Commercial Career XE, Kellene Bishop, CFSA, Commercial Career Commercial Provo Utah

This disgusting excuse for a woman is getting sued by tons of her "graduates". She is also getting investigated by the F.B.I.

Stay away from her at all costs. She has severe mental problems on top of being a criminal.

Stay away from her husband Scott. He is a weirdo!

Let's take a look at what people are saying about this ugly couple on Broker Universe:

I´ve heard from many people who have taken this course who have been very unhappy with promises and claims that fail to materialize in connection with that Commercial Career class. They say those testimonials were written 3 days into their training but months after the class their claims are quite opposite. Former students contact information can be found from the information listed on the old testimonial pages from their old website. Google "internet archives", type in the webpage www.commercialcareer.com and you can find former students contact information there on the testimonial pages. It´s easy to google those people giving testimonials and get the real story. Very unfortunate.
by lovin2live June 4, 2008
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I have taken her "course." I was also previously a member of her elite CFS (Commercial Finance Specialist) Association. I am not aware of a single person who has ever funded even one transaction with Kellene. I know she is being sued by multiple persons for allegedly taking fees for transactions that were never going to be eligible for funding. Of the 24 original members of CFSA, I believe there might be 8 left. I believe her gig is just to collect fees for "training" and marketing. I don´t think she actually has any sources or funders. That is my opinion based on working with her (or attempting to close deals with her) for almost two years.

This is just my opinion. Don´t try and sue me Kellene or Scott or any of your cronies. I am simply stating the facts as I know them. (She is very litigation happy.)
by time for a change June 13, 2008
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Kellene Bishop is a person that will do and say whatever will separate you from your money. I took her class, I spent/lost thousands of dollars with her, she looked me and many others straight in the eye and without flinching spoke about loan programs that she could not deliver on. After two years of searching I have not found one person that can validate that she has ever closed a single commercial loan. I know some of her employees, former employees and they have said she has not closed a single loan. If you are someone that has actually closed a commercial loan with her, please step up and prove it. Do not just get on here and talk about how great you think she is or about the loan you closed, PROVE IT! Too many people are being sucked into the vortex that she creates to take your money. She has continued her commercial training under a different name, she has created another business where she purports to be a security expert, all looking to take your money. Let this stand as a warning to all those who are looking into Kellene Bishop and her husband Scott Bishop, the lawsuits are building, she has lost in Philadelphia and is fighting for her life in California. Stop her now!!!!!
by Kellene stole from me June 13, 2008
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Its about time these blogs started popping up. Im surprised it didnt happen a year ago. If we work together, Kellene will be flipping burgers for the rest of her life, if she doesnt end up in prison. From a Mortgage Account Executive, to a juice sales woman, to a commercial guru and finance expert inside of 3 years? C´mon! With all her b.s. talk, youd think she would have an office on Wall Street, giving interviews to Jim Cramer.
by iwasscammedbykellene June 15, 2008
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Kellene Bishop is a disgusting individual

Stay away from this big fat pig at all costs. She has not closed one loan since she started her scam operation.

SHE SET THIS UP TO TAKE YOUR MONEY AND TO HOSE YOUR CLIENTS FOR RETAINER FEES!

SHE TOOK 250K AND OVER 500K FROM TWO OF HER GRADUATES CLIENTS AND NEVER CLOSED THE DEAL. WHY? BECAUSE HER PROGRAMS ARE FIGMENTS OF HER IMAGINATION!

by Kellene bishop is a scam artist June 11, 2008
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Let me try this again. Looks like backgroundgirrrl thought my post was an ad. I was duped into taking her commercial career course after reading her 5 page spread in broker magazine in 2006. I am now a part of a large group seeking legal action against her. She will teach you how to lie to your customers inorder to charge huge retainer fees and due dillegence fees. She claims to be capable of funding commercial deals from 100m to billions, yet she has no proof of ever funding these (this is acutally part of her technique to trick your customers). Many students have tried to close deals with her company Beehive Commercial Lending and Servicing Division (per her instruction), only to charge outrageous fees and NEVER deliver funds. Out of the 50 or so students I have remained in contact with, NONE of them have ever funded a deal through Kellenes company, or by using her techniques. If you want to learn about commercial lending, do not waste the money on her course. If you want to know the truth, Kellenes students are easy to find.
by iwasscammedbykellene June 11, 2008

