1, Report:
#1404634
Posted Date:
Mar 25 2024
Chris Baird Chris CarterEquity Trust Company LLC Lied about having contractors license and insurance wrongfully deceiving employees and subcontractors exposing them to dangerous work environments mold infestations and unhealthy work conditions Vancouver, Washington and Portland Oregon Washington
Chris Baird who uses an alias of Chris Carter falsely displayed himself and company Equity Trust as a contractor in States of Washington and Orgeon flipping houses yet had no coverage for employees while working on job sites and never pulled permits necessary for safety inspec...
Entity
Chris Baird
Categories: Adoption Agencies
3, Report:
#1353869
Posted Date:
Feb 03 2017
Equity Trust Company Incorrect 1099-R forms - gross incompetence Westlake Ohio
I was talked into setting up a self directed IRA with Equity Trust managing the account.
Once I realized their unreasonable management fees I decided to close the account.
it took a couple o fphone calls an dpaperwork to get it done.
I just received 2 1099 forms for the same account...
Entity
Equity Trust Company
Categories: Investment Brokers
4, Report:
#1320138
Posted Date:
Aug 02 2016
Equity Trust Company Hard to work with, purposefully over-charged Westlake Ohio
We had to submit the same documentation multiple times because people at Equity Trust would change and for some reason would either not look in the files or could not find what we had already sent. Over time, as we sent in payments on an investment, they did not credit it to our exi...
Entity
Equity Trust Company
Categories: Financial Services
5, Report:
#1250048
Posted Date:
Aug 21 2015
Equity Trust Complete Ripoff Company and Totally Incompetent Westlake Ohio
My wife and I wanted to do a closure of the Roth IRA and open a new Roth IRA with USAA Banking and put in the funds we received from selling a piece of real estate. We also wanted to get the Think or Swim Brokerage account separated from the Roth IRA. We started the process in the b...
Entity
Equity Trust
Categories: Investment Brokers
6, Report:
#1210315
Posted Date:
Feb 19 2015
Superior Gold Group and Sterling Trust Equity Trust Wire fraud Santa Monica California
In April 2009 I rolled over an IRA into the Sterling Trust SIDRA backed by Proof Gold and Silver. Sterling Trust wired the money to Superior Gold and I have never received the gold. Bruce Sands never returned my phone and e-mail messages.
I have told them that I wanted my mone...
Entity
Superior Gold Group and Sterling Trust
Categories: Drug Rehabilitation Centers
7, Report:
#1205626
Posted Date:
Jan 30 2015
Landmark Apartment Trust Equity Institutional, Equity Trust Company Holding investment money hostage Westlake Ohio
When I originally invested, it was in the office of Sterling Trust of San Diego, CA. They are now Western Financial Advisors per my statement.
Received an annual bill from Equity Institutional and called them to let them know I wanted to move my account elsewhere. Equity said I need...
Entity
Landmark Apartment Trust
Categories: Financial Services
8, Report:
#1202286
Posted Date:
Jan 17 2015
equity trust company the worst investment I did. be careful. learn from our mistakes. They don't have a physical address only PO BOX. westlake ohio
BE CAREFUL!!!!
THE WORST INVESTMENT I DID.
THEY NEVER COMMUNICATE, THEYWONT INFORM YOU THAT THEY CHARGING YOUR ACCOUNT.
THEY DONT HAVE A PHYSICAL ADDRESS, ITS ONLY PO BOX.
THINK A BILLION TIMES TO INVEST IN THIS SHADY COMPANY.
Entity
equity trust company
Categories: Investment Brokers
9, Report:
#1201974
Posted Date:
Jan 16 2015
sterling/equity trust company equity institutional sterling/equity trust enabled Jonathan Brooks to steal 6 million $ from investors in his Real Estate scam in Aiken S.C. westlake ohio
In December of 2013 Jonathan Brooks stole 6 millon$ from 37 investors in a Real Estate scheme in Aiken S.C.. Equity Trust enabled him to take our money and put it where ever he wished..The Attorney Generals office in S.C found him out & put all his holdings in recievership. Some o...
Entity
sterling/equity trust company
Categories: Investment Brokers
10, Report:
#1180312
Posted Date:
Oct 01 2014
equity institutional IRA Custodian westlake Ohio
Keep far away from this company.
Nothing but fees and fines with no discernible value provided.
My 401k was transferred here and they have drained it with annual fees, late fees and now hefty termination fees.
Good riddance Equity Trust Co.
Entity
equity institutional
Categories: Financial Services
11, Report:
#1007063
Posted Date:
Apr 24 2014
Equity Trust Company Horrible place to work Berea, Ohio
This is the worst place to work!You're expected to take call after call with barely any time in between. But during the few seconds you get between calls, you're expected to do a ridiculous amount of follow up work and research that really requires much more time and attention to de...
Entity
Equity Trust Company
Categories: Financial Services
12, Report:
#1117281
Posted Date:
Jan 21 2014
Equity Institutional - IRA Services, Equity Trust Holding onto my money for 6 weeks after request to close account Westlake Ohio
Entity
Equity Institutional
Categories: Financial Services, Investment Brokers
13, Report:
#1110967
Posted Date:
Dec 27 2013
Equity Trust Sterling Trust Biggest Screw-Ups on the Planet Waco Texas
I have spent two weeks trying to get Equity to distribute my account to me.
I have scanned the information and emailed it.
I printed out their online their forms, filled them in handwritten, and faxed them.
I followed up by filling in the forms online, then printing them...
