Long time no post I guess, but we found this story on Fox 31 in Denver about a local guy who got screwed by his realtor even worse than we did:

A Denver man who accidentally spent $30,000 repairing and renovating a condo he moved into, but doesn’t own, has been ordered to vacate the premises by the real owner.

FOX 31 first reported this story in early March.

Jonathan Kyte began working on the unit 6 months ago and only learned recently that he didn’t own the unit. Instead, the City and County of Denver says he owns the unit next door.

He found out about the mistake almost by accident when he received a map which showed the unit he’s living is actually unit number 4.

But he owns the deed and title to unit number 5. Jonathon blames the Coldwell Banker listing agent for the mistake. She marketed the property and provided the key to the unit Jonathon and wife have been living in.

He called the listing agent again and again but she wouldn’t return his calls. He also called the title company, ” Colorado American Title,” and an employee promised to get back to him, but never did.

So Jonathon called Fox 31 News. We confronted the listing agent’s supervisor, but he would not comment on camera. He said their lawyers were looking into it.
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Coincidentally the real estate agent behind this debacle is with Coldwell Banker. That’s where Karl Lueders started his illustrious real estate career! I wonder if they know each other (or if they’re commiserating over cocktails right now).

So I guess that’s where Karl Lueders learned not to accept responsibility or return phone calls! Although I’m sure they reinforce those lessons at the Kentwood Company at Cherry Creek.

Have you Googled Karl Lueders lately? (I’ll bet he has)

Try it… most likely you’ll first get the option to search on Carl with a “C” Lueders instead. Apparently there’s a Carl with a “C” who owns a distribution company and one who’s CFO of a pharmaceutical company. But if you stick to gook ole’ Karl Lueders with a “K” what you’ll see is usually that:

(1)  The Kentwood Company Sucks – mostly because of Karl Lueders and his big lie.

(2) Karl Lueders Sucks

The order of these two changes from time-to-time and they are then followed by Karl Lueders’ own blog (which does occasionally make it up into the top 2), and his page on The Kentwood Company website.

Then there’s an exhaustive list where you can learn all you wanted to know and more about Karl Lueders on facebook.com; Karl Lueders on activerain.com; Karl Leuders on trulia.com; Karl Lueders on linkedin.com; and on and on and on. Oh and don’t forget you can also follow Karl Lueders with a “K” on twitter.com – stimulating, no doubt.

Dude, give it a rest!

Oh and btw, Yahoo agrees that Karl Lueders Sucks too!

Karl Lueders is a broker with the Kentwood Company at Cherry Creek where Gretchen Faber is one of the managing brokers.

Recently Gretchen posted on her own blog the importance of understanding real estate agency rules in Colorado. She further explains how important it is to have buyer’s agent who’s “in your corner.”

..wow! What a novel concept?! Maybe Gretchen should remind the brokers that she recruits, like Karl Lueders, of that!

You can learn a lot more about Gretchen Faber (and her underwear) on our main site.

On our other site we received an interesting comment about Karl recently. First we received a few comments from people even more jaded than we are, stating they hoped we weren’t falling for Karl Lueder’s PR campaign regarding the fund raiser for the vet clinic. We figure even if it is just a pr stunt at least it’s for a great cause.

But then we got this:

Trixielarue Says:
Unfortunately, Karl’s unsavory antics are not just limited to his professional life. Although married, you can find him on many singles websites. Why is that I wonder?

Of course we are not and can not speak to the validity of this comment we have no knowledge of any such extra-curricular activity on Karl Lueder’s part. We always got the impression that he was a very happily married man in fact.

And we think we’re pretty jaded!

We had asked ourselves many times why we trusted Karl Lueders in the first place and why we stayed with him when things were going poorly. The answer was because very simply Karl loves his dogs. We are dog people, not everybody gets that, but those of you who have little fur kids of your own do.

