Honest Company or Scammers? You decide.

    I was perusing my normal list of blogs today and noticed something funny.  It seemed that there were a peculiar amount of new blogs started touting how someone just sold their home and were thanking such and such company for help.  These posts were all new and all written in a similar style.  I thought it was the start of a viral marketing campaign and was interested to see how far it had gone so I started digging.  The fact that it seemed like a viral marketing campaign for a Real Estate Investment firm made it more interesting.

    Being one who likes to do research I noticed that these blogs entries were for three different companies.  In Faith Properties, KACW Investments and WH Investments.  They thanked two different people, Helen Pearce and Joanne Pearce, sometimes referring to the same person from different companies.  To me it seemed there were two people with the same last name working for the same company that was doing business as three entities.  This peaked my interest even more.  

    Digging a little further I can see why Joanne Pearce, Helen Pearce, or shall we say Helen Joanne Pearce would start a viral marketing campaign.  Most of what I have read online has listed their horrible dealings with a woman.  I haven't read much that has had anything to do with Matthew Pearce other than he is a partner in the company.  The woman's full name is Helen Joanne Pearce and usually goes by the name Joanne Pearce.  Occasionally I have seen sites that quote emails from her where there was the name Helen Pearce listed.  No matter which way it is, they are the same woman.

    As for KACW Investments, the company has a few complaints with the BBB and also on ripoffreport.com.  From what I've been able to gather this company originated as Way Home Investments (not to be confused with The Way Home Investors).  It looks like the company then went on to become KACW Investments.  After the complaints started to surface on the Internet about KACW Investments the company changed their name to In Faith Properties.  Apparently the third entity, WH Investments is a the most recent enterprise.  The companies appeared to have originated in Texas and migrated to Florida.  There is a WH Investments that resides in Michigan and I am unsure if they are related to Helen Joanne Pearce or Matthew Pearce.

    Joanne Pearce has also done a good job of responding to the complaints on ripoffreport.com.  From reading the posts on ripoffreport.com it appears there were also posts on Craigslist regarding the companies.  Anyone who has used Craigslist knows they only keep posts for a certain period of time before they are expunged from the system.  As for the posts on both places, there were threats of legal action against the posters of the information.  Helen Joanne Pearce or one of her designees apparently scours the Internet looking for information posted about her company.  The postings and responses almost seem like a soap-opera of real estate transactions.  It's a good read if you have the time.  Links to the reports are listed at the end of this entry.

    With knowledge of the Internet, a viral campaign on blogs would be a good thing.  It could help dilute the search results for anyone trying to Google any of the names of people or companies involved.  It's also a good advertising campaign. all the blog posts are telling what a wonderful experience the people had with WH Investments/KACW Investments/In Faith Properties/Way Home Investments.  Should anyone be suspicious?  I'll let you decide that on your own by telling you what I've seen.

On July 19th, there was:

• Jennyiscool over at blog.com posted about working with Helen Joanne Pearce at KACW Investments and said how good her experience was.  Jennyiscool never posted prior to this one single blog post.
• Georgia77 at blogster.com also wrote about her experience with KACW Investments but she has posted again.  She had one other post linking to a poverty website.
• Ladysnicker who resides at livejournal.com also had a wonderful experience with Joanne Pearce from KACW Investments.  ladysnicker never made another post

July 20th Haroldl posted to soulcast.com that Helen Joanne Pearce from KACW Investments was terrific.

July 23rd had 2 postings:

• trudie at blogsome.com talks of her good experience with Joanne Pearce at In Faith Properties.
• DukeJames at wordpress.com talks of his good experiences with Joanne Pearce at WH Investments.  DukeJames also posted one other time about the big fish he caught.

July 26th shows a post from Josieh84 at vox.com who had a great experience with joanne Pearce at WH Investments.

July 27th was the last I found so far.  Jude at blogspot.com who writes of his positive exzperience with Joanne Pearce at WH Investments.

Link to Ripoffreport.com for KACW Investments (opens in new window)

Link to Ripoffreport.com for In Faith Properties (opens in new window)

Link to Ripoffreport.com for WH Investments (opens in new window)

Link to Ripoffreport.com for way Home Investments (opens in new window)

    I am sure that as Google crawls the various blog sites we will be seeing quite a few more posting of people who have had wonderful experiences with these companies.  I'll update posts as I see new things.  If you have anything to say, feel free to post a comment to this post or email me via the Contact page.

     All I can say is that if any of these accusations are true, it's what gives honest Real Estate Investors a bad name.  Remember to always research the company and individuals you intend to do business with.

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