| Updated: 7/30/2009 6:54 pm |
Published: 7/30/2009 5:35 pm
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Customers say once Leisure World shut it’s doors, it’s impossible to contact the owner and ask why they don’t have their pools and if they can get their money back.
Owner Al Johnson said his company is in financial trouble. He says it started earlier this year when his business dropped by about 50 percent. He said that drop in business forced the company to move out of the 91st & Memorial location and stop paying the thousands of dollars in rent the company could no longer afford.
Leisure World now has an “F” with the BBB after the BBB received more than 50 complaints with about a dozen unanswered.
Kurt Bachmann wrote FOX23 with his complaint about Leisure world. He said he paid thousands of dollars for a pool more than a month and a half ago. He says Johnson has promised the pool was coming, but the recently he says the owner of Leisure world told him, the company would soon file for bankruptcy.
Bachmann said, “[The owner] told me that he was filing for bankruptcy and that nobody would be getting a refund of any sort. [The owner] said the best thing that he could tell me was the people that have paid cash for their pools, as opposed to financing, would be getting their pools, it just might take some time.”
Leisure World owner Al Johnson told us a different story. He said Leisure World would stay in business. When FOX23 asking if Leisure World was in financial trouble, Johnson replied, “Absolutely.”
