Steven A Berkowitz

Steven A Berkowitz Don't lend money to this man you won't get repaid Cape Coral, Florida

18th of Nov, 2010 by User264486

I saw a request on Facebook for a loan to help Steven Berkowitz save his martial arts school - I lent him $7000 as the business seemed legit and he seemed to have a reasonable history as a martial artist. The terms of the deal were that I could visit his school and then decide if I wanted a percentage of the school or to make the loan a personal one to him. I visited his school (and even taught a free seminar there) and decided that I wanted the loan option. We agreed repayment terms and he has defaulted (first payment should have been in August 2010) - he is not answering any emails from me...

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4893 days ago by Steven

Robert has never emailed me since. fact- he came to Cape Coral, to buy a house in the US, wanted to talk about buying into partnership. Visited the school for a lengthy period, hung out a couple days, gave me the $ for buyin as partner. Then he went to buy a house, never saw him again, but finally got a call from him that he'd bought a house. two weeks later, his deal for the house bombed out and he wanted the $ back as "loaned" instead.

Shortly after, the 42 commercial unit complex the school was in was repossessed by PNC Bank, and we are still chasing PNC for our $9deposit when we took the space.

We moved to a smaller(much smaller) place in Sept. '10. That place got repo'd for taxes, had to move. Moved to a gymnastics school. Due to the stress, my health began failing, and one of my BBs took over in Dec.'10. In March 11 he moved to Tampa, Fl.

Sorry, Robert. If I had it, you'd have it.