TATF a black hole for existing tree owners who sent money, yet it is still advertising for new ones on its discredited website. As for owner Steve Brunner and his Tropical American Tree Farms we will have to rely on first hand reports from those traveling there or privy to verified information.
I mistyped my email address in my prior post. This is the correct one: -- jstanton5@gmail.com Hopefully we will get those reports in the form of emails to me which will be distributed to others interested.
The other forum devoted to TATF on Ihub turns out to be of limited value. because it is a a semi-private sounding board for the moderator who is none other than dupedbysteve. It is censored by him. Note all the deleted messages. The moderator has a point of view opposite that of all the other posters and he has posted half of all the messages on this board while deleting those he doesn't like.
No one knows who "dupedbysteve" is, or who he speaks for, but he seems to be representing TATF's owner. If you go back to his first messages on this board-- those he made during May of last year -- he seemed to be like the rest of us, a duped investor. Then he got a refund and the messages (under his name, but authored by perhaps someone else) gradually became more and more bizarre. Now he has his own hub forum.
Here is an example of a post he deleted: "Why didn't you agree to meet 4rtrees when you said you would be in Costa Rica during January and he was going to accommodate his schedule to see you? As noted in the other ihub board he is another betrayed investor and by meeting him you were could have allayed his doubts if what you had been saying about TATF were true. See rhtrees' January posts."
Here is an example one of the limitless posts duped puts on his own forum: "I was reading the (TATF) agreement and i don't think a lot of treeowners noticed the #23-25 part of the agreement. They explain that word of mouth does not mean anything and neither does the TATF website.. Steve has only to abide by what is written in my spanish written contract. I knew that. I signed it because TATF is going to make me money."
The TATF investment has been a failure for all who believed in its promises and sent them money.
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belmontx
