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• Oct 23, 2023

CHIMENE VAN GUNDY CONNED ME AND MANY OTHERS TO SEND HER MONEY AND SHE ALSO WORKED WITH SANTOS KIDD. THEY TOOK THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FROM ME AND MY HUSBAND AND WE HAVE NOT GOTTEN IT BACK! SHE CLAIMS THAT SHE WAS INVESTING INTO MOBILE HOMES AND IT WAS ALL A LIE! NOW THAT SHE WAS SUED BY THE SEC WE KNOW WHAT SHE WAS REALLY DOING WITH OUR MONEY! ABSOLUTE DISGRACE! I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS WOMEN WAS CROWNED WOMAN OF THE YEAR OR THAT ANYONE GAVE HER REAL RECOGNITION! YOU GUYS NEED TO DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE NEXT TIME! I AM SICK!
CHIMEME VAN GUNDY STOLE THOUSANDS FROM ME!!!

• Jun 05, 2023

This is the State site that governs Manufactured Housing:

https://www.tdhca.state.tx.us/mh/

This is the bond holder for her security bond. The Business License is suspended.

Security Bond PAUL T BRUFLAT WESTERN SURETY COMPANY 101 S REID ST STE 300
P.O. BOX 5077
SIOUX FALLS, SD 571175077

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I’m confident she’s drawing a massive unemployment check and receiving government welfare too. Some really needs to look into these individuals defrauding others. It seems like they always get away with it.

I can not understand how she could file for bankruptcy 3 times, and never go to prison, taking countless money from people

Absolute joke of a company! Chimene VanGundy stole millions from people across the united states and she has not spoken to any of us! She supposedly has an "accident" ending of 2021 and now filed for Bankruptcy. Her reputation is FOREVER tarnished for what she has done to people and how she has treated them. There is NO way you could sleep at night knowing you took this amount from people! Absolute insanity. She doesn't even have to decency to apologize and show face to her clients that trusted her. Santos Kidd deserves the same! He promoted this bs without understanding her business. They both need to rot in hell. Do not ever invest or believe a word Chimene says. She is an absolute liar and has promised time and time again that she would pay up. It NEVER came and now the truth is slowly coming out. I cannot believe how she managed to pull this [censored] off with thousands of people! This should be all over billboards.

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Hello All, Just FYI she no longer lives at 914 Avery Parkway. Her husband sold the house in September. My husband and I bought it without knowing she was a crook but we’re sick and tired of people knocking on the door looking for the stupid lady.

Has anyone heard from the court-appointed receiver appointed for ORES by the Comal County Court Judge? On another web site, I learned that there was to be a meeting with the receiver, Charles Adams, concerning the progress (or lack of same) on this situation. I received no such notice and Mr. Adams is aware that I am one of the creditors to this action. Another notice said that the meeting had been postponed with no date set.

The residence where Ms. VanGundy has been living, 914 Avery Park, New Braunfels is no longer on the market. A property search shows that property under another name since 2013.

My suspicion is that we probably will see little or no money and should investigate using our losses as tax-write offs (consult your lawyer/tax advisor). I have a good friend who is one of the top bankruptcy attorneys in the country (usually corporate). He told me that the only time in his 30+ years that the scammer paid off is when the crook unexpectedly died and had a large life insurance policy that was able to pay off all the creditors.

I believe that perhaps action could be taken against the agents who sold these "investments." Perhaps they have E&O insurance, but from the advice I've received, the documents I signed are not normal documents for such transactions. However, it seems that Ms. VanGundy never purchased or rehabbed these mobile homes and I question if the agents or account managers ever did their due diligence and any simple investigation -- like, "Could I see where you renovate these units?" or "Could I see where you have installed these units?" or "Could I see some of the paperwork from your purchasers of these units?"

Of course, fairly we could say neither did we. Or at least I can say it.

I have two different mobile home investments/notes with both Michael Trofimof and Chimere Van Gundy and had not been paid for over a year! The payout should have been on a quarterly basis. I know of many others that are in the same boat as me. They need to be held accountable for what they did. The money I invested was supposed to be my retirement money. It was hard-earned money that I had saved up!

