Buyer beware.......

On 2009-01-12 13:24:56, Menaker, Mitch said:

Buyer beware.......
i personally saw him hiding things..he even asked me not to tell his partner the stores were opening. he said she was supporting him and he was careful what he told her.

Both these stores are now closed because the owner could not pay the rent. He has moved out of Winter Park and continues to run from sub-contractors that he stole money from.

On 2009-02-22 17:46:05, anonymous said:

Both these stores are now closed because the owner could not pay the rent. He has moved out of Winter Park and continues to run from sub-contractors that he stole money from.
Apparently he will be able to run for awhile....I saw with my own eyes that he has 2 million in an account. He left his personal account of 2 million untouched while I watched him beg his partner patty for money every month for him to live on..His partner Patty was a sweet and trusting woman I feel horrible what he did to her. Im curious if she knew about his HUGE psycologist bill from a man on turkey lake road that specialises in multiple personalities..this doc will be suing him as well!

He also mentioned living and starting over in UTAH and or Montana I was curious why he would want to live there..hes a professional con man..im sure with his 2 million he could start over there and live well and fool some small town people..he probably already has a plan

the orlando sentinel was recently notified and given his name so they should be checking out his story as we speak...

On 2009-02-23 11:31:16, not a fan said:

He also mentioned living and starting over in UTAH and or Montana I was curious why he would want to live there..hes a professional con man..im sure with his 2 million he could start over there and live well and fool some small town people..he probably already has a plan


Not if the IRS has anything to say about it

From the March 6, 2009 edition of the Orlando Business Journal:

"Local custom homebuilder faces frenzy of foreclosures"

A Central Florida custom homebuilder has found himself the target of six foreclosure suits totaling more than $15.3 million.

All of the lawsuits filed against Mitchell Menaker, president of Menaker Investment I Inc. in Orlando and co-owner of Giles Menaker LLC in Winter Garden, are due to loan defaults on property, according to court records.

Menaker declined to comment on the suits, but said via e-mail that his companies have “fallen victim to the same economic downturn that has affected so many of us.”

The suits include:

• A $4.19 million foreclosure filed by Birmingham, Ala.-based Regions Bank on a 7,907-square-foot home at 5109 Latrobe Drive in Windermere, valued at $1.27 million, according to the Orange County Property Appraiser.

• A uncompleted $3.27 million, 8,682-square-foot home off 9046 Mayfair Pointe Drive in Orlando being foreclosed by Regions Bank, valued at $2.12 million.

• A $3.2 million foreclosure filed by Orlando-based First Commercial Bank of Florida on a 2-year-old, 6,515-square-foot home at 6174 Louise Cove Drive in Windermere, valued at $2.17 million.

• A $2.58 million foreclosure on an 8,128-square-foot property filed by Atlanta-based SunTrust Bank located at 11118 Coniston Way in Windermere, valued at $1.95 million.

• Regions Bank’s $1.63 million foreclosure filing of a 5,428-square-foot uncompleted home in Lake Nona with an estimated new cost of $1.03 million.

• A $558,834 foreclosure filed by Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bank on an undeveloped lot off of 9264 Sloan St. in Orlando valued at $630,000.

Winderweedle, Haines, Ward & Woodman PA partner Jeffrey Deery, who represents Regions Bank; Roetzel & Andress partner W. Glenn Jensen, who represents Fifth Third Bank; and Akerman Senterfitt shareholder Ed Foster, who represents SunTrust Bank, declined to comment on the cases.

Five of the six cases are still pending judgment. The SunTrust case is awaiting a foreclosure sale date to be issued by the Orange County Clerk of Courts.



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Complete Dirty bag..Meet him about 3 years ago as he "pitch" me on a project,,(lux homes) needed my money as a PARTNER,,my wife, who was at the meeting told me after,,NO way,,she was right, we passed on the deal,,wife was spot on on Mitch being a Bad Dude