Wonderful this was a fake booking....Where we sent people over there with the keys and you set us up to waste our time and then you wonder why I would be mad. Nicely done.

They said Ruben threw a monitor. I can take that part out I suppose.

The main point you're failing to see, is that their behavior doesn't matter. Would I do business with them? **** no.

They aren't the ones with a real estate business looking for potential clients though. You're continuing the same trend in this thread also, by replying with personal attacks.

There's no excuse to behave unprofessionally with clients, pretty much ever.

Thats fine sir, I'm not really to hungry for these types of tenants. im not really sure what you do for a living but there are times here in medellin we have to show some backbone. Maybe that's not your cup of tea. But here it's essential to dealing with horrible people who lie to you to be able to move in. You say would not do business with them? How would you know do you have a crystal ball that shows how people really are after they get what they want and move in? I have tons and tons of positive reviews on airbnb. I guess that some people like us and you can't ever make everyone happy.

barry, when i first messaged via email. did i not side with you barry? i told you i agree why you kicked them out and it was justified. i received a call from my maids. telling me how ****ty ruben treated them. i told you i didnt have any problems with you !! i was simply complaining about the lack of professionalism ruben has given. my maids told me he called them old bitches. do you deny that ?? i did my due dilligience i called ruben to hear his side of the story and what was his immediate response? WHO THE *** ARE YOU. WHAT THE *** DO YOU WANT DO YOU WANNA FIGHT ME ?? YOU PIECE OF **** I WILL KILL YOU. i told him ruben calm down, i understand why you kicked them out but relax. tranquilo. ruben- WHERE THE **** ARE YOU ILL KILL YOU !! instead of telling your second in command to calm down and maintain some type of tact. you instead tell him to handle me how he sees fit ? and tell me why i am pushing his buttons. in what type of business is that the best way to handle a situation?? i never threated ruben , i never threatened you barry. i have no part in people prankcalling you in the morning. i even called the police instead of choosing to fight ruben to not escalate the situation. i was very respectful with you on the phone. and anyone who reads the emails will say the same thing. you then call me a little kid and tell my to go cry to my mommy beacuse my maids were insulted. ruben has anger issues , barry do you deny this ?? i am not saying barry you shouldnt have got kicked them out. Anyone with common sense agrees with you based on him punching the security gaurd and posting that video. i was defending my maids. i am telling everyone not to rent from you not because you kicked them out. but because of the professionalism you and your second in command has shown !! why are you saying im a pimp ? human trafficking what the hell is in your demented mind? yes i am single and young and i talk to women, . and yes i have put photos of beautiful women in medellin that i met during the day interacting on a social level. whats your point? and yes my parents are proud of me. i graduated with an accounting degree from new york, i served my country in the united states marine corps for 6 years. i dont drink or do any drugs, i eat organic food, i read a lot, i do boxing , i train in the gym, i donate money to charity, i pay for my mothers bills. i know im such a horrible person barry. you nailed it.

Barry the whore-mongering caterer who would rather deal with men who quietly bring back underage hookers than poker players who like to party. His handymen even creepily offered me younger than legal prostitutes within 2 minutes of saying hello...WTF. They didn't even believe us that we were bringing back normal girls that we met and didn't pay...since their normal customer base is gringos that come for a week, pop viagras, and run through whores and cocaine like candy.

So, I personally had very minor direct issues with Pobladorentals, but did see first hand the complete lack of handling common situations in a professional manner. I wouldn't rent from them again regardless, but stayed in 3 apartments otal...all were short term stays in overpriced apartments. Reuben is just such a coward, hot tempered character. I can't believe Barry let's him be the front man for his company.

Bolivar complete lie. Call me a whore mongering cater? I got 4 families in the apartments now. Dies the Hilton ask what's your intentions when you rent a hotel room? No as long as you behave I don't care who you ****. If some men need to come 3,000 miles to **** someone that's there business. I Never ever would be involved in such slimy behavior. Or Ruben as offering girls. Your a liar. It's wonderful to throw around he said she said. Copy and paste half messages.