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In Georgia, there has been a default judgement entered against both Outstanding Real Estate Solutions, Inc. and Chimene Van Gundy for $200,104.53 plus costs as well and a default judgement entered against Michael Trofimoff and Viridis Holdings, LLC total sum $197,334.45 plus costs for similar issues mentioned in other comments here. I found out the Michael has listed his Georgia home on Zillow for 1.1 million and the sale is pending as of todays' date 2/3/23. I don't know how many of you are owed money by him, or if he was involved in your dealings, but thought you all may want to be aware incase you need to take action. Final judgement was entered 12/19/22.

Same for me, she should go to prison

Joe Shmoe, how active you are in this issue? Thanks for the remaining stuff it was helpful. How did you know of all the remaining info?

We all have been SCAMMED by Ms. Van Gundy. Have you reached out to the court-appointed receiver for ORES? (Charles Adams, CPA in New Braunfels)

By the way, her last known residence at 914 Avery Pkwy, New Braunfels, TX is now up for sale.

https://mandyadams.kw.com/property/LST-6952433740163428352-4 ($375,000, no doubt mortgaged to the hilt). If anyone has a judgement against her, it probably would be worth a few bucks to put a lien against the sales proceeds if any.

BUSINESS//LOCAL BUSINESS
San Antonio trustee wants ‘Queen of Mobile Homes’ bankruptcy case tossed

Patrick Danner, Staff writer
Aug. 16, 2022Updated: Aug. 16, 2022 4:26 p.m.
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The trustee administering the bankruptcy estate of Chimene Van Gundy, the self-described “Queen of Mobile Homes” and “the Mobile Home Millionaire” accused of running a Ponzi scheme, has asked a judge to toss her case.

Chapter 7 trustee Randy Osherow filed the motion to dismiss the liquidation case on grounds that Van Gundy has failed to comply with her obligations under the bankruptcy code.

If dismissed, litigation against Van Gundy that had been paused since her April 27 bankruptcy filing would be allowed to proceed.

Van Gundy, 46, did not appear at a creditors meeting conducted by telephone Thursday. Such meetings allow the trustee and creditors to question a debtor.

James Wilkins, Van Gundy’s bankruptcy lawyer, told Osherow as the meeting began that she had been advised by her physician not to attend.

“The doctor says she can’t testify right now,” Wilkins said.

It was the second consecutive meeting she has missed, the trustee said.

Van Gundy has said she sustained a brain injury late last year after falling and hitting her head on a concrete table at her home. She didn’t know what caused the fall, but said it has caused memory problems.

Lawsuits

The New Braunfels businesswoman has boasted that she earned more than $10 million buying manufactured homes on the cheap, fixing them up and flipping them. She’s been a guest on numerous podcasts and other programs to tout her investing prowess.

But some who invested with her expecting big returns allege she reneged on principal and interest payments on the loans they made. They say she orchestrated a Ponzi scheme that collectively cost them and others at least a few million dollars.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has been investigating.

Various investors sued Van Gundy and her company, Outstanding Real Estate Solutions Inc., or ORES, including for fraud, civil conspiracy to defraud and breach of loan agreements.

Van Gundy responded by filing for personal bankruptcy, putting the litigation on hold.
“If Ms. Van Gundy’s bankruptcy is dismissed, then the multiple lawsuits pending against her can proceed in the various courts and she will not receive a discharge on her debts,” said San Antonio lawyer David Jed Williams, who represents a group that sued her and her company.

The trustee wants the bankruptcy dismissed “without prejudice,” meaning Van Gundy could refile the case. Wilkins did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday, so it couldn’t be determined if he would oppose the motion to dismiss.

Williams said even if the bankruptcy isn’t dismissed, he expects many creditors will object to Van Gundy receiving a discharge of the debts she owes them because of the allegations of her fraudulent conduct.

No shows

In her bankruptcy papers, Van Gundy reported about $1.6 million in assets and almost $353,000 in liabilities. Her home, valued at $1.5 million, and two vehicles account for most of her assets. She didn’t list any financial assets. She described as “unknown” the amounts owed to more than a dozen creditors.

Some of the lawsuits against Van Gundy and ORES were filed in Comal County, where she resides.

Prior to the bankruptcy, Judge Dib Waldrip in Comal County appointed a receiver to take over ORES. It has not filed for bankruptcy.

The creditors meetings haven’t been particularly enlightening for creditors wanting to know where their money went.

At the first meeting May 26, Van Gundy told those listening roughly a hundred times that she didn’t remember, recall or know the answer when questioned.

That meeting, also conducted by telephone, was cut short after Wilkins said Van Gundy had suffered two seizures during the proceeding.