This is an email that the "guru" sent out to "graduates" of her scam class. NONE OF THE LOANS FUNDED. As a matter of fact, Ms. Bishop kept the lucrative retainer fees from the graduate's clients.

SHE DOES NOT, AND NEVER HAD, WALL STREET CONTACTS. ASK HER TO NAME ONE AND SHE WILL TRY TO TALK CIRCLES AROUND YOU. ASK HER FOR PROOF OF A CLOSED LOAN AND SHE WILL GET NASTY WITH YOU! SHE IS AS NASTY AS SHE IS UGLY!

Here is the email from January 2007:

Hello Commercial Career Graduates!

I know many of you are still waiting for the updated summary on the 100% Plus Product. As I shared with you previously, please be patient. I've got Wall Street folks in my office all this week and I'm trying to take advantage of every spare minute I've got outside of that to get it done (as noted by the e-mails going out at all kinds of weird hours). But I assure you it is coming.

In the meantime, I just wanted to highlight what a handful of our attendees have been accomplishing. These individuals have brought in an enormous amount of volume in…so much so, that one of the funds we do business with did a “double take” and asked how these folks were achieving so well, since they are well above the market standard. Of course I told them that we teach them to “Go Big, or Go Home.” ALL of these guys are doing exactly what they've been taught. “No retainer fee, no loan.” “No Service Agreement, no loan.” They aren't afraid to walk away, and it's showing in their numbers, big time!

(Columbus Class) Over $276MM under contract!

(Charlotte Class) Over $538MM under contract!

(Los Angeles Class) over $100MM, plus an additional $200MM waiting in the wings until he can handle their first of numerous transactions!

(Atlanta Class) over $95MM, his FIRST deal with us!

(Baltimore Class) THIS IS CLASSIC BIG-TIME THINKING… *** is financing an entire TOWN! The dude is handling the development project for an entirely new town in Nevada… to the tune of a minimum of well over $140MM+, plus he has $6.8 million in other smaller projects!

It's only January 17th, folks! The success is yours for the taking! You don't have time to commiserate, “hum and haw”, back-bite, whine, or any other “80% actions that will prevent you from achieving the 20 percent success! There are plenty of folks who are very good at figuring out how NOT to do something. Those who succeed will focus on what they CAN DO and “git er done.”

Have a GREAT week!

Kellene Bishop

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STAY AWAY FROM THIS CRIMINAL! THE GLUTTON DOES NOT HAVE THIS Smorgasbord OF PRODUCTS BECAUSE SHE IS A TRAINED LIAR!

RE:      Commercial Career

 

Dear ,

 

            On June 4, 2009 the Defendants in this matter brought for hearing a Motion to Disqualify Bander Law Firm, LLP, as Counsel of Record for Plaintiffs. The Court granted their motion.  We have a hearing set for July 29, 2009 for the Court to reconsider its ruling and are hopeful we can convince the Court to reverse its ruling and allow Bander Law Firm to continue representing you in this action.

 

            As a safety valve we would like you to sign a new retainer agreement with the Law Offices of Dennis P. Wilson.  Mr. Wilson associated in as counsel in October, 2008 and will be the lead litigator on this case in the event the Court upholds Bander Law Firm’s disqualification.  This new retainer will not in any way increase the amount of legal fees owed.  Mr. Wilson is an experienced, highly qualified litigator with an office located at 3322 W. Victory Blvd., Burbank, CA 91505. 

