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FLORIDA FIVE STAR REALTY Fraud and Embezzlement of the company

Write here Florida Five Star and Linda Risden is Not Based in south florida any more an in fact she fled south florida some time in febuary of 2010 after it was learned by her husband and partner she had embezzled over $85, 000.00 from one of the couple clients of over 20 years, she fled to live oak florida where she “remarried” but she is “still married ” to her husband of 24 years.

it get worse, later the husband finds out the Wife Linda Risden had also opened about 6 credit cards in the same associations name and ran all the cards to the limit.

she then opened an ATM card attached to the same association checking account and took out another 8 to 9k and Bankrupt the home owners assoication so bad they could not hire a lawyer to get there money back.

the Home Owner did file a police report of the grasnd thief to the local sheriffs office and like most police agencys….it went No Ware…

Linda Risden is hold up in Live oak Florida and attempting to run Florida Five Satr Realty Inc in public records and public records also show her Daughter whom acted as the accountant on the very same association of the missing funds was convicted of Grand Thief from yet another home owners assication and was senteced to 10 years and to repay over $40, 000.00 as list the daughters name as Bridget Lynn Massey at 6900 NW 30 ave in Fort Lauderdale Florida as Police records and Mug Shots show.

so if you have or have had any business with Linda K. Risden or Florida Five Satr Realty or www.sofloridahomes.com you may want ot count all your fingers to make sure there no Missing and stay clear of her, the company and her daughter Bridget Lynn Massey.

records show that Bridget Lynn Massey is ..or was a license Accountant and a realtor with Florida Five Star Realty and attended law school…and thats funny ….I guess she can repersent her self in court..or attend her own parol hearing, never the less these two are dangerous and total thiefs…so stay clear and again the web site is www.sofloridahomes.com appearing to be a south florida company but located at the florida border some 400 miles north near jacksonville.

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FLORIDA FIVE STAR REALTY EMBEZZLEMNT

Linda K. Risden ( Broker ) of Florida five Star Realty has amitted to Embezzling over $37, 000.00 from a Condo Assocation in Deerfield Beach Florida, but the Audit now shows the amount Embessled by Ms. Risden is closer to $87, 000.00 and still climbing. Ms Risden is facing several Felonies charges including opening over 6 credit cards in the Assocations name with out the Boards knowing, and charged another
$8000.00 in items for her self and her daughters home, to make matters worse she purchase an new Car with Fraud W/2s, what was the reason when asked...Because her other Car was repossed.

She hired her Daughter a Ms.Bridget Massey to act as the accouant to hide the the spendutres and had the credit card statements sent to her P.O Box so the assocation would not Know the Card excessed, since this happen Ms Risden has fled to Nothern Florida where is belived to be hiding.

Please dont let this happen to your home owners assocation or condo assocation, keep tieght over-site on your property managers and always require more than party to sign each check, Also if your assocation Has experenced something like this...you can recover your lost funds thru the ( Florida Real Estate Commission ) Special Real Estate Fund, set up for just this type of purpose.

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Update by Richard4311
Oct 11, 2010 9:05 pm EDT

www.sofloridahomes.com complaint Linda Risden...love the statement made by the back woods Biker...your Pimp...he said...up here in Live Oak Florida..."We Brand Our Woman Like We Do Our Cattle " WOW...
know there a true hill-billy ...but you you work in Junk Yard...a tattoo
is most likely the best he can do...

Update by Richard4311
Oct 11, 2010 9:01 pm EDT

www.sofloridahomes.com complaint and Linda Risden complaint, your husband asked you to give him a divorce in october of 2009 due to your Embezzlement of one of the Husbands clients since 1988 and you agreed to reply the Embezzled Funds, , , but then you ran and abandoned your family and Defrauded the IRS also to get a car lone after yours was repoed...so you put your own college daaughter in possiable harms way by making her sign for a fraudlant Loan so you could exscape from south florida and your crimes.

shack up with the first guy that would hide you and house you ...a back woods biker and Now you live in a Shack in the middle of the woods...you know what they say...what goes around...comes around..and what about the wedding we hear about..?that you married the Biker...and you are still Married to your husband..?

the rumor is your total unstable and you are guilt ridden from your crimes and you have gone from a cathloic to a born again 7th day something or what ever...and your attempt to run the company that your husband built...and financed...you have run into the ground...

that the problem with criminals...they never think out there crimes very-well ...even you daughter is now seving time for her part of Embezzlement... and I have a copy of the criminal statements made against you for the embezzelement from the home owners association and all the credit crads you also ran up in the name with out there permission to use... and you removed another $ 7, 000.00 from there checking account on the way out of town... and its hard to denie the charges of your crimes after you already amitted as to your guilt in the thief...

how is that junk yard ...Biker ..Embread...due working out for you...and the rumor is ...is and his Buddies have a little Drug running ring from the Georgia line into northern florida

Update by Richard4311
Sep 22, 2010 7:07 pm EDT

www.sofloridahomes.com is a scam all the properties on the web site are other agents properties Linda Risden Fled South Florida From her Crimes and Live 350 miles away, she has no listings, no agents, no way to she the properties, she has lost her Board MLS system and rights, she is under investiogation by the Florida Real Estate Commission for her
Grand Thief of over $80, 000.00 from 80 plus home owners in south florida and is in hiding some where near lake city florida.

