Does anyone know more about Bellazo/Kalia?
Reason : Deletion upon request
Would you please quit calling people liars? Doesn鈥檛 seem to me like you are looking for neighbors but more interested in spreading negative things and trying to convince happy campers that they鈥檝e made a bad choice. I鈥檓 not a liar nor do I like liars. We have a home under construction and anyone is welcome to come tour our home. So please STOP with your negative accusations. We鈥檙e moving from the U.S. to get away from all the negativity around us, last thing I want to do is converse with people who seem to enjoy making satisfied home owners feel that they鈥檝e made a bad choice. We made a GREAT choice and are very happy with the services we receive and have nothing negative to say about Kalia. I鈥檓 sorry if you had a bad experience but I find it hard to believe that the guys at Kalia are such unreasonable monsters.
If you ever decide to change your attitude I鈥檒l be more than happy to share information on our home and maybe even invite you over for a cup of coffee.
LoveCRforever, maybe you can fill us in when your home is complete...and you have everything you were promised.
Will do. I understand people鈥檚 concerns, we too were concerned until we finally decided to make the move. But I can tell you that the experience so far has been beautiful. The company cares about the homes they build and are doing exceptional work with our home. We couldn鈥檛 be happier.
I promise to do so
Please send us some information about Bellazo and the areas around.
Thanks,
Kika1802 wrote:We did the discovery tour with the Bellazo people. They were great with us! We met one of the owners and we visited a few of the house being built. We put some money down but after reading some of the reviews, we all have the same concerns. When the roads are going to be built and main roads finished for access to our houses 365 days a year? Not only during the dry season.聽 Are people living there 12 months a year? How do they get their stuff is the roads are flooded? We are concerned.
Please send us some information about Bellazo and the areas around.
Thanks,
Being "great with us" is great, but aren't people who want to sell you something always pretty great?
What is most important is how great they are with you once you've given your money and they have to come through on what they've promised. I know nothing about this place, only what I'm reading here. But it doesn't look like a place I'd want to sink my money into.
Your questions and concerns need to be answered by people who've actually bought and built there, not by sales people, so make sure they are answered to your satisfaction by people who've built there, are living there, and are happy there.
Best of luck, can only wish that you will be as happy as we are.
I don鈥檛 make things up or falsely accuse.
You might want to reread my posts
kohlerias wrote:Unfortunately, many of us that have lived in Costa Rica for many years, have seen first hand that the country has hundreds of unfinished developments that will never be completed.
LoveCRforever, maybe you can fill us in when your home is complete...and you have everything you were promised.
Advice everyone should heed.聽 聽I would never buy anything in CR that I couldn't see with my own eyes.聽 There are scammers everywhere in CR.
Please send us more information any time. Good luck. CR is a beautiful place!!!!
Just says "This thread is no longer available" now. weird.
I was talking to the guy who posted it.
He had direct experience of Bellazo and posted very scary info about the developer.
this developer has a US criminial record and a court judgement over a default / non-payment on a US AMEX for $180,000.
we are avoiding Bellazo.
I understand that all sales pitches are basically half truths!聽 There鈥檚 never anything negative , from a salesperson, right?聽 I can take some bumps in the road, and I expect major potholes.聽 聽i understand the bellazo community Is still in early stages, so I鈥檓 not expecting much as far as all the amenities - yet.聽 But I would like to know that my house will be built to the specifications they advertise.聽
After all, All construction is a nightmare and I don鈥檛 know anyone who has done a major construction project who didn鈥檛 feel ripped off (here in the US!).聽 I have been聽 taken advantage of and lied to by several high end contractors here in US- and every single project goes way over budget.聽 聽- so not a surprise it can happen in Costa Rica.
I鈥檓 just trying to figure out whether these bad experiences in Bellazo Are beyond the typical construction nightmare!聽 聽Add to that the fact that I won鈥檛 be on site to oversee everything ...you have to go in expecting a lot of problems.聽 But is the end result worth it.....?
So if anyone would be willing to share details of what went terribly wrong , I would be grateful.聽 You have to admit - the location and price is tempting!
Can't speak about the amenities, obviously, since they don't exist and we don't live there. What can be said so far is the construction and clearing of the land and foundation are about to begin. It took us a long time just to get to this point, while not all can be blamed on the developer, the strike in Costa Rica did play a 3/4 month delay in our permits, but finally, we begin.
Now as far as the rest, I guess we will find out, but we do have architects and construction developers in the family, and anything we received does get sent to them for a review. So far it has been said that it does not appear to be some guy sitting in a shack, these look like real architectural and engineering drawings.
While we cross our fingers and keep pushing forward, we hope to reach the end of the road sometime this year or early next year.
