Abalos is now offering free seminars to the public, in an apparent attempt to appear altruistic.
The reality is, Abalos will be taping the seminars to sell along with his new "Investing in
So, don't be fooled by the free seminar gimmick, it's undoubtedly a hook to upsell unsuspecting consumers into forking out money for products and services that won't be delivered.
We will continue to report any upcoming developments, and encourage anyone who has inside knowledge (such as a landlord, employer, or business associate who was scammed by Abalos) to step forward and share their experiences.
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From one of Abalos' recent blog posts: "In one case, Kaiser paid a couple $500 to sign a quickclaim deed."
That would be a "quitclaim" deed. A mistake of that term usually only reserved for the very un-experienced real estate professional.
LOL!
A so called experienced attorney doesn't know what a QUIT claim deed is??
Pathetic.
Excellent work in keeping up with this scam artist. Keep educating the public! Let's keep chasing him and become his worst nightmare.
Notice how whenever we point out the obvious about his scams he goes on the attack of real estate gurus?
Yes, Robert, you are right, we are all on the payroll of the evil real estate gurus!!!
LOL, he fixed the quickclaim deed error. Proof that he still reads this blog.
Where you at Bobby? I moved to Seattle and want to meet you finally. Let's get some coffee.
If you are in Seattle, you could drop by his upcoming seminar and pay him a visit.
He'd be offering us all a tremendous opportunity for process service. Thus I bet the seminar never happens.
Abalos is still keeping his writing services ad running, although with no photo now:
http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/wet/2527772987.html
Two chances that way (land or writing) to get a bite of his poisoned apple.
In fact, when I ran a wider search today on seattle.craigslist.org, I found 16 separate ads from Abalos running simultaneously -- all either related to writing or tutoring services, all with slightly varying titles.
What a scummy business, writing term papers for money. So much for academic honesty. Then again, expecting any kind of honesty from Abalos is a joke.
I think it is against craigslist policies to post a huge number of ads for the same thing like that. Perhaps if enough people flag him craigslist will pull some or all of the ads and maybe save some people from getting the Abalos treatment.
It occurs to me, anyone who wants to serve Abalos can have their process server arrange for a little tutoring session, photo in hand to confirm ID. Finally, a way to force this guy out of the woodwork!
It is easy to find all his postings, just search on his phone numbers. For example this link brings up all 16 of his postings:
http://seattle.craigslist.org/search/bbb/see?query=206-409-6697&srchType=A
Then you can flag each one for overposting. It's easy.
Check out Bobby's investment advice from Friday, July 29, just before this past week's huge decline:
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Don't pull your money out.
If you already have pulled some out, put it back in.
If you aren't in this market, dive in on Monday.
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HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH!
What an idiot.
The best one was when Robert Abalos implored his one or two blog readers to invest in Washington Mutual in 2008 extolling all of its virtues and that of its management, saying it would never fail. One month later it failed becoming the largest ($307 billion) bank failure in U.S. history!
I don't even get why his blog is considered real estate advice. All he does is report bad news about real estate, bash the Obama administration, and complain about real estate gurus.
If he were experienced in real estate, he'd be sharing it on his blog. Here's what I did today, here's what you should do, etc.
Well he doesn't actually do any real estate investing - he does stuff like write other peoples' term papers for $30/hour and work at the front desk of a hotel.
Here we go again. Robert is threatening lawsuits against the gurus again. He must be off his meds.
A few interesting tidbits I found while doing research on this website.
First, the #1 referring website is "proxify.com". This is a website that allows you to browse other websites anonymously so people can't track your IP address. I wonder who would do that?
Second, the #2 referring site is Google, based on the search "Robert Abalos". So, this website is doing its job to warn people who are looking for info on Abalos.
This is all so stupid of Abalos. All he has to do is finally refund all the money he owes his customers -- PLUS INTEREST -- and he'd give nobody any reason to write about him on the Internet. Is he that dense? Is he that stubborn? Is he that cheap? Is he that broke? If he were truly a successful real estate investor and had all this rental income coming in every month like he implies in his blog postings over the years, wouldn't he have the capability (maybe not the willingness, perhaps) to refund all the money he kept without shipping his products nearly half a decade ago? Is he really just that stupid and dishonest?
Don't answer me. I know the answer already.
There's a new -- suspicious, of course -- five-star review for Abalos' Investing in Land book on Amazon.com:
http://amzn.to/pnyYgt
One "Doug Bezio" all of a sudden on June 30, 2011 posts two reviews of books on Amazon.com. One being a book on stock investing and another one on Abalos' book.
What also makes it suspicious is Amazon indicates that the review is of an "Amazon Verified Purchase", meaning Amazon verified that the binder was purchased through Amazon. Of course, the binder has not been available for purchase on Amazon.com for years now. This means that all of a sudden, "Doug Bezio" woke up and wrote a 5-star review for a binder he bought from Amazon.com upwards of five years ago. Me thinks "Doug Bezio" is yet another pseudonym for Robert Abalos, like the many different pseudonym's he's used for at least a decade going all the way back to his early scamming days in Virginia, where all of his thievery started and has been documented here on this blog.
Abalos the Idiot is a really sloppy fake reviewer. His "Doug Bezio" pseudonym, in reviewing a second book (for apparent credibility) picked a 2011 reprint of a 1960 book -- which no sane (or honest) person would ever bother to review -- let alone make two really stupid typos in only two short sentences.
Abalos is too quiet. He never goes a week without some drivel on his blog. Expect a bogus lawsuit or other desperate stunt very soon.
"Here we go again. Robert is threatening lawsuits against the gurus again. He must be off his meds"
I just love a good Abalos guru rant, but I couldn't find this - where is it?
I love how he claims that anyone who followed his advice and jumped back into the stock market would be happy now. What is this guy on?
He removed the rant about an hour after he did it, probably on the advice of his "attorneys".
Of course his rant about gold being better than real estate is dumber than dumb. People who bought foreclosures in these last few years at bargain prices have been cash flowing like crazy. Rental vacancies are at all new lows.
The way he compares gold to the housing market shows he has NO understanding of real estate.
Gold is a market. Real estate is a bunch of local markets. Housing starts and average sales prices nationwide mean nothing. Real estate is local and you can find ways to make money in any real estate market.
You only make money in gold by timing it right.
Idiot.
doug bezio is a real person. i wrote to ines with some very interesting info. mr.bezio just admitted to facts in swindling a couple in old orchrd beach maine when he was their investment broker. i personally know this guy.
He's right - Doug Bezio did fleece an elderly couple in Maine. He lost his broker's license as a result:
http://www.maine.gov/tools/whatsnew/index.php?topic=SEC-LegalDocs&id=221965&v=Default
Robert and Doug sound like bosom buddies when it comes to fleecing elderly couples!
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