Who are some of the bad ones? I am needing an unsecured 5K personal loan and have been contacted by several private lenders from this site. They all offer a 7%loan, and I must pay a small fee upfront for loan insurance. I’m not certain what I should do and who I should trust but I am really hurting for the cash.
Haydee Milbrath
Ross Hamilton, the CEO of Connected Investors is a blunt liar. Recently he launched a free webinar called Really Flip claimed to provide investors with motivated seller leads without spending market and advertising dollars on his website – Connected Investors. | He claimed his website provided all-in-one service for real estate investors looking for seller leads and cash buyers. I heard him saying in his webinar that he provided 100% satisfaction guarantee and that after the 30 days you will be charged for about $37 per month, to continue using his service. | He claimed his feature Deal Dog provides motivated seller leads from various websites which are private sellers, shadow inventory from banks and many more. | It sounds too good to be true it is. I paid for $297 to test his service. On date 4th I opened up his website and checked out the Deal Dog feature, and found 99.95% of listings are from Craiglist’s, the remaining from auction.com, a few from his own site. | Craiglist listings are entirely free in the market place, why would someone pay for $297 and $37 per month to just get a pretty looking layout on his site? Just the idea is madness. Of course he said everything to sound perfect to investors in his webinar. | Upon checking out I immediately reached out to customer service to request the cancellation of service and requested a refund of $297. I got a reply saying the company offers a 3-day satisfaction guarantee, mine was on date 4th, no refund will be given. | If everything Ross said was true why would he offers a 3-day guarantee instead of a 30 days standard guarantee? I never have heard him saying it was only 3 days or I would never have subscribed, it’s lemon from the start! This way he deceives my payment of $297 for nothing. Ross Hamilton is a blunt liar, as good as a scanmer, buyers beware!
Moshe Hammitt
Run the other way, you can’t get through to reviews because connected claims has purchased the first few pages of google searches. All reviews come from sites sponsored by them. I fell into the trap paid the $1497 and 5 days later after many searches and cross checks I realized that the information is terrible. I ran across at least 30 properties that did not have accurate information. | Multiply that by the US and you get the picture. Skip tracing was not delivered as they claim. According to the reviews I have read here, they lie in the webinar and the terms is where they stick it to you. 3 days is nowhere near enough time to get an accurate assessment of a program. | Fortunately my bank cares about customer satisfaction because they surely do not. I was promised a product and the product was not delivered. I will also be filing a BBB report.
Lucie Gaudreau
These two wannabe investors send emails their list inviting them to thier live webinar about real estate investing. | The webinars are not live so no one responds to any questions…nor will they after because they are clueless. | They re-broadcast these webinars twice nightly numerous times a week & make a lot of money for the owners & themselves from the course they are PITCHING. | These two are all about the money. | They don’t respond to questions…most likely unless you purchase the course. | Bogus!!
Shavon Crogan
They suspended my account a few days ago. I called them to inquire as to why. The lady could not help me. But, she took my name and contact number. She did give her opinion, upon my asking, as to what may have occurred. She said that they implemented a new system , and it may have detected something in my account. I asked the female representative if they give second chances, and she enthusiastically responded: “Oh yeah”. Her demeanor verbally gave the impression that they would take care of this matter and that it happens all the time. I sent two, separate emails to them requesting reinstatement, after watching a video of the owner, Ross Hamilton, who said not to worry, they are cleaning up their page to remove scammers and yada yada. No one has ever gotten back to me, not one returned phone call, no email response, no text….nothing. I have never had an account suspended and I simply would like to know why, but they have blown me off. It comes off as standoffish, tired, tacky, tasteless and unprofessional.
Lilian Garnand
We have had phone calls from at least 4 would be real estate investors who signed up with Connected Investors which is an online platform for real estate investors to connect. These people who called my firm were contacted by fraudsters posing as our reputable Real Estate Brokerage in Las Vegas, to attempt to get their personal financial informatin and up front “loan fees.” The fraudsters/scammers open fake email accounts (gmail, yahoo and outlook) using our company name and send emails to people directing them to an outdated secretary of state listing for our company so that they “appear legitimate.” | Connected Investors is somehow allowing their members to be contacted by these fraudsters and don’t seem to have a vetting process to weed out real lenders and false lenders. | We have contacted our local police, reported these people to the various email providers as well as the FBI’s internet fraud division. | I have attempted to reach Connected Investors and no one calls me back.