Post by TheTravelBug on Nov 14, 2009 16:27:36 GMT
As some of you may know I have helped a few people out with problems with this company (based around Chirpan) over the last couple of years. Originally I was contacted by a guy who had seen a house for sale on eBay through this company and had paid a deposit, then come over to see it and had decided to proceed with sale. However, on returning to UK communication with the company stopped and he found out that his company was not yet properly set up and his house not transferred to him, even though he had paid all money for it. I was asked to look into the matter and see what I could find out. I was able to find out personal issues appeared to be reason for no communication but that there were also worrying ways in which the guy had been sold his property. There was eventually some communication but lawyers had to be involved to resolve the matter, although the guy did get his property in the end.
A number of other former clients of this company have since come forward and contacted me as they were having trouble getting hold of their company documents, had been left high and dry with tax issues and re-registration of their company and moving the company address and had also discovered they paid rather more for their property than it was really worth. However, at the end of the day, people will pay what they think something is worth and if you like the house and want it, then it is worth as much as you are willing to pay for it.
I have now helped a number of former client's re-register their company and move their registered company address away from Cheap-Bulgarian-Properties and have dealt with their tax forms.
Two other former clients have been in contact with a lawyer in Bulgaria to try and resolve their issues and every now and then someone else will come to me with some problem having bought or tried to from this guy - Stephen or Kevin Brown, depending which name he is going by.
He did go quiet for a while and various rumours surfaced about his actions and whereabouts. Now I see he has popped back up on eBay selling property.
A lot of what is in his sales pitch is a complete load of bollocks - for example you do not need a criminal record check to set up a company in Bulgaria, you used to years ago but not any more, it is incredibly doubtful that this guy has 4000 sales - that would be practically half of the houses in the villages around Chirpan, I do not know of several offices, last I heard he had shut down his office in Chirpan, now all of a sudden he has offices all over the world.....and here's a good one - BulgarianProperties closed their office in Stara Zagora because they were put out of business by cheap-bulgarian-properties!!! BulgarianProperties office is right in centre of Stara Zagora and still there and listed on their website.....Voted number 1 agent in area....no such award I have ever heard of!
Recently after a disgruntled former client of CBP commented on my blog, Mr Brown and his wife took to venting their anger and giving their side on the blog also. I posted a general warning on MyBulgaria about buying off ebay, giving this as an example and it led to a lively discussion where someone posted emails they had received from Mr Brown claiming all sorts about me. he has since threatened me with legal action for defamation due to (presumably) the blog and forum post. However, he was free to post his side on the forum but never did.
To ensure both Mr Brown and the disgruntled client had their say I have posted each side's comments on the blog and Mr Brown is welcome to post his side here (I believe he or someone connected with him as already registered today probably for this purpose).
There is of course always two sides to every story and I am well aware that forums can lead to undeserved bad publicity. However forums are for discussions and opinions and you have to take the good with the bad.
A number of other former clients of this company have since come forward and contacted me as they were having trouble getting hold of their company documents, had been left high and dry with tax issues and re-registration of their company and moving the company address and had also discovered they paid rather more for their property than it was really worth. However, at the end of the day, people will pay what they think something is worth and if you like the house and want it, then it is worth as much as you are willing to pay for it.
I have now helped a number of former client's re-register their company and move their registered company address away from Cheap-Bulgarian-Properties and have dealt with their tax forms.
Two other former clients have been in contact with a lawyer in Bulgaria to try and resolve their issues and every now and then someone else will come to me with some problem having bought or tried to from this guy - Stephen or Kevin Brown, depending which name he is going by.
He did go quiet for a while and various rumours surfaced about his actions and whereabouts. Now I see he has popped back up on eBay selling property.
A lot of what is in his sales pitch is a complete load of bollocks - for example you do not need a criminal record check to set up a company in Bulgaria, you used to years ago but not any more, it is incredibly doubtful that this guy has 4000 sales - that would be practically half of the houses in the villages around Chirpan, I do not know of several offices, last I heard he had shut down his office in Chirpan, now all of a sudden he has offices all over the world.....and here's a good one - BulgarianProperties closed their office in Stara Zagora because they were put out of business by cheap-bulgarian-properties!!! BulgarianProperties office is right in centre of Stara Zagora and still there and listed on their website.....Voted number 1 agent in area....no such award I have ever heard of!
Recently after a disgruntled former client of CBP commented on my blog, Mr Brown and his wife took to venting their anger and giving their side on the blog also. I posted a general warning on MyBulgaria about buying off ebay, giving this as an example and it led to a lively discussion where someone posted emails they had received from Mr Brown claiming all sorts about me. he has since threatened me with legal action for defamation due to (presumably) the blog and forum post. However, he was free to post his side on the forum but never did.
To ensure both Mr Brown and the disgruntled client had their say I have posted each side's comments on the blog and Mr Brown is welcome to post his side here (I believe he or someone connected with him as already registered today probably for this purpose).
There is of course always two sides to every story and I am well aware that forums can lead to undeserved bad publicity. However forums are for discussions and opinions and you have to take the good with the bad.
