Property Management Galveston

At this point I am unsure whether Philip Shinalt aka Shy Shinalt is a scam artist or just an incredibly bad property manager. We entered a contract in July of 2013 for him to manage my duplex in Galveston. After the first two months of no monthly statements and no payment distributions, I repeatedly tried to contact him via email and phone. Absolutely no response for the last six weeks. Due to his breach of our contract, I have submitted a written letter of termination and have yet to receive any of the monthly statements due or the deposits due that he was holding for the current tenants. I also contacted several other property managers and Realtors around Galveston. None of them had ever heard of Philip Shy Shinalt or his management company before. Additional online research showed that the glowing testimonials that he had displayed on his website were actually pulled from another website, and just edited to include his name. Furthermore, I found a news report referencing a Phil Shinalt getting arrested for «fraudulent use of identifying information, a state jail felony,» that I believe to be for the same person. Last, I got in touch with both of my tenants since this time, and was told he had not responded to any of their maintenance requests or messages over the course of the last few months. I will most likely be pursuing litigation in the near future and doing whatever I can to make sure this doesn’t happen to anyone else.