South Beach Tow. South Beach Tow is an American television series that portrayed dramatized reenactments of the day-to-day business of Tremont Towing, a family run towing business in Miami Beach, and South Beach Towing, a towing company in Gladeview created by the workers of Tremont in Season 4.

Both are actual towing companies in Florida, however, South Beach Towing has ceased operations and closed down within the last two years leaving only Tremont Towing still currently in business.

That’s translated into a cash cow for Mark Festa, Beach Towing’s owner, and Russell Galbut and Keith Menin — owners of the Shelbourne and Mondrian Hotels and dozens of other properties — who bought Tremont in 2011 from Edwin “Tony” Gonzalez.

Second generation tower most well known for his appearance on the truTV series South Beach Tow known for it’s dramatized reenactments of the Tremont Towing business. He graduated from Miami High School before becoming a managing partner at Tremont Towing. His appearance on South Beach Tow has earned him 30,000 Instagram followers.

What is South Beach Tow?

South Beach Tow is an American television series that portrayed dramatized reenactments of the day-to-day business of Tremont Towing, a family run towing business in Miami Beach, and South Beach Towing, a towing company in Gladeview created by the workers of Tremont in Season 4. Both are actual towing companies in Florida, however, …

In the second episode of Season 4 (Flipping Out), the crew moved to Miami, located at the former Goodfellas lot, which is now called “South Beach Towing” thanks to Kosgrove coming up with the name. Meanwhile, Bernice and her mother, Reva, start a food truck business out of a food truck they repossessed in the Season 3 Finale.

Tremont Towing continues to rival with Finest, now named “Goodfellas” – which is now part of Tremont. After the Mid-Season Finale of Season 3, Perez convinced Robbie to work on the side with him at his own towing company which was called R&P Towing (Robbie & Perez).

The Finest is owned by Robert Sr’s rival, Larry Diaz shown to employ very corrupt drivers who go as far as stealing tows, injuring Tremont drivers, and once putting sugar in several of Tremont’s trucks’ gas tanks. Larry is also a rage driven man built on taking down Robert and Tremont Towing.

Both are actual towing companies in Florida, however, South Beach Towing has ceased operations and closed down within the last two years leaving only Tremont Towing still currently in business.

Who owns Beach Towing?

That’s translated into a cash cow for Mark Festa , Beach Towing’s owner, and Russell Galbut and Keith Menin — owners of the Shelbourne and Mondrian Hotels and dozens of other properties — who bought Tremont in 2011 from Edwin “Tony” Gonzalez.

Dierdre Mirmelli and Tremont are even represented by the same SoBe lawyer, Mark Alhadeff. But Mirmelli denies that he’s profiting from Tremont’s tows.

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In the first six months of 2013, both companies reported $1.2 million in revenues just from cars towed off public property. That’s close to 5,000 cars towed between January and June.

Miami Beach cops started a fruitless search. On October 22, Rodriguez again called the cops. This time, he snitched on 24-year-old Sandra Jean Louis, who had entered his yard and sped away in her 2000 maroon Chevrolet Cavalier despite $800 in parking and towing fines.

Miami Beach residents already jump through Cirque du Soleil-worthy hoops to get parking passes and decals to ensure their rides aren’t jacked by Beach or Tremont. But the companies still use loopholes to swipe residents’ vehicles.

But for the thousands of residents and tourists whose rides are actually hooked every month by Tremont and its competitor, Beach Towing, the truth is far worse than Hollywood’s scripted version. The fact is, towing on Miami Beach is an unparalleled city-sanctioned racket even in a town of slimy scams.

Who is the developer of Beach Towing?

News of the Tremont suit comes a week after lawyers for developer Bradley Colmer, a managing principal at Deco Capital Group, sent a letter to City Hall accusing Beach Towing of operating its tow lot illegally in violation of zoning laws. That issue has not been resolved.

The suit alleges that Tremont did not have the right to tow the vehicle because county law says private property owners have to authorize each individual tow with a signature. In other words, owners can’t make a blanket request to tow companies to remove vehicles after business hours without case-by-case approval.

Tremont is the company featured in South Beach Tow, a staged-reality cable series. Because the city gets a cut of towing revenue, the city of Miami Beach is named as a defendant in the Tremont suit, which was filed April 1 in Miami-Dade County civil court.

Mas Canosa, uncle of current MasTec CEO Jose Mas Canosa, says he parked his car at 9:30 a.m. in a private lot next to the Bank of America at 930 Washington Ave. on a Sunday in January, when the bank would have been closed. When he came back around 11:30, the car was gone.

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