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Complaint Review: Quaker State Commercial Finance of Conshohicken Pennsylvania - Conshohocken Pennsylvania

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  • Quaker State Commercial Finance of Conshohicken Pennsylvania 1950 Butler Pike #137 Conshohocken, Pennsylvania USA

Quaker State Commercial Finance of Conshohicken Pennsylvania Leonard J. Keating, Jr. and I am the Principal and President of Quaker State Commercial Finance, Inc. This company are scam artists and Due Diligence Theifs Conshohocken Pennsylvania

*Author of original report: Do NOT Believe Mr. Keating

*Author of original report: A fraud always claims to be the Victim.

*REBUTTAL Owner of company: QSCF’s Response to Bogus Complaint from Sakon Development, LLC; a Hartford, CT Commercial Borrower

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If this company offers to lend you money, simply pass.  They have no money to lend.  They are dishonest, operate without the appropriate licenses and commit unfair and deceptive practices.  

I was introduced to Quaker State by a Mortgage Broker (who also had been deceived).  Represting themselves to be direct lenders, Quaker State Commercial Finance will prepare and offer you term sheets to lend.  However, even though they describe themselves as a lender in their documents, they are not a direct lender.  Their so called "investors" are merely other companies lending in the marketplace.  So Quaker State takes your money, prepares a "package" and markets your loan.  If they are unsuccessful, they still pocket your money.  If by some chance they find a reputable Lender to underwrite your loan, Quaker State seeks an additional commission of 1 point.  So they are seeking an upfront fee and a commission.  This is fraud as they do not disclose the commission in their term sheet.

Quaker State is nothing but a Mortgage Broker.  Any reputable Mortgage Broker acts on a commission basis.  You should never pay a Mortage Broker an upfront fee.  At no time did Quaker State question the underlying merits of my loan.  I already had competing term sheets from other lenders.  I simply considered doing business with Quaker State as they "offered" me better terms and promised to close in 3-4 weeks.  They lied.  Imagine my surprise when after one month Quaker State set up a conference call with another lender I already had a term sheet from!  Therefore, I lost credibility with other legitiamate companies who were considering dong business directly with my firm.

Under Federal law, Pennsylvania Law and Connecticut Law a real estate appraiser must be licensed.  In its "due diligence" Quaker State sends out a so called house appraiser by the name of Jeffery Little.  Mr. Little has no license and lacks even the rudimentary training to conduct commercial appraisals.  He is operating without a license, which is against the law. However, Quaker State then seeks to claim your upfront fee, in part, by seeking to charge you thousands of dollars for an appraisal by Mr. Little.  

In my case, I provided information to Quaker State under a confidentiality agreement.  The information itself had a confidentiality warning that the information provided was not to be disseminated to third parties.  Quaker State did a wholesale violation of the confidentiality agreement by passing confidential information to third parties (other lenders) without any authorization.  This is unethical and a tort.  

By pretending to be a direct lender and then marketing potential loans like a mortgage broker, Quaker State undertakes a deceptive and unfair pratice.  Under Article 201.2 of the Pennsylvania State Statue, causing likelihood of confusion or misunderstanding as to the source of their loans and representing they have the right to approve such loans when they are neither the lender or approve the lending of monies is an "Unfair method of competition" and an "unfair or deceptive act or practices."

I at first believed Quaker State was legimate as they were introduced by someone I trusted.  (I should have checked ripoffreports.com first.  There are a number of ripoff reports about QS and Keating).  I made the mistake of wiring funds before the contracts were signed.  While I timely withdrew my offer to do business with Quaker State, they refused to return my  deposit.  This is wire fraud.  

So if you are thinking of doing business with Quaker State and Leonard Keating, think again.  

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#3 Author of original report

Do NOT Believe Mr. Keating

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POSTED: Friday, October 23, 2015

Leonard J. Keating Jr. can say what he wants, but here are the facts.

The address for Quaker State Commercial Finance at 1950 Butler Pike, No. 137, Conshohocken, PA appears to be a UPS mail drop.

Quaker State Commercial Finance purports to be a lender.  Well it is public record the Mr. Keating's home is under mortgage foreclosure.  See E*Trade Bank v. Leonard J. Keating Jr. et al Court of Common Pleas of Montgormery Country, Pennsylvania Civil Division NO.: 2014-29303.  The amount in demand exceeds $1, 250,000.  So this "lender" does not appear to be able to pay his bills.  

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A fraud always claims to be the Victim.

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POSTED: Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Read carefully Mr. Keating's reply.  He incriminates himself MANY TIMES.  Some facts:

