12/27 VIOLENCE TIJUANA ONE FOR THE GOOD GUYS - VICTOR LOZA BAZAN AND THE CEPIBC
"JoejustJoe" announced he was going to I guess brand me an "alarmist" again on the Baja Nomads and Tijuana Amigos for translating the Rosie Orozco story from AFN regarding the problem of sex slavery in Tijuana. I just wonder why he doesn't blast the author of the story - well, he did call Rosie a "cunt", but he did it here and not on AFN, what a chicken. You can read his remarks under the blog here from a few days back. BTW, I added in the comments section a clip from Al Jazeera of Rosie and her work and another from LibertadLatina.org with more news on this situation in Mexico which you may or may not be interested in.
I mention this because the reason I went to some of these Baja Travel forums was to see not "Joe Just Joe's" remarks, but if in fact anyone had covered the closure of the Century 21 Acacia offices for fraud. I could not see anything, and this happened a few weeks back when we were dealing with our neighbor's emergency so I didn't have time to blog it.
If you recall it was this last July that 15 to 17 cases of fraud had been filed against Century 21 Acacia:
Denucian mas fraudes de bienes raices en Rosarito
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Although this story was covered by Noticias Ensenada.net, Ecos de Rosarito and El Informador, it was only Elizabeth Vargas who mentioned the Century 21 Acacia branch offices in Rosarito Beach were closed. From what I gather the main office in Tijuana was closed along with the branch offices. If you google in Century 21 Acacia Rosarito Beach, you can see that they did have many listings for homes for sale and for rent in Rosarito.
Several good things will result from this action; clearly it is the Mexican Real Estate Agents who have organized and are taking back their territory, working with the Federal government to insure the law is upheld and proving to be pro-consumer, which is exactly what Baja needs particularly after the millions of dollars in fraud cases involving Gringo and Canadian Real Estate Agents over the past few years. So let's look at the article:
Victor Loza Bazan, President of the National Council of Real Estate Professionals of Baja California (CEPIBC) announced that PROFECO closed down Centruy 21 Acacia after reviewing twenty one documented cases of fraud including the case of Sr. Galo Tello who was defrauded out of 80K dollars.
Loza Bazan applauded the action of PROFECO under the direction of Delgado Martin Dominguez Rocha. CEPIBC had been in constant touch with PROFECO over the past months regarding the fraud cases. Lozan Bazan feels this is a huge step in favor of legitimate real estate agents and that the overall image of Baja California will improve because ultimately this action will instill greater confidence in investors. It is also a clear signal that the system works and a show of strength from the union
CEPIBC.
Loza Bazan also feels confident that another new measure known as the "Property
Act" will be enforced requiring real estate agents to comply with the code of ethics of the State Council. Importantly, the cases against Century 21 Acacia were Federal in nature and an example of how Loza Bazan believes the CEPIBC is able to work in coordination with government agencies to uphold the law. It also casts the CEPIBC in a positive light as pro-consumer and pro- consumer rights and most importantly, transparent. Too bad they weren't around for the people who lost their homes in Punta Banda, the Trump Towers and Diane Gibbs.
So one for the good guys, who are in this case, Mexicans.
Clausuro Profeco oficina de Century 21 en Rosarito
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There's been a lot going on, this time I have company but I'll try to get over here tomorrow.
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Labels: 12/27 VIOLENCE TIJUANA ONE FOR THE GOOD GUYS VICTOR LOZA BAZAN AND THE CEPIBC
posted by Marjorie | 10:48 PM
4 Comments:
Hello,
Isn't this what Nancy Conroy was trying to do, to organize the real estate people so that there would be regulatory controls and transparency ? Wasn't this the reason she was run out of town by the crooks?
Thank You.
Oh yes, absolutely there anonymous. That among other things which she pointed out about Baja and Mexico - she was the innovator, the pioneer and I'm sorry I did not mention that before.
What good news, being my self a victim of Century21 Acacia I'm truly glad they are out of bussines and not steeling from more people.
But now I'm left wondering if I'll ever get my money back
Good question there anonymous. You might want to check with PROFECO, the complaints which are referred to them where PROFECO rules in favor of the complainant are supposed to by law be paid back.
Not sure in this case if Bazan went after the money and closing down the business (treating it as we would a class action suit), or closing down the business.
Years ago we went to PROFECO over money given to a business to make furniture after nearly six months of this guy putting us off - and he was made to pay us back, it was serious. When you get a notification from PROFECO to show up for a hearing, you better believe you show up - this is federal.
This was a huge step forward though - I have never heard before of PROFECO going after a real estate business.
Anyway it was the Mexicans who cleaned up this particular mess.
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