Clear Channel Communications. This is a useless corporation that's decided to take advantage of the changes in ownership laws to buy up as many radio stations as they can. Then, without notice, they change the station format and let all the former dj's go, along with their support staff. They are corporate, cost-cutting vultures. The end result is radio stations that play the same songs over & over again, day after day. If a band or group does something they don't like or complain, they will be removed from every one of their 1,200+ station's.They don't program locally, they do it from a regional office. They will put one underpaid dj or talk host on, and then try to pass him off as local in several different regions. They will stage a contest with a grand prize, but won't let you know that the one (1) grand prize is for many other regions as well. They keep adding commercials until there is more commercial advertising than actual show. The end result is at best bland, repetitious and annoying. If I wanted to hear the same songs over and over again, I can put in a six CD changer and just never change the CD's, and I won't have to listen to repetitious commercials. These people are doing just what the previous laws prevented: they are destroying the local, audience value of these stations, and have nothing more in mind than bottom line and shareholder profits. Well, if nobody is listening, there are no profits, either......Click...... To boycott, go to http://www.clearchannel.com/main.html. look up their radio and television stations in your area, and go listen to someone else! For more grisly details, go to http://www.google.com/ and search on "Randy Michaels".

ABC Lending - I cannot recommend these people at all. I went to them for a small home improvement loan. Between my wife and I, we have purchased five homes, and currently own two. We applied to them for one of their "quick" loans back in January, 1998, and was not approved until May. However, we have been receiving paperwork from the bank, trying to change our escrow account, just as if it has been approved. We have basically been treated like criminals.
We have told them we don't want their loan, because we don't really need it. They are now insisting that we take it, but still want full control of everything we buy or pay off. They don't trust us when we explain something; we have to wait some MORE while bill payments come in. Sheesh! We finally did take the loan, but more as a matter of convenience, and for the joy of making massive principal payments to deny them their interest.

Mike Canaan, currently working for Arvida Realty. - He was a dual person, supposedly watching out for the best interest of both parties. Didn't happen. You don't hire the same lawyer to prosecute and defend the same person, do you? We ended up with a house that hadn't even been properly inspected. We found rat poison containers and empty cans in the attic, and the wall in the bedroom leaks every time it rains...A little over two months in the house, the portion of the A/C unit that resides up in the attic had to be replaced, as it was totally rusted out...