Travel Furnish/ By Owner Stay Miami IS A HUGE SCAM

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These guys are smart crooks, they go by many names. They are currently operating under www.byownerstay.com and also known as:

www.travelfurnish.com (which was recently shut down)

www.tripolot.com

www.safety-book.com

www.tripolocity.com

If you are in contact with any of these emails for your rental IT'S A SCAM:

travel@travelfurnish.com

risarental@gmail.com

vac.rental.pro@gmail.com

My boyfriend and I booked a trip with Travelfurnish.com for our trip to Miami this March for Ultra. We had booked our condo BACK IN SEPTEMBER and wired them 450 dollars for 50% of the cost. A couple days before our trip, of course, the property was no longer available. After I threatened legal action, they said they would wire me back my initial deposit money minus 80 dollars (bull).

I'm STILL waiting for that refund! IT'S MAY! These people have been sitting on my hard earned cash for 8 months. Apparently my bank rejected the wire even though when I called and asked my bank they said there was nothing ever sent in the first place. They also gave me some baloney Miami bank number to call and ask what happened on their end. I just got put on hold a bunch and told I'd be called back and never was. This "Dave Daletrust" character from Travel Furnish/ By Owner Stay then said he would send me a cheque. 18 business days later. Nothing. Apparently he's sending me another cheque with tracking WHICH I TOLD HIM TO DO IN THE FIRST PLACE (it literally costs a few dollars to get a letter tracked). Ugh. These people are scum.

DO NOT book with any of the sites previously mentioned on this thread that relate to these crooks! I know for sure they operate under www.byownerstay.com THIS IS A SCAM. THESE PEOPLE ARE TOTAL LIFE FAILS AND POCKET MONEY BY RUINING PEOPLE'S VACATIONS. Ugh! Karma will come back to bite them hard. Rest assured.

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Sorry it happened, and thank you for posting your experience, and the new names under which these scammers are operating. A person in the other thread managed to get most of his money back, hope you'll get lucky.

They are quite brazen with the fake testimonials. I see actress Tara Reid loved the Vegie Rolls, lol.

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They're quite brazen in general it seems. They act like they have the right to rip people off and they don't appreciate being disrespected. I've gotten some snippy emails from Dave too.

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On the Better Business Bureau web site, they have a grade of F on a scale of A+ to F.

http://www.bbb.org/south-east-florida/business-reviews/real-estate-rental-service/travel-furnish-in-miami-fl-90037404

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I booked a penthouse condo unit for the week of the 4th of July through safevrbo.com. Kevin and Samantha were the booking agents - supposedly!!!!!! :-(

Something has not set well with me since I made the deposit. I received little confirmation and no official unit# nor other documentation. I have called SafeVRBO and spoken with Kevin and Samantha several times and they reassured me. I did receive an email confirmation which was very vague.

A few days after my check was cashed my bank called stating there has been suspicious activity and my bank account number needed to be changed. It was only my number and not my husbands. I believe that could have been for the $75 booking fee in which I used my bank card. I sent a check for the deposit.

I have been researching trying to find more information about SafeVRBO and was coming up short until a few days ago. I tried their address given in emails, the name "By Owner Direct", etc. I finally found them on YELP and associated with several other companies: Insured-booking.com; byownerstay; travelfurnish; saftey-booking; sublet.com; Byownerstay.com; and I am sure there are probably others, all to which seem to be scam companies. When I pulled up the websites for the other companies they either had the same background as Safevrbo or the website was deleted.

I have called them a several times and either no one answers, I am hung up on once they hear I booked with them, or I am put on hold and left on hold. My husband did get ahold of them three times and they told me my refund was coming, uhhh I am still waiting!!

I have filed with the BBB and posting where I can. Please let me know if there is an ongoing investigation etc. Someone specific I can contact.

Thank you!

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Also even though my payment was supposedly through safevrbo (by owner direct) it was actually posted on VRBO and vacationrentals.com etc. Apparently they used VRBO and vactionrentals.com.

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Are these the same people?

http://zionpropertymgt.com/

I ask because I see a Tara Reid testimonial.

Damn, I am just about to book with them.

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Yes, they are the same scammers. DO NOT book anything with zionpropertymgt.com

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OK thanks. So how did they scam, or was it just bad communication?

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In addition to this thread, many people have posted bad experiences with Travel Furnish in other threads in the past. Mostly things like not delivering the room as pictured, not returning deposits, raising rates after arrival etc. The way this outfit keeps shutting down old sites and putting the same misinformation and false testimonials on new ones every few weeks is enough reason to steer well clear of them.

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