This is not exactly important real estate news but I couldn’t resist writing a small snip about this story.
It seems that the popular A&E reality program, “Flip This House” has run a number of episodes that amount to nothing more than a sham. Featuring self-proclaimed “real estate developer” Sam Leccima, the episodes represent his renovation projects as having been sold for huge profits. As it turns out, most of them haven’t actually sold and at least one of them wasn’t actually renovated.
To make matters worse, it’s clear that Sam Leccima is the target of a number of civil suits from prospective investors who trusted him to invest their money wisely. One gentleman claims to have lost $100,000 to the smooth-talking television celebrity.
A&E claims to have no knowledge of the sham and they have pulled all episodes which feature Leccima from their re-run schedule.
Thanks to Doug Quance for the heads up on this bit. Doug is an Atlanta based agent who has been on top of this home town story since October of last year when he noticed some of Sam’s sold properties were still listed for sale.
I’m always happy to answer your Saskatoon real estate questions.
Norm Fisher
Royal LePage Vidorra
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