Seeking advice

[Bethene]

good, am glad you are pressing charges, what jerks.

[remylass]

Well, it is wrapping up better than I hoped. I was afraid you would lose all of your stuff. Glad you are pressing charges.

[Dark Angel 27]

sounds like cracked up charity to me. keep pressing till you get everything!

[stagehand1975]

I get to this point I had to threaten there not for profit status, they did not.do,anything at all last year as a children's camp. The place is in to much disrepair and the health dept won't let them open. They continue to have this fundraiser and take donations and appear to those that know the place that they are just living off of it.

[fick209]

What an awful ordeal that you have had to go through! Glad that you are pressing charges and that you have at least gotten back 75% of your stuff so far. Good luck!

[remylass]

Originally Posted by stagehand1975

I get to this point I had to threaten there not for profit status, they did not.do,anything at all last year as a children's camp. The place is in to much disrepair and the health dept won't let them open. They continue to have this fundraiser and take donations and appear to those that know the place that they are just living off of it.

That is really gross. They should have their non-profit status revoked.

[BioHazardCustoms]

I agree with remylass. I've been working on my haunt for almost five years now. I don't make a dime from it, every penny goes to a pit bull rescue center here. I've attempted on more than one occasion to achieve non-profit status, with no luck so far. I usually pay the taxes out of pocket, and let the lady who runs the center keep what we earn for her. The way these people are abusing the non-profit status nauseates me, and I hope it comes back to bite them in the arse.

Glad you've gotten most of your stuff back, and I hope you end up getting the remainder, as well.

[stagehand1975]

I had intentions of going on my own this and I still have hardly a prop to put anything together.

[BioHazardCustoms]

LOL, my wife is watching one of those court shows on television, and the judge is tearing a 501(c)3 charity owner a new one for charging admission to some function, then pocketing the money. Made me think of this thread, so I thought I would give you a ray of hope. You can take them to civil court for the monetary value of the things that they have kept. Good Luck!

[stagehand1975]

Update, I went to court today finnaly. With not so good results. The judge scolded both parties for keeping proper track of what I brought in and what I brought out. He has not ruled yet on the case. They accused me of lieing to them the entire time I worked for them. After recomending hauntforum to them years ago, there lawyer accessed this site and had this very thread in his hand trying to somehow use it against me. I was then told by there there lawyer and by the haunt in question that I am not qualified to give advice on this site. You have have to be qualified to post on this site? This comes from the same people I watched try to hook up a large unpowered speaker to the headphone jack of a small boombox and didnt understand why it wouldn't work. This was.the haunts 16th year in opperation with rapidly declining numbers. According to a news paper aticle. This was there worst year yet. suck to be them.

I am offering up to anyone that wants to write them a letter of disgust an address for you to send it to. Pm me for it. By the way, thks was year number 4 of operating a not for profit for handicapped children and not doing anything to show it. I have changed my privacy settings on this site. I never thought I would have to do that on a site like this.