LandCentral review: Don't buy from this scam artists 34

I am currently in a purchase situation with Land Central over 10 acres bought sight unseen through the internet near Bend, Oregon. Yes, I know about due diligence and prudence but my reasoning for doing it this way was that I figured I knew the area and the price down was so cheap $40, price of land $17k, that I figured it was worth the risk until I could get out there to check it out. It was one of those 24 hour moonlight sales that they seem to do and it did not give me time to check the property out first. I went ahead and put the money down and then made one payment a month later for about $315. I did not start making calls to check up on the property until two days after that monthly payment was made. I called the County and discovered that it will take nearly $6406 to merely make a formal request to get the land approved to have a site built house or manufactured home put on it. I was told and reconfirmed by the Deschutes County office that this property might still not become approved for a permanent dwelling even after I spend all that money making the request. The request process included a variety of fees which add up to this amount, it is not all one thing. The final fee and process includes talking to some kind of public hearing or committee to get approval, and if that approval does not come, all that money would be out the window. In the meantime, all the property can be used for is temporary usage, either for 30 days every 60 days for free, or you have to pay about $800 for a temporary permit which only allows the person to put an RV on the property to use six months out of the year. In other words, the property is so controlled by the County as to be almost non-usable. It is not what was expected when I took the risk: my expectation was a likely flat desert property on the south to southeast side of Bend off Hwy 20, an area I have driven through and have some familiarity with; what is mostly out there are ranch lands and flat lava rock areas. My expectation was to get an ugly dry piece of land without any utilities, but because it was remote and undeveloped area, I figured there would be more personal autonomy in the use of the land - put an RV or manufactured house on there, stay in it until you can buld, then build, that sort of thing. I did not expect such strict restrictions from the County on something so far out of Bend in the hinterlands. It has something to do with the fact the property is on the edge of a wildlife refuge.

Beyond this, neither Deschutes County nor the Assessor's Office could find my name anywhere in reference to this property although the purchase had been made over a month before. They found the name Jetta Financial out of Carson City, NV but could not find any record of Land Central or Radius Management. The County nor the Assessor's Office had any way of knowing whether or not I was a legitimate buyer. They would not be able to authorize any further work on the property for me without that proof. My first monthly payment, taken out of my checking account, was to Radius Management. There was no indication of a Jetta Financial.

The other concern after learning I was not in the County Records as a buyer on record for this property was the issue of trespassing; if I had found the property and parked an RV on there, a sheriff could have come by wondering who was on the property and could have tried to arrest me - or a neighbor could call and complain of suspicious activity not knowing I was a buyer. Without proof at the County that I was in fact a buyer, it would have left really hanging out there legally.

In addition, without proof that you have one contract going on a property, Jetta could keep reselling the property and collecting funds from other buyers with no buyer aware of the other party. When I wrote a few emails to the company complaining their only response was that to cancel the contract I could pay $200 and that Land Central/Radius owns Jetta Financial. I demanded that they refund all money and told them I would not pay that $200 - to cancel the contract immediately. I also indicated that it is illegal to not record a Land Sales Contract with the County and that by not recording, it leaves a buyer very vulnerable to all kinds of problems. Land Central did indicate that Jetta holds the deed until the property is paid off.

Because the paperwork that came in the mail had no signature per contract on it, just some rather non-useful maps, a non-physically signatured Land Sale Contract and a data form sheet with unfortunately things like birth date, social security number and how to put the buyer's name on the deed (single, married etc), it is a suspicious contract. The only contract is an esigned contract. It was expected that a written and signed version would follow and back up the esignature copy but no such thing came in the mail. They do not have a legally binding contract; a legally binding contract is an agreement in which all parties have a meeting of minds contract with everyone's signature placed on it within a legal time period. No buyer or seller signatures occurred anywhere during this transaction. There is no place that a signature shows itself from the Seller.

In addition, the properties do not have title insurance or surveys which means the buyers are hanging out there in terms of being sure what they are buying is what was represented as the legal description. Lack of title insurance means there can be glitches in title even though the Sellers state that there is marketable title on the Land Sale Contract sent in the mail with the Data Profile Sheet.

A woman named Ashley with Radius out of Vancouver did respond to my emails in a timely manner and did offer helpful advice on how to find the property using GPS coordinates but the style of coordinates she offered did not exactly match any of the formats that Garmin uses.

They did send a card in the mail with signatures of everyone in the office and a drawing info that if people made extra payments during the month and provided a contact phone number, they could have their names entered in this December drawing. THis is mentioned because there are certain behaviors and approaches the company is using which come across as more normal or legitimate seeming. It could be a way to mask the other problems in their business behavior.

