With angry customers clamoring for their money back and the district attorney taking a fresh look, James C. Platts, whose real estate deals created bewildering paperwork and bad mortgages, has set up shop in Florida.

Judging from the testimonials on the Web site for both of his companies -- Easy Realty Solutions in Pennsylvania and A Realty Rx in Florida -- Mr. Platts is helping very similar people.

In fact, they're identical.

The Easy Realty Web site, with its listing of "premier properties" and promises to get even the least likely borrowers into houses, carries a full page of testimonials from customers thrilled with the homes Mr. Platts got them.

Here's one:

"I really wanted to own. I found Easy Realty Solutions and WOW, night and day difference," writes R.C. of Pittsburgh.

The difference wasn't night and day when "R.C." of Pittsburgh became "R.C." of Fort Lauderdale.

"I found A Realty Rx and WOW, night and day difference," R.C. writes on the site for Mr. Platts's Florida firm.

"W.R." of Penn Hills, informs visitors to the Easy Realty site, "We both got remarried and lived with her parents, you know how that is!"

At least one person knows how that is: W.R. of Coral Springs, Fla.

The same testimonial, complete with warnings about living with the in-laws, appears on the Florida site for A Realty Rx.

"We bought a home from Easy Realty several years ago and due to some job and health issues, we lost our home," writes "D.L." of Pittsburgh, who said he called Easy Realty again and, "before long we owned our second home. Thanks Jim."

According to a testimonial on the A Realty Rx site, Mr. Platts worked the same wonder for "D.L." in Coconut Creek, Fla. According to that testimonial, "We bought a home from A Realty Rx several years ago," and suffered the same reversal of fortunes and same second chance, this time from A Realty Rx.

"Thanks Jim," D.L. writes, presumably from his new place in Coconut Creek.

Precisely how many years ago "D.L." in Florida first bought a home through A Realty Rx is unclear. The company was incorporated in April of this year, listing an address in Tamarac, Fla., that is also listed as the home of Brittany Platts, a licensed real estate agent and Mr. Platts's daughter.

According to A Realty's Web site, "For nearly ten years A Realty Rx has been providing professional realty services to hundreds of clients each and every year, with the highest levels of honesty and integrity, with a goal of total customer satisfaction."

That's identical to the testimonial page for Easy Realty Solutions, which currently is the subject of a second investigation by the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office. Last year, the attorney general's office of consumer protection won a settlement agreement against Mr. Platts because of his handling of a rent-to-own business after customers complained they'd been bilked of thousands of dollars.

In the past month, the Post-Gazette has reported numerous instances in which Mr. Platts helped arrange loans for clients who lacked jobs, created second mortgages for buyers who say they didn't know they were extending them, had those mortgages transferred to his name, and then, in at least one instance, created a deal with different settlement statements depending on whether they were going to the bank or the buyer.

The Pennsylvania Real Estate Commission revoked Mr. Platts's real estate license after he pleaded guilty to 12 counts of theft in connection with his former construction business.

Yesterday, a spokesman for the Allegheny County District Attorney's office, which prosecuted Mr. Platts on the theft charges, said detectives had reopened their files in the wake of the newspaper's reports about dual settlement statements and possibly deceptive second mortgages.

In January, a federal grand jury indicted Mr. Platts on charges of income tax evasion.

Since that time he has been free on bail on the federal charges and is serving out probation handed down in Allegheny County Common Pleas court for his theft and fraud conviction.

On both Web sites, Mr. Platts assures potential customers that he's the real deal.

"Our honest and professional approach separates us from the many imposters attempting to dishonestly scam the public with schemes that don't work and never will," he writes on both the site for Easy Realty Solutions and A Realty Rx.

Mr. Platts did not return telephone calls to either his Pennsylvania or Florida numbers.