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Sunday, December 4, 2016

San Antonio (USA) - The American dream...?

San Antonio (U.S.A) 
04 December – 10 December 2016

I should have known better.

I should have known better than to have gotten involved with a bunch of shysters like Brian Payton &Ying Payton.

I should have known better to have bought into the garbage ideas and promises of 10%, 15% or 20% returns that ATW Investments (American dream renovations and construction) propounded.

I knew the trouble I was in when ATW Investments transferred their clients to Trinidad LLC.
I wish one day to get my hands around the neck of Brian Payton, that would be an interaction that I’d very much enjoy having.

If anyone has encountered these shysters all you need to do is look at the number of threads to realise that these ball lickers are worthless pieces of crap – worthless pieces of crap on the best day they have ever had. That’s means they're shit, literally shit.

Unfortunately I found myself taking a risk in the same way that you run the risk in a casino, with the idea that losing in a casino is much, much more likely than a real estate investment.


Flying over Montreal - Canada


The Lone Star State - Texas - USA

How Texas does this look!?!

My properties, like all the other ATW investors that had been promised ‘Property Management Services’ on their investments, took an almighty dive into oblivion from 40,000 feet. The buyers of my property didn’t make a single payment,  property taxes on the property had not been paid, the properties were utilised for whom knows what reason – it looked in the end that squatters had utilised it for their own bong block parties. I mean these properties had been brutalised. The legal trail of ownership was so convoluted that the chain of owners, for some time, did not easily find its way to me and I spent countless months nervously thinking about a financial debacle, that really, I should not of entered in the first place aside from my mental desire for the want of ‘things to be ok’. 

My failure, which I have to call out, is that I didn’t undertake an due diligence and I was stung fiercely. I still now have strong desires to take these two down legally, but I’ll save that for another day.


Now, lets get back to San Antonio for a moment. 

A major city in the south-central Texas has a rich colonial heritage. The Alamo, an 18th-century Spanish mission preserved as a museum these days, marks an infamous 1836 battle for Texan independence from Mexico. I didn’t have time to see that.



9779 Hidden Falls - Helotes Creek - San Antonio - Texas - USA

9779 Hidden Falls - Helotes Creek - San Antonio - Texas - USA

Yup, I owned THIS place for a few months....promises for renovation work NOT COMPLETED, promises to market my property, NOT DONE, promises to Manage my property, as in, for ATW to provide a service for their clients... NOTHING

All you did Brian Payton was rip me off! 

9779 Hidden Falls - Helotes Creek - San Antonio - Texas - USA

I was an San Antonio for a 5 day boot camp for ATW Investments to show me buildings that had been repossessed, I assume after foreclosure, which ATW had acquired. When I say acquired, I believe invested in an option to acquire, which in turn they would sell to investors such as myself who would buy the property in cash and then, with the assistance of ATW Investments, locate buyers who would purchase the property with a capital gain and would a mortgage to me, the owner, at a rate higher than which the banks would loan out funds…because these cats…these cool tenants, who weren’t tenants but rather owners of the property, but in debt to me, would effectually be paying me a rental. And the property managers, ATW investments, would look after the property on my behalf…which of course immediately shows a logical break. What is there position in a property that is owned not by me but by someone else?


9107 Cold Harbor Drive - Adams Hills - San Antonio - Texas - USA

So 'apparently' this was sold, to me - which meant that when it was sold to me mortgage payment should have been made. This never happened, was never managed and the property, in the end, was completely trashed.

Brian Payton you are a fraud!

9107 Cold Harbor Drive - Adams Hills - San Antonio - Texas - USA

9107 Cold Harbor Drive - Adams Hills - San Antonio - Texas - USA

9107 Cold Harbor Drive - Adams Hills - San Antonio - Texas - USA


I f**ked up!  I f**ked up out of a desire to generate cash-flow for my family and in my want to believe that being caught out in a scheme such as this happens to other people mostly through bad luck or bad management.  I denied myself my own intellect and need to investigate, and I denied myself the necessity of doing the work to realise the flaws in an opportunity that was nothing more than a blatant fraud, because, aside from my own negligence the real author of destruction were those that perpetrated the fraud. Not just on me but to so many.

…And this link to the heart of the issue which shows the problem in Texas – 

the foreclosure problem, as they call it, has grown to include issues of not properly assigning mortgage notes…and not being able to trace the line of ownership as the note is packaged and resold through a secondary market – and the allegedly phony documents created to reconstruct the line of ownership where its broken.


Personally I believe there’s a ticking time bomb here, so watch this space. 


The flag of the Republic of Texas - San Antonio - Texas - USA

Here's a small nod to Pearl Jam and their great album, Yield - San Antonio - Texas - USA

The River Walk - San Antonio River - San Antonio - Texas - USA

The River Walk - San Antonio River - San Antonio - Texas - USA

Hard Rock Cafe San Antonio - Texas - USA


Anyway, onto some lighter stuff now.


I was driven around San Antonio and Corpus Christi. I bought into San Antonio, twice. What I lost on that investment would have allowed me to have purchased 2 Mustang Eco-boosts, the car that I currently drive. So yeah, I could have had three in the garage.
What did I like about San Antonio?


The River Walk - San Antonio River - San Antonio - Texas - USA

The River Walk - San Antonio River - San Antonio - Texas - USA

The River Walk - San Antonio River - San Antonio - Texas - USA

Texas BBQ is legit. What they do they do so well.

The San Antonio River Walk is truly a gem, it’s marvellous. This outstanding tourist attraction is both a city park and a network of walkways along the banks of the San Antonio river, residing one story beneath the streets of San Antonio. Lined with bars, cafes, shopping outlets, restaurants and public artworks, this is a real draw card and quite an attractive feature in a large city that to me, has no real soul and feels kind of empty.


The River Walk - San Antonio River - San Antonio - Texas - USA

The River Walk - San Antonio River - San Antonio - Texas - USA

The River Walk - San Antonio River - San Antonio - Texas - USA

The River Walk - San Antonio River - San Antonio - Texas - USA

The River Walk - San Antonio River - San Antonio - Texas - USA



Flying over Detroit - Michigan - USA

Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport - Detroit - Michigan - USA

...and back home - Belgrade - Serbia

The River walk winds and loops under two bridges, had a number of tourist boats cruising up and down it,  and at night comes alive with its attractive lighting. Without question, THE highlight of San Antonio and would be the only reason I’d ever utilise to make a return the city, and I’m not calling it out as a bad city, it’s just not inspiring, it has no spirit…and it’s the home of a couple of shysters who still need to be brought down a peg or two.