Anonymous_Guy

I'll bet Brian & Barb DO like those programs, they are getting rich off other people's misery.

Use extreme caution when dealing with Brian Newlund of Cottage Grove, WI. He is an ADMITTED forger.

I have to question the judgement of people who take this Bajaholic, Brian Newlun, at face value as some regular "good ol' boy".
His character is questionable at best, and his judgement is poor in fact.
Mr. Newlun works as a repo man, collecting assets for banks from default loan debtors, under the corporate name CRI. He reportedly makes several hundred thousand dollars per year. One wonders just how much money a person needs before they lose their soul completely.

From the Wisconsin Regulatory Digest Volume 13 No.2 February 2002:
Be sure you don't give Brian Newlun of Cottage Grove, WI your personal information. You never know if or how he will use it, given his propensity to FORGE documents.

Do I have a personal ax to grind?
You bet.
I made an agreement to try and help him out in recovering an asset, something he made several hundred dollars for, and he sneaked in and took the asset while I was at work, costing me several hundred dollars of personal property on the boat. Now he wants to charge me $50 to come and recover MY personal equipment.
I guess money is more important than personal honor to some people.

His actions:
1.) He is claiming I made threats, I did nothing of the sort, in fact, I was trying to remain amicable and help in the recovery of his charged asset. All I asked for was a day to remove the property.
2.) He willfully trespassed onto my property to accomplish the recovery. Standard practise is to notify the authorities before attempting a recovery. Brian did not follow established proceedures.
3.) He was aware of the nature of the property on the asset, and the fact the property did not belong to the defaulter. He took the property anyway, thereby knowingly and willfully depriving me of MY property. Some legal jurisdictions call that sort of thing theft - regardless of how justified the "asset recovery" person thinks they are in doing so.

All in all, a reasonable person would have tried to accomplish this without resorting to unsavory conduct. My guess is his paranoia over the multitudes of sob stories he's dealt with have led him to be unable to deal with honest folks in a forthright manner anymore.
I have a solid reputation as a "man of my word" and have given a lifetime of effort in obtaining that reputation. Apparently Brian Newlun has no such scrupples.

I stand ready to back up the charges I have made here. Accept no "excuses" from an admitted forger.

(PS, it wasn't my asset, I just had personal equipment on it. All he had to do was wait a day and he could have avoided this. Now, he's invited me to add a few little "interesting events" to his life.)

johnny g

What was your property doing in the boat?

bob_t

I called about one of the Fountain's listed as a "bank sale" boat. Those are for sale by Powerboats Northwest, a fountain dealer. What I was told was that they were selling them for what they owed the bank for them, ie, "dealer cost". Just another form of marketing? Instead of saying "boats for sale at cost", or "at dealer invoice", these say "bank sale". I don't think the ones' that say "bank sale" are repo boats. Not sure whats up with the one's listed as "repo's", though. Who knows, maybe he is going out of business and wants them gone, again, maybe not ... who knows with this screwed up economy!

bajaholic

Anyone wants to know the real story, PM me...

Amazing what people will do when they get caught...


As frar as the legal slapping, I took respondsibility for mistake I made several years ago... It was easier to just admit and move on giving up something I didnt even need. The real story is much less colorfull...

Back4More

Its a good idea to just Pay your bills.