Gidday all. Thought I'd better share my reasonable results with you. Got absolutely nowhere with my situation. Rang a solicitor and all he was interested in was whether I had a work injury or similar!!! Rang consumer affairs, legal aid, vcat, ombudsman, dept of fair trading, REIV, and a couple of others. I got absolutely nowhere. This situation really pissed of my wife, who is a very patient woman (she has put up with me for 20). We drafted a letter and edited it over a few days and sent it. Mentioning government departments, A Current Affair, and winding companies up seemed to get their attention. They sent an email back denying winding up etc. They were actually wound up in May 2012. We send an email back with this information as well as knowledge of a hotel purchase that was made recently by her boss. Got an email back within the hour telling us that there was a cheque being sent out. It arrived the next morning. It was only $1000, but better than nothing. Also told my free loading tenant to piss off and he did. He couldn't understand why. I told him that he has to pay me more that $200 every 6 weeks. Like to thank Terry W for sharing some of his knowledge. One last thing Terry, I believe that this company is still trading, even though they have been wound up. I'm assuming that this is illegal and think that it is my duty as a law abiding citizen to report them. If this is the case, who do I report them to? Going to see A Current Affair in the very near future so I'll keep you posted. Cheers everybody, Andrew
I think you are going about things wrong. This is a civil dispute and you will have to sue the company to get your money back. To do this you will have to spend money on legal fees, or give it a go yourself.
There is no one to 'report' them to and ACA wouldn't be interested. This sort of thing happens every day of the week.
I've given up on getting any more money out of them. As far as the media go, they were a bit interested in doing a follow up story as they did a story on this guy telling everybody how good these places were a few years ago. Got a few other owners who have been letting out their cabins for several months and receiving no payments from the management company. This bloke has several companies and seems to be traveling along quite nicely, stealing peoples money. Suppose it's the same old story. Will see what happens..