Jose no one Is going to believe that the girls in the photos just came to dinner with those guys because they found them so genuinely interesting. You set all this up for money. I'm positive as you are positive that we called your maids a bitch

Your maids are liars. You called me up with 0 to do in the situation. Glad you help your mother out that's very nice. Be well help me out by renting from other people and destroying there business.

ok fair enough barry , believe in your demented brain every one is just lying. that im lying, boliver is lying, juggernaut is lying, horveech is lying, my maids are lying, in your eyes everyone here (quoted from your messge) is the scum of the earth and you and ruben exhibit an extreme amount of professionalism.

No problem. The poker pimp feels we are unprofessional. I love that photo of the geek with the red hair and the smoking hot paisa. How much did you set that up for? I copy and pasted your photos. I'm speaking to ice about all this today. Enjoy your travel back to the U.S.A. We rough on your guys when it was time to leave. Certainly true. Check out is 11. Maybe if they left by 12-1 this wouldn't have escalated to this. I'm calling the other companies to discuss my experience in renting to your friends pimp. We had three other big players from poker rent from us. Never a problem. Till you got involved. Ok bolivar is Bryan Oliver. Hey champ you seem to be a problem where ever you show up. Nothing bad seems to happen until you get there why is that?

tell us again how Jose is posting lies and partial conversations, when you were just acting professionally? I have no skin in this game, but why would anyone want to rent from someone who threatens this kind of stuff to someone who wasn't even your tenant, but upset that your employee was abusive towards his maids?

so these "all kinds of people" asking about the "animals" that live in Casa Loma, are all friends with a hooker on facebook and see her videos? I'm confused how this video went viral amongst these people, when the only way they would see it is if they are friends with the poster, and the only signifier that it is your apartment is that you recognize the bar....

Hey Rutang. Great another guy sitting on the sidelines that knows 0 about what we went through with these kids.

Tell me what eviction where the tenants don't want to leave goes professionally?

I said my peace. You guys have judged us in being horrible. I'll live with that prognosis.

I play poker at the rio in medellin Monday to Friday. During the day. 2.000-5.000 peso no holds game. If you like to discuss further with me any of this or have issue with me I'm usually there evey Monday.

The female is a famous hooker. Was on her Facebook page. How does anything go viral. One person saw it recognized the view and the bar. Passed it on till someone sent to me. Is that good enough explanation. Are you less confused now? The apartment is famous due to the person I bought it from. So yes it's recognizeable. Would you like getting this email from friends asking who do you have in your apartment right now. Even monsters who seem to rent our apartments as Bryan Oliver points out aren't shooting videos of hookers there.

Jesus is there one adult in the room who doesn't see us as completely at fault here or am I wasting my time. Give me back our 4G modem you thieves FYI

You're not at fault for throwing them out and being aggressive towards them as they behaved completely unacceptable. It'd obviously be better if you weren't aggressive towards them and simply threw them out, but if they bedhaved in the way you claim they did then I personally don't really fault you for not being too kind on them.

What you are at fault for, however, is Ruben threatening Jose (who in no way has acted wrongly here), and mistreating maids.

Neither party is 100% in the wrong or in the right (except Jose who hasn't done anything wrong and who certainly isn't a pimp).

lol, ive got a flight to catch...but fwiw it was not rueben offering me underage girls...it was one of the handymen that came over one day.

WRT problems that we directly had Barry - The only time we were out of line is when my friend (non-poker player staying with us over feria) brought back 2 girls and blasted music for like 2 hours until 4am one night. I was pissed myself but couldn't bring myself to go tell him to turn anything down during his first threesome of his life. No these girls were not paid for, believe it or not a small percentage of us actually either speak spanish or are giant swedish model-looking guys that can pull girls no problem. Yes we had small parties over feria...the biggest party holiday of the year - but we kept things as quiet as possible.

