Complaint Review: PETER SHVETS W/EMERALD PENTAL REALTY LLC & Marie Quintanilla - Sammamish Washington

RENTAL SCAM IN BOTHEL, WASHINGTON   

·    Quick Facts

·      Lessons Learned

·      Info on Peter Shvets

·      ON Maria Quintanilla

·      Email Correspondence

·      Text Correspondence

·      PAYMENTS & REFUND REQUESTS via CASH APP

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 QUICK FACTS:  Read Below for the detailed version.

 For the quick readers here are some quick facts on what happened.

I was browsing around Facebook in the marketplace section, clicking on rentals to see what is out there when I came across and ad that seemed real appealing. I clicked on it and received a reply from Peter Shvets <[email protected]> (SEE EMAIL CORRESPOND SECTION) he told me that the house was available and that he is listed with Section 8 and as you will read in the correspondence everything just flowed along pretty quickly.

Here is the thing that was the distraction from thinking at the time that this was not real, IT WAS A REAL EMPTY HOUSE. So I drove there saw the house, saw that it was empty, and it seemed like a real deal. My little girl and I drove around the neighborhood looking at the middle school I thought she would be attending, just looking at our soon to be neighbors etc… so that is when I sent the money to secure the place.

Money I was SCAMMED!!(they give you an option to pay an additional two months as well)

Monthly rent:$1,525.00

Refundable Deposit:$1,525.00

Plus $150

Here is some information me and my family discovered on the perpetrators….

EMERALD PENTAL REALTY LLC

1 (828) 572-8573.(the number I believe just routs to another number)

•         PETER SHVETS, governor

•         TATYANA SHVETS, governor

•         YEVGENIY SHVETS, governor

 

PAYMENTS SENT TO • Maria Quintanilla

                                                  Corporate Address:( this is a house)

1007 221st Ave. NE

Sammamish, WA 98074

I believe that they are FRAUDUALENTLY promoting his house out as a potential rental and SCAMMING people taking their 1st & last money down payment, without the  INTENT to ever renting this house out to anyone. There are already people complaining about this in Washington State. (See Below)

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Lessons learned:

1.     DO NOT SEND MONEY FOR A RENTAL TO ANYONE OUT OF STATE

2.     MEET THEM AT THE RENTAL

3.     DO FACT CHECKING

4.     IF THE NUMBER IS OUT OF STATE, RUN! IT’S A SCAM!

Here is what happened….

This information that myself and family have taken to quickly put together has taken many hours and I feel blessed to have very knowledgeable people to be able to find this information to HOPEFULLY help someone else not get scammed from these people.

 Ok, before you judge me too much lol! No one has beat themselves up more than myself to get scammed in such a way. I have never in my life been so violated, deceived, lied too and just defrauded in my life.

 The RENTAL SCAM.. I was looking to TRY to move from an apartment to a house and see who would or could work with section 8. Yes, I am on it and have to do what I can to try to take care of my daughter during these tough times. I do work and do what ever I can so enough justification for anyone reading because my main goal with this is to hopefully help someone else to not get scammed.

 I was browsing around Facebook in the marketplace section, clicking on rentals to see what is out there when I came across and ad that seemed real appealing. I clicked on it and received a reply from Peter Shvets <[email protected]> (SEE EMAIL CORRESPOND SECTION) he told me that the house was available and that he is listed with Section 8 and as you will read in the correspondence everything just flowed along pretty quickly.

Here is the thing that was the distraction from thinking at the time that this was not real, IT WAS A REAL EMPTY HOUSE. So I drove there saw the house, saw that it was empty, and it seemed like a real deal. My little girl and I drove around the neighborhood looking at the middle school I thought she would be attending, just looking at our soon to be neighbors etc… so that is when I sent the money to secure the place.

We were so excited and the smile on my daughters face only drove me more to make this deal happen. So as you read, I sold myself on this dream because seeing the empty house made it seem so real. Some of the windows had no curtains where you could see inside the empty house, the gate to the backyard was open along with shed etc.. I bought into Peters story as you will read that he moved to North Carolina, but I do no believe that is true at the moment. His phone number (828) 572-8573, I believe is what they call a spoof number that is probably forwarded to another number.

You can look it up under Number Guru

You will see in the communication below that I was very eager and once I saw the house it was on to get into it. I answered his request, sent the information he SAID he needed via text or email. You heard of the sales technique of the carrot and the stick. Well he kept the carrot of sending me the keys and paperwork that I needed to send in just in front of me as an incentive for me to send money so he could take the house off the market. At the time it seemed to make sense, so I did everything requested. Once I sent the money to his so called secretary Maria Quintanilla via cash app. At this time I must say I believed all of them worked together.

