Property Managers Ordered To Pay Up

Property Managers Ordered To Pay Up : ServeNow.com: "'For Clark, the judgment was $44,280.10 plus a filing fee, service of process and lawyers' fees.'

A vacation property management company that closed following allegations it defrauded its clients has been ordered to pay at least $75,000 to three of the homeowners it once did business with.

Minneola lawyer Edward P. Jordan II has won judgments in Circuit Court in Bartow for three former clients of Yvonne's Property Management Inc., which closed its office on Waverly Barn Road in August.

Jordan had filed breach of contract lawsuits on behalf of Ben Gilbert, Raymond Gillanders and John Clark, all British residents who own vacation homes in the Polk County portion of Four Corners and had hired Yvonne's to manage those homes for them.

The owners of Yvonne's, Walter and Yvonne Bernstein, did not show up in court for any of the three hearings and three separate judges found in favor of the homeowners, issuing final judgments by default.

The problem now is finding the Bernsteins to collect.

'We don't know where they are,' Jordan said. 'I don't know how much money my clients are willing to spend to find them.'