Bella Collina is scaring the residentsA luxury gated community is a place meant for the residents to live peacefully, happy, overwhelming while enjoying the privacy, avoiding the city's rush and noise. Such a community is affording its residents not be disturbed, while serving all of their needs, depending on the offers of the community. Bella Collina as an Italian styled, more in a way Tuscan styled specifically and is visioned to make its residents feel the community is the most comfortable place on Earth. A place they will call it a home. With its own golf course, a club and a Spa center, Bella Collina is meant to be a true luxury in Central Florida, Orlando. Bella Collina is owned by Dwight Schar, a billionaire owning several companies including NVR with its subsidiaries and DCS Investments Capital. He is also a co-owner(minority owner) of the Washington Redskins. The luxurious community Bella Collina has been accused of poor and unprofessional management, driving the homeowners and other potential investors away. With losing money drastically, the homeowners are forced to jump from the sinking ship. According to the reports from the homeowners, around 500 families flipped the coin and made their luck outside of Bella Collina. They decided that this community is no longer worth for investments, thus they stopped paying the high fees of the HOA or the club, accumulating "dues" to the community, resulting in losing their investments, they finally fled Bella Collina. Let's make the things more clearer about the high costs for the club. Any homeowner, in order to live in Bella Collina is forced to pay $40,000-$80,000 in club fees. This is money you will never see again. On this, it is added $5,000-$10,000 plus fees every year. Living in a gated community has its own rules and standards. The Homeowner’s Association in Bella Collina has a list of unnecessary rules and an even longer list of lawyers. Whether in any other community the HOA(Homeowner's association) is controlled by the residents, in Bella Collina it is controlled by its management. After 500 families left Bella Collina for good, the community became a typical ghost town. That is only 70-90 homes are occupied by the residents, year-round out of 900 possible houses. That is making a perfect place for Dwight Schar and his management to overtake the HOA from the residents and use it in their own interests even against the interests of the homeowners. There has been numerous reports from the former residents and some still living there that there has been a "selective enforcement" towards them. A resident and his family have been suffering “selective enforcement” as a form of retaliation from Dwight Schar’s controlled HOA after posting an honest online review exposing the truth about Bella Collina. According to a court deposition, an employee or a manager named Randall Greene retaliated against a family, a mother and her kid by canceling a school bus that was driving in Bella Collina to pick up the children, so that they had to walk all the way out of the neighborhood to get to their bus. It was reported that the HOA(controlled by the managers) is punishing, retaliating and harassing residents via their kids. This is not the first time this controlled HOA is retaliating the homeowners. Other residents have experienced the poor and unprofessional management, literally. One family, Juravin moved to Bella Collina in December, 2015. Living in Bella Collina, as stated before has been visioned as living in a true luxury. However, after a few months living in Bella Collina and realizing that one thing is what they say on the advertisements and other one is living there, the husband decided to place a honest review on Google, sharing his opinion about Bella Collina and thoughts how to improve. For the amount of investments in Bella Collina, the Club, and the amenities, the return was small. The retaliation the family received through Bella Collina’s HOA bankrupted them. After placing the review on Google, the family received intimidation and retaliation from the management and the controlled HOA. The family was banned from the club, the pool and was marked as "dangerous" through a letter they've received. But despite being banned from the club and the pool, the family was still forced to pay the massive fees associated with the club. In an attempt to file a complain to the court about the massive fees, the family received a note from the court saying that the fees are legal because the family agreed on them and moreover was already paying them. The Juravin family is not the only family fighting the controlled HOA and the management of Bella Collina. Other families tried to actively fight the HOA at Bella Collina, only to be chased away. Three families, the Heckenbergs, the Sheltons, and the Sutherins, sued the Bella Collina Club, calling the massive Club fees they were forced to pay “unjust” and even “illegal.” However, even in these cases, while the homeowners were not paying the fees, their cases were dismissed. In retaliation, Bella Collina canceled the school bus that came to pick up the Sutherin children. The children were forced to leave the community to be picked up by the bus. Eventually, the Sutherins were forced to move to another neighborhood. Dwight Schar’s HOA has made it clear: one can’t just leave their HOA past behind. It will catch up to you. The Sutherins were chased down Dwight Schar‘s henchman Randall Greene whom he placed to control the Board. Randall F Green, in what seems like a scary harassing way, sent a mug to the Sutherins with a note: “We sent you a mug just to let you know that we have not forgotten that you still owe us money and we know where to send the copy of the judgment when we get it…I really don’t like white trash.” Is that what we should expect from Dwight Schar the “philanthropist”? But who has been running Bella Collina? For years, convicted criminal Richard Arrighi was convicted of fraud, and stole millions from the state of Massachusetts, according to legal records. Arrighi was sentenced to three years in prison, and then failed to pay the money he owed in restitution. This Bella Collina manager was caught lying about his ability to pay, as well as his assets available. Paul Simonson, Dwight Schar’s finance guy, now runs Bella Collina, after about 5 years that Richard Arrighi DEFACTO managed the place. Paul Simonson himself was a defendant in a class action accusing of scam, fraud, embezzlement, and racketeering. Another Dwight Schar employee is Randall F. Greene, who was sued for a fraudulent real estate transaction. In essence, Randall F. Greene and wife Christina Greene were accused of “stealing a house” in Bella Collina. Greene was accused of engaging in “fraudulent acts in furtherance of a fraudulent scheme to prevent the Plaintiffs from taking possession of…” a Bella Collina property. One thing is certain, such actions taken against the families, with intimidation, retaliation and bullying are ILLEGAL! Source:https://www.newsanyway.com/2019/10/21/dwight-schars-bella-collina-florida-continues-to-scare-residents-and-lose-says-don-juravin/ Share your opinion:
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