PLEASE BE CAREFUL HERE! FIRST DO NOT SEND ANY MONEY FOR A RENTAL TO SOMEONE OUT OF STATE. Also, they had an app they wanted me to use called ZELLEPAY, the internet have articles stating that this has been used to wipe out peoples bank account.

Ok back to the story, you will see below in the TEXT CORRESPONDANCE section that Peter sent an email requesting more money for the UTILITIES and FEDEX. Being short on money, I told him that the utilities are premature because the house needs to get approved first, but I will send $150. Once that was sent, I know this may be funny but I had a funny feeling that this was a scam and so you will see that I asked for my money back and I tried to get refunds via cash app which Maria declined.

Once I did all that all communication ceased…

Lessons learned:

 

1.     DO NOT SEND MONEY FOR A RENTAL TO ANYONE OUT OF STATE

2.     MEET THEM AT THE RENTAL

3.     DO FACT CHECKING

4.     IF THE NUMBER IS OUT OF STATE, RUN! IT’S A SCAM!

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INFO ON PETER SHVETS

 

Potential Aliases: Peter Shvets,Petr Shvets, Petr G Shvets, Petr Shvetz, Peter G Shvets, Dennis Postlewait, Steven Postlewait, Diana Postlewait, Dana Postlewait, Jeffrey Postlewait

I have some relatives that are decent researchers and here is some information I discovered with just looking into it. You will notice that they have bought a number of properties just in the last couple of years totaling well over a million of dollars.

 

It seems like PETER SHVETS, ALLEGADLY has some WHITE COLLOR criminal associates. First off he has so many ALISAS there are to many to name off(See Below for Peter Info). You can see them below. It seems after TATYANA SHVETS( US v SHVETS Case No. 2:12-CR-0322, got charged back in 2012 (see below, information on the charge) they moved up to the Pacific Northwest after she was sentenced. I am not sure if she went to prison or probation. I only put this info together in a few days. There is some info that shows a hearing going back to 2019. The case lasted a long time. Peter seems to be a computer guy with jobs at paypal, but also seems to like buys real estate over the years. I think their scamming brings in a lot of money for he and his partners and so they buy property a lot to WASH the money. This is just A THEORY, I am not a legal professional but as I was going through information it did seem like a trend. You can see real estate information below.

Here is something that was discovered in our research, that the very house I was trying to rent from him. He did actually own along with Tatyana Shvets. Then just last year in 2019, he transferred the property we were going to rent into an LLC. The name of the company is EMERALD PENTAL REALTY LLC, you will see connection there. He has two other people on the LLC Tatyana and someone called YEVGENIY SHVETS. The address listed for their business with the state of Washington is the city of Sammamish.

I say all this to say, I believe that they are FRAUDUALENTLY promoting his house out as a potential rental and SCAMMING people taking their 1st & last money down payment, without the  INTENT to ever renting this house out to anyone. There are already people complaining about this in Washington State. (See Below)

INFORMATION ON Maria Quintanilla (this is supposedly his assistant)

I am not sure the relation Maria has to Peter but if they had anything in common it could be the number of aliases. She has a bunch as well. She lives in Miami, Florida. She promotes herself as a Coach for Herbalife. You can see in her facebook, Instagram, and tik tok that she likes to dance and if you give her a chance she will dance away with your money as well.

https://www.facebook.com/maria.quintanilla.31586

https://www.instagram.com/reachinggoals24fit/

https://urlebird.com/user/reachinggoals420/

You will see that these pics on her cash app are the same pics from here Instagram seen below.

To prove that it is here these are pics from here Instagram; https://www.instagram.com/reachinggoals24fit/ (notice the name of her

 

Payment Methods: Maria Quintanilla via cash app

 

Pics from her Instagram you will see are the same that are on her CashApp and that exact pic on her cash app is no where else but on her TIK TOK added to a video. Its not located on her Instagram so the concept that someone stole her identity and used her pic makes that argument a little harder. (see below)

 

 

This is her TIK TOK acct….

 

PAYMENTS & REFUND REQUESTS via CASH APP:

 

Email Correspondence:

 

---------- Forwarded message ---------

From: Peter Shvets <[email protected]>

Date: Thu, Jul 9, 2020, 9:38 AM

Subject: 23618 49th Ave SE, Bothell, WA 98021 Available For Rent

To: <[email protected]>

Thanks for your interest & property is still available for rent. I got a promotion and am taking the GM position in NC. I will be spending up to 4 years here in NC due to my Job. I must confess to you that I am very new in this landlord business. However, my name is Peter. I own a 3 bed, 2 full bath 1,296 sqft property Located at 23618 49th Ave SE, Bothell, WA 98021. The initial plan was to sell the House which I tried, but sometimes the agents inflate the price and it takes longer to sell. Pets are allowed as long as they are not destructive. The Rent is $1,525 and security deposit is $1,525.I want a responsible person or family who is neat and believe that they have all that it takes to take care of the property as if it were their own.