Just like anywhere, you can get what you want to be built with the right people in place, or you can get ripped off, so tread carefully when building anywhere in the world is an understatement.
Dallasmags is spot on
Nothing is what it seems.
The posts here by (real) people i.e not the fake profiles that their sales team make, echo my experience verbatim.
Nobody I have met who built with them have said it was a breeze, which is why those ultra-positive posts here stink like a red herring on a hot day at the market.
The truth is that the company is in financial difficulty and has been for several years. This is why, despite serious events, my money has not been returned to me, two years later.
The CEO is bankrupt and wanted in the USA for an unpaid AMEX in 2015, for the amount of $180,000 plus two of their Directors are listed as Criminals in the US.
I honestly wish I knew this earlier.
This information is available to anybody with an internet connection within the US (as public data records are not broadcast internationally).
After some very serious events at Kalia, my girlfriend and I we鈥檙e unable to live there. As the chain of events is very personal please feel free to contact me privately if you want to hear out story. It鈥檚 quite distressing.
The good news is that at the minute I am in talks with a new manager, who has finally mentioned returning my money.
This was very welcome news after the bankrupt CEO said my cash had gone and can never be returned. Combined with what happened at the development, I actually had a breakdown after hearing this news. I鈥檓 still in recovery.
The bankrupt guy is still involved as he鈥檚 a major shareholder plus involved in daily operations. You may even encountered him.
The bad news is that today after asking for details of the plan to the new manager four days ago, my query was ignored. I still have hope and I will update you when I have an update.
If you have been on a Discovery Tour and are considering Bellazo / Kalia, have any history or have information on Kalia & it鈥檚 management team please feel free to get message me privately.
Ray Johnson wrote:I couldn鈥檛 disagree more. Kalia is a GREAT company. I鈥檓 building a home in Bellazo and my experience has been nothing but spectacular. Everything that was promised was delivered above and beyond.
They made everything seamless and easy through the construction period.
The house is nearing completion (about 90% completed). It is absolutely stunning. My wife cried when she walked in. We can鈥檛 wait to move in.
Interesting that both of your posts are about this subject, you've never posted anything else. DId someone ask you to post here about this, or ?
roscobrady2 wrote:Bellazo & Kalia are terrible.
Nothing is what it seems.
The posts here by (real) people i.e not the fake profiles that their sales team make, echo my experience verbatim.
Nobody I have met who built with them have said it was a breeze, which is why those ultra-positive posts here stink like a red herring on a hot day at the market.
The truth is that the company is in financial difficulty and has been for several years. This is why, despite serious events, my money has not been returned to me, two years later.
The CEO is bankrupt and wanted in the USA for an unpaid AMEX in 2015, for the amount of $180,000 plus two of their Directors are listed as Criminals in the US.
I honestly wish I knew this earlier.
This information is available to anybody with an internet connection within the US (as public data records are not broadcast internationally).
After some very serious events at Kalia, my girlfriend and I we鈥檙e unable to live there. As the chain of events is very personal please feel free to contact me privately if you want to hear out story. It鈥檚 quite distressing.
The good news is that at the minute I am in talks with a new manager, who has finally mentioned returning my money.
This was very welcome news after the bankrupt CEO said my cash had gone and can never be returned. Combined with what happened at the development, I actually had a breakdown after hearing this news. I鈥檓 still in recovery.
The bankrupt guy is still involved as he鈥檚 a major shareholder plus involved in daily operations. You may even encountered him.
The bad news is that today after asking for details of the plan to the new manager four days ago, my query was ignored. I still have hope and I will update you when I have an update.
If you have been on a Discovery Tour and are considering Bellazo / Kalia, have any history or have information on Kalia & it鈥檚 management team please feel free to get message me privately.
If you have any indisputable factual info about any of the above on a web page, I think the moderators here would allow it. If these people you mention are indeed criminals I think it would be helpful to post that info here. I'm not a moderator but I think it would be helpful and acceptable. If not, I think you could send that info via PM to those who are considering buying.
My team has since done more research, finding more alarming news.
It seems that Bellazo & Kalia鈥檚 鈥楥hief Architect鈥 is in fact not an architect.
He has no licence on record with both the AIA (Association of Licensed Architects) or the California Board of Architects, which is where he claims to have been building amazing 鈥楥elebrity homes鈥櫬 in successful communities in Bel Air and Palm Springs.
More lies, more illusion = more people having their trust abused by this abhorrent, vampiric company.
PS I鈥檝e tried to look up info on the company but couldn鈥檛 find anything except what the company had out out there.聽 However, since you obviously have the names, I totally trust whT you are saying . Depressing these people get away with it...
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