Rainbow Investigations Celebrates 10 Years

On May 20th 2000, Rainbow Investigations became licensed as a PI firm in Alberta. From humble beginnings, we began a journey that today is as exciting as ever.

In the beginning, we worked mainly on domestic matters, doing surveillance and investigative work around infidelity, custody disputes, etc.

In the early 2001 we jumped into becoming a health fraud advocate, particularly on weight loss scams, and to a lesser degree, various other miracle treatments. Probably our most prominent issue was in the mental health field. We later pursued a path along financial fraud wherever we saw it.

Many of our news stories from the early 2000’s on specific scams still generate the odd email to us.

Bur clearly our biggest changes were in 2005. We changed our focus to be more of a legal investigation firm, and we planned for a new web page. While the new webpage was a bit delayed into coming into being, when it finally came onto the scene, it set us on a course that we have never looked back on.

We developed our court agent part of our business successfully, and now have established ourselves as one of the half dozen or so non-lawyer court agents operating in Provincial Court Civil Division in Calgary that clearly have the respect of the legal community.

Many of the early Civil Division cases involved debts, promissory notes, and construction fraud, all of which continue today.

Of course, many of our investigations today often involve real estate fraud, and since May of 2008, we have become clearly Calgary’s most effective real estate fraud investigation service. Residential real estate fraud with house flipping by investors using victim or straw buyers is our most common investigation today. We currently have over 20 active files on this matter, and have had over 40 such files since 2008.

But we have been increasingly been asked to investigate real estate trust scams, and even shenanigans involving licensed realtors and practices done by unscrupulous sellers and buyers. Who would have ever thought in 2000 that one could make a living just investigating real estate fraud in Calgary?

In fact we are so busy today, we can barely keep up! But then, as “The Secret” training says so well, that is what we wished for, so we can say, we got what we asked for!

Far more importantly, in this busy time for us, the most important issue for us internally is that we manage our time effectively, and we continue to provide excellent service to all our clients, in order that they benefit from our services. We think we are doing well the majority of time, but we always are our strongest critic, always evaluating if we could have done better!

The biggest issue for us today is to deal with the “waves” of requests that come to us all at once, and of course, managing business aspects of the business, such as getting our revenues in a timely manner, and paying our bills timely.

There is so much happening in the fraud scene in Calgary, that unfortunately, we haven’t done a good job of keeping our webpage stories up to date. People have identified these stories with us, so this is an area we must improve on. We will try to get some information out there on the main stories about fraud in the Calgary area in the next week.

Obviously the B of M lawsuit in residential real estate is probably the big story since May of 2010, and yes, you will read about it here. More importantly you will find out information that you’ll never find elsewhere.

So, in closing, it has been a great ride over 10 years, but you ain’t seen anything yet!

Date of Story: Monday, May 24, 2010
Story Posted By: Ron Reinhold
Source: Ron Reinhold

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