Christmas holiday plans are in disarray and clients are owed thousands of dollars after the director and owner of a company which billed itself as the “most professional” and largest holiday rental specialist on the Mornington Peninsula declared bankruptcy.
But about a year ago, locals say the business suddenly vacated its office space on the first floor of a modern building on Ocean Beach Road, which has remained empty ever since.Real estate agent and company founder Faye Lorraine Marshall, 65, who is registered to a Queensland address, declared bankruptcy on August 20.
“It is with the deepest regret I advise that after 16 years in business Marshall's Holiday Rentals has become insolvent. Business and personal bankruptcy has been declared,” the email read. But several months ago he had a call from a customer who had stayed at his property and said that while they enjoyed their time there they hadn’t got their bond back weeks after they’d stayed.“They had accepted and taken just short of $13,000, of which she is entitled to the commission, so she owes us about ten grand.