Summary of TATF Forum Results, 2007-2010
Total posters - 91, 42 of which posted five or more times
Apparent owners of TATF trees - 55
Supportive of TATF among posters (includes owner and aka's) - 7
Critical of TATF among posters- 63
No expressed opinion regarding TATF among posters- 21
Predominant theme of remarks - negative, pessimistic
Received thinning report from TATF since 2006 - 0
Conclusions:
1- If, during the past two-and--half years of forum activity, anyone had received a thinning report, it would very likely have been reported here. Therefore it is reasonable to assume no thinning reports have been issued.
2- From above, it is reasonable to assume no actual thinnings of TATF investors' trees have occurred since 2006.
3- Therefore, it is reasonable to assume those trees have been untended and left to grow wild during that period of time and that this will affect the viability and the marketability of the lumber from those trees when and if they are ever felled.
4- Under the steady criticism from this forum during the past three years TATF has not responded during that time with any kind of direct informative communication to its individual investors, signaling either an indifference to their plight or an inability to do any thinning of trees.
5- The TATF website continues to market trees with similar projections and implicit promises that were previously made when the existing trees were sold.
6- Present investors have good reason to not rely on income from their trees as sole support for their retirements, their children's educations, or their "golden years" excursions to exotic locations such as Costa Rica.
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