The Privateers Group/Dennis Choquette
Complaint 26338 Details

Dennis offered to let me be a co-investor in a real estate deal, where I would contribute an amount (in this case $2500) and when the deal sold and closed I would receive a percentage of the sale based on my contribution. This was late June. I didn't have access to $2500 so took out a loan at 29.99% interest. I've since made the monthly payments the 1st of each month. I was aware the deal closed sometime in early September, maybe earlier - he never really told me. He also never told me the exact amount I would receive. He had something come up, supposedly, that delayed the closing, and feeling responsible for that, agreed to put the $2500 in my bank account so I could atleast pay off the loan and he'd send me my proceeds as soon as the deal closed. He never did. He's been terrible about communicating with me. He rarely called me. And usually when I called he couldn't talk right then but would tell me when he'd call back. I'm not sure I remember even one time he followed through. So last week (about Oct. 4) when I called he asked if I'd gotten my check in the mail yet from the title company and I said no. He said I should have and he'd check into things and call me back. Of course he never did - I had to call him. Now he insinuates that the check had been cashed and asked me "True or false. You never received a check." I said "true". When I ask if indeed the title company says it's been cashed he gets all hush-hush and says he really can't tell me much at this point. On Friday, Oct. 6 when I called, he said the bank was investigating and confirmed I'd be around the next morning, that he'd call me then or by Monday morning. Still no word, no check. I called him yesterday (Oct.12) and left a message on his voice mail that I was done playing games and he had two choices. 1)put the money due me in my bank (he has my info for that - scary, I know) OR 2) give me the names and phone numbers of bank and title company people and I would take over, because this is MY money I WANT it NOW. I gave him till the end of the day. NOTHING. So, here I am reporting him. Now I go to ic3.com, the Colorado Attorney General, the BBB, the police, and Ripoff Report. I WILL WIN! I also have 2 attorney friends I may be able to talk into calling him on my behalf, altho when I mentioned this one time earlier to him he basically laughed and said "attorneys don't scare me". Well, maybe smearing his reputation, and dragging his name through the mud will wake him up.