We received a letter from  someone calling themselves "valleyfromhellresident" that was so full of untruths and misconceptions that we in good conscious cannot post it here. It was entirely an attack piece, false and misleading, and our blog is about giving truthful information to owner/readers. However, we would post it if their authorship is given so they can stand by and answer the defamatory statements to the community directly. 

 

This is our comments to that letter. 

Dear :Valley From Hell Resident, 

So many of our residents have been threatened, demonized, even referred to Panama authorities for absolutely no reason simply because they challenged the SC Chairman Richard Charbit and its members to be honest about who Richard Charbit is since he lied to the entire community about his past.  

He said it was a made up cousin who was the arrested party; but instead of honesty, the Steering Committee collectively were complicit & covered up and lied about his criminal past versus being upfront to the community.   

Their subsequent actions of the SC against the developer ( all documented) without the consent of the Homeowners has many many owners upset. Because the criminal / civil actions have been formally charged against these members of the SC, that could very well end up costing all VE owners a great deal of money in legal fees and damages if a judgement is awarded against us. And those charged criminally could go to jail. These charges as we now know are very serious in Panama, but seem to taken lightly by those charged who have not sought expert legal advice. 

The community has asked this SC numerous times if  they will pay their own legal bills to defend against their irresponsible actions and they refuse to respond in any forum of requests to do so, so what does this tell you?  We collectively refuse to be responsible for these careless & reckless actions. You could say emotions are deep among owners in VE. 

 We feel the group who supports this SC should all tell the community they will as agreed to fund them for any and all legal fees and or judgments against them and it will diminish many of the residents hostilities.  Maybe you can take your frustrations and spearhead this cause in defense of the SC.  It would be so appreciated. 

There is so much hatred and anguish in VE,  many of us wish we never purchased here.  Without getting into the issues and or taking sides of beliefs, we feel in order for this community to heal the following must happen.

1)    All Steering Committee members agree to resign and hold an election where members must be voted in and not appointed by a small group; We need a fresh start with new people and new ideas.

2)    As a community, we review and edit new CC&R’s that help prevent these problems from ever happening again in Valle Escondido that we are experiencing today. The homeowners need to have a vote on important issues; where we have no vote or consideration today.

3)    We insure all of our annual HOA dues go towards expenditures that 100% of our community can enjoy and or considered as priority expenses such as security, road maintenance, landscaping, trash pick-up,  infrastructure transfer & maintenance of same; Not to advisors and or legal fees

4)    Limiting the power of a few and restoring decisions of expenses to the majority.

5)    Should a select group of owners have an agenda against the developer/resort owner important to this group, they can form their own subcommittee, review the facts , offer a plan of objectives to the HOA and have the entire community vote on a cause of action weather to proceed or not. Mediation is our only cost effective way to solve our problems and move forward, holding both the developer and the HOA to an enforceable resolution.  

We are sad you also seem to have these feelings and hope you join us in starting over with a fresh start.