(Editors notes are in blue: wow, is this guy high? A LOT of people have complained to me by email about "promises not kept" and "feeling lied to" ..., and for one I am sorry the whole thing has not worked out for those of us who have spent such a considerable sum of money! The person (CJ) that Jeff is referring to above called me too and tried to harass me as well. Not a good guy it would appear..., but the fact remains that we are already out at least $3,490 each, .... some agents are out $25,000 each. I just do not and will not trust Jeff Guthrie again.)

We do have the police and investigators involved and we firmly believe justice will prevail and this man will be held accountable for his wrongful actions. That said, our company has taken an unbelievable beating and there is absolutely no way we can continue in business unless YOU COME TO OUR AID!

(The company was in serious financial trouble BEFORE the complaints started coming in. Now Jeff is asking for MORE MONEY? NO WAY RAY!)

(Below is a plan that requires you to make a one-time payment of $500 and, in return, we will give you "unlimited" BANK-APPROVED CLIENTS - and you will NEVER PAY A SINGLE REFERRAL FEE! NEVER!)

(Wait a minute, for $500 we will NEVER pay a Referral fee again? Read on.., what he REALLY means is pay him another $2,000 by check, the credit card company seems to not be a good way to keep the money, and yes what about the payment of referral fees...?")

It would be a tremendous waste and horrible shame to see such a grand business concept go completely under when that just DOES NOT NEED TO HAPPEN! And I personally believe that in these very difficult economic times we live in this "consumer advocate" concept is MORE VIABLE THAN EVER!
FACT - No matter what the market conditions, there are ALWAYS people buying and selling real estate

(Tell us something we don't know Jeff)

FACT - Almost ninety percent - 9 out of 10 - buyers and sellers go to the web for real estate
FACT - Real estate is one of the largest business categories on the web
FACT - Buyers and sellers prefer a third-party website to do their research - NOT AN AGENT'S SITE (80% of consumers will LEAVE an agent's website with 5-8 seconds if they aren't sent to you by a third-party
JEFF'S FACT - The timing is PERFECT for a "consumer advocate" for the largest and most important transaction of a family's life - buying and selling real estate!

(DUH.... you think we don't know these things?)

FACT - We cannot stay in business unless you HELP US - but if you do help us we are willing to do some amazing things for you

(LIKE...., uhhhh WHAT HAVE YOU ALREADY DONE IN THE PAST 5 YEARS JEFF..., except take money from people.)

THE BAIL-OUT PLAN
Right now we are working with two companies to achieve the "consumer advocate" dream and to get you as much business as possible. We are working with One Source IT (James Henderson is the owner) who spends much of his time in our office and is completely dedicated to constantly improving the look and functionality of the website. He is also extremely focused on the search engine optimization of our home page and the tens of thousands of niche landing pages we have. The other company we are working with is a lending institution headed up locally by Guthrie Silkwood (he, along with a lending staff of 8 people are working out of our offices).
As we stated in our sales calls (and our validation calls and my orientation call) this is a "big-picture" program. NOBODY can promise if and when the search engines will pick up on the sites BUT because of our incredible niche pages we believe (and have been told by many, many professionals) that we have the BEST opportunity for you to GET FOUND! We will continue moving forward with the website.

Who is Guthrie Silkwood?
Google search finds: http://www.gobignetwork.com/profiles/Guthrie-Silkwood.aspx - is this the same guy???

Bellevue Finance Group
Company Description:
We are a small firm that works on the tech side of the financial industry. We have a model in place yet are in need of a cash infusion to reach our next platform.

BANK-APPROVED LEADS: We have walked into a gold-mine here with these bank-approved leads. Folks, these leads have been ABSOLUTELY APPROVED by the bank (and I think the rate is something like 6% or .25% BELOW most other lending institutions)! Each buyer agrees to work with our agent AND THEY ARE READY TO BUY NOW! Because they have been approved for the loan they are ready RIGHT NOW to find their dream home (EXAMPLE: 3 weeks ago when we first started getting these leads we gave out 60 bank-approved leads. According to Mr. Silkwood, about 20 of them have already found their house and are going into closing - AND IT TOOK JUST 3 WEEKS!) 

(... if you get 20 agents enough leads to get them some business, they may give you a few testimonies that you can point at and maybe think that you can get the rest of us to back off? What about the other 1,180 members?)

Agents are telling us these are the ABSOLUTE BEST clients (leads) they have ever received! Mr. Silkwood himself is even amazed at how good these clients are. He says he believes he can get 1,500 to 2,000 of these bank-approved, ready-to-buy leads each month. But it takes money to do this. In the past, I stated I may charge each REexpert a "monthly" fee AND an "up-front" fee for each bank-approved client. WE ARE NOT GOING TO DO THIS! We are NOT going to charge a monthly fee. We are NOT going to charge an up-front fee for the bank-approved clients. We are going to stick with our original agreement - working as partners or collaborators with you - whereby we get paid only WHEN YOU GET PAID (on closed transactions you pay a 20% referral fee to the real estate company of our choice).

