Comments on: Money Does Grow on Trees, the Perfect “Green” Investment

By: Jean M

Jean M — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:09:42 +0000

TATF is a full proven scam, if are not convinced, read the experiences of people who bought those super trees….at:

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=7823

I wonder from where this people got the information.
The investors ( victims ) experiences have nothing to do with all the hype around this scam.

Stop pumping this scam.

By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:25:13 +0000

Anyone thinking of investing in teak or other tropical timber should read the paper referenced in the link below.

Dean

http://www.rug.nl/staff/l.spierdijk/ATT00106.pdf?as=pdf

By: Joe Stanton

Joe Stanton — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:13:37 +0000

Warning! Not likely to be a legitimate company.
This company, TATF, appears to have taken investor money and not made committed returns.

Check forum to hear from investors http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=27551643

Carl

By: Joe Stanton

Joe Stanton — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:41:16 +0000

to all –

vital updated info on TATF on InvestorsHub, search timber; serious concerns about false advertising being posted by existing investors; many of which have never received promised returns.

Jim

By: Dean

Dean — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:26:04 +0000

Sue;
The only way I know of to cash out is to tell TATF you want to sell – they say they will make a best-effort attempt to match you with a buyer. If you want more info about other people’s experiences with this company, try the following link:
Best of Luck

Dean

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/getboards.asp?SearchStr=timber

By: Sue

Sue — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:06:22 +0000

I own 100 2001 teak from TATF. I know this isn’t very many but I’m wondering how to “cash out”. I am nervous that others as well as myself have difficulty communicating with TATF.

Ingo or Dean, have you heard anything more on TATF?

By: Luis

Luis — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:21:29 +0000

Great blog!

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By: Dean

Dean — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 04:12:23 +0000

Ingo,

I’ve had similar a similar experience with TATF. This company has grossly overstated the potential returns in their projections on their website. If you read through the various editions of their Tree Owners News, they admit that they have been unable to sell on the open market their 7 year old, ten year old, and even thirteen year old trees that they’ve thinned. In their financial projections, they still project that the lumber for these trees can be sold for a substantial amount of money, even though their own experience has shown them that the wood from these young trees has very little value in the open market. They’ve started a company called Raleo that uses the wood from TATF, but Raleo is targeted to the very high end, and will likely only use a small fraction of the available wood from TATF.

Investor Beware!

Dean

By: Ingo

Ingo — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:30:09 +0000

I have bought some tress with TATF a few years ago. Every four weeks since then they ask me to buy more trees, but in 3 years now I have not been able to extract one statement from them about selling some of the trees I own with them (i.e. from thinning). Neither e-mails nor faxes are answered. I find this rather suspicious …