Karim Shawki Khashan Lauren Beatrice Manning Horus Yacht Club One Global Mall Karim Shawki Khashan Lauren Beatrice Manning Scam Nationwide

Karim has indeed reached out to me on September 20th 2014 as he stated in the rebuttal and as of now, we have come to a peaceful resolution.

Overall, the main problem that eventually led to I, the author to make this report was due to a lack of communication. The problems we faced in communication was primarily what led me to make this report, as not knowing the full scenario made me speculate negative motives in play. However since Karim has reached out to me and gave me his side of the main story, especially clearing up certain things that made me suspect foul play, it has created a MUCH better picture of the whole scenario and made me realize he's not who I thought he was.

One other motivating factor that led to me making this original report was that an individual named Patrick who he had a run in with, had also made a RipOff report against him and his business. I found out about that report pretty early when it was posted and since it was left unresponded (until recently) and there were still communication problems between us at the time, I took that report as the truth about him and his business. However after Karim revealed the full details of what happened, that also debunked all my speculations, especially how his business had NOTHING to do with it. Therefore making that report made false.

While there are indeed a number of 'could ofs' or 'should ofs' that could of avoided this entire ordeal, I am willing to excuse the unusual and extreme circumstances and put all of this behind us and move forward. It's better late than never and nobody is perfect.

In conclusion:

I am happy to RETRACT ALL negative statements (direct or implied) that have targeted Karim's reputation, affiliates and his business, I also extend my apologies for any harm or damage done.

Response to: "Karim Shawki Khashan has been guilty of lying, breaching a contract, committing identity theft and attempting to evade financial responsibility."

Answer: First of all, I never signed any contracts with you, or anyone in Dana Point. I never commited identity theft, that is just absurd. Never breached a contract with you since I never signed one, and did not evade any financial responsibility, since I was not resonsible for any of it.

Sam Liang decided to join me on a franchise that we were supposed to work on together, and he left town to China a couple of weeks after we paid for the franchise licensing (Which was all done legally) Check with www.WeGoShop.com and contact their team for furthur proof of the nonsense in this report. After Sam left to his home country leaving me with all the responsibility of running the franchise, I had a very had time keeping the company afloat, and we had to shut down due to the lack of man power we had to get our name out there. I spent a very long time conducting a business plan in which he and I had very important roles, and with one half of our operations being completely haulted until Sam came back, no work was getting done. Sam had no experience in business and didn't help whatsoever with creating the business plan, which if he did know how hard it was, would've made him understand how bad he was hurting our 1 month old company by leaving town.

Sam did come and live with me, but only because he had run out of time in his current lease, and didn't want to be left out of the company, yet he made no effort to make the We Go Shop franchise work. I told him I had no money at the time and will be cashing out of my investments later on and that I would help. So he decided to sign the contract with my at the time girlfriend who he knew didn't work, and has no money. She was only 19 and just barely getting into college with no financial help from her family. Sam decided to take responsibility of the rent if we can return it to him later on. Whether we had a domestic dispute or not was not something that he should have looked down on us for, especially that what we were arguing about was money. Stuff happened and me and my girlfriend worked it out, and ended up getting married a year later thanks to the help of my family.

Response to "Since they paid September’s and October's rent, they've paid me back $1000."

Answer: Our agreement was that we paid Sam Liang his money back gradually over a year period because our contract was that long. After paying him a lot more than we thought we could pay him back at the time, he wanted more. And at the time I was paying for a car I financed a year before which was a BMW and had $500 monthly payments. By paying him that $1,000 I had to stop paying for my car which ended up with me loosing my car.