(... now how does THAT work? Do you not have a Broker any more in house? What has happened to her..., and can we legally pay a referral fee to ANY company that is not a Licensed Real Estate Company or Agent? Not that I am aware of. - Earlier you said NO REFERRAL FEES would be paid EVER!)

BUT WE NEED TO GET PAID! Our records show that it looks like we have had dozens of agents close deals and NOT pay us. We cannot survive as a "collaborating" business if we aren't getting paid. And because of the recent smear campaign we have virtually SHUT DOWN bringing in new REexperts which means we have NO money. WE have cut our staff down by 75%. We are doing everything possible to keep costs at a bare minimum BUT if we are to keep having the website worked on (optimized for search engines) AND if we are to keep getting these INCREDIBLE bank-approved leads then WE NEED YOUR HELP

(WHAT....??? You said "WE NEED TO GET PAID!" - JOKING RIGHT? GET PAID FOR WHAT??? - WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO GET PAID FOR?  --- ALSO, CAN YOU PROVE THAT DOZENS OF Licensed Real Estate Agents REALLY did not pay you a legitimate referral fee that they owed? Not likely.)

HERE'S THE PLANS  (NOTE: These plans were inspired by conversations and brain-storming with a number of our current REexperts):

PLAN A - One-time $500 payment
You overnight a check for $500 and we will give you unlimited bank-approved clients (as we get them in your territory we will turn them over to you) and you NEVER pay us a referral fee on these bank-approved deals. You will still pay us the regular 20% referral fees on any business you get from The Real Estate Advocate site.

(You should have asked for cashiers checks or money orders Jeff, it takes up to 10 days to clear an out of state check. I got a call from the lady who signed for your Merchant Account, who I will not name. She told me that she is in real trouble with all the charge backs....wants me to back off telling people to demand their money back from their credit card companies. She no longer works for Jeff but says she was suckered into signing for him when she was an employee because her credit score was high enough at the time and now she is at high risk. hummmm, It has been said that a lot of your employees have quit and have said publicly that you did bad things.)

PLAN B - One-time $2,000 payment
You overnight a check for $500 and we will give you unlimited bank-approved clients (as we get them in your territory we will turn them over to you) and you NEVER pay us a referral fee on these bank-approved deals. And you NEVER pay the 20% referral fees on any business you get from The Real Estate Advocate site. IN OTHER WORDS: YOU NEVER PAY A REFERRAL FEE. PERIOD!

(WHAT...? Did you say send in $2,000 but then say to overnight $500... so which is it? ITS A TYPO folks. The only way you have to make more money later, you have said in the past.... is to collect referral fees of 20% as leads turn into sales. So what would you do once the $2,000 per person is spent? NO MORE INCOME...? - Someone didn't think that one through very well.)

That's it. This is what it will take to save this business. If you choose to NOT accept either of these plans then we will take that as you want out of the network and we will make a best-effort attempt to pay you back your set-up fee sometime in the future. In the meantime, we will re-sell your territory to another agent, give them the bank-approved clients and we will collect referral fees from them.

(SOUNDS LIKE A THREAT TO ME.... TAKE "MY" TERRITORY AND GIVE IT TO ANOTHER AGENT? - COWARD, THIEF, LIAR and SCOUNDREL. The fear of loss will make some agent pay you, undoubtedly... but I will not fall for it. I want my money back, but hope its not because some other poor agent gets screwed over in the process.)

Folks, all of us here at the company have done our best to make this a successful company (and there are many, many agents who are getting a great number of leads and business).

(ok... PROVE IT. Why can you not prove it? I have NOT received any leads in over 8 months since I joined. Suddenly now.., you will produce leads in an attempt to show some success?)

It's unfortunate what has happened to us (and this horrible, ugly cyber attack that we have had to endure) but we are committed to keeping this great visions ALIVE! We firmly believe that one day in the near future millions of American (and European, Asian, and Spanish) home buyers and sellers will turn to The Real Estate Advocate for the greatest real estate experience of their life. But we need some help RIGHT NOW.
You have already paid $3,500 - $4,000 so I understand why you may be apprehensive to pay a one-time payment of $500. But think about this: You "believed" in what we are accomplishing otherwise you never would have joined as the exclusive REexpert in your territory, right? With these incredible bank-approved clients isn't worth this one-time $500 to keep this company alive and "protect" your original set-up fee? Your first deal will more than pay for your entire membership fee! And we will continue to give you bank-approved deal after deal after deal AND YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PAY US A REFERRAL FEE - NEVER! (multiple agents have told us they would pay 30%-35% referral fees for these deals - BUT YOU PAY NOTHING!)

(THE PROBLEM IS JEFF..... CHECK THIS OUT.... You have been promising this for 5 years! YOU have spent millions of dollars collected from real estate agents over the years and still now have had NO SUCCESS... NOW YOU WANT MORE MONEY WITH BIG PROMISES AND MORE THREATS!)