I somewhat understand Rueben's attitude, but really he should be the bigger man. I was there when someone answered the phone and was talking alot of crap to him...it was like 7am and I had just woken up and went downstairs to play poker while there was still the remnants of a party going on. Then Reuben comes over screaming at me the whole time when I honestly had zero to do with a single issue in casa loma...I had a couple girlfriends at the time and was just working and going out with them, not even partying much at all...but yes the house was a bit hectic with plenty of fault on a couple of the players for getting out of line with security guards, I'm assuming due to language barrier and bringing back skanks. I never had a problem with the guards myself, and it was pretty insane for Rueben to put all the fault on me at that time. Horveech (Will) and the rest of the guys can tell you I was a pretty boring roommate that smoked a bunch of weed, played poker, and had a couple girlfriends come over every couple nights, yet I got blasted by Rueben and by you through email multiple times.

FWIW Bruce was great the whole time... he came over to fix the broken door one morning, mellow as ever...and then Rueben comes in stressing and yelling again when the issue had already been 100% taken care of by Bruce...Rueben is just a very high strung guy, always in a hurry and never taking time to make sure things are handled properly.

I believe 90% of the problems ITT involve him.

Jose put himself in a situation though KJ that he didn't need to get himself involved in.

1) he was not at the apartment during the eviction.
2) he is telling this all second hand. Wasn't there himself and guys were asleep.
3) saying we broke there stuff when it's a false claim
4) called me under false pretenses to book my apartment and then switched gears to tell me I need to fire my employee
5) called said employee demanding a apology. When Ruben did not even know this guy.
6) calling my competition in business and actually a friend of mine to just cry to him about the way he was treated. Not for nothing someone calls me and starts demanding me to apologize for something I didn't do I'm going to get upset. Most of you have no mind set to Colombian tempers to begin with.
7) Jose knew exactly what he was doing and still decided to both stir the pot and be a coat holder. I had a good monologue with Jesse out of that group. If there were issues I could have worked them out with him.
8) overly calling some one SIR when your doing it falsely is sooooo annoying. And it's again to get a rise out of someone.

Anyway KJ I appreciate your response. The fact that you say Jose is not a pimp? Can you prove he never provided girls to online poker playing community in Colombia ? Those girls at dinner just came because the guys are sooo cool with there non Spanish I guess. Or did Jose set all this up? What's that called of someone who sets that up? Anyway for all the heartache he gave me I'm hoping he enjoys his chat on return to the USA and maybe they will believe him.

I don't think human trafficking means what you think it means.

Men who are interested in trashy women are renting from Poblado Rentals. This is insane.



Oh wait there's advertisements for strippers and prostitutes at pobladorentals.com. Who's the pimp again Barry? Is it my friend Jose, or is it Barry and Ruben Marin from Poblado Rentals?


Shocking that Barry and Ruben Marin from Poblado Rentals have earned a reputation for being unprofessional. Sweet personal attack of someone that has nothing to do with this issue. But hey, if you're going to cast the first stone...



How much are you paying that slutty girl half your age to have sex with you?

Is it an official Poblado Rentals policy by Barry and Ruben to show up to the apartment belligerently drunk in the middle of the afternoon and verbally and physically threaten the maids if renters check out a few hours too late?

Can somebody post the video of this clown Ruben from Poblado Rentals (pobladorentals.com), drunk in the parking lot threatening to fight people at 3 in the afternoon?

So background on Bryant here. He and his roommates have stayed at 4 of my properties. His big suede stayed last night at my studio.

Issues at casa Loma. No issues September. You move in October and coincidence or not the trouble starts.

Bryant the other side of the coin is when we are woken up by people (administrators, neighbors, guards) at ungodly hours for us upset because something is going on. I'm not saying you had hookers at least you speak enough Spanish.

I done nothing but bent over backwards answering emails immediately. Securing 4G modems. Not evicting but just saying "you not what your unhappy we are unhappy next month go some place else. Would this ever fly in a hotel? No of course not. Am I blaming you. No. Is Ruben angry when woken up 4 times at 4-5-6 am. YES. Is Bruce cool as ****. Of course He is. I have Ruben running between 19 apartments 7 days a week. He's busy. fYI. When dealing with guards and apartment managers a quick 5 dollar tip speaks volumes to getting the right people on your side. The Ruben I know that I drink with is the coolest nicest chill guy. He's like a smooth talking Mr. rouke from paradise island. Sure half of you 2 young to know that reference. Any who Bryant it hurts when you call me some sex monger concierge. You and I had a long dialogue prior to renting where I told you that snobby building might have trouble with hookers and loud music all night long. Why do all if you choose these crazy buildings when you should be in a building like the one Bruce owns with no other tenants but other like minded people on calle 8? If your going to live with richest Colombians in Medellin your going to get backlash from them when you behave badly. That thought never seems to cross anyone's mind here.

