Samuel Tong – Real Estate Classes

Samuel Tong cussed at me, throwing out obscene profanity, such as the «F» word and dirty bitch 你妈个X，婊子 over the phone after I demanded a refund because he could not provide the proper service.
I’m currently building 6 townhouses and needed a real estate attorney to provide the CC&Rs, Articles, and Bylaws for the planned development project along with the completed RE 648 Regulation checklist to submit to BRE. I met with Samuel last April and prepaid him in full, $ 2500, without any contracts. (His eagerness to get paid and lack of paperwork should have alerted me of his abnormality). Now it’s time to file. I used Fidelity Builder Service to help with filing. Samuel told me that the payment was only for CC&Rs, which is only a small part of the entire process. The complete service from the other attorney would cost me $ 30K. However, his document for CC&Rs was completely wrong. First, my project is for townhouses, but he did CC&Rs for condominiums. Even the address of project was wrong. How can I trust someone who can’t even tell the difference between townhouses and condos and couldn’t put the address right? Since I need to hire a REAL attorney who specializes in this field, I told him to stop and refund my full payment because whatever he prepared was useless. I couldn’t believe what happened next. He yelled at me over the phone using all the dirty words, like F you and you bitch. 你妈个X，婊子 in Chinese repeatedly.
It’s gets funnier later on when he texted me that Fidelity wants to steal business, that they are setting up a trap for me, that I will see what happens down the road, how much it is going to cost me… Well, Fidelity doesn’t need to steal business. They referred several attorneys to me. After interviewing a few, I hired one who is going to provide complete full service for $ 4000. I was impressed with this new guy’s professionalism and detailed list of services. There won’t be any misunderstanding of what is included and what is not. They only required partial deposit and full payment when completed, which is standard practice for real professionals.
I have never been called dirty names like this before. I was trembling with anger and couldn’t believe what I heard. I’ve only heard such dirty words when I was in China almost 30 years ago where there are lots of uneducated old women. This is Samuel Tong, the so-​called «attorney» and «educator.» I don’t know what a hard life or low life he has and what kind of family he was raised. This is totally an eye opening experience to me and I’m sure that it’s shocking to everyone who reads this.

So my mom and I were looking into getting our real estate broker and salesperson license. I was all for going online and getting some do-​it-​yourself course and taking the test. But of course my dad has to go and find this guy, Samuel Tong, who is supposed to be an awesome real estate teacher. Well, for $ 2000, he should have been much much better. He is basically a teacher for Chinese fobs who can’t understand classes in English. He gives you one book and emails you a bunch of practice tests. His course is 3 weeks long, once a week on Sundays from 9 – 4. Each class, he goes through 5 chapters and then he starts over again after the three weeks. He says you can keep taking the classes as long as you want until you pass the test. He pretty much lectures straight out of the book and translates it into Chinese. I think his class is WAY overpriced. Also, I kind of think he is doing a disservice to people by lecturing in Chinese. The actual test is not going to be in Chinese, so even if you know everything in Chinese, you won’t know it in English. Oh another thing is, he gave all his students the «opportunity» to buy one unit from a set of apartments in Cupertino. He made it sound like it was a really great deal and we were getting it for cheap, and if we sold it right away, we’d be getting a great deal. And he made it seem like they were selling like hotcakes but he managed to get us one. And we were about to buy one, except we did some research and it turns out it was not such a great deal at all. I’m pretty sure he bought the whole thing himself and then was trying to sell them off. Shady…
Also, he picks his nose while he standing in front of the class… GROSS!