09/01/2010
In this email, Marcus and Millichap employee/broker, Richard Bird attempts to shed some light on the confusion, but only causes more.
According to the property tax records in the next posting and Richard's letter here, it appears that Mountain Range, (the company I bought the building from in 2005) did all of the following... Apparently, all at the same time!!
• They modified their name from "Mountain Range" to "Utah Home Mountain Range"
• They bought the building in 2005 and then sold it to me.
• They bought the building from "KIER", according to this letter.
• They owned the building for 23 years prior to selling it to me, (as evidenced by the utility and service contracts originating in 1987 and posted below, and per the city issued building permits from 1987, also posted below)
THIS was a VERY busy company...
In reality, the buildings were originally bought and rehabbed by Kier in 1987, under the name, "Mountain Range". The building permits confirm as much, as do the Utility and Service contracts that were held open and uninterrupted, in these names from 1987 until I had the accounts placed into my name in Nov. 2009.
The mysterious, "previous owner" that Kier attorney, Byron Benevento referred to in his letter, was clearly none other than Kier, operating under a sub corporation called Mountain Range, who then modified their name to facilitate the liquidation of this property and 3 others.
The only thing better than catching a huge company like Kier in their own lie, is finding out how many other lies they've told in order to maintain the first one.