The "not so quick" answer is... that I am an entrepreneurial consultant and sales and marketing and advertising trainer who also invests in real estate and a number of other "make your own living" multiple streams of income. 20 months ago, I stumbled across an ad in the Wash Post classified for RE investing. I met Andy Williams and he wanted someone on board with his new company with the real business and real estate investing experience I discussed and was excited about. He also was building his Cafe of point of sale equipment and services and the "real estate investing" was not a line of business according to him at the time but simply a means to an end of the POS and Digital Advertising other real businesses. (which wouldn't one hope that the SEC is investigating securities fraud on the other businesses first? the real estate is taken out in peoples own names and they live there or can rent investment property)
I'm using the word "destroyed" because while most people are focusing on the 950 (give or take) home owner investors that willingly put money into "programs" to make money, there are at least about 200 people and small business owners that pursued the legitimate side of the businesses that were created to earn money based on merits of work.
The insidious nature of this whole debacle is that the people like me who consulted MDH and who were "paid" some money to consult or work on real business development and real ways to accomplish goals of what the investors "thought" they were investing in, and actually spend time and research on effective business planning and or real estate investing in an educational or "association" style (like perhaps Washington REIA or
Real Estate Investing | Start Learning Today!) only to find out that plans and good sense and ancillary companies created were never used as suggested and were specifically perverted and changed to something else after the initial ideas were sold to them. (and I mean sold as in invoiced for services and having to perform debt collection on contracted services with wait times of sometimes 30 days, 60 days etc. for payment if it came at all)
The greed took over for only part of the group. We can't forget that these "investors" are people with ideas and interests and the "employees and consultants" are real people who more than likely don't have (and I can say for sure in my instance) the greedy motives but have real interest in helping people navigate the "new, new economy" as Tom Peters called the world of work several years ago, and there are a lot of new rules of business and engagement and investing and earning a living as well as creating retirement wealth.
So an example of what I meant by "destroyed" is that as a consultant who's primary client for many months is more than likely now criminal suspect, what do I put on my resume going forward? How should I explain my life's work? How do I do "debt collection" for real invoices of work created that were never paid for? How do I walk away from business that I specifically designed to teach people to fish instead of handing them a fish or selling them a fish yet those ideas and work services have not been paid for? and those underlying investors who foolishly turned over fiduciary responsibility for their own investment dollars really wanted to be taught to fish yet are being denied the fishing lesson because they don't even know it's been sanctioned?
Like I wrote yesterday, there are legitimate ways to do all the things people thought they were doing with MDH but yet the greedy principles are unfortunately controlling the delivery and payment of those things and they have fiduciary control over "stuff" that they are really only entitled to association and referral control. And that makes it a business problem as well as a real estate mortgage problem.
I'm also trying to make the point that small businesses sold to (example the restaurant owner in Cathy Jett's article) are just as much victims of the scam but in a more systemic way in that it may not just include where they live but include how they earn their money and how they spend their time (another extremely valuable asset "time" which is being systemically exploited).
(I'm not articulating this very well or very succinctly, but believe it or not articulation and brevity were much better part in my life before I was "destroyed" and so I am also proving my point by this confusion.)
For another example of one hand not knowing what the other is doing, someone who had a separate company, an ad agency and other small business (computer consultant and internet marketer for example) actually spent time and money and sales effort acquiring customers for a digital delivery network and advertising medium of one ancillary business that POS Cafe created (POS CAfe was first before MDH; that is why I referred to possible "racketeering" in my last post).
The ad agency that wants to continue to sell advertising services is really hurt by the contamination to the market place and loss of confidence of current clients of a large Digital Advertising Network (which is what MDH principles insist is what investors were using their $$ investment for) yet not producing real ads or selling real space or real ROI numbers, but is selling imaginary-fully--developed-perfect-world scenarios of how Digital Advertising works which is again inaccurate and surreal in the marketplace and this is COMPLETELY relevant to the mortgage posts, not a separate thread...
MY POINT THAT IS SO INARTICULATELY BEING STREAMED HERE IS THAT NONE OF THE REAL ESTATE STUFF HAPPENED IN A VACUUM AND THAT THESE COMPANIES HAVE DESTROYED REAL BUSINESSES AS WELL AS DISCOLORING AND CONTAMINATING SEVERAL INDUSTRIES AS WELL AS THE PEOPLE WHO REALLY HAD DIFFERENT MOTIVES FOR SIMILAR OBJECTIVES AND WHO ACTUALLY "WORKED THERE" WITH ETHICS AND INTEGRITY.
Back to the "short answer" or actually, there is no short answer. I'm sorry.
I need to talk to the AG or the SEC directly and I need an attorney representative to do that safely. Or if the other professional law enforcement people I have already spoken to can "recognize" my post, can you send me a sign of who to talk to next? Can anyone reading this help with getting a professional (albeit more articulate less emotional) representative to help me continue this revolution?
Is there a Human Resources professional reading any of this? Is there a civil rights or women's rights activist reading this? Is there another person out there who feels like I do that we have to stand up to corporate bullies corporate threats to our making honest livings? And we have to do it before we're ENRON look-alikes??
I am not apologizing about being a child of the sixties and I am also not burning my bra today. But unlike the people who sat back and watched a man be tasered at a John Kerry speech and decided they would "rise up" in a blog to help a cause, I really want to do something else with this particular social injustice.
And the sad news is that I can't do this alone and protect my daughter at the same time. We've actually been threatened by these people as well as the fraud of unpaid invoices for legitimate services rendered so I have been financially wiped out. Sure I would have called the AG on August 16th if I had known about any of this. But like I said this issue is systemic to the point that my "bill collection" efforts of the last 8 months have been completely separate and not even aware of the housing issues and mortgage investor problems and I never even saw the WashPost articles and other accusations until after labor day and also just found this forum couple days ago.
Some of the investors that I talk to everyday are still enamoured with the "programs" and working on ROI and their own portions of what they think is legitimate business. and are still perhaps embarrassed by their decisions so hesitate speaking out. The real costs of exploitation and hiring the wrong people to do the wrong jobs is extremely tragic in some cases and long recovery time with due process and confidence rebuilding is a real process that takes a real toll on human lives.
I must go work on something else, I am not a victim here, I am simply going thru the process of fixing this social injustice and asking for help where appropriate. And, unfortunately I'm gabby... what can I do about that?
If anyone can recommend attorney or some professional to edit my speeches so I can effectively talk to authorities, please let me know.
Thanks.
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Originally Posted by scamme
Re-foundingMother, welcome to the thread. I hope you eventually get the help that you need. Can you elaborate on your connection to MDH and how your life has been "destroyed"? It was not clear to me whether you have been affected personally by them or swindlers like them.
Regarding the broader issues/problems you raised this thread is narrowly focused on MDH so you may want to start a new thread on those issues.
Thanks for your input.
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