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	<title>Charlotte Real Estate, Development, and Construction News: Mecklenburg Times &#187; Southern Piedmont/Charlotte Better Business Bureau</title>
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		<title>Bad form?&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/08/30/bad-form/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Ramsey, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apartment Association of North Carolina]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Greater Charlotte Apartment Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Acord]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Rempson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Lee]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month, 61-year-old John Lee was out in the cold &#8212; or, rather, the August heat &#8212; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charlotte BBB says scams are targeting the unemployed&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/08/02/charlotte-bbb-says-scams-are-targeting-the-unemployed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Baughman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Janet Hart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nation High School]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Checks that don’t check out&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/06/28/checks-that-don%e2%80%99t-check-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Ramsey, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brady and Kosofsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlotte Regional Realtor Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katherine Jean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kelly Brady]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[R. Steven Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southern Piedmont/Charlotte Better Business Bureau]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBB warns of charlatans in Charlotte for DNC</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/02/04/bbb-warns-of-charlatans-in-charlotte-for-dnc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mecklenburg Times staff reports</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Southern Piedmont/Charlotte Better Business Bureau]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBB: America Shingle CEO arrested</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/02/02/bbb-america-shingle-ceo-arrested/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mecklenburg Times staff reports</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carlton DeWayne Dunko]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s Office has charged Carlton DeWayne Dunko, 42, of Lithia, Fla., with two counts of theft by conversion. Dunko, who turned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBB releases 2010 &#8216;Dirty Dozen&#8217; list</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/01/27/bbb-releases-2010-dirty-dozen-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mecklenburg Times staff reports</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Southern Piedmont/Charlotte Better Business Bureau has released its &#8220;Dirty Dozen&#8221; 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. &#8220;Fortunately, the majority of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beefs with home builders can lead to failing BBB rating&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2010/12/30/beefs-with-home-builders-can-lead-to-failing-bbb-rating/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Ramsey, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Crestwood Homes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McCar Homes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MDC Homes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scenic Homes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southern Piedmont/Charlotte Better Business Bureau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Bartholomy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Towing a new line&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2010/12/28/towing-a-new-line/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caitlin Coakley, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charlotte city council]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eddie Levins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Scibelli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lisa Frye]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Newbold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Randy McElwain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[S&R Wrecker]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tim Harden]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amendments more than a year in the making may be made to Charlotte&#8217;s towing ordinance in the coming months, and business owners say it&#8217;s about time. &#8220;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 [...]]]></description>
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