Honestly Bryant I liked you up to you character assignation of me here.

I thought we actually had a good repore during all the stays.

As far as Ruben goes if you don't misbehave you only need to see him at check in. Yes a pot head mind find him stressed out. Because the situations he's put in. There is no professional way to evict guys that don't want to go. Should he have woken them up with waffles and coffee and said please please gather up after and leave? No you get ready for a fight you dig in and you prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

Funny it was him that ran for them getting the 4G modem they stole. He was there for them to make sure they had that. I said nah let them go get it themselves. We rent apartments not offices. .

i actually have a lot of empathy for you and the eviction. it's your actions in dealing with Jose, and even more importantly, your threats here, in this thread, that I am judging you for.

no one is shocked that you had a problem by renting a high end apartment to a group of young, rich kids living in a foreign country. Threatening maids, dealing with Jose (who was certainly inflammatory himself) with threats, and then coming here and making threats as well, is the reason why I judge you.

Why would anyone go to that poker game and introduce themselves, so you can intimidate them with physical threats or immigration problems? Your hotheadness is the reason why people are pouncing on you here.

If you had come here, explained why you evicted them, apologized for collateral damage to maids and Jose, and left it at that, it would have been professional, and any reasonable person would not have judged you for it. Did they deserve to be evicted? we don't know, but we could hear your side. we're not idiots.

Your threatening fights, plus vague threats of harm, plus vague threats of immigration problems, those are unreasonable. To make matters even worse, it wasn't just to the tenants that you say were causing problems, but to a guy who was upset that your employee threatened the maids that were there because he recommended the job to them. even then, if you had come here and just admitted that things had gotten out of hand due to the high emotional tone of the eviction, and that you're taking steps to prevent such things from happening again.... all would have been good.

Instead you make the kind of threats that would make any reasonable observer want to never to business with you. If something goes wrong, even if a renter is at fault, they should never have to worry about those kinds of threats being leveled against them.

1 and 2. your right i was not in the apt. i recieved a phone call from my maids telling me your second in command ruben was calling her an old bitch.
you evicted them from the apt. i have no problem evicting them given all the problems u posted they have given you. 100 pct on your side with that.

3.when did i say he broke there stuff ? i will paste my first email i gave to you .
hello i am looking for a 4 bedroom penthouse to rent for 6 months but before i rent. are you affiliated with ruben ? i heard from a couple of business associates that he kicked out other tenants.?? he was kicking there computers and luggages. and yelled at them ? can you please verify i dont want to do business with a person like that ? i dont know the whole story but i heard from several different people. i was even showed a video one of the tenants shown on his phone of him cursing and yelling having no professionalism. that was my first email to you. before i sent that message my maid told me he was throwing there shoes and kicking there monitor out of the door.

i never said he broke anything barry. please show me a message i gave you or anything when i said they broke there stuff ??

4. yes i did message you under false pretenses it was to lead to a complaint i had against ruben. and any one in my position would feel he should be fired. i didnt bribe or threaten you to fire him
here is my second email to barry.
hey barry , you are right i dont know the whole story. im not mad at you from what i hear you are extremely professional and courteous. regardless of there actions , i agree you should then kick them out, ruben should never have reached to there level, he should have the bearing to have a level head. and keep it proffesional. they showed me a video of him yelling at them cursing.. that is not how a property manager who has clients should ever act. my maid told me yesterday he was kicking there luggages and computers.

5.yes i did call ruben demanding an apology, but why would i need one barry ? jesus christ . i told him he should apologize to my maids for calling one of them an old bitch.

