Tenant Going to Extremes on GoFundMe

[Jay Levy]

This is one for the books...  

We have a small business as a retail tenant who has been impacted by Covid like many business.  We have been working with them by providing 50% rent deferrals, asking them to come up with creative suggestions that we could get comfortable with.  We have been more then fair in trying to work with them and also explaining the process if we dont come to a mutual agreeable plan.  

Well today they tell me they have good news, the launched a GoFundMe Page and have raised a bit of money, so I ask them for the link to the page and there is dead silence... well I find the GoFundMe Page.

It turns out they have been recording our phone calls without the decency of notifying us, they decided to splice together some of our comments into a video blasted the landlord for their financial troubles.  The obviously didn't mention the 50% rent deferral, the request to be creative in it or the patience we have had to them.  We'll needless to say now what was a small problem for them will become a big problem as the lawyers are now involved.  

It appears this is also not in line with GoFundMe's rules, so we have reported it to them, if it is found in violation of the rules they will lose the money and it will be returned to the donors.

The irony here is I commend them for launching a GoFundMe page and we probably would have even donated to help them if they had chosen a truthful story.

Some people just dont use their heads.