Anyone else bought land from countrywide land holdings

Dirty_Dave

How do these people work? Buying land is a risk any way, what do they promise to get you hooked?

bitsandpieces

You're not the only one - these schemes have been running for ages, because they do get people to put money in As far as what to do now:

1- Do not give them any more money. You do not want to lose any more so do not give them any more money.
2- Get advice on whether you can get anything back out of the company. CAB are free. Don't especially like your chances, but I'm not expert and don't know your situation.

yorksrabbit

Screwed: are you sure it wasn't £4.8 million you 'invested' in 2006 prior to falling for the advance fee fraud? Your grasp of reality seems fitful, hence the wariness of MSErs to post here.

If you're genuine, however, then. . .

Words fail.

screwed

for all the people who think im gullable and stupid cos ive been scammed twice its only since coming on here i'd heard anything bad about countrywide landholdings as far as I was concerned it was the real deal, I had alot of details sent to me, plot outlines, solicitors documents and TP1 forms who was I to think any different it was an investment yes to make a lot of money in the future thats how people make money with investing and sometimes it pays off and people make a lot of money I wantedto be one of those whats wrong with that. As for first direct they were selling my house like so many of these companies you see advertised its only now as well as many others we were duped and ripped offall we were trying to do was sell our homes to move on as the market is slow. So for anyone who cant offer nay decent advice apart from the !!!! some of you are coming out with then just dont voice an opinion. I no im in dire straits now and probably lost my money with countrywide but I just wanted to know if there was a solution

yorksrabbit

screwed wrote: »

for all the people who think im gullable
>for anyone who cant offer nay decent advice apart from the !!!! some of you are coming out with then just dont voice an opinion. I no im in dire straits now and probably lost my money with countrywide but I just wanted to know if there was a solution

Apologies, screwed, your post crossed with mine. Accepting your reassurance that you are genuine and in a fairly epic state of distress then you need, now, to consult a solicitor.

(Oh: and make sure it is a solicitor -- you referred on an MSE sister thread to a conveyancing outfit called Cairn Associates as 'solicitors': that's certainly news to The Law Society. . .)

There is no advice that can be offered here re the £48,000 'investment'. Nor can anyone here pore over the documents you received relative to your "investments".

The company you dealt with is still trading and for its part will likely adopt the stance that it merely fulfilled your wish to indulge in a speculative investment: your money, your decision.

It may also say it has absolutely no idea why you're getting so agitated now because where is the specific evidence to demonstrate that your specific investment(s) is / are worthless at this time?

I'm very, very sorry you're experiencing distress and wish you the best of luck in determining if you were in any way misled and mis-sold.

GDB2222

Sadly, people do put silly amounts of money into these things. As yorksrabbit says, they take a perfectly good field and turn it into little plots that are no use for anything.

What happens to these fields? Does somebody just turn some animals loose in it and hope for the best?

screwed

well i am genuine and didnt know till i;ve just been told that cains are not solicitors, so does that mean they are fake i went on there web site and even spoke to them, so i suppose seeking legal advice will be no use as rightly said they are still trading and I have no grounds to say ive been scammed untill they probably go bump at some point to which I probably will be shafted especially as I paid for this via a cheque.

yorksrabbit

No, you do need legal advice. Now. Your title(s) is / are not affected by the condition of another party. Whether Countrywide Land Holdings goes bump tomorrow or in ten years' time is irrelevant. You need to know if you were mis-sold and if grounds exist to support that contention, so as to take action now to restore yourself to the financial state you were in prior to your dealings with that company. Sitting around waiting for 'em to vanish over some presumably pre-sold horizon makes no sense.

Re Cain Associates of Bexleyheath.

This outfit's website is bedecked with the self-description: Property Lawyers.

You could easily take the word "lawyers" to mean "solicitors" in view of their inter-changeability, and I guess that's exactly what this bunch have in mind.

Interesting, then, to see the following elsewhere in their website:

"Introduced in 1987 by an Act of Parliament Licensed Conveyancers were brought into being to end the solicitors monopoly on conveyancing and to provide the general public with an alternative in the market place."

In other words: Cain Associates are so far from being solicitors, they're proud to be a part of the move to break the solicitors' "monopoly".

They're Licensed Conveyancers who just happen to call themselves "lawyers". Of which fact, The Law Society is already aware.

screwed

thanks for all the great advice, I shall get on to this straight away. I hope anyone who is as gullable as me reads these threads like I should have done prior to investing or shud I say giving my money away so they dont make the same mistakes

1echidna

screwed wrote: »

thanks for all the great advice, I shall get on to this straight away. I hope anyone who is as gullable as me reads these threads like I should have done prior to investing or shud I say giving my money away so they dont make the same mistakes

Indeed a simple google search will probably identify at least 90% of scams. As for the rest it is wise to ignore anyone who approaches you out of the blue. If you want to invest do your own research (or use an accredited IFA) and approach the people you want to invest with rather than vice versa, much safer.