This company underpays their employees and contractors. They treat their emplpyees with no respect and they overwork all of their staff for little or no money. Five Brothers is a racist company. If you are not white you ain't right is their motto. The Directors and mangement lack leadership skills and direction. Five Brothers screws over there contractors by taking fees out their checks for frivilous charges and also makes them complete orders for free with very little proof. They have directors and managers that can only look at specific accounts or determine if no charge orders are valid so that they can put the no charge off on other contractors. Horrible company to work. Do not work here!! They are a horrible company that rips contractors off!
We were contacted by Kelley DiFiore from Five Brothers to complete some Mortgage Field Inspections in our area in Hartford, CT. (Apparently another inspector dropped the ball)...
Are driving all over our local area, we completed over 75 inspections in a day and a half. To date, we have not been paid. (over 3 months)
To add insult to injury, they "backcharged" us $4,000 because we "failed" to see a basement was leaking in a home. (NOTE: We are specifically told NOT to make contact because it was a bankruptcy case)...How were we supposed to know a basement is leaking in an occupied home where we were NOT supposed to make contact ! ! ! !?!?!?
Stay away the from Five Brothers and Kelley DiFiore ! ! !
5 Brothers is eager to hire and gets incomplete orders out fast. Key word is incomplete or completely erroneous orders that when acted on can get you into a lawsuit. When you try to clarify you then get a totally new person not familar with the order that has not idea what has been done or what the order is.
There are so many conflicting areas it is impossible to tell what the order is really for. If you don't do something you are charged back for it, if you do it and it wasn't requested you don't get paid. No one knows or cares to snswer a direct question.
An order to inspect a home was recieved, it was inspected and work noted that needed done. Unsure of doing more submitted a request to bid dditional work. A bid was then requested by 5 brothers.to complete even more than requested. Unknown to me at the time the house was being redeemed.. Oh,oh, Squatters then moved into the house thru broken and poorly done early securment. Bank then gave lockbox code to old owners. The crew I requested a bid only from, went in and started cleanup. They did not get authorized but now a lawsuit has been filed.. 1st Clear guidelines could have prevented everything, 2nd communication would have helped.
No one at 5 Brothers wants to talk to a contractor!!! Not now not ever. I ordered police reports and took photos before and after and have documentation that nothing of value was ever removed. Still no one wants to talk to me.
So bottom line is cover your butt with documentation!!! Everyway possible, because they do not care. And yes I would welcome anyone elses feedback.
I have been had by U.S. Bank and thier Five Brothers Home Preservation Services. I made an offer on a short sale home in June of 2012. U.S. Bank was the existing loan underwriter. U.S. Bank is in colusion with a company Called Five Brothers Home Preservation (heareafter refered to as Five Brothers) to act as an agent in assisting with preservtion of empty assets, i.e. homes.
When I first saw the property I immediately called the realtor, Glen Realty in Yucca Valley, CA and made an offer. one outstanding feature which gave the house a custom, finished, look were the matching door hardware on all 6 entrance/exits to the house. When I later, in late July visited the house, I was told by the realtor and then confirmed that all the expensive matching door hardware had been removed and replaced by very cheap, poorly installed, bargin bin door knobs.
The local R/E agent representing the sale for the bank, Ann McErlane, gave me a number to call U.S. bank, which I have done repeatedly. U.S. Bank states that Five Brothers is responsible for the missing hardware. Five Brothers states that U.S. Bank is responsible for the loss and that they were just "obeying a work order".
Now after 4 months of finger pointing, they win!! They have exhausted me. My attrempt was simply to make a claim for $500.00 to help with the replacement. A mear "drop in the bucket for a company like U.S. Bank, or Five Brothers. They continue in deadlock pointing at each other and excluding me from the loop. Their story's sre in lock-step and I get the feeling that this is not the first time this tactic has been used.
I filed a claim with the BBB in Michigan; But Five Brothers is not even a part of the BBB, and in their arrogance could care less! I have been visited once here by the house's previous owner. He informed me that Five Brothers also stole form him a complete professional mechanic's tool chest loaded with tools (he was the owner of a auto repair company and knew what was in the box). Five Brothers stole this at the same time they performed the work order for U.S. Bank.