Response to "Not paying anything towards my car which I co-signed"

I did decide on buying a car from www.Carmax.com in which my friend helped me co-sign it. I had two jobs at the time and honestly thought I could afford a BMW, but when I relized that the parts where very expensive, I couldn't replace my headlights, get oil changes, or maintenance the car at all. At the time I had paid $3,500 out of the $3,500 owed by carmax and my standings with the company were in good shape. I had missed a 3 payments of $500 in which Ian my friend helped me pay for since it was under his name too and he didnt want his credit to be ruined. I ended up paying Ian back his $1,500 and my car was completely debt-free when it came to late payments. I was on track finally. Then I started working with Sam Liang on a franchise in which he bailed on me and left me with all the bills for Paid Advertising, door to door marketing, and actually meeting the orders we were getting. Sam decided to leave the country, and our company fell under wasting all the money that I would have used for my car. Since Sam never helped me with the business after we paid franchising fees together, I started accumulating debt again after working so hard to eliminate it. I paid a total of $3,500 for my car to Carmax.com which can be confirmed with them, while Ian, my co-signer picked up the remaining payments which was another $2,500 until my car got repossed and sold to auction.

Response to "Ripping some one off in Dana Point"

I had met a guy name Patrick Ingram through his girlfriend at a get together I hosted. He quickly became my friend and gave me his number. My girlfriends mom was moving and Patricks girlfriend had told me he was struggling financially, so I got hiim a temporary job helping my girlfriend's mother move in which he got paid for in addition to 2 meals a day that he received since he mentioned he was starving when he first arrived to work, and I didnt want him to work on an empty stomach.

A couple of months later patrick was looking for a roommate and I was looking for a room to rent temporarily until I traveled to visit my ill father. I had to find someone honest enough to look out for my two cats which were only 4 months and 6 months, so me and patrick decided to meet and see if it would work, and if we were going to get along.

Patrick went ahead and told me I should stay with him for a couple of days so we can coordinate the move and get to know each other on a roommate to roommate basis. I loved the idea and said I would be there with my girlfriend and two cats.

After I arrived to Patrick's he told me he had no where for me to stay but the floor, which was hardwood floor. (The most uncomfortable situation ever!) I asked for blankets and a mattress or something but got a couple of sheets and had to settle. I already started thinking this will not work out. Me, my girlfriend, Patrick, his brother, and his roommates hung out and they all said that they would love it for me and my girlfriend to get a place with Patrick. The very next day, Patrick started acting out and fighting with his girlfriend due to personal reasons that I do not want to get into. He became very violent and started knocking things around and screaming cuss words at the top of his lungs. My girlrfiend was so freaked out and scared that she just wanted to get out of there, and I was thinking he must be on some sort of drugs. The following day, Patrick woke us up frantically and said pretty much that if we do not go sign the lease today, he was going to be very angry with us. So we went along to avoid drama and arrived at a leasing office. After speaking with the sales lady, we found out the price, filled out the paperwork, and told the lady to just check if we would get accepted. We then went back to Patrick's where we decided to pack our belongings and move to a hotel which was a much better solution until we found a place for just me and my girlfriend (who became my wife now). Upon arrival and deciding to pack, Patrick took me to the balcony so we could speak were my girlfriend wouldn't hear us and he told me that he needed his brother to move in with us. I met his brother.. He was a drug addict, on formal probation, and was open to the idea of being high on crack throughout the entire day. I told Patrick I wouldn't want that but he was very pushy, and I knew the kid had mental issues, and decided to tell Patrick that although I don't support the idea, i'm not against him living there as long as he stays away from drugs and pays rent.  Patrick swore to me that his brother was clean, yet to me he looked like he was so high on crack that he didnt at times know that he was speaking to himself. 

Patrick that day calls me and tells me that since his brother would be staying in our living room ( which I never agreed on fully but was open to the idea) he should be paying only $50 in rent! That is ridiculous when the rent for the place was $1,700 not including utilities. That wouldn't even pay for electricity.. I told him no but he kept arguing until I said whatever, although I completely disagreed with him and knew that I would never live with that person.

Later on that day, Patrick had two girls over when his girlfriend was away, and when the girls showed up they kept acting weird until they decided to leave. When they tried to leave, Patrick completely lashed out on them and started using every word in the book to describe them in the most disgusting way. Patrick and his brother were on crack, and the two girls just knew that something about them was off. I saw how the two acted and I also told Patrick that I could tell he was on drugs. He brushed me off by telling me it was just ecstasy, and that they were just having a good time. I have had it right there. He's on drugs. His brother is on drugs. His brother is on formal probation! Something bad was bound to happen.

