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I own three duplexes in Buffalo and they were managed this past year by a company called Real Estate advantage. The owners were David Mcleoad and Roger Farney. They didnt collect rents from my tennants for five months and never returned my phone calls. They are no longer managing my properties but I need to see if anyone knows the address of there office or how I might get it. I have searched online and can not find anything. They always sent me things by email so I dint have an address. I am filing a small claims suit against them and I have to have an address. Can anyone help? Thanks!

I just received a call from a member who has had dealings with him and she has given me some fantastic information. This site is awesome! The guy actually did both, he owes me money and he didnt do his job. Very long story. Thanks!

I have a bit of an update on this situation but I wouldn't exactly call it good news. I was in court with them as well and discovered a few things…

- David McLeod recently declared personal bankruptcy from what I can tell, so you won't likely get any money from him.
- Even if he didn't declare bankruptcy the company was an LLC (and went belly up) so there is nothing in the company's name, and it would be hard to pierce the "corporate veil" especially since it was a Nevada company.

I actually had a good relationship with Roger Farney, and Michelle Gil (she mainly did the rentals). From what I could tell they were honest and tried to do right by me.

I was with the company for several years and at the beginning everything was great, after a while they started paying me less and less frequently. I called up sometime in June â"07 I believe, and Roger told me that he was leaving because things were getting a bit too shady and he suggest I do the same. I left and Roger sent me a check for all the money they owed less about a grand. He said that is all that there was in any of their bank accounts and that David left the signed check to pay for something else but felt bad for everyone David was screwing over so he wrote it out to me instead. David answered my calls for a few months after that saying that everything was fine and "the check is in the mail", but it never came.

I believe Michelle was good as well. Before she came, the rental part of their company was headed up by David and was abysmal. She got the rental time down to about 3 weeks (which isn't bad from what I hear for the East side of Buffalo) from about 2 months.

Anyone else have any other experiences with this company? I believe there are a few dozen of us, and am interested if you guys know anything else as I would like to get my money back, although I am not exactly holding my breath at this point.

David S.