York Street Properties: BBB Accreditation Revoked
York Street Properties has been a bad business choice for many. Potential Investors, Service Providers, Tenants, Rent-To-Own prospects and others should take particular care when deciding if doing business with Lance Puig and York Street Properties is correct for them. Due Diligence should include speaking with numbers of investors, service providers and tenants. Talk to everybody that’s ever done business with this company before making a decision.After extensive investigation, the Better Business Bureau determined that it could no longer accredit York Street Properties as a reliable business.
This follows Federal Lawsuits, dozens of of complaints with federal, state, district and local agencies. Additionally, 100’s of complaints have been filed with numerous online complaint bureaus. Representatives of the “York Street Properties Victims Group” have pledged to open a fully comprehensive website with charge specifics in the near future.
Victims groups that have lost life savings, companies, livelihoods and much more have taken notice and will be linking and referencing the York Street Properties “scandal” on their websites.
Media attention beginning to blossom through investigations of Dallas Metroplex print and television journalists.
Interesting and informative. But will you write about this one more?
Ventego,
You might like to go to this site for more on the subject. There are about 80 registered users and over 1400 individuals have read the content and voted that its was helpful for them:
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/lance-puig-york-street-properties-c244126.html
I’m sure you’ll find it interesting
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Lance Puig owes me $23, 255.00 for landscaping and remodeling work I and my crew did on houses over 2 years ago.
The work was done according to the specifications I was given and it was done in a timely fashion.
The invoices were approved by the “Construction Coordinators” after they were scrutinized for accuracy and property inspections were completed. After that, per agreement by Lance Puig I would be paid immediately after invoice receipt. After piddling around with payment on some smaller invoices I started getting the run-around and every excuse imaginable for not paying.
The lady I was dealing with at the time said that Lance was paying himself $25, 000 a month in salary before any other expense was paid. After that, he paid his contract labor. If there was money left over, then he would pay his bills. From what I was told and from the lack of funds I received, apparently there wasn’t much money left over… instead of paying me he just got another contractor that was willing to give him credit (like I initially did), paid them a little so they would increase the credit limit – then screwed them too… that seems to be Lance Puig’s “M.O.”
My invoices were very complete and were backed-up with photos. The statements I sent (for what seems like 100’s of times) included; my invoice number, the invoice date, the property name, a detailed work description, the date the work was completed, the invoice amount, the name of the construction coordinator that ordered and the name of the construction coordinator that approved the invoice for payment. The remodeling and the paperwork was done very professionally – the client, York Street Properties, is anything but professional.
My name is Mario Silva and I’m a victim of Lance Puig of York Street Properties
SMW Sprinklers
PS: York Street, please feel free to pay me, the information’s on my invoices. You have boasted that you have no vendor problems, so
prove it!
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I’ve been carefully reading this blog and a number of others that paint a negative picture of Lance Puig and York Street Properties. I’ve also carefully read what the BBB, Securities Exchange Commission PA, news clippings and press releases have reported.
Additionally, I’ve read the many pro-York Street Properties websites, blogs, postings and press releases.
Objectively speaking, it seems that the many complaints about York Street Properties (and Lance Puig’s management of same) have credibility and are coming from concerned parties with legitimate negative experiences. The detail that’s been given on both sides should allow any potential investor or vendor of York Street Properties to make intelligent choices. I’m sure there’s much more detail and documentation the anti-York Street Properties parties can, have and will provide to authorities and the court system.
Furthermore, what’s clearly obvious is that Lance Puig doesn’t appear to have any desire to deal with the disputes in a credible fashion. Many offers have been made by parties with complaints to open the issue up for discussion and resolution. York Street Properties has decided to deny all claims and advertise the complaints are coming from a single person (or a couple of people) bent on destroying, defaming or otherwise harming Lance Puig and his companies. His petty legal attempts and disingenuous public responses appear to have no other objective except to “diffuse the situation” rather than resolve it.
The power of the internet and freedom of speech is a tremendous liberty we enjoy in this country. It also appears to be a valuable method of stating your claim in hopes of resolution with the added benefit of providing information to others that might consider doing business with Lance Puig and his companies.
I’m sure it would be a comfort to all to report that Lance Puig has taken his responsibilities seriously and is making solid attempts to pay people he owes money to. Is he that professional? So far it seems not.
Lance Puig’s major point is that people have not identified themselves. It appears that’s a very weak point as he is well aware of the people that money is owed to. No business can sweep invoices, statements, written complaints and an assortment of emails, voicemails and messages “under the rug” unless it’s to deliberately avoid bothersome issues. From my point of view, it seems that bloggers have little to lose by identifying themselves as any threats or actions by Lance Puig will be immediately reported to the world. With that said, I hope that every person negatively effected by Lance Puig and his companies will post their issues with detail somewhere on the internet. The only way he can stop the postings is to pay the debts and/or resolve the issues. If he fails to deal with the debts and issues it should be a clear indication that he never plans to. Does he relish the opportunity to get involved with criminal complaints that could result in his loss of liberty, business, money making ability and other capabilities he now enjoys? Perhaps so, particularly if he enjoys harming himself, his family and others who depend on him.
REFERENCES:
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/lance-puig-york-street-properties-c244126.html
http://www.bbb.org/dallas/business-reviews/real-estate-investors/york-street-properties-in-dallas-tx-90006702
https://www.secure.psc.state.pa.us/releases/Members/index.cfm?page=ReleaseDetail&id=873&ReleaseType=&ReleaseDate=&ReleaseYear=&Desc=&Rescind=&CFID=376283&CFTOKEN=f96f64b99aff2f16-6D9B7B31-2B3A-77E0-85BCB046AD45A424&jsessionid=8030545231255969356593
http://www.dallasda.com/specialized-crime-division.html
http://www.trec.state.tx.us/complaintsconsumer/default.asp
http://www.oag.state.tx.us/consumer/complain.shtml
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