 

            Please sign and return the enclosed retainer agreement to the offices of Mr. Wilson,

 

Very Truly Yours,

Joel Bander,

Bander Law Firm, LLP

Dennis Wilson,

Law Offices of Dennis P. Wilson

 

(((Redacted))))

 

As a past employee I can say that without a doubt Kellene Bishop is a LIAR! She would act like she was your best friend in the world. Then she'd make endless promises to her us and she never once delivered. We were promised 3-month reviews and raises on our six-figure salary (that we never saw happen), profit sharing in each transaction for projects we worked on, a trip to Florida & custom built office themes.

While I was there not one employee ever got a raise. There were 4 client transactions that I was aware of that we should have received bonuses on, there were countless training sessions held that we helped prepare for and percentages of the profits had been promised to her employees.

At every opportunity she pocketed the money.

She lied countless times to her clients over the phone while I was in the room and would make claims that were absurd exaggerations at best about her success and what great things were going on in the company.

Every time she made a promise to us she would have to break it and she couldn't ever be the bad guy. She would hide behind her husband who was a habitual gun-toting psychopath. And he would deliver the bad news.

I'm also convinced that she had the office bugged because she would bring up inner office issues that happened behind closed doors and with out her present and minutes later would call us in to her office and try and address that very issue.

She claimed to be lead by the holy spirit on countless occasions. I am left to wonder if she suffered from some sort of mental disorder where she was confusing the greedy voices in her head for divine revelation.

I hope that she gets the help she needs. Preferably in some sort of lock-down facility.

I feel sorry for anyone who has ever done business with her or worked for her.

Is it any wonder why all of her employees walked out on her?

Faye.
( not my real name )

Ps. I went by the old office not too long ago in Provo and it looked like a ghost town. So I'm wondering if she got court ordered to have her scam shut down.
by fayewinters September 23, 2009 11:59 AM

CLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report.

Kellene Bishop has filed bankruptcy for almost 2 million dollars. She filed in December, 2009 and keeps bloggin away like nothing happened. She keeps on bloggin about financial issues and tries to extend advice - WHAT A JOKE - This is a woman is mentally deranged! She ran scam after scam after scam and ended up bankrupt! She even spent piles of cash on decorating her office and got evicted by the owner of the building! And this is a woman who dressed J.C. Penny and claimed to close billion dollar deals through her scam brokerage Beehive Commercial Lending! And guess what? SHE NEVER CLOSED A COMMERCIAL LOAN IN HER LIFE!

It is official! The ugly couple have had their illegal debts discharged!

Kellene Bishop, a scammer who ran a course called Commercial Career, now runs Preparednesspro.com.

She recently wrote a despicable blog about the hard money world and the loan commitment fees involved.

THIS CRAZY PIG DID THE SAME EXACT THING AND MORE WITH HER COMMERCIAL CAREER COURSE. SHE TOOK HUGE RETAINER FEES THAT THE HARD MONEY PEOPLE COULD ONLY DREAM OF AND DIDN'T HAVE ANY SOURSES TO FUND THE LOANS!

She then claimed bankruptcy for over TWO MILLION DOLLARS!

Look at what the slob wrote:

Many years ago I frequently rubbed elbows with the hard-money world of commercial lending.  As an expert educator in the world of commercial finance, I simply could not have a functioning knowledge of the industry without being exposed to what was known as “hard-money lending.”  Hard-money loans typically come with some steep prices.  The first fee one would usually have to pay is an “application fee.” This particular fee is required simply for the privilege of having your funding request considered. Many such fees are non-refundable and would be as much as 1% to 3% of the value of the loan request.  After your project is given a preliminary approval you may then be required to pay a “commitment fee.”  This fee is anticipatory of the underwriting, inspection, legal, and appraisal costs that may or may not be necessary to process your funding request.  Regardless of what the anticipated costs really are on a project, commitment fees are typically another 1-3% of the total value of a funding request and to add insult to injury, they are usually non-refundable as well.  Then, assuming that all goes well during the processing of your hard money loan, just before closing you will get your written approval. However, in many instances you will be required to pay a “funding fee” which is essentially more money that you had to put up to show them your level of commitment to the funding. (Irrelevant of the fact that your other monies should have already clearly conveyed such a commitment previously.) This fee can be a mere $10,000-$50,000 or it can be greater.  In most instances this fee is refunded immediately upon the funding of your deal, but it’s still cash that you’ve got to come up with just to get your deal done. (Are you tired yet?)  Then, upon the closing and funding of your loan, you will be assessed approximately 15-22 points of the loan amount, plus an interest rate as high as 30 percent!  Are you worn out and horrified yet? 