The two brothers stayed up all night and me and my girlfriend had to sleep with one eye open in case the two decided to have another anger fit and start breaking stuff. Thank God they went to bed at 9am! My girlfriend and I got up as soon as they went to bed and went to Starbucks to buy coffee. When I came back surprisingly Patrick was somehow awake. It's like he only slept for about an hour.

Patrick then asked me to talk to him outside in the balcony again. This time it is was about money! The kid had $300 and his brother had $50 and they were trying to move in an apartment? The downpayment alone was double rent which was $3,300 and I knew we had no chance. I didn't want to cover his rent because I really didnt have the money. I told him i'd ask my mother for a loan, and after telling my mother about the situation, she told me that we should be by my fathers side instead of trying to get a new apartment.

I waited until Patrick left to the gym, then I took my stuff, my girlfriend, my cats, and left the place in a hurry.

Final Statement: Although I might have been wrong in leading Patrick on, the guy was unstable and if you met him, you would also decide that you better keep people like him away from you.

Sam Liang cost me my first franchise business, and he only claims I owed him money when I don't because we didn't want to live with someone who would just bail out on the business whenever he felt like, leaving all the responsibility to me.  I completely lost my business and my investments hadn't been cashed yet.  I lost my car because of this, and now he is slandering my business because he was unprofessional in running one with me and I had to cut him.

From Sam Liang: "I agreed to give them $500 since they showed some proof they can be trusted."

From Karim today: "So you knew I had money being built up in investments,and knew that I couldn't access it yet, and knew I could be trusted. I was always trustworthy, especially with you, but you decided to cost me a business, and I decided if you are that lazy, then I don't want to be in business with you.

I just hope that after all the slandering and all the drama, you can act professional. This is personal and has nothing to do with my current business.

I even offered you profits in my new company, and you decided against it yet you want to post something like this?

The only person that I owe money to is Ian Frank for helping with my car payments and standing by my side in times where I thought that I would be homeless with my girlfriend and my two cats. I have made ammends with Ian Frank and I have offered him my services in web design in a way that would not pay him back everything in one day but eventually pay him back and make him money for the rest of his life through making him a business website and giving him all my connections with suppliers ad doing all of the hard work myself and he only gets the profits up until my debt is settled and then he can continue to keep the website going for the rest of his life by simply paying for the hosting space which comes out to 1% of the amount of work that I had to put in to create his website, logo, brand, and everything in between.

Karim has indeed reached out to me on September 20th 2014 as he stated in the rebuttal and as of now, we have come to a peaceful resolution.

Overall, the main problem that eventually led to I, the author to make this report was due to a lack of communication. The problems we faced in communication was primarily what led me to make this report, as not knowing the full scenario made me speculate negative motives in play. However since Karim has reached out to me and gave me his side of the main story, especially clearing up certain things that made me suspect foul play, it has created a MUCH better picture of the whole scenario and made me realize he's not who I thought he was.

One other motivating factor that led to me making this original report was that an individual named Patrick who he had a run in with, had also made a RipOff report against him and his business. I found out about that report pretty early when it was posted and since it was left unresponded (until recently) and there were still communication problems between us at the time, I took that report as the truth about him and his business. However after Karim revealed the full details of what happened, that also debunked all my speculations, especially how his business had NOTHING to do with it. Therefore making that report made false.

While there are indeed a number of 'could ofs' or 'should ofs' that could of avoided this entire ordeal, I am willing to excuse the unusual and extreme circumstances and put all of this behind us and move forward. It's better late than never and nobody is perfect.

In conclusion:

I am happy to RETRACT ALL negative statements (direct or implied) that have targeted Karim's reputation, affiliates and his business, I also extend my apologies for any harm or damage done.

Here is the other report on this individual here on Ripoff Report:
http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Horus-Yacht-Club/internet/Horus-Yacht-Club-Karim-Khashan-SCAM-ARTIST-RIPOFF-SNAKE-IN-THE-GRASS-Rancho-Santa-Margari-1136011

Online stores opened by Karim:
http://horusyachtclub.com/

http://www.oneglobalmall.com/