  There is a washer,dryer,hookup,fridge,microwave,This utilities are include with this monthly rent garbage,electricity,heat,water.As you can see we are not around to show you our home we are currently out of state but all is in place to allow you move in at your own convenient time.The house vital informative documents and the entrance keys to the house are with me, for i try to look for dependable agent to handle the rent but could not find due to the limited time we had before leaving. Mostly we do not want our property to be given to any sort of person to avoid damages and troubles.You can go over or drive by to see the house, but you can only view from outside for now, i hope you understand , so I hope you will promise us to take very good care of the house.

Address: 23618 49th Ave SE, Bothell, WA 98021.

Monthly rent:$1,525.00

Refundable Deposit:$1,525.00

Bedroom:3

Bathroom:2

1,296 Sqft

PET FRIENDLY.

All utilities included  in  the rent. Below are some questions I need you to answer so we can discuss further.

N.B: You can only drive by the property for now to check the outside and the neighbourhood, it is available for a long lease. Get back to me for further discussion on how to get the keys and paperwork of the property to you if I find you suitable and decide to rent the property to you.

 RENT QUESTIONNAIRE

      1)Name (First name/ Middle name/Surname )________________________ ?

      2)Present Address_______________________ ?

      3)Phone numbers (home,cell and office line ) # _______________________ ?

      4)Best time to reach you ________________ ?

      5)How many proposed occupants ________________ ?

      6)List all in addition to yourself including approx age :__________?

      7)Marital Status:__________?

      8)Do you have a pet______________ ?

      9)Do you have a car______________________ ?

      10)Present occupation :__________?

      11)Monthly Income:__________?

      12)When do you plan to move in, please write the exact date ______________ ?

      13)Reasons for Leaving present home_________________ ?

      14)Length of previous tenancy :__________?

      15)How long lease are you looking for______________ ?

      16)How soon do you intend moving in________________ ?

      17)Date of Birth________________ ?

      18)A picture of occupant ________________ ?

      19)How soon can you make the Rent/Deposit payment________________ ?

      20)If you are asked to make a down payment to secure the house today and take it off market,How much will you be able to pay:__________?

      21)How soon do you want to receive the keys/documents________________ ?

      22)Are you a section 8 applicant:__________?

      23)Do you work late at night :__________?

      24)Do you smoke :__________?

      25)Do you drink :__________?

How many months’ rent can you pay upfront? Minimum (1month + SECURITY DEPOSIT) or (2 months + SECURITY DEPOSIT), so which option do you prefer???

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      Application Comment

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Please make sure these questions are filled correctly because the best way you answer with your comment will impress me the most to accept your application.

Best Regards.

Peter Shvets.

You can reach me via my cell @ +1 (828) 572-8573.(the number I believe just routs to another number)

 

(pictures of the house were attached to the email)

 

"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." -James Cameron

 

 Fwd: Application for rental

Inbox

x

 

C

 

Fri, Jul 10, 6:59 PM (7 days ago)

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Peter Shvets <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 5:08 PM Subject: Re: Application for rental To: My name

 

My name <[email protected]>

Thu, Jul 16, 7:01 PM (19 hours ago)

 to me

 

---------- Forwarded message ---------

From: Peter Shvets <[email protected]>

Date: Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 5:08 PM

Subject: Re: Application for rental

To: Name<[email protected]>

 

Dear (Name,)

  I can see your willingness in my house, you have shown toward my house. You’re just an accurate example of the fulfilment of Psalm 23, which God has promised to make you lie down in grassy pastures and he further says : By well-watered resting places He shall conduct you, verse 6 says surely Goodness and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life; And you will dwell in the house of the lord forever and ever. We have decided to rent our home to you due to your manner of approach and prompt attitude in getting things done.

However, I'll like you to proceed with down payment ($1,525).so that you secure down the property and also get the keys and document of the house. And also, my I will be sending you the following to you via FedEx to your address you provided. Please once again, we are giving you this on trust and do not disappoint us and I promise you that, you will love the house. I want you to promise us that you will take good care of our home when you get there.

Here are the contents of the shipment,

1)Entrance and the rooms Keys

2)Paper/Permanent house form (Containing your reference details)

3)The house documentary file.

4)Payment Receipt.

