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This site was chosen by Yahoo® voters as the "Best Answer" for exposing Tracey Garin's travel scams.

While this site still contains information about Garin's scams,
it has been expanded to include more recent scheme and scam activities,
especially in real estate investor education.

NOTE

 Access One Travel was one of many travel club scams that operated from about 2001 to about 2004. Travel club founder and owner, Tracey Garin, scammed millions of dollars from the investors in his many businesses and from the customers who bought travel club memberships. As a result of this website exposing him as a fraud AND a twice-convicted child molester, Garin rapidly descended from the "millionaire lifestyle" to living a pauper's life with a bunch of druggies. The last I heard of Garin was that he was arrested for drug possession. Accessonescams.com will continue to keep the public aware of Garin, and other scammers like Garin, for many more years.

Garin's story never ends; there's always a scammer out there.

FINAL NOTE ABOUT GARIN

 Updated September 5, 2010
Tracey Dale Garin died on August 13, 2010 in Colorado Spring, CO.

Garin changed his last name to Kirby; however, he was also registered as a sex offender under Tracey Dale Kirby. In spite of the numerous court judgements to re-pay his travel club customers, Garin never paid a cent; nor did he offer any apologies to, or show any remorse for, his customer and investor victims.


Real Estate Investment Education Schemes and Scams

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to enter the Real Estate Investment page and read about the recent get-rich-quick "fad" schemes/scams involving

Marko Rubel & Profit Grabber Pro, Dean Graziosi & PMI (Professional Marketing International), The Tax Club, and many others.

Others include Optimum First Mortgage, Better Business Bureau (BBB), TrustLine, Alexis McGee, Cameron Dunlap, Dani Mendez, Dave Lindahl, Phil Pustejovsky, Dave Espino, Jack Bosch, John C. Sbicca, John T. Reed, John Wolsey, Larry Goins, Rels Valuation, Robert Kiyosaki, Sean Carpenter, Wendy Webbe, Tim Miller, Matt Riney, SoCalCIA, the tax lien academy, Dave Lindahl, Private Money, John C. Sbicca, ProgramCritique, OpenCritique, Ameraco, Automated Foreclosure Finder, 4closurealert.com, ForeclosureS.com, tax liens, Wells Fargo, iFlip, 30-60-90-day loans, government funding, land profit generator, ultimate buying & selling machine, UBM, credit unions, proof of funds, inner circle, Guestbook, Quinstreet, JupiterMedia, WebMediaBrands, Internet.com, short sales, and more.

Some of these businesses have taken advantage, legally, of the millions of homes in foreclosure and are now marketing their "get rich schemes" to naive "newbie" real estate investors. Unfortunately, without real "mentoring" some of these schemes just don't work for 90% of newbies; many are dubious schemes and have the characteristics of scams.

Far too many of the "schemes" are borderline scams because of what the schemers DON'T tell you.

In addition, lending institutions (Prudential, for example)
are getting wise to the investing schemes and are
putting requirements in place to inhibit investors who don't have their own money.

Read my review of real estate schemes and scams.

See my list of recommended (or not) real estate investing books.


Other Scams

Read about the scam perpetrated by the Reagan Administration against the military.
Read how "The Great Communicator" and his congress betrayed and royally screwed the
U.S. Military retirees.

Read about SEARS' rebate dubious scheme (scam).
Electronics giant Fry's rebate dubious scheme (scam).
Internet Service Provider (ISP) company NETZERO's refund policy.
And how automotive repair giant PepBoys charged over $2400
to replace what should have been a $2.00 part (without even blinking an eye).

Check out my thoughts regarding the Ripoff Report website and Fry's Electronic's refund policy on the Other Scams page.


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Tracey Garin and his travel club scams are history now, but others have taken his place.
Listed below are his various former businesses. The last I heard about Garin was when he was busted for dope possession.
Travel Plus #1 & #2 LLPs, First Travel Club, Savasi Travel Club, Access One Travel Club, and Travelmercial #1 LLP
These businesses had many of the characteristics of scam businesses.

Other businesses Garin was involved in include Travel Web, Inc., and Trendwest Resorts

The roles of Garin's associates are also described in this website.

I was getting emails from victims of Garin's scams long after he shut down the businesses.
Read some of them here

A good rule of thumb: If it's a business operating in Colorado and soliciting your investment, there's a very high probability that it is a SCAM!!!

And now, with the frenzy in real estate investing schemes, you can add Florida, Utah, Nevada, and a few other state with weak or no regulations for the scheme and scam businesses.

The Intent of This Website

The primary intent of this site is to expose the inconsistencies and deceptive practices of questionable businesses. The new emphasis is on real estate investment schemes and scams.

New revelations about Tracey Garin are few and far between and he and his short miserable life will eventually be relegated to a small corner of this website. The new intent is to expose other, less notorious, but no less costly schemes/scams that have been perpetrated upon the good citizens of this fine United States of America.


First Travel, Savasi Travel, and Access One Travel, all owned by Tracey Dale Garin of Colorado Springs, Colorado have long ago bitten the dust. As far as I can determine, Garin is no longer associated with the people who were formerly involved in his scams. His latest adventure was to get busted for drugs, and that's the last I've heard of him.

Now and then Garin's name pops up and when it does I'll post the news here. But I don't expect to hear much about him. He's in his mid 30s and his life is pretty much washed up. He's a convicted child molester, and child molesters don't change.

In the mean time, I will leave Garin and his cronies dangling on this website, as is, because that's where the search engines will continue to find them.

Garin's associates and relatives involved in deceptive partnership and travel club practices include his second wife, business partner Michael E. Knowles, and his father-in-law, Sammy Payne. Other business associates are also included in this website.

Another intent of this site is to expose Tracey Dale Garin for what he really is: A person who is highly skilled at conducting deceptive business practices, and a twice convicted sex offender (see the Court Records page). Garin is very skillfull at getting what he wants, whether it's sex with a minor, or your hard earned retirement funds. He was convicted in 1996 for sexual assualt on a 15-year old child in a position of trust, and charged again in 1998 for sex offenses with another child. (See the court records referenced in this website.) He also has numerous complaints from investors, customers, and employees regarding his deceptive business practices. Anyone doing business with Tracey Dale Garin, working for him, or living in his neighborhood, should be aware that he lacks moral principles, in both his personal life and in the manner in which he conducts his businesses.

This site contains extensive information regarding two travel partnerships and several travel clubs set up by Tracey Garin, owner of Savasi Corporation. The partnerships are under the names Travel Plus #1, LLP and Travel Plus #2, LLP. The travel clubs are First Travel Inc., Savasi Travel, Access One Travel, Travel Web, Inc. He is also involved with TrendWest Resorts out of Redmond, Washington. Other companies owned by Tracey Garin include Savasi Corp., Access One Marketing, Savasi Travel, First Travel, Inc., First Choice South East, Quality One Ventures, Peak Operations, LLC, and Travel Web, Inc.  Accelerated Financial, registered to J. Scott Wharton, Garin's CPA, was the escrow company collecting the money invested by the partners. The partnerships were established to generate venture capital for First Travel (owned by Tracey Garin) to sell travel packages.


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