This information is shared in more detail to help other people have something compare notes with. Since Land Central has refused so far to refund especially the December payment, I have told them I would alert all Better Business Bureau, consumer protection agencies and would spread this bad news about their business behavior online. They have been sufficiently warned that was coming down. My objective is to report this bad business behavior to the Bend, Oregon area; the Vancouver, WA area and the Carson City, NV area where this questionable finance company they own exists. Is there any connection with the land sale frauds and lawsuits in Nevada and this finance company? Does anyone know?

With enough of this kind of information placed on the internet, numerous people can start comparing notes and it is possible that some kind of joint lawsuit may become possible so that all victims get their money back. If enough people can share notes, this means attorneys hired to investigate and sue these people will have more evidence and useful back information to make their case with.

What is probably happening is a lot of people are getting screwed but they don't complain or make comments on the internet or with the consumer protection agencies. They just walk away, money lost. These people probably count on that. It is suspected that we are dealing with an extremely devious finance company; it is probably worth fully investigating just exactly who owns that company.

Good luck to all of us. Let us hope we get our money back; it is likely most of us did not expect a whole lot for this type of process, but we expected at least basic human rights - the human right to have the sale recorded authentically in a public record with the County and the human right to have full year long use of a property with normal types of dwellings. We did not expect the properties to be beautiful, to have utilities or even utilities nearby - but we expected at least to be able to live on the property in a manner we saw fit in the more remote areas. Land Central is hiding being the "AS IS" clause too extensively; there is a point beyond which even "AS IS" is not acceptable and has hit the range of scams and extremely bad business practices. To deliberately entice a buyer to a property that is not authentically recorded or usable is a type of serious scam. If you cannot use the property year round in a normal manner without spending thousands of dollars, the property is not worth what Land Central has charged for it, no matter how cheap it by most standards.

Some people would not mind buying a temporary use only property, but it should be disclosed to the public that is what it is. People should be not lead into believing it is something they might live on normally if it is not. Going the extra mile with a few disclosures would really make all the difference between this company acting like scam artists and being more fairly oriented. This Jetta Financial is likely to be a real shark. People think they are dealing with some kind of real estate land developer and then only later discover they are dealing a Finance Company. Most people think they are dealing with real estate sales contract types of activities which do not include things like banks and finance companies, and if they knew a finance company was on the other end of these online sales transactions, most people would probably walk away. Doing business with a Finance Company is a lot more involved than dealing with just a real estate company, because most finance companies have extra ways to get into your private finance records online and elsewhere; they are more likely to be more privacy invasive, as well as more likely to act like sharks going after a bad debt. They may be more insidious in their approach to demanding payments and going after people who do not follow their cheesy esigned land sales contracts.

That's it!

i too have been taken due to non diligence, However I am look land looking for a partner that would like to invest so that we can get a larger piece ofland, no restriction's want to homestead it babin, solar chicks grow food etc .. Iam familiar with north Carolina, teneseeband the blue ridge mountains, heading out to California on aug. 21, to check out Utah Nevada Montana, I will be out west cali until sept 12 anyone with knowledge and the same goal call me Charlie [protected]..God bbless..and thanks for reading, if you know of a great bpiece and need some capital call me as well.

I have bought several properties from Land Central: one in each of NM, NV, CA, CO, AR, & 2 in AZ. A couple are 'meh;' but we love most & camp on all. Their interest is too high & seems like they could make the monthly payments smaller, but if you overpay every month you don't really pay that much of it, & there is no fee for paying it off early. The past couple of years we had some very serious health & financial issues strike us whilst paying on the CA property, one thing after another, & they worked with us - didn't foreclose when they could have.
I strongly recommend doing your homework before making a decision to buy. This entails utilizing all avenues available - inputting the coordinates to google satellite maps & zoom in to see what the specific parcel looks like (pay attention to the elevations - sometimes it's a steep mountainside that can be hiked/climbed but nothing else can be done with it), also call county extensions & inquire about zoning, etc. Many time the website pictures will say "from _near_ the property of interest... Landscapes can change dramatically in just a few yards.
Use common sense. Do your homework. We make our beds, then we lie in them. Don't blame the company you buy from if you did not do adequate investigation of parcels.
If Land Central has what I'm looking for, I will probably buy from them again.

I too was scammed by this company. I bought a building lot in Macon, Georgia in a development where the homes sell for over $2, 000, 000. I started making payments in April 2019, and discovered today that the land can't be used for building. I believe a class action law suit should be held against these thieves. I am stopping payments on the property and they can foreclose on it. STAY AWAY FROM LAND CENTRAL!

I’m so glad I read these reviews sounds to be there are plenty of people just looking to buy properties and or have and this company is shadowing documents and info.

Then you have a hand full of people on here talking about do your own research this company is ok they tell you to look thing up, yeah your part of the problem pushing this nonsense.

This all sounds like the government auction.com crew that will try and sell you a dream and it’s a brick in a wall that was torn down from an abandoned building condemned from sacrificial demonic dems.