true.

When he asked for a refund, I still did not tell him what I thought of his work and how it had to be redone at an expense to me.  I probably should have.  But I did not want to hurt his feelings because he was such a sweet kid and after all he was trying to help his family.

Regarding my house. Of course the house is not in my name.  I believe in asset protection and all my assets are out of my name as I recommend in my Asset Protection Course.

As far as my daughter goes, she is a very happy stay at home mum with her son of 19 months,  She has a great life with her husband and they live in their own home. I am a happy mother-in-law and grandmother.

As far as our students go, we have many successful students who will be only too glad to speak to anyone who would ask.