Alexa Model and Talent Agency Do not sign with them!! Tampa Florida

Do not sign with this agency!! Yes, they are listed on the SAG website and are SAG franchised but they are not operating under SAG's rules. 

First off, Susan Schwabbinger no longer owns the agency, and hasn't for years now, while to this day she is still listed as the owner. 

Second, they called me in after I sent my headshot, resume, cover letter, etc. in seeking representation and I was told to come into the office and prepare two contrasting monologues.When I got there, the owner, Keith Schwabbinger, sat me and my mom down for about half an hour and attempted some kind of counseling session- what we discussed was hardly related to modeling/acting at all.

Then he offered me a contract and in order to get me to sign it quickly without reading said there was a casting in Orlando going on right then that he could send me to if I got there in time. I declined to sign the contract in his office and took it home. 

The contract was ridiculous! It was so open ended to their benefit, they practically owned me. The standard rates (the 20% agency fee SAG requires) were negotiable- they could change them whenever they wanted.

Also, after three months they could decide to make me exclusive (meaning you are not allowed to have any other agents besides them) without having the option of backing out of the contract. I could have been stuck with them as long as they wanted.

There were many other clauses in the contract like those, but having done this months ago, I can't remember them. I gave the contract to my acting instructor so she could report them to SAG and didn't think to make a copy.

Worst of all, after reading over the contract, my dad searched Keith Schwabbinger and found out that he used to own a bunch of real estate companies that stole from people- one of them being "Diamond Enterprise". The reviews of that website are available on ripoff report as wel. 

Long story short, don't sign with this agency. If you do you will have no option of getting another agent and; therefore, all  of the work you get will only come from them. If they do happen to get you any work, you porbablly won't even get paid for it. When going to type this, I found out that there's another ripoff report for Alexa Model and Talent stating that they never got paid for their work.