- Report: #1426953
Complaint Review: Run Away Realty Puerto Morelos - Puerto Morelos Quintana Roo
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kerri -
new york, New York, United States
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Run Away Realty Puerto Morelos
Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Phone:
9981003125
Web:
www.runawayrealty.com
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Run Away Realty Puerto Morelos Mayan Riviera Properties Kim tempel WILL RUN AWAY WITH YOUR $$$$$$ Puerto Morelos Quintana Roo
My name is kerri and I am writing this on behalf of my elderly mother Susan. my mother has been ROBBED and had her money STOLEN by Kim tempel and Gabriel of runaway realty. The name of their company is quite fitting as they will quite literally RUN AWAY with your hard earned cash, or the cash of your loved ones. they should change their company name to RUN AWAY WITH YOUR MONEY!
Currently we are missing more than $95,860 us dollars in cash. Kim showed my mother 3 properties NO WHERE near the beach nor in the budget she was wanting to spend. 3 rundown shacks in run down street with trash piles and dogs running around. Kim and gabriel MANIPULATED my mother into making an offer on something she didn't want.
Kim used tactics such as saying that because she just started her business, that she is struggling to earn money and cant even afford food to eat.
kim told my elderly mother that she NEEDED to buy the run down condo because she was using up all of her VALUE ABLE time that could otherwise be spent with a REAL CLIENT! What NERVE! manipulating and forcing someone elderly and trying to take advantage!
Well things didn't stop there...
kim convinced my mother after 5 hours of pressuring her NON stop! She convinced her to "make an offer" on a run down condo with dirt road and dogs running around. My mother said she felt trapped, scared and alone. I told my mother very clearly not to go to Mexico alone! but she wouldn't listen,
I feel had i been there i could have stopped this KIM Character and would never have let her take advantage of my mom!
long story short my mother wire transferred to Gabriel's Mexican bank account $95,860 us dollars for a "deposit" to take the run down dump of a condo "off the market". There was no contract for the deposit just kims "word" that everything would be fine . and she said that "this is how things work in mexico". After my mother flew back home to start packing for her new life in mexico.. we started getting nervous.
First kim started avoiding our calls, then when we finally got in touch with her by calling from a blocked number... all we heard were EXCUSES, or that she was "too busy" and would "call us later". After months went by... we never heard from kim again. So what can we do? Well i told my mother we needed to pack a weekend bag.. and head down there to sort things out in person.
LIKE HELL WOULD LET THIS EVIL KIM BI*CH and her MINION Gabriel take advantage of my mother! So we arrived to Puerto morals (boy oh boy what a dump that place is!) We hopped in a taxi and went to kims "office" which was a rundown dump in the middle of a ghetto to confront her. After waiting outside for hours, she never showed. We returned again the next day, and the day after that.
As it turns out she saw us sitting in the taxi outside, and each time... she would RUN AWAY in her car. I felt as if i was in the movie to "catch a thief" We went back to our hotel, and talked to the front desk . the gentleman who worked their spoke English, his name was Jose. VERY HELPFUL. He told us that KIM used to work for.
www.mayanrivieraproperties.com for a lady named amber. Now it is called www.runawayrealty.com
He told me that a few months back another elderly couple was literally in tears in the lobby after kim had brought them back from a day of "viewing listings". Jose was un able to tell us the specific reason they were in tears.. but one can only assume she ripped them off as well!!! I wasn't able to determine of the scam was related or not. But seems this kim lady has quite a record of changing employment.
Upon goggling some details i also learned... KIM TEMPEL was disbarred from practicing as a lawyer in the USA! now i get why she doesn't live in the Usa anymore! So this pattern of scamming is one that seems to follow her throughout her entire life. all the way to mexico! So we decided to contact the federal and local police to see what can be done.
They told us they would not be able to help us! because there was no contract, no agreement and the money was transferred from the usa. Seems we have no choice but to hire a private lawyer.. with who knows how much in fees that will cost or if he will even able to help us. It makes me wonder many things.
HOW CAN THIS LADY GET AWAY WITH THIS?
HOW MANY OTHER VICTIMS ARE THERE?
HOW CAN I RECOVER MY MOTHERS HARD EARNED RETIREMENT?
2 Updates & Rebuttals
Amber
Puerto Morelos,Quintana Roo,
Mexico
Mayan Riviera Properties
#2REBUTTAL Individual responds
Wed, February 07, 2018
My name is Amber Pierce. I am the Owner and Broker of Mayan Riviera Properties, mentioned in this report. As the original post mentioned, Kim Tempel was a sales agent at MRP. Her employment at MRP ended in 2016. Since that time she has started her own agency. Mayan Riviera Properties has been successfully selling real estate in Puerto Morelos since 2006. Both agencies are members of A.M.P.I., the Mexican Association of Real Estate Agents and adhere to a Code of Ethics. All sale transactions should utilize an escrow account to protect funds for both buyer and seller. All A.M.P.I. Members (including both agencies mentioned in this post) advise the same which, is why this post would appear to lack credibility. Mayan Riviera Properties is ABSOLUTELY and UNEQUIVOCALLY not related to this post, the person who posted it, nor any other agency.
Kim
Puerto Morelos,Quintana Roo,
Mexico
Response to False "Report"
#3REBUTTAL Owner of company
Mon, February 05, 2018
There are five true statements in this report -- My name is Kim Tempel, I own Run Away Realty in Puerto Morelos, Mexico, my partner and husband is Gabriel Ortega, I used to work at Mayan Riviera Properties and I used to practice law in the US. All of these facts can be easily discovered by a review of our website and a quick google search. The rest is complete fantasy.
We don't have a disgrunted client named "Susan" with a daughter "Kerri". We don't know who these people are, and we have certainly never had a transaction or any business with them. Even beyond that, we never handle money. EVER. And if a realtor in Mexico (or anywhere else in the world...) ever asks you to pay them directly, just say no. All our transactions involve a third party Escrow Account in the USA. Finally, my status as an attorney is "Inactive" and has been since I moved to Puerto Morelos in 2012. I was not disbarred, and that is just one of the actionable libelous statements "Kerri" has made.
"Kerri"/"Susan" has no evidence to back up any of her claims. She can't, because none of this ever happened. If, by some very strange set of circumstances, someone else is posing at Kim Tempel and/or Gabriel at Run Away Realty in Puerto Morelos, and did "Susan" wrong, please let us know and we can try to help you sort it out. My guess is you won't, because this is a scam designed to destroy our business reputation, not an actual complaint by an actual person.
We aren't hard to find... unlike the claims of "Kerri" our office is not "in a ghetto" - we are on a main street in Puerto Morelos, just down the street from the police station, where you would have had to go to make a report. We are involved members of this very small community, which means you would have no trouble finding us if you were trying to. Our phone number, email and office location are available all over social media and our website. I am not allowed to put an email in this response, but here are two numbers that you can reach us on (US) 866-694-9849 and (Mexico) 998-100-3125. Furthermore, if you really have a complaint against us and "Susan" really did lose $95,000 USD, you can easily file a legal action in the US, a legal action in Mexico, complain to the real estate association, etc. You've done none of those things, because this isn't a real complaint.
When I first received news of this "report", I thought it was a scam designed to get me to pay money to have it removed, then, after reading closer, I realized it could be the work of a competitor, which is shocking but not out of the realm of possibility. Either way, shame on you.
