Indiana AG Petition For Emergency License Suspension Targets C. Indiana Real Estate Agent Named In Dozens Of Complaints Over Allegations Of Screwing Over Customers

In Indianapolis, Indiana, WXIN-TV Channel 59 reports:

• The real estate license of a Central Indiana realtor and business owner has been suspended, but the suspension could only be temporary. Now, one of his alleged victims spoke to Fox59 about her experience in hopes of warning others.
  
  “He told me to just come to his office and fill out an application, that it wouldn’t be a problem, that he could put me in a home,” said Bille Rackemann. However, Rackemann said all David Garden, owner of Garden Homes Realty and Star Homes, Inc., did was take her money.
  
  She said she paid first month’s rent for a home on Alabama Street, but when moving day came, he told her the house wasn’t ready. “I actually went by (and saw) the people and stuff still in there,” Rackemann said.
  
  She said he continued to make excuses about why the home wasn’t ready and why she couldn’t move in. Rackemann said she doesn’t think Garden ever intended to rent the home to her. When she asked for a refund on the rent, she said she was told they’d already cashed the check.
  
  “He likes to use bible terms and Christianity a lot to try to pull people in to make himself sound God-like, so people think he’s an honest man and they want to do business with him and he’s the complete opposite,” Rackemann said.
  
  That’s one of dozens of complaints about David Garden and his businesses.
  
  The Indiana Attorney General’s Office has been investigating Garden for about a year.
  
  Deputy Attorney General, Gabrielle Owens said their petition for emergency license suspension involved 30 counts with complaints, ranging from earnest money issues to allegations of him attempting to commit mortgage fraud.
  
  “We also had allegations regarding abuse of the bankruptcy system and having folks file for bankruptcy in order to abuse the automatic stay provisions of the bankruptcy process to forestall the foreclosure,” Owens said.

For more, see Victim speaks out after being scammed by Central Indiana realtor.