LINDA RISDEN IS SCAMER AND BROKE AND DESPERTE...DONT GO THERE. TO WWW.SOFLORIDAHOMES.COM go directly to the listing agent and ask the for 2% back towards your closing cost...OH Here is anothing about LINDA RISDEN ...she claims to donate money from aech closing to the human so. for cat and dogs...but she never has...she also abandoned 7 own her own cat and dogs to flea to north florida and 2 of the animals died...due to lack of care Nice...A.

but we will never get our money back...but was run out of South Florida and now lives in a shack in northern florida...thats go enough for me...LINDA RISDEN WWW.sofloridahomes.com dont come back.

look at the picture of her new tattoo wedding ring from her Junk Yard boy friend...I wonder what her Husband that she is still married to, wonder what he thinks, most likey the same " dont come back "

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Update by Richard4311
Sep 09, 2010 4:49 pm EDT

LINDA RISDEN your Husband is hardly upset your gone...the olny thing that upset him was...the people you defraud in his company and the Embezzlement mess you left for hime to clean up...why is it
you dispeared in march of 2010 ..never to return home...because you are hiding from your crimes...we all know that...and its so funny the your daughter from your first marriage ( BRIDGET MASSEY ) whom works with you...as a CPA was also convicted of 2nd Degree Felony of the very same thing Embezzlement from another hoe owners assication...and why would you shack up with some Biker in a Shack
and leave behind you r child, all your anaimals and a 500, 000 home

sounds like Guilt to Me...and when does a cathlic becomes a born again baptist and local towns Bar Fly...again..sounds like guilty to me...
even you kids dont want you to come home...

say hello to all the Bikers there at the HAMMER HEAD BAR in Live Oak Florida...and have they arrested you for you adultery charges yet...

it not important any why...just stay gone...

Update by Richard4311
Sep 08, 2010 3:03 pm EDT

LINDA RISDEN yes...she is under invesitgation by the Florida Real Estate Commission and the Florida Department of Bisness Reglation
and the Florida Attorney General...

It is A shame the Mess the husband has been left with...and how she abandoned her Children, Husband, and her 5 Dogs and 2 Cats...

And if you go to the couples web site at WWW.sofloridahomes.com she makes this Big Deal about how she love Animals and claim to give money to help them get adopted...but she does not...she is angery because the Husband has to deal with the angery Clients she Embezzled
and help there clients recover there money... as the wife lives with
a biker in hiding...while still married to the Husband...and a Daughter at Home with a broken Hart...We Know the real story here.

Update by Richard4311
Sep 08, 2010 2:52 pm EDT

LINDA RISDEN is making this statements about her husband because she her self is on the run...for Fraud and 2nd Degree grand thief in south florida and is know hiding in a trailer in northern florida with som low life biker... if you wolud like to the charges brought against Linda Risden you can go to Broward County Sheriff Deapartment
or the Florida Real Estate Commission...there is nothing wrong with
her Husband...other Than...deaqling with the Miss the His Wife left
Behind...som 90 up-set home owners and some $87, 000.00 of there fund that Linda Risden Embezzled... the Husband is glad she is gone.

The Felony chaarges that she claims where against the Husband were dropped when they found the crime in question was done by her biker boy friend when she tried to leave the Biker...now she trapped...and most-likely heading to jail see www.sofloridahomes.com

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Fort Lauderdale, US
Dec 09, 2013 6:27 pm EST
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Ms... Risden aka ms. Beaver ...tell the Why all the claims and your charges were Dropped...lies and perjury..as you attempt to use the your domestic abuse syndrome to control your Pissed Off Husband ..because of the damages to his clients... your Finish..Done..because of Greed and grand thief...like Mother Like your daughter as he serves her time under Broward County Corrections ...their holding a spot for You Too ..crime doesn't pay Linda and its not right to steal anyway...

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Fort Lauderdale, US
Dec 09, 2013 6:20 pm EST
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As to Linda K. Risden, statements as to her Affidavits claiming the husband in Crazy...Hold the BUS their Linda...you ment Crazy Like a Fox he is...what he Is..is Pissed Off that his Wife Ripped and Embezzled of 89 of his clients and Ms Risden admitted to it...she was Stupid Enough to keep the checks she wrote to he self in the office filing cabinet..Ms Risden then admitted to the Thief...she claimed she had planned to replace the money and the amount got to high..she claimed to her Husband she took $37, 000.00 and audit later showed $87, 000.00 with another $9, 000.00 in Credit card fraud on clients...topped off with IRS Fraud, Fraud Cars loan at Lipton Toyota and financed by Omni Finance to purchase the silver dodge nitro she is driving in Georgia to date if they haven't reposed that yet ...