The reason we can do this is because for every 1 or 2 bank-approved clients we give you we can reasonably get one bank-approved client in a territory where we do NOT have an REexpert and then collect a referral fee. But we cannot keep working on the Real Estate Advocate website OR keep getting these amazing bank-approved deals for you unless you help us out by overnighting a check for $500 or, if you prefer, you can take Plan B and pay us $2,000 (but you MUST overnight a check TODAY. Because of the recent threat we will not accept any credit cards. We cannot risk it).

(...what threat? The credit card companies have had too many demands from Agents who want their money back.)

All we need are one-quarter of our current 1,200 agents (a total of 300 agents) to pay just the minimum one-time $500 and we can keep things going, keep the website worked on, keep the bank-approved leads coming in to you - so that in 60 -120 days we are collecting referral fees from new REexperts we bring into the program (who will pay us 25%+ for these bank-approved closings). You have already paid $3,500+. I'm terribly sorry it has come down to this BUT isn't it worth just one payment of $500 for us to keep the doors open and start getting you these bank-approved clients?

(NO.... NOT ME JEFF. JUST COUNT ME OUT WHEN IT COMES TO PAYING YOU ANY MORE MONEY!!! - YOU HAVE HAD 5 YEARS TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN. NOW YOU THREATEN US WITH TOTAL LOSS IF WE DO NOT SEND YOU MORE MONEY...??? - GET A CLUE FOLKS.)

Finally, please DO NOT call or email us right now with your questions. ATTACHED is an addendum for each of the 2 plans. Pick a plan, sign it, and overnight it with a check. We will then start sending you those bank-approved clients as well as keep working on your consumer advocate site (with weekly updates from us that we will email to you). We are keeping our costs very, very low which means we DO NOT have the staff to answer calls and emails from 1,200 agents. I'm sorry.
For your security, if, after you have paid the one-time $500 or $2,000, we were to ever close the company down please understand that I will continue hosting the website and managing the "consumer advocate" (it costs me a very, very small amount of money to do this) and we would turn over ALL of your niche pages and website(s) to you - YOU WILL HAVE FULL OWNERSHIP SO YOU COULD KEEP USING THE SITE TO GET BUSINESS.

(OH YES... DO NOT CALL OR EMAIL??? JUST SEND MORE MONEY?)

BUT LET'S KEEP THIS DREAM ALIVE! It's just such a wonderful program and it really takes very little effort and money to get found by the public (and I firmly believe the public would rather work with the ONLY real estate advocate then all the crappy real estate referral companies that are "crowding" the market and taking business away from YOU!

(Appealing to our greed? You say there are only a few and all the rest are crappy and...taking our business? .... You are a sick man Jeff Guthrie, I would say the majority of agents are good people and only a few are crappy. Those who pay you anything deserve what they get.)

If you are going to do this YOU MUST ACT TODAY! We have no money to pay staff or even pay rent to keep our office. That's how bad we've been hit by this smear campaign. Please sign the addendum and overnight it (along with a check) today so we can start sending you these incredible bank-approved clients.  Please respond by email which plan you will be signing.
Very Sincerely,
Jeff Guthrie

(You say to respond by email which plan we will sign??? But earlier you said NO EMAILS OR PHONE CALLS. - Shut it down Jeff. You have robbed enough people IMHO.)

PS - I'm sure that as a result of me writing you this letter you will start receiving some more horrible emails, fraud-alerts, etc as a means to cause you doubt and distrust. That's exactly what they've been doing and it's exactly what they want to accomplish. To my knowledge, I am the only one with this proprietary method to qualify and provide you these bank-approved clients (because of Mr. Silkwood). If we all work together (and you take one of these plans) we believe we will be bringing in over $1 million a month in referral fees (not from you - YOU DON'T PAY REFERRAL FEES!) as we continue to build this program over the next several months. That's a lot of money for us to put back into the advocate program to get you even more business. And that's exactly what this hurtful individual does NOT want to see happen. So please be prepared to receive some more ugly emails from this hurtful person. BUT DO NOT LET IT STOP YOU FROM MAKING THE "RIGHT" DECISION OF KEEPING THIS COMPANY ALIVE AND PROVIDING YOU THIS INCREDIBLE BUSINESS!

- NOTE TO JEFF: .... you really are a sick man. You have called me several times for advice plus you paid me to fly to Denver to meet you at your offices, but you never showed up. You don't often listen to other peoples advice..., you just spend other peoples money. My advice to you Jeff is that you get an appointment today for some professional psychological counseling! I believe you are a sociopath and need the help.

I am complaining because you took my $3,490 and gave me nothing for it. You apologized later, but its really sick to ask for more money now.

Donald J. Leske II - Designated Broker
BCI PROPERTIES, LLC
P.O. Box 44065, Tacoma WA 98448
Ph: 253.241.6695
Fax: 253.536.1236
www.HomesandProperties.com  - Buy/Sell Homes-Land
www.RealHomes.us  - Foreclosure-Repo info.
www.bci-properties.com  - rentals

Signed_________________________
(Overnight check to: REexpert, LLC * 9457 S. University Blvd, #138 * Highlands Ranch, CO * 80126)