I now know that my complaint is trivial compared to others I have read against Five Brothers. They apparently act as an autonomous entity who feels at liberty to pillage the houses they "service". They leave there victims completely helpless because of the inter reliance on U.S. Bank, they are, quite simply, untouchable! I am lucky that I've only lost $500.00 + dollars; I have read of others loosing much, much more!!
U.S. Bank is just as corrupt in this scheme. These companies spare no expense to protect this colusion. I have multiple letters for some law firm that puts words in a box and shakes them up, regergitating the same reasons to excuse their clients behaviors each time a query is made.
Solution? If you dabble with a short sale, take photographs of the house when you first saw it. And depending on the value of potential thievery, you may wish to hire a security guard who can inform you when these clowns show up to pillage. Or perhaps install battery operated hidden camers to catch them in the act. Five Brothers is a dispicable company, coupled with U.S. Bank, thier law-less-ness go unchecked.
I live next door to one of the foreclosed properties they are supposed to maintain. They make the property noticably vacant with a very large sign taped to the front window, leave supplies and garbage and keep the gates open of the house. The area I live in is not very safe. I would move myself but my mortgage is upside down. There are drug houses and prostitues in this area in the last 10 years. The other house on the other side of me has been empty in foreclosure and had vagrants living in it as well as it was used as a drug house. The side door was also kicked in and the AC and all the copper on the house was stolen so this tells you how bad of a neighborhood this is. So, now that Five Brother's is maintaining the house of the other side of me, I have tried to call the number left on the house and tell them that they are leaving the gate open. I have tried to tell them about this neighborhood and that leaving the gate open is inviting crime and that having such a large sign on the front of the house tells people the house is empty. I don't feel safe with this house like this. These houses are only spaced 10 feet from each other. I keep having to go over there and close the gate myself and have called them. They called me back and confirmed that their guys were there that day and said they would "tell their guys to close the gate" but everytime they are there, they leave the gate wide open again. Now, they don't even return my call. I feel incredibly unsafe next to a house maintained by this company leaving the gate wide open all the time inviting crime. If they don't secure the property, what happened to the house on the other side of me, is going to happen to this house too. Five brother's does not care about the properties they maintain at all.
Five Brothers Reviews
This company underpays their employees and contractors. They treat their emplpyees with no respect and they overwork all of their staff for little or no money. Five Brothers is a racist company. If you are not white you ain't right is their motto. The Directors and mangement lack leadership skills and direction. Five Brothers screws over there contractors by taking fees out their checks for frivilous charges and also makes them complete orders for free with very little proof. They have directors and managers that can only look at specific accounts or determine if no charge orders are valid so that they can put the no charge off on other contractors. Horrible company to work. Do not work here!! They are a horrible company that rips contractors off!
We were contacted by Kelley DiFiore from Five Brothers to complete some Mortgage Field Inspections in our area in Hartford, CT. (Apparently another inspector dropped the ball)...
Are driving all over our local area, we completed over 75 inspections in a day and a half. To date, we have not been paid. (over 3 months)
To add insult to injury, they "backcharged" us $4,000 because we "failed" to see a basement was leaking in a home. (NOTE: We are specifically told NOT to make contact because it was a bankruptcy case)...How were we supposed to know a basement is leaking in an occupied home where we were NOT supposed to make contact ! ! ! !?!?!?
Stay away the from Five Brothers and Kelley DiFiore ! ! !
5 Brothers is eager to hire and gets incomplete orders out fast. Key word is incomplete or completely erroneous orders that when acted on can get you into a lawsuit. When you try to clarify you then get a totally new person not familar with the order that has not idea what has been done or what the order is.
There are so many conflicting areas it is impossible to tell what the order is really for. If you don't do something you are charged back for it, if you do it and it wasn't requested you don't get paid. No one knows or cares to snswer a direct question.
An order to inspect a home was recieved, it was inspected and work noted that needed done. Unsure of doing more submitted a request to bid dditional work. A bid was then requested by 5 brothers.to complete even more than requested. Unknown to me at the time the house was being redeemed.. Oh,oh, Squatters then moved into the house thru broken and poorly done early securment. Bank then gave lockbox code to old owners. The crew I requested a bid only from, went in and started cleanup. They did not get authorized but now a lawsuit has been filed.. 1st Clear guidelines could have prevented everything, 2nd communication would have helped.
