Elderly park home owners scammed

Published 14/02/2012

Many of the Leisure Lake park home owners were scammed by Tim Silva when he absconded after numerous owners paid him for the maintenance of the park home. Mrs. Johnson considered it a chance meeting Tim Silva to take care of the home maintenance which her late husband had always looked after. She required periodic leveling of the park home and saw Tim Silva coming out of the home of a neighbor after completing the same leveling work. He offered the job for $350, a much-lower price than the regular charges. However, the problems started when he took the payment and started work but never showed up again. Ms. Johnson said: “Even though I made numerous calls to him, but he never responded nor called me back. I actually called him at 3 a.m. and told him that I was going to call the police now. Even though I didn’t want to bring him harm or do this, but he had behaved thus that I had no options.” She is one of the 13 people whom Tim had scammed when he took the money after promising that repairs will be done but then he just vanished. He was later arrested by the Sherriff’s department at Sonoma County. At this park home is the residence, most of the residents are elderly and the financial loss is more. Silva has pleaded guilty to three counts of financial abuse, felony diversion of construction funds and contracting without license. He agreed to make a payment of $12,850 to the payment of 12 victims. The owners of the park for the last 5 years, Terry and Carol Pederson said that they didn’t know Silva but as he had dropped many names for the people he had worked for.

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