This news story is breaking all over the place. It appears that one of the people starring on Flip This House on A&E was a fraud and so were the renovations he completed.
Atlanta-area real estate records show Leccima never owned several of the homes he’s been shown fixing up on television.
WAGA-TV in Atlanta, which first aired the claims
against Leccima, has shown footage from inside one of the homes, which
had mismatched wooden floors and unpainted patched walls that were out
of the view of TV cameras on Flip This House.McGee said she attended what was billed as a wrap party at one home. But when the party was shown on Flip This House," it was presented as an open house at which someone expresses interest in buying the property. Story
Whoops. I hate it when that happens. I’m sure it was an accident. I’m sure that no one meant to convince the world that you could make massive profits by just doing simple remodels. In the words of John Stossel, give me a break!
Here’s the youth ministry twist.
Dan Ward, an Atlanta-area youth minister, said he told state
investigators that Leccima took about $100,000 from him to invest in
real estate, but, as far as he knows, Leccima never developed anything
with it. He hasn’t received his money back. Story
A youth pastor with $100,000 invested in real estate? Sheesh… someone is doing really well! I tried to find a website for Dan’s church or references to him elsewhere. Still looking.