Entity
Equity Trust
Categories: Financial Services
14, Report:
#1078242
Posted Date:
Aug 23 2013
Shrink Nanotechnologies Norman Victor Meier, Victor Meier, Victor Burrell Meier Pump and dump Carlsbad California
CEO of Shrink Nanotechnologies (INKN) Dr. Norman Victor MeierThe new CEO of Shrink Nanotechnologies Dr. Norman Meier writes the following on his website at normanmeier.com :Later, at the age of 30, he decided to start his own business and only two and a half years later, he became a...
Entity
Shrink Nanotechnologies Norman Victor Meier
Categories: Bait-and-Switch
15, Report:
#1067670
Posted Date:
Jul 17 2013
sterling trust equity trust sterling trust's fees took over 10% of the earnings of my REIT investment elyria Ohio
My financial planner put me into a REIT which would generate 6% income from the principal balance. The principal balance was $7,000. This was in a self-directed IRA. Because this was in an IRA, a custodian had to be appointed because the investment was a REIT. My financial...
Entity
sterling trust
Categories: Financial Services
16, Report:
#1051159
Posted Date:
May 15 2013
Racine Assets LLC Dishonest Business Columbus Ohio
Mr. Mark Evans DM of Racine Assets LLC. didn't pay us back our money when the promissory was matured. He didn't pay tax for IRA loan for us either.
My husband signed promissory note with him. My husband made a self-directed IRA with Equity Trust and after 5 years, they had made n...
Entity
Racine Assets LLC
Categories: Mortgage Companies
17, Report:
#1046479
Posted Date:
Apr 26 2013
Sterling Trust and Equity Trust COLT LEDGER & ASSOCIATES, INC. OPENS INVESTIGATION INTO ALLEGED MISMANAGEMENT AND FRAUD ASSOCIATED SELF-DIRECTED IRAs BY STERLING TRUST, EQUITY TRUST, RICHARD DESICH, JEFFREY DESICH, RICH DESICH AN Elyria, Ohio
A current and former group of investors in various alleged investment scams has hired Colt
Ledger & Associates, Inc., the premier firm in the country for exposing private placement securities
fraud and the criminal fraud associated wit...
Entity
Sterling Trust and Equity Trust
Categories: Brokerage Companies
18, Report:
#1045877
Posted Date:
Apr 24 2013
Sterling Trust a division of Equity Trust Co. Never Filed Fiduciary Final Report to the IRS on our Company 401(k) Waco, Texas
Our small company decided to have a 401(k) for our employees in 2008. We looked on Vanguard's website for their suggested recommendations on fiduciary administrators (fyi - they no longer do this). We picked Sterling Trust because they were in our home state of Texas.
After ...
Entity
Sterling Trust
Categories: Financial Services
19, Report:
#1045191
Posted Date:
Apr 22 2013
Sterling Trust Equity Institutional Latest Security Breach is yet the 50th Shade of Shady! Elyria, Ohio
I had a self-directed IRA account with Sterling Trust for about 2-3 years, and closed it in 2009 after experiencing significant service issues shortly after Sterling Trust (Waco, TX) was acquired by Equity Trust Company (Elyria, OH). During the time m...
Entity
Sterling Trust
Categories: Financial Services
20, Report:
#1045045
Posted Date:
Apr 21 2013
Sterling Trust Company Equity Trust Co. Gold IRA fraud Internet, Internet
On 01/18/12 I rolled over a traditional IRA account valued at $39,406 from my local bank in Maine to a gold IRA through Lear Capital Inc. (account designated reprsentative) who used Sterling Trust Co. as the custodian. I trusted their financial advice. They only left $606.85 in...
Entity
Sterling Trust Company
Categories: Investment Brokers
21, Report:
#841024
Posted Date:
Feb 21 2013
Sterling Trust Equity Trust Operational Nightmare - Do not use them if you want any level of Service Waco, Texas
I am part of a company that sells shares thru self directed IRA's. We tried to use Sterling Trust for the First time and they were a Nightmare. Their People are incompetent as well as their management. They were suppose to send the Transfer Requests Overnight - but didn't which caus...
Entity
Sterling Trust
Categories: Brokerage Companies
22, Report:
#832569
Posted Date:
Feb 21 2013
Equity Trust Sterling Trust This Company Stole Funds From My Retirement Account By Withholding Information And Out Right Lies Elyria, Ohio
I purchased an self directed IRA to invest. Little did I realize then that the company I had
sought to use is as criminal as Madoff.
They charge exorbitant fees and you don't know the fees you are going to be charged until after
they setup your ac...
Entity
Equity Trust
Categories: Consumer Services
23, Report:
#1006963
Posted Date:
Feb 01 2013
Equity Trust Company ETC's inability to follow directions cost me thousands of dollars - be careful, be very careful when dealing with them Elyria, Ohio
After a number of failed attempts to use their self directed IRA services to purchase some real estate, Equity Trust Company was instructed to roll-over all funds to an eTrade IRA account. I consulted them over the telephone to make sure all documents were properly comp...
Entity
Equity Trust Company
Categories: Financial Services
24, Report:
#899320
Posted Date:
Jan 25 2013
Equity Trust Company Scam on insurance and investment individuals for them to use on their clients.they also put on seminars Internet
Warning to all insurance and investment people,Save your clients from going into Equity Trust Company,Equity does a show on how much you can save a client on tax defer,well they do not examine what people are putting the money into, they are not looking at the items that are put int...
Entity
Equity Trust Company
Categories: Financial Services
25, Report:
#946435
Posted Date:
Sep 25 2012
Equity Trust Company Trust ETC, ETC, Mid-Ohio Securities Self-Directed IRA, ROTH IRA Elyria, Ohio
This firm provides Self-Directed IRA and/or ROTh management services. However, if you are not well educated regarding self-directed IRA's, you'd be better served not using this company. In my case, I called on them for their expertise to guide me through the process. &nb...
Entity
Equity Trust Company
Categories: Financial Services