6. yes i called a credible professional owner because i saw one of barrys listing on his website. so i showed the competition of all the emails i receieved from barry and ruben. here is the email i sent to his competition

hello sir i would like if this information can be forwarded to rich holman. i just had a conversation with barry brachfield and ruben marin. they have a listing on your website. here are the cliffnotes. ruben and barry told my work associates they have until saturday to leave the apt they rented. ruben came on saturday told my maids who work for me. to wake them up so they can leave. the maid told him they are sleeping. he when inside there rooms and woke them up and starting grabbing there luggage and moving it. he called my maid an old bitch and moved her out the way. my two maids came to me telling about the disrespect they receieved. i called up barry to clarify the situation in defense of my maids. and why they were treated with such hostility and verbal abuse. as you can see by the conversation( the 1st message starts at the bottom then goes up) he clearly disregarded all points i made. then he gave me the number for ruben to call, when i called ruben he right away told me to "**** you" " i dont care who the *** you are" "your not gonna do ****" " oh your a tough guy lets meet up ill kills you" . i responded by giving him a place to meet up because i allready talked to my porters and they will call the police as soon as i see him. i am waiting for a call back from ruben and as soon as he calls me back i will call the police and let my porters know. i am forwarding this information because they have listings on your website. maybe you know barry and ruben and can talk some sense into them. i completely agreed with barry when he said my associates deserved to get kicked out of the place. i 100 pct agree. but for ruben to escalate the situation with such hostility and verbal abuse is extremely unprofessional. and this is how ruben responds in the email when he heard i called the police .
Dont care about the police. Dont worry BARRY i will handle it ruben-

7. i decided to stir the pot?? look at all my emails i was extremely courteous and i understood why you kicked them out. then look at your emails and the text ruben gave me.

8. yes i called you sir. i was treating you with respect. i never raised my voice at you or ruben. i had a normal tone and came from an understanding prespective. however when i called ruben i even started by saying hello sir. he said F YOU ILL KILL YOU.

9. lol those three girls at the restaurant with us, my friend has a colombiancupid who is a colombian poker player from cali btw, speaks perfect spanish, good looking smart person. and invited her to go out and go dancing after. the girl sitting next to me i knew for quite a while. none of them are hookers.

This is a very ignorant statement. You can't just stop playing poker without losing a bunch of money. Would you show up at any other tenants place of work and demand their immediate attention?

Also attacking poker players as a whole saying we're the scum of the earth and then asking for support from the "adults" in this thread? You had a bad experience with a some tenants who happen to be poker players and you come to that conclusion?

You can see how we are inclined not to take you seriously.

i made my points pretty clearly. changing the subject now im done with him. everyone needs to go watch interstellar! i saw it this week, here is the best review for the movie i read . Christopher Nolan outdoes himself with this thrilling , and emotionally moving. sci-fi drama that has echoes of 2001 but carves out its own gripping story by smartly focusing on the human element so often missing in this genre. Interstellar is how enthralling it is, how gracefully it blends the cosmic and the intimate, how deftly Nolan explores the infinite in the smallest human details.

No problem. Enjoy Medellin. no one ever spoke horrible to your maids. Jesus Christ. Sour grapes on being evicted. As far as saying where to find me. Who would think I'm trying to intimidate. Figured speak in a controlled setting face to face instead of throw soooo many whines about it here. Rich has a listing for me up. That's news to me. I no longer work with them. We have a healthy competitive relationship.

Sit out of the hands for 5 minutes. Ignorant is saying wait 1/2 hr for me to play up to my blind.

Yes I said that to him after being heated for them trying to fake book a place and putting time and money in arranging the place cleaned and getting someone there. And paying for taxis. So yes I was upset. You guys have made up your minds. I don't need you to rent my places and there are plenty of other options. I'm good with it.

1. all of them are high stakes players. they cant just sit out. they lose a lot of money like that. my property manager calls me and he always asks me " your playing poker right now" ok no problem when will you be free to talk ??

2. that is fd up if they made u invest the money and time in fixing the place up. i was not involved in any of that