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT KELLENE THE SLOB DID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

STAY AWAY FROM THIS INSANE PIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is the form from the lawfirm that represented former clients of the slob:

Kellene Bishop offered a "no questions asked money back guarantee" to her "students". She turned around and sent out a 20-page questionnaire out to her "graduates" when they asked for refunds and denied almost all of them.

Disgruntled graduates have filled out this questionnaire from the Bander Law Firm for the big suit:

Commercial Career Questionnaire

Name:____________________
Date:_____________________

1. How did you hear about Commercial Career?

0 Word of mouth

Who___________________________________

When__________________________________
0 Internet
Did you search for a training course or did you receive a solicitation or email?
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0 Mail Ad
0 Fax
0 Magazine/newspaper ads

Please provide the original or copies if available

2. Do you have any copies of the website (or other document) promising that if you took the course you would make $750,000 in the first 12 months of taking the course? If so please provide any such copies to us.

3. Did you attend a free commercial loan workshop?

When___________________________________

Where___________________________________

With whom________________________________

What happened at the workshop?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________(attach extra pages if needed)

4. Describe all contacts you had with Commercial Career from the first contact to the last. (Please put your description in chronological order.)
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5. What services or products have you bought from Commercial Career?
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Do you have receipts or other documents to prove what you bought? (Cancelled checks, credit card statements, Receipts for the hotel, airplane or car rental for the trip)
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6. Please provide copies of all course materials or anything else you received during events and seminars by Commercial Career.

7. Did you attend any other events such as Reunions?_________________

Where___________________________________________________________

When____________________________________________________________
With whom_______________________________________________________
What happened there_______________________________________________

8. Why did you sign up for the Commercial Career course? Did you really believe you would make $750,000 in the first year after the course? If so, what made you believe that promise?
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9. What did you do after the course to make the $750,000 as promised?
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What documents do you have to show what you did?
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10. Please describe your education from High School and up.
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11. Please describe your work experience – (focused on the mortgage business, both residential and commercial. Do not give every job since high school. Only those related to real estate, running your own business, and the mortgage industry)
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12. Did you buy any forms from Commercial Career? (Such as the fee agreement to be used with your future clients?)
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13. Specifically list all the promises that were made to you:
What was promised________________________________________________
Who said it_______________________________________________________
When was it said to you_____________________________________________
Any witnesses____________________________________________________
Any documents to prove it was made___________________________________
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14. Did you do any business or have any contacts with the following:
0 Kellene Bishop
0 Scott Bishop
0 Blue Screen Marketing LLC
0 Beehive Commercial
0 Beehive Commercial Lending
0 Servicing Division
0 CFS Association

When___________________________________________________________
Where___________________________________________________________
Describe it________________________________________________________
Any witnesses_____________________________________________________
Any documents to show what happened________________________________
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15. Did you ever submit loan applications to the affiliates of Commercial Career and pay large application fees? (or have your clients pay them)?