5)Full address and description of the house

I will like you to know that I have registered your information with the FedEx shipping company and also once the payment of the refundable security deposit & rent is made the FedEx will proceed with the shipment and the keys and documents will get to you as soon as possible at your doorstep , also once you get the keys and you move into our home if you don't like what you see in the inside your money will be refunded back immediately then you give the FedEx back the keys , My family and I are really happy and excited that God finally sent us a wonderful family to come take care of our home.

Your Registered Information below

Delivery Name: XXX

Delivery Address:XXXX Seattle, WA

Phone: 425-XXX-XXXX.

Let me know if I registered the correct info, so please get back to me today so I can get back in-touch with FedEx so as to proceed on getting the keys and documents to your doorstep. Also attached a signed file so review it & sign as well before we proceed. The life of a Christ-follower doesn't stop with personal beliefs or private character. It continues into the mission that Christ has called His church and finding our place in that vast work. He has given us gifts, talents, and skills to expand the kingdom of God. Whether through serving or speaking, giving or leading, listening or ministering, each member has a place to contribute and is needed for the whole to succeed.

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. (2 Cor. 12:9)

"Everybody Deserves a Home Both The Rich And The Poor"

I await your response!

Best Regards.

Peter Shvets.

You can reach me via my cell @ +1 (828) 572-8573.  

 

On Sat, 11 Jul 2020 at 07:28, <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Peter, 

 Absolutely, and thank you for getting back to me so promptly. Your home is truly what I have been praying for. I will take care of it as if it were my own. I am able to work 3 days a week. I do this schedule purposely so that I can remain a very "hands on” and involved mom. I also have a boyfriend who most recently worked as an XXXXX for XXXXX. Every few years or so we try to do a global mission. Our group provides food, water and spiritual support to areas in the world in need. About a year ago we spent a week in (name of country), helping and uplifting that community.  At this time, my boyfriend and I are doing our finances/living separately, however he is a great support if needed. 

 Years ago, I was a homeowner. I had a 3-bedroom, 2000 square foot home in (city). I also had a time where I rented out a few of the rooms. So I understand the need for a responsible and peaceful tenant. I understand the responsibilities of upkeep and keeping the yard and garden beautiful. Maintaining and keeping the house beautiful and clean. Being in the medical industry, I am a I understand the importance of keeping a clean and safe home. I can maintain this myself, although my boyfriend and brother let me know they would be there to help with the yard or repairs. 

 Having this home would be an incredible blessing. It is the perfect size for my family. And exactly what I envisioned when I started looking for a home.  For now, the 3rd bedroom would most likely be an office as I have days where I sometimes work on marketing from home.  

 I am pretty low key, I love to (hobbies) and spend time with the family. My typical evening is relaxing to Netflix or amazon movies with the family. Being a mother in my (age), I am not into the party scene. 

 I can also ensure that rent will be paid on time and consistently. One great thing for a landlord is Section 8 will pay you directly like clock-work every month at the same time. My portion of the rent currently is around $200 a month. Then section 8 pays the other 1325.00 every month directly to you. I can promise that rent,(my portion and section 8) will be paid to you on-time, every month. I am prepared to pay you first and last month's rent out of my pocket. 

 We currently have no pets. And have no official plans on getting one. Although maybe for the distant future ..would a small dog such as a yorkie or terrier allowed? 

 Thank you so much for your time and consideration, If you accept me as your tenant, I can guarantee you that I will be excellent to you and your beautiful home.

 

Thanks again and I look forward to talking to you soon! 

 

Sincerely, 

My Name

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 12:19 PM Peter Shvets <[email protected]> wrote:

 

Hello Name,

  Thanks for getting back to me diligently, I greatly appreciate your interest in the house and want you to know your information looks ideal and clear. I’m currently reviewing your information with my wife before the final decision. We’re pleased with what we’ve read so far, I understand everything, I have a few more questions for you. We want to know if we decide to rent you our home, can you care for it like you own it? Will you pay your rent in time? Are you bringing pets later? Please let me know quickly.

Best Regards.

Peter Shvets.

You can reach me via my cell @ +1 (828) 572-8573.(SPOOF NUMBER)

 

On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 11:06, NAME<[email protected]> wrote:

Thanks so much! Look forward to hearing from you soon! 

 

My Name

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Text Correspondence

 

 EMERALD PENTAL REALTY LLC

Corp ID: 604430851

Incorporation Date: 16 May 2019 (about 1 year ago)

Washington (US) 1007 221ST AVE NE, SAMMAMISH, 98074-6891

 

Major Players:

 

• PETER SHVETS, agent
• PETER SHVETS, executor
• PETER SHVETS, governor
• TATYANA SHVETS, governor (She was involved in a criminal case in California with the DOJ a Tax & Fraud case U.S. v. SHVETS, Case No. 2:12-CR-0322 .
• YEVGENIY SHVETS, governor