  1. Quaker State is under a Confidentiality Agreement.  With their rebuttal, they further breached the CA.  So do not tell them any trade secrets or proprietary information.  They do not understand or respect a CA Agreement.  
  2. Quaker State described themselves to be a Direct Lender in their own documents.  Now in this rebuttal, Mr. Keating says he was trying to place the loan with "investors" (who were merely other lenders unrelated to their firm).  DO YOU SEE HOW KEATING INCRIMINATES HIMSELF?  By representing themselves to be a direct lender while they are a broker is a fraudulent practice under Pennsylvania Law.  
  3. The Senior Partner for the New York Mortgage Brokerage Firm asked Mr. Keating a very simply question.  Why would his Mortgage Brokerage Firm introduce their client to another Mortgage Brokerage Firm?????  And then have both firms ask for a fee????  They would have brought their client directly to the other lenders.  Unless of course Quaker State represented themselves to be direct lender to the New York firm!  Again KEATING INCRIMINATES HIMSELF.
  4. AS to the other claims of Keating and Quaker State,CONSIDER THIS.  
    1. Keating admits the lenders liked my deal.  However, I refused to supply Keating and Quaker State any additional information as they were passing the information on wholessale to unapproved outside parties in complete violation of the CA.
    2. Prior to meeting Quaker State, I had already received Term Sheets from the very lenders Quaker State was trying to introduce me to.  I went to Quaker State as they were offering me better terms.  So how was I to get the better terms if I was back to the other lender?  Again KEATING INCRIMINATES HIMSELF.
    3. If I claimed I had a bank takeout loan (as Mr. Keating asserts) why would I be seeking a loan with his firm? Again KEATING INCRIMINATES HIMSELF.  
  5. SO TO ALL READERS I ADVISE BEWARE QUAKER STATE FINANCIAL.  IF THEY ASK YOU FOR MONEY SAY NO! 
  6. TO MR. KEATING, YOU RAN OFF WITH MY DEPOSIT.  IT WAS NOT YOUR MONEY, IT WAS A DEPOSIT ON A CONTRACT THAT WAS NEVER SIGNED.  SO YOU LAWFULLY HAD TO RETURN THE MONEY.  FURTHER YOUR APPRAISER WAS NOT A LICENSED APPRAISER.  THAT WAS THE TIP OFF!  SO ANY CLAIM YOUR FIRM WAS OWED AN APPRAISAL FEE IS ALSO BOGUS.  YOU SIMPLY POCKETED MY MONEY.  Reading Ripoff Reports, I see it has not been the first time you ran off with someone's money.  
  7. I WILL BE TAKING QUAKER STATE TO COURT TO RECOVER MY DEPOSIT.  IT IS AN OPEN AND SHUT CASE.  WHEN SOMEONE MAKES AN OFFER WITH A DEPOSIT, YOU CANNOT KEEP THE DEPOSIT IF THE OFFER IS WITHDRAWN BEFORE YOU SIGN THE CONTRACT.  

Alas, since the bank meltdowns a few years back the industry is flooded with due diligence thiefs who offer the world if you send them money.  SOUND FAMILIAR?  I CAN GET YOU WHAT YOU WANT!  JUST SEND ME YOUR MONEY!  Do not be a fool. Keep your distance from Keating and his kin.   Check Ripoff reports first! 

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#1 REBUTTAL Owner of company

QSCF’s Response to Bogus Complaint from Sakon Development, LLC; a Hartford, CT Commercial Borrower

AUTHOR: QSCF - (United States of America)

POSTED: Wednesday, June 10, 2015

 Prior to reading this rebuttal; please refer to Rip Off Report # 1130534 from March 13, 2014; where Rip Off report exonerated CRE Finance who Mr. J. S. accused of defrauding him one year prior to our experience with the borrower. Clearly, Mr. J. S., Principal of Sakon Development, LLC, is a serial complainer and extortionist. Rebuttal Summary: This rebuttal is from Leonard J. Keating, Jr., Chief Lending Officer of QSCF, Inc. QSCF, Inc. was approached by a well respected New York commercial finance broker to obtain “hard money” financing for their client, Sakon Development, LLC. J. S., principal for Sakon Development, LLC, of Glastonbury, CT subsequently engaged QSCF to obtain a $6,000,000.00 land development loan for his proposed lifestyle center under a Letter of Intent that was mutually negotiated by the parties including a nonrefundable “Due Diligence” Deposit. We had repeatedly related to the borrower that we were not the Investor who would fund this loan. QSCF, Inc. executed this agreement based on our analysis that the developer had a high quality piece of real estate and certain important assertions made by J.S. in writing as follows: “the Developer has arranged construction financing for funding summer, 2015”. Due Diligence subsequently performed uncovered that the borrower totally misrepresented that he had a takeout construction loan from a local bank. He had no exit strategy and subsequent other misrepresentations made it quite obvious to us that J.S. made this very critical assertion to fraudulently induce a Lender to save him from foreclosure. Next, the borrower asserted that he was under no pressure to refinance his loan. After an arduous investigation and interrogation, the borrower begrudgingly admitted that he was in foreclosure. We subsequently learned that he had been unsuccessfully attempting to obtain financing since 2006. Our contract called for the borrower to provide whatever information and reports requested by our Investors. Mr. J. S. subsequently adamantly refused to provide a Personal Financial Statement or Personal and Business Tax Returns as required by our Investors. We then presented this incomplete package to a number of our Investors. Most of them rejected the loan because there was no take out strategy. Several others expressed significant interest; however when they had a conference call with the borrower, Mr. J. S. prevaricated and refused to answer their probing questions. He also adamantly refused to pay for their due diligence as is the common practice in the commercial finance industry. He wanted to pay all fees at closing. We subsequently learned that he was having severe financial problems and was unable to meet our Investors requirements. Several of our Lenders liked the project, however would not get involved if J. S. was the borrower as they believed his answers to their questions were untruthful. Subsequently, J. S. fired us in writing and demanded that we refund his non refundable deposit or he would trash the reputation of both our company and employees. He also made the same demands of our New York broker who paid him a significant unwarranted cash payment to “go away”. I refused to pay extortion money as we performed under the contract, and the borrowers’ self serving, outrageous and scurrilous assertions and misrepresentations ruined any chance we had to complete his financing. Please call me at 610-667-6701 if you have any questions.

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