Belgarve Atlanta / Belgrave group

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Belgrave Group / Belgrave Atlanta

This is an account of my Detroit house purchase using the Belgrave Group Basepoint Business centre, Premier Way, Romsey SO51 9AQ
Although Belgrave group still exists the company now focuses on properties in Atlanta 'Belgrave Atlanta' company number 08218378 m,
same trading address as Belgrave group.

I purchased a property in Detroit from the Belgrave group.
The contract stated that the house would be refurbished within six weeks
sufficient to obtain a certificate of occupancy from the local city council.
The refurbishment took much longer than six weeks, it took six months and was allegedly completed on 31/3/2010. However, the refurbishment was not completed.
I have two independent witness statements verifying that conclusion. I also have extensive photographic proof of none completion. Members of the Belgrave group visited the property on a date prior to alleged completion. They did not enter the property as they were unable to obtain entry. They looked through the windows and could see work in progress. They did not visit the property when it was allegedly completed. They relied upon B&L Properties (Steve Louis) to do the work and provide proof of completion. The alleged proof was photographs of a completed refurbishment. However, the
photographs were not of my house, that again has been verified by independent witnesses. The Belgrave group allege that they took Steve Louis to court for misappropriation of funds I understand the amount was $200,000. The fact is that the Belgrave group relied upon Steve Louis to do the work and provide proof that it was done.
They were negligent as they did not inspect the property themselves. I was told that the property was tenanted on 15th April 2010 by Steve Louis. In fact I have conclusive proof that the property was never tenanted and that is in addition to dozens of photographs showing that it was uninhabitable. I can provide copies of these photographs on request. It seems that the Belgrave group may have been victims of Steve Louis B&L Properties. However, if indeed the Belgrave group took Steve Louis to court for misappropriation of funds then they will have eveidence to prove it. The evidence would consist of the following:
date of court case, Case number, court where hearing held, the verdict.
This information should be in the public domain and can be verified once
the details have been provided.

If it transpires that there was a court case as claimed it does not affect my contract with the Belgrave group, they will have been negligent for using him and not being vigilant.

As a consequence of this I ended up with a property that still needed a
complete refurbishment. I have lost a lot of money on this property. It had to be boarded up and refurbished again. The cost of the refurbishment was $16,945, I suffered a loss of income as the property was not available to rent and taxes still had to be paid. Belgrave Group were supposed to pay the first year taxes but they failed to do so, I had to pay $2537.76 to prevent the property from being forfeited by the city council. There was also a water bill outstanding for the period prior to my ownership.
I had a meeting with the Belgrave group and their Solicitor Mathew Robbins of Viva Law Southampton on 31st July 2012. It was agreed that they would check the diaries of the Belgrave group and get back to me two weeks later. It is now more than seven weeks since the meeting and I have not had a response only excuses.
Since then a repayment plan was agreed but only one payment was made. It seems that they have no intention of making any further payments.

I am not the only victim of this company, in fact some clients have suffered worse consequences than myself.