No one at 5 Brothers wants to talk to a contractor!!! Not now not ever. I ordered police reports and took photos before and after and have documentation that nothing of value was ever removed. Still no one wants to talk to me.
So bottom line is cover your butt with documentation!!! Everyway possible, because they do not care. And yes I would welcome anyone elses feedback.
I have been had by U.S. Bank and thier Five Brothers Home Preservation Services. I made an offer on a short sale home in June of 2012. U.S. Bank was the existing loan underwriter. U.S. Bank is in colusion with a company Called Five Brothers Home Preservation (heareafter refered to as Five Brothers) to act as an agent in assisting with preservtion of empty assets, i.e. homes.
When I first saw the property I immediately called the realtor, Glen Realty in Yucca Valley, CA and made an offer. one outstanding feature which gave the house a custom, finished, look were the matching door hardware on all 6 entrance/exits to the house. When I later, in late July visited the house, I was told by the realtor and then confirmed that all the expensive matching door hardware had been removed and replaced by very cheap, poorly installed, bargin bin door knobs.
The local R/E agent representing the sale for the bank, Ann McErlane, gave me a number to call U.S. bank, which I have done repeatedly. U.S. Bank states that Five Brothers is responsible for the missing hardware. Five Brothers states that U.S. Bank is responsible for the loss and that they were just "obeying a work order".
Now after 4 months of finger pointing, they win!! They have exhausted me. My attrempt was simply to make a claim for $500.00 to help with the replacement. A mear "drop in the bucket for a company like U.S. Bank, or Five Brothers. They continue in deadlock pointing at each other and excluding me from the loop. Their story's sre in lock-step and I get the feeling that this is not the first time this tactic has been used.
I filed a claim with the BBB in Michigan; But Five Brothers is not even a part of the BBB, and in their arrogance could care less! I have been visited once here by the house's previous owner. He informed me that Five Brothers also stole form him a complete professional mechanic's tool chest loaded with tools (he was the owner of a auto repair company and knew what was in the box). Five Brothers stole this at the same time they performed the work order for U.S. Bank.
I now know that my complaint is trivial compared to others I have read against Five Brothers. They apparently act as an autonomous entity who feels at liberty to pillage the houses they "service". They leave there victims completely helpless because of the inter reliance on U.S. Bank, they are, quite simply, untouchable! I am lucky that I've only lost $500.00 + dollars; I have read of others loosing much, much more!!
U.S. Bank is just as corrupt in this scheme. These companies spare no expense to protect this colusion. I have multiple letters for some law firm that puts words in a box and shakes them up, regergitating the same reasons to excuse their clients behaviors each time a query is made.
Solution? If you dabble with a short sale, take photographs of the house when you first saw it. And depending on the value of potential thievery, you may wish to hire a security guard who can inform you when these clowns show up to pillage. Or perhaps install battery operated hidden camers to catch them in the act. Five Brothers is a dispicable company, coupled with U.S. Bank, thier law-less-ness go unchecked.
I live next door to one of the foreclosed properties they are supposed to maintain. They make the property noticably vacant with a very large sign taped to the front window, leave supplies and garbage and keep the gates open of the house. The area I live in is not very safe. I would move myself but my mortgage is upside down. There are drug houses and prostitues in this area in the last 10 years. The other house on the other side of me has been empty in foreclosure and had vagrants living in it as well as it was used as a drug house. The side door was also kicked in and the AC and all the copper on the house was stolen so this tells you how bad of a neighborhood this is. So, now that Five Brother's is maintaining the house of the other side of me, I have tried to call the number left on the house and tell them that they are leaving the gate open. I have tried to tell them about this neighborhood and that leaving the gate open is inviting crime and that having such a large sign on the front of the house tells people the house is empty. I don't feel safe with this house like this. These houses are only spaced 10 feet from each other. I keep having to go over there and close the gate myself and have called them. They called me back and confirmed that their guys were there that day and said they would "tell their guys to close the gate" but everytime they are there, they leave the gate wide open again. Now, they don't even return my call. I feel incredibly unsafe next to a house maintained by this company leaving the gate wide open all the time inviting crime. If they don't secure the property, what happened to the house on the other side of me, is going to happen to this house too. Five brother's does not care about the properties they maintain at all.