If you seek out a voodoo practitioner to help with a stomach ailment, only to have that “advisor” recommend that you sign over the deed to the hotel where you live and work, it might be time to consider getting a different advisor.
Unfortunately, a hotel owner in Fort Meyers, Florida is learning this real estate investing lesson the hard way[1]. Enzo Vincenzi, the previous owner of the hotel, apparently signed his hotel away to a woman named “Godmother Miriam” following the failure of a variety of “ritualistic ceremonies involving a dead bird, a sacrificed rooster, liquid potions, prayers and chants” designed to relieve his stomach problems. Now, Vincenzi, who was committed to a psychiatric hospital following the loss of his hotel, would like his property back.
“Godmother Miriam’s” attorney argues that this is a simple case of a language barrier, and that none of this would have happened if either party had spoken the other’s language. (That’s right – the person that Mr. Vicenzi sought for advice didn’t even speak the same language – earthly or otherwise.) However, a jury did award Vicenzi $99,500 for the loss of his hotel and home – a sum that cannot be paid because Godmother Miriam does not have the money. The lawyers are now working on a rescission of deed so that Vicenzi, now in deep debt with medical bills and homeless, since the defendants are living in his hotel, can at least get his property back.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why real estate investing and voodoo just don’t mix.
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[1] http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2010/jul/16/lee-man-alleges-voodoo-fights-get-motel-back-sante/
How absurd!! he’s lost his mind!! and how gullible and desperate Enzo Vincenzi was!!
One would think that a hotel owner would be smart enough to seek an attorney before he signed away his investment!!
Someone ought to tell him that rubbing his own stomach with a few drops of essential oils will relieve his stomach problems and he’d still get to keep his hotel.
What a sick joke indeed!!