FYI, Land Mark Estates, LME, Meechelle Peralt

To file a complaint against/about any business, or person committing fraudulant activities (i.e., scamming, investment fruad, securities fraud, corruption, etc.) contact your state`s Attorney General. They are equipped to handle any and all prosecution of such activies. Your local county prosecutor should also be notified about the fruad. Your local/state Better Business Bureau/Chamber of Commerce/Local Yellow Pages, or any other group/association that could also benefit from knowing the Business/Person`s names and/or alias`s should also be notified. Also, your local newspaper and/or television station might be interested in running an article in order to protect prospective customers from being scammed. If enough people have a complaint, then I would suggest a Class Action lawsuit be brought against such people/businesses. Also a personal property lien could be placed with your local government against the person/business for any equitible items they have (i.e., business assests, home, cars, etc.) However, if the person/business is a Limited Liability Corporation, then their personal assests cannot be touched. Investigate this carefully. Do your homework, act as your own investigator! I am not a lawyer, but a fellow Wedding consultant, and I know how to protect my customers.

Posted 09/24/04 by Deborah J. Holme

I must say that I had the pleasure, GAG, of meeting these lovely folks a few years ago at a Bridal Expo at the L.A. Convention center. At the time, I was a still “we behind the ears” wedding planner who was looking for any assistance that I could to get a glimpse of what it was like to do weddings on a grander scale.

Mechelle directed me to a gal in Vegas because I had a bride who wanted to be married closer to her family in Henderson, NV. I was given the complete run-around, not to mention the sales pitch that I had to join their intern plan in order to have access to their properties.

Just a simple call to the BBB of So. CA, along with having a savvy business mind, taught me a lesson that I will never forget to this day. Always check with the BBB to see if the person that you are about to hire has complaints filed against them. Being a member myself, this is the best tool around, ladies and gents. Not only did they not own the property nor have exclusive rights to the property, as I’d been directed to believe, but I could, and did, rent the property from the management company that was truly in charge of the property.

I, too, could have been swindled into the clutches of Mechelle Ferrell, but my intuition kept me from being taken advantage of by thieves. Karma, the best 5-letter word on the planet, works in mysterious ways, and the Ed McMahon of Karma is about to come knocking on their doors with a check that they don’t want.

All that I can say is that there are good, honest wedding planners out there, and if you do your homework, you’ll get one that works well with you. As I always say to a potential client, make sure that the personal chemistry is there. You’ll spend a good year of your life with the person and if you just don’t hit it off, well then, they aren’t the planner for you.

In closing, I’d like to thank Mechelle and Jaime for making it just that much easier for myself, and other legitimate planners, to reap the rewards of your unscrupulous actions!