The Husband doesn't have a mental problem...he is.. mad as hell... Because he has a Thieving, Cheating, Embezzling, IRS Fraud Check Kitting, and lets add Bigamist ...Wife Problem ...while he was recovering from extreme Cancer treatment...while the Husband is going threw Cancer care ...Ms Risden is clean out the clients and their bank accounts with the help of her daughter Bridget Lynn Massey ..Ms Risden Fled the state of Florida days after her Daughter Ms Massey was Arrested for Felony Grand Thief and she Quickly Plead Guilty and received a 10 year sentence ...ms Risden Now resides across the Georgia Florida State Line..were the Food Stamps and Welfare flow easy... Ms Risden has attempted to have Mr Risden arrested some 7 times because he demands she repay the clients as she agreed before she fled Florida.

Mr. Risden is the Founder of the Risden Team inc and Florida Five Star Realty and the Money and brains behind the company from day one, the company was Not set to Rip of His clients Ms. Risden..Ms Risden has stated ..She Will Never come back to Florida...Why there Ms Risden...and since you Bigamist Married to Craig Marvin Beaver why do you need to continue to use your Husbands last name...get on with life as Mrs Craig Beaver and live in your Trailer in the woods. when I meet Linda Risden she was fleeing from a bad marriage from new Jersey..she was broke..that should of tip me off... as to what he was getting into...

I hope the comes ms. Risden aka Ms. Beaver see the inside of a court room..and her ugly story is told

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Risden
Live Oak, US
May 16, 2012 3:30 am EDT

Finally a conclusion to the lies and outrageous claims as stated above, all written by Martin Todd Risden. Both Suwannee and Palm Beach County Courts have deemed Mr. Risden mentally incompetent to stand trial for the felony and misdemeanors for aggravated stalking (Suwannee) and 2 DUI’s (Palm Beach). Facts show the truth, as Clerk of the Court in PB County reflects same and Karen Hatton, DA for Suwannee County has the file stating Mr. Risden's mental illness. There are no charges against Linda Risden and Florida Five Star Realty from the Division of Realtors nor any other police and government authority. Todd Risden's mental illness has created illusions in his mind and he is mad about Linda Risden filing for divorce as Plaintiff due to his extra marital affairs and ads on the internet for sex ( so sad). Fortunately the Courts agree with his defaming of my character and will issuing further charges against Mr. Risden, with mandate of institutional confinement for his rehabilitation. Linda Risden still operates a licensed, legal and successful brokerage and Prayers are now answered that this man will get the help he needs.

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Risden
Live Oak, US
Oct 22, 2010 6:27 pm EDT

Todd Risden stop hiding behind "Richard 4311". Your lies are now quite evident since public record reflects the truth, your evasion of the felony arrest warrant where 3 Counties were looking for you, Palm Beach, Broward and Suwanne, until you turned yourself in Oct 5th and then bonded out. All statements you write are false and misleading, but then again you have nothing better to do with your time. The Brokerage Company you previously worked for figured you out real quick and fired you. Obvisouly that is why you are looking for me to pay you alimony, what is wrong with that? Are you not an able man to stand on your own two feet and get a job? Public record also shows I am the one who filed for divorce due to your many extramarital affairs and solicitation for sex on the internet. Why don't you start acting like a sane mature adult and move on with your life. Stop being so bitter about what has happened to you, as you controled and still control what happens in your life. Your scandulous decisions created the results at hand. A suggestion is to put the amout of time and energy that use to hurt and damage people into something more positive rather then these ridiculous claims and immature demeanor.

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pjkeba
Coral Springs, US
Oct 21, 2010 7:35 am EDT

united realty in coralsprings fl and so on office all over fl is the wrost then a man who took a little girl and did what he want to do to her they lie take your money they edit your paper work then make it look as if you have to pay all this money for them to do work they never do never go to them for them to help you find any homes go to allfree realty they the best

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Risden
Live Oak, US
Sep 07, 2010 12:06 pm EDT

Martin "Todd" Risden has used this forum as harrasement and vengence due to my divorce filing and his felony arrest for malicious damage over $5000 and domestic violence. All statements are false! I found out that he creates alias names to respond to his own complaints. Mr. Risden has been flagged by the police as having serious mental problems. He is also being investigated for practicing law without a license after attempting to help homeowners that were in foreclosure that eventually lostb their home becasue he did not know what he was doing. His family and I pray that the mental help he so deperately needs will come to him soon.

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Deerfield Beach, US
Jun 29, 2010 9:17 am EDT

FLORIDA FIVE STAR REALTY LINDA RISDEN yes I am aware of the case and her embezzlement, we live in the assocation next door and when we heard about her shady dealings we released her from our assocation quickly.

she also refused to return our records, most likely so we could not do our own audit as to our funds and her dealing with our assocation, but it funny now that she is no longer our property manager we have excess funds every month, before the assocation was alway in the hole.

good riddens Linda Risden

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