By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: August 30,2011
This month, 61-year-old John Lee was out in the cold — or, rather, the August heat — when he was evicted from his south Charlotte rental home near the airport. Although he was behind on rent for June, which is what started the eviction process, he says Carolina United Realty, the 4108 Park Road-based property [...]
By Scott Baughman
Published: August 2,2011
Jerome Janet thought he had found a way off the employment/unemployment merry-go-round. He came across an ad in a newspaper for a Charlotte-based company called World Wide Consulting Services for what he said looked like paid training for a sales job at car dealership. It turned out to be a scam, he said. “Up until [...]
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: June 28,2011
In 22 years of practicing law, Charlotte residential real estate attorney R. Steven Smith had never had anything like it happen to him. Just before Memorial Day, Smith was representing a real estate agent in a closing for a waterfront home in the Charlotte area. The buyer was from Beijing, Smith was told, and moving [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: February 4,2011
As Charlotte prepares to host the 2012 the Democratic National Convention, the Better Business Bureau of Southern Piedmont is warning against scammers. In particular, the BBB is warning about scams involving home rentals, tickets, job postings and towing. Within hours of the announcement that Charlotte was chosen for the conference, ads for home rentals began [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: February 2,2011
The CEO of an Atlanta-based roofing company that generated nearly 300 complaints from homeowners in North and South Carolina was arrested Tuesday in Georgia, the Southern Piedmont/Charlotte Better Business Bureau said. The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office has charged Carlton DeWayne Dunko, 42, of Lithia, Fla., with two counts of theft by conversion. Dunko, who turned [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: January 27,2011
The Southern Piedmont/Charlotte Better Business Bureau has released its “Dirty Dozen” list of local businesses with the most unanswered complaints in 2010. In 2010, consumers filed 15,118 complaints with the BBB against businesses in the Southern Piedmont area of North and South Carolina, the BBB said in releasing the report today. “Fortunately, the majority of [...]
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: December 30,2010
As the economy has forced some home builders out of business, it has also slowed down complaints against those in the industry, according to the Southern Piedmont/Charlotte chapter of the Better Business Bureau. But when those complaints do come in, many companies that are struggling to remain open financially simply ignore the complaints, which can [...]
By Caitlin Coakley, staff writer
Published: December 28,2010
Amendments more than a year in the making may be made to Charlotte’s towing ordinance in the coming months, and business owners say it’s about time. “There was one instance, and I saw it with my own eyes, where a couple parked their car, walked 25 feet away, then they saw the sign that said [...]
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