Order in Orlando

A trained emergency responder who volunteers for Flatbush Hatzoloh, Avromi’s rescue instinct kicked in. After a flurry of phone calls and urgent messages, they found his friend a different home, with just hours to spare until Pesach began.

Unfortunately, Avromi’s friend wasn’t the only one who discovered his Pesach house wasn’t available upon arrival in Orlando. Some dishonest agents in the area were in the habit of listing booked homes for rent in the hopes of landing a higher-paying guest — and when they got a better offer, they would transfer the reservation without informing the first guest. Then there were agents who were outright frauds who listed homes they had no right to rent, took the rental fees, and ran. At the time, there was no effective mechanism in place to stop these scams.

“Families would show up in Orlando and find themselves stranded,” remembers Avromi, who lives with his family in Flatbush and has been going to Orlando’s Solterra Resort for Pesach for close to a decade.

Within the health care world, where Avromi is the COO of The Veritas Healthcare Solutions, they say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Avromi applied that maxim to the Orlando oilem.