Karl had a beautiful, black lab named Goethe (pronounced Gerta) and when we were working with him Goethe was going through treatment for lymphoma. Karl was truly broken up about it and we were totally empathetic. He even asked if we would be emergency contacts for his pet sitter when he went on vacation. Sadly, Goethe succumbed to the cancer and she was only five years old.

Now Karl has started a fund in Goethe’s name to help raise money for Harrison Memorial Animal Hospital here in Denver. They are a non-profit animal hospital providing care for pets whose parents are of lower income and may not be able to afford the veterinary care required. He is trying to raise $25000 for them over the next five years.

This is sincerely something to be commended, and we encourage anyone who loves animals or even anyone who feels we have been unfair to Karl to donate to “The Goethe Fund.”

The hard lesson we have had to learn is that just because somebody shares your opinion on dogs, or is kind to animals, doesn’t mean they always deserve the benefit of the doubt. And just because he loves his dogs doesn’t mean Karl Lueders is a good realtor.

Our friend who uses Twitter (we still don’t get it) showed us a recent “tweet” by Karl Lueders that she thought might interest amuse us:

Now of course we can’t know for sure that we are the “two idiots,” in question but for a moment lets assume we are. (It obviously wouldn’t be the first time he assumed we were idiots.)

When we wrote about the previous posts on Karl’s professional real estate blog that addressed controversial issues like racism, we were not saying or even implying that Karl Lueders is a racist. We were simply sharing what we found to be inappropriate language for a realtor affiliated with such a prestigious firm as The Kentwood Company at Cherry Creek, to use on the blog where he is trying to sell upscale homes in the Denver metro area. We read the posts in their entirety, we got the context – well, as best we could. We also encouraged others to read the comments in context, but doing so does not make the terminology any less inappropriate.
We can’t be the only ones who think so… otherwise, why remove the posts? Or maybe the posts were removed because Karl revealed himself as a rather unscrupulous character, with the misogynistic comments, and admitted drinking, pot smoking, gambling, and porn collecting.

Regardless, just for the record, we never said Karl Lueders was a racist.

We would like to extend sincere holiday wishes to Karl Lueders, and Gretchen Faber and friends too..

May the new year bring you everything you deserve and more!

Wow! It’s been a long time since we posted here. Nevertheless, Karl Lueders does still suck!

I think after we received and posted about the Cease & Desist letter we received from Michael Pippenger of Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons whom Karl Lueders retained, we assumed we would be hearing more from him and we would update you about that. But strangely, we realized recently that we haven’t heard anything more since our attorney sent a response.

Click here to read it, it’s short & sweet.

We asked our attorney what normally happens after that sort of an exchange.. he said either a lawsuit or nothing at all.  So I guess that means it’s nothing at all.. apparently Michael R. Pippenger, couldn’t make something out of nothing.

In fairness that doesn’t necessarily make Michael Pippenger or Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons incompetent. Or does it?..

Karl Lueders on the other hand is recycling old boring posts on his blog and still committing the ultimate blogging atrocity.. referring to himself in third person! I’d say that easily equals incompetent.

Last week Michael Pippenger of Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons sent us a lovely letter on behalf of Karl Lueders. Well it wasn’t so much a letter as a demand to Cease and Desist!!

Click Here To Read It For Yourself

It’s an interesting read, but obviously it wasn’t very effective!

A recent comment on our other website from somebody who read about Karl Lueders’ bizarre posts that were on his own blog had this to say:

I bet you would have liked to have read his posts before hiring him. The upside is that not only did he make himself look like a moron but he is helping in a big way to educate the public about what sort of person he is. I hope he is stupid enough to try to come after you, so you can point out to his crack team of legal experts that he trashed himself on his own blog. It’s going to be hard to make a case that you damaged him when it’s clear that he damaged his own reputation in so many ways.
Good luck to you guys, looks like you’re nnot letting this get you down, good for you.

That’s kind of been our question for awhile now.. in this market especially, how can you claim that WE are causing damages when YOU have publicly, repeatedly embarrassed yourself and damaged your OWN reputation?

We will likely have the answer to that question soon..