0 Yes
0 No
Who did you submit it to?____________________________________________ Describe the deal/Explain what happened_______________________________

How much loan application fee was paid?_______________________________

Were you told that you were submitting to a direct lender or a loan broker?__________________________________________________________

16. Did you ever hear about someone named Kent Sullivan doing a $150 million deal because of the Commercial Career course? _______________

When____________________________________________________________ Who said it_______________________________________________________ Where__________________________________________________________ Other details______________________________________________________

17. Is there anything else you know about the following people or entities?

Kellene Bishop___________________________________________________

Scott Bishop_____________________________________________________

Blue Screen Marketing LLC_________________________________________

Beehive Commercial_______________________________________________

Beehive Commercial Lending_______________________________________

Servicing Division_________________________________________________

CFS Association_________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

18. Is there anything else you would like to tell us?

What did the Big K do after she got sued by hundreds of people whom she took huge retainer fees from?

I am an ex-employee of this woman. She ripped off so many people with various businesses. I have copies of her bankruptcy papers to prove how many people got ripped off by her. It is amazing to me that the producers at Nat Geo would put her on T.V. other than to show how much of a circus freak she is.

Perhaps they should do a show on pathological scam artists and make her the star.

Take a look at the bankruptcy papers. Her list of creditors were a mile a long and she scammed every single one. She lied to Nat Geo about working in Corporate America because she never did. She ran scam businesses out of her house that was worth less than $200,000.00.

Kellene Bishop has been filmed showcasing thousands of dollars worth of food at her home in Utah. She does not mention that foreclosure proceedings have started and the foreclosure on her home featured in the show is highly probable.

Once again, she has portrayed herself as being a righteous and self-relying person yet the truth is the complete opposite. She claims the end of days are near. The reality is that her days are numbered in her home because she spent all of her money on food instead of fulfilling her obligation to pay her mortgage.  

Not to mention that she bought all of that food with the money that she swindled from people in scam business after scam business before filing Chapter 7. Keep in mind that Ms. Bishop charged between 6 and 10 thousand dollars a person to over 250 suckers in 2006 and made about 2 million dollars. This does not count the pile of cash that she swindled from their clients. 

It is ironic that Ms. Bishop has stockpiled enough food to fill a supermarket because she has come up with the perfect recipe for her disaster.

Why on Earth would Kellene actually sign on with Nat Geo to allow them to film her stockpiled food so all of the goodies saved for doomsday can aired on national television after claiming Chapter 7? Think about it because her bankruptcy papers do not lie. They clearly show that her new business, Preparedness Pro, did not make any money as recently as 2009. The question for her creditors, the attorneys for her mortgage company and the bankruptcy trustee should be: Where did Kellene & Scott Bishop get the money to buy that much food?

Ms. Bishop has a Radio Blog show. She bragged that she went from worse than nothing to $2.5 million dollars in one year. it is perfectly obvious that she is back to worse than nothing now because her house in Orem is only worth about $200,000.00 and she owes almost $300,000.00 on it and has not made a mortgage payment since 2008.

The 2.5 million dollars that she bragged about was the money that made in 2006 when she charged $10,000.00 a person to over 250 people for a scam course called Commercial Career. She was then sued by most of them for misrepresenting herself as a "commercial guru" and for unscrupulously taking illegal fees from their clients. She subsequently wrote off over $1.6 million dollars in her bankruptcy.

There were court proceedings as recently as August of 2011 between the Bishops and her mortgage company. The word is that foreclosure on her home featured in the upcoming Nat Geo show is inevitable.

All of Ms. Bishop's creditors, the attorneys for her mortgage company and the bankruptcy trustee should check their local listing and set their DVR's to tape the show. The footage can probably be used in court.  

Kellene & Scott Bishop are truly obscene. They lied that they own a multi-million dollar business on Nat Geo. They scammed almost 300 mortgage brokers out of $10,000.00 for between $2.5 & 3 million dollars in 2006 for a sham course called Commercial career and then scammed some of their clients for hundreds of thousands of dollars too. 

Kellene and Scott failed to mention that they claimed bankruptcy in 2006 and also failed to mention that their home in the show is in forbearance and it is over $50,000.00 under water because they have not made a mortgage payment since December, 2008. Only scam artists would brag that they have $100,000.00 worth of food in their home when they are not making mortgage payments. 

