Arizona homeowners accuse estate sale company of selling items and keeping money

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) – Taking a look at household images helps Jeanne Burton and her sisters bear in mind simply how a lot their dad and mom beloved one another.

“This was Disneyland in 2001,” Burton mentioned taking a look at one trip photograph. “They have been only a unit. They have been at all times collectively and at all times holding fingers. They simply beloved one another a lot.” However their mother and pop each handed away inside 82 days of one another and left their Valley dwelling to Jeanne and her sisters.

Over 47 years of proudly owning this dwelling, you may think about simply how a lot the couple had amassed inside. “We began working and shifting stuff. There have been all types of information, and I believe she saved each greeting card she ever obtained,” Burton mentioned. Overwhelmed, Burton and her household determined to rent an property sale firm to filter the home and promote all of their dad and mom’ private belongings. In accordance with this contract, the corporate would hold a 35% fee on all the things offered and the remainder would go to Jeanne and her household.

When requested the title of the corporate and who they spoke with, Burton mentioned, “It was Toni Geiger, and he or she owned a enterprise known as Loving Fingers Senior Transitions.” Jeanne’s household says this friendly-looking face offered all their mother and pop’s belongings and saved the cash, estimated by the household to be round $15,000. For months, they are saying Toni Geiger has been dodging them. “It was at all times behind our minds that we might go as far, and if we couldn’t we have been going to name Gary Harper.”

On Your Aspect found that Toni Geiger and her Loving Fingers will not be so loving. We discovered a number of different victims who say Toni Geiger held an property sale for them and so they by no means obtained the proceeds. And in the event that they did, it was little or no. “I don’t know the place the cash could possibly be,” Ron Middlebrook mentioned. He lives in Mexico now, and earlier than promoting his Valley dwelling, he employed Toni Geiger to promote all of his belongings.

Middlebrook says he was anticipating that he would get a minimum of $13,000 after Toni Geiger’s fee. As a substitute, Ron says she wired him $2,800 and by no means supplied paperwork of something that offered or didn’t promote. Ron mentioned, “I don’t assume I used to be defrauded, I used to be defrauded. After all of the playing cards have been performed, it was a rip-off.”

On Your Aspect went in search of Toni Geiger and got here throughout a home related together with her title. When somebody opened the door, it was found that it was a relative’s home who claimed he doesn’t communicate to Geiger. The following cease was to drive to Prescott Valley the place Toni Geiger’s title is related to one other dwelling.

A girl exterior the Prescott Valley dwelling mentioned “Good luck! She (Toni Geiger) owes me $1,200″ to the On Your Aspect staff. The girl mentioned Geiger used to hire a room from her and skipped out on $1,200 in hire. Seeing a sample in Toni Geiger reportedly owing individuals cash, On Your Aspect continued to pursue her till she finally despatched the staff an e mail that mentioned the next:

Burton and the opposite victims say they’ve by no means heard something from Geiger a couple of cost plan. Geiger stays “on the transfer” and is opening one other enterprise known as, sarcastically, On The Transfer. The enterprise reportedly focuses on shifting senior residents. Burton and her household mentioned they hope others on the market received’t get duped like they did. “How do you do this to a household that simply misplaced their dad and mom and are grieving?” Burton mentioned. “It’s a betrayal. We have been betrayed and stabbed within the again, actually.”

Every of the victims I spoke with have all filed police studies towards Geiger. If there’s a observe up, On Your Aspect could have one other report.

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