Kellene also stated that she worked in corporate America. This is another lie. She was a low level residential mortgage broker before she was a juice salesman and then a "commercial guru" who never closed a commercial loan.

One of her former Commercial Career attendees summed it up in 2007:

I was given your name as someone that I can report a fraud incident to. I am a Commercial Mortgage Broker and have taken a class taught by Scott and Kellene Bishop of Commercial Career and Beehive Commercial. They considered me one of their top referral sources and I entrusted them with my entire pipeline of business. In the last 18 months I sent them over $200,000,000.00 in business all of which they said they could approve and close. They presented themselves as Underwriters with Decision Making authority and were direct with Hedge Funds on Wall Street, none of which was true.

To Underwrite and Approve these loans they required that my clients pay large Up-Front Retainer Fees (Good Faith Deposits). Their contracts state that the fees are non-refundable however, they told each of my clients that they do not ask for fees unless they are confident that they can close the loan. Hearing this, my clients entered into a contract with the Bishops and paid their money.

My clients paid $250,000.00 in Up-Front Fees only have their loans turned down after months of promises to close their loans. I can give you the names and numbers of all of these clients. I know of at least another $500,000.00 that was taken in the same manor from other clients. In addition to this, the Bishops charged close to 300 people on average $8,000.00 each to take their course on Commercial Lending and how to charge up-front fees and send all of our loans through them. In my estimation, the Bishops have netted over $2,000,000.00 in profit from this scheme and to date have not closed a single commercial loan and have not returned any fees.

I am not asking for fee that I paid to take their course to be returned. I am asking that the $750,000.00 that was fraudulently taken from our clients be returned.

Here are the facts:

Consumers were defrauded by the Bishops and Commercial Career.
The Bishops made promises to perform and collected obscene amounts of money and did not perform the service that there were paid to do.
The Bishops have refused any an all attempts to return even a percentage of the fees they collected.
The Bishops are residents of Utah but have committed these acts across the entire nation.

I know that I am not the only person to report this issue to your department but if you would like more individuals like myself to come forward I can make that happen.

Please let me know what needs to be done to insure that no more consumers are hurt by Commercial Career and Scott and Kellene Bishop.

Nat Geo apparently does not do a very good job of screening their weirdos for Doomsday Preppers. They obviously wanted to demonstrate how off the wall the preppers are.

They could have easily found out just how much of a scammer Kellene and Scott are. Information about their various scams and Chapter 7 Bankruptcy is all over the internet. Bankruptcies are public information too. We instead had to listen to Kellene lie about her past. Why didn't she talk about her bankruptcy?

Perhaps Nat Geo should do a follow up on the Bishops when the foreclosure is completed on their home in Utah. If might turn into a Dog Day Afternoon when Kellene and Scott defend the bungalow like it is the Alamo when the bank shows up to take it back. They clearly demonstrated how they are heavily armed and ready to communicate by Morse code under the cover of darkness. 

Kellene and Scott Bishop were the only weirdos on Nat Geo to have a bug-in plan instead of a bug-out plan. Could this be because they don't ever intend to pay their mortgage? Forbearance and foreclosure means nothing to these bug-in preppers! 

Kellene Bishop thinks she has moxy. However, in reality she is a loser who ripped tons of people off with her various scams and reinvents herself every couple years. Just look at her gruesome face and Chapter 7 bankruptcy papers.

I wonder if she actually believes that her latest scheme will help save her from foreclosure? 

Does anyone still really believe that this 300lb liar actually practices self reliance? 

A sucker is born every minute!!!!!

Are the rumors true? Will we see Kellene Vs Butterbean? I wonder what the Vegas odds will be!

This could be true since Kellene is desperate to keep her home since she has not made a mortgage payment since 2008.

One thing is true: Butterbean is better looking than Kellene!