The meeting was reset to June 23 but it also ended early because she had a seizure, her lawyer said. The meeting was continued to July 14, but Van Gundy didn’t appear. Thursday marked the latest reset.

“It’s really up to the (bankruptcy) judge on how he wants to proceed on it,” Osherow said.

“Obviously, I can’t do my job if Ms. Van Gundy fails to appear.”

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Patrick Danner
Patrick Danner is a business reporter for the San Antonio Express-News.
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Latest on Chimere Van Gundy

According to press reports, a bankruptcy court hearing for VanGundy was scheduled for June 23, but I have not been able to find out any information about results. A receiver was appointed by the Comal Co. judge, and I've sent information on my claims to him (Charles H. Adams, 974 N Liberty St., New Braunfels, TX 78130) but have not heard anything from him. In speaking with lawyers who have dealt with these types of scams, it takes years to try to find any records on these scam operators. While suing and doing all sorts of stuff might sound worthwhile, the old "you can't get blood from a turnip" rule applies and just throws good money after bad. One option is that if you bought this investment through an "Account Manager," you could have an action against that person -- again, assuming they have assets that you can recover against. I'm guessing most of our only recourse will be to file this as a capital loss write-off, and you might get a partial refund from current year/previous year taxes. My loss is in excess of $100,000.

Chimene Van Gundy carefully crafted a public persona as a successful buyer and seller of mobile homes before a judge appointed a receiver to take control of her New Braunfels company and she filed for personal bankruptcy last month.

But during a bankruptcy proceeding Thursday, she couldn’t recall any particular deal she did to get people to invest with her or that led to her becoming known as “the Mobile Home Millionaire.” She’s also called herself the “Queen of Mobile Homes.”

“I don’t remember any specifics right now,” she told San Antonio attorney Leslie Luttrell, who represents multiple creditors in the bankruptcy. “I just know that I would find mobile homes and fix and flip them.”

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That was one of about 100 times Van Gundy, 45, told the attorney and others she didn’t remember, recall or know the answer to a question during her first meeting with creditors.

During the hour-and-45-minute proceeding in her Chapter 7 case, Van Gundy said she sustained a brain injury late last year after falling and hitting her head on a concrete table at her home. She didn’t know what caused the fall, but said it’s the reason for her memory problems.

The meeting, which was conducted by telephone, was cut short after Van Gundy’s lawyer said she suffered two seizures.

Multiple investors have said they loaned hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy and sell mobile homes only to have Van Gundy and her company — Outstanding Real Estate Solutions Inc. — renege on principal and interest payments. They allege she ran a Ponzi scheme. The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating.

On April 19, Comal County District Court Judge Dib Waldrip appointed a receiver for the company. Part of the receiver’s job is to locate any assets and preserve what’s left for creditors.

Van Gundy sought bankruptcy liquidation April 27, listing about $1.6 million in assets and almost $353,000 in liabilities. Her home, valued at $1.5 million, and two vehicles account for most of her assets. She reported no financial assets.

Her company has not filed for bankruptcy.

Van Gundy has boasted she was part of one marketing group’s exclusive “two comma club” for earning more than $10 million.

She’s currently out of work and collecting $600 a month in unemployment compensation, the court document shows.

Luttrell, the attorney for creditors, asked Van Gundy during the meeting what happened to an offshore account that held $20 million worth of gold bullion as of Sept. 3.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Van Gundy said. She denied ever having such an account.

After Van Gundy said she couldn’t remember when she bought her first mobile home, Luttrell replied, “You seem to have a great recollection on some things and not on other things, so I’m just trying to figure out what it is you remember and what you don’t remember.”

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Van Gundy appeared on the television program “God-Made Millionaire TV” in March 2021, telling the host she had a negative net worth of $50,000 when she started investing in mobile homes in 2015. She went on to make $1.2 million in about 16 months, she said.

But asked Thursday about her appearance on the show, Van Gundy said she had no recollection of it or of recounting how she made so much money so quickly.

“If I don’t remember appearing on the TV show, then I don’t recall anything that was said, sir,” she replied to a question from attorney Clayton Matheson, who represents some investors.

He later wanted to know where more than $2.3 million that Van Gundy borrowed on various real estate holdings — including her home — had gone.

“Again, the money was for ORES,” she answered, referring to her company. “I cannot speak for ORES. I do not have the documents in my possession to know where that went or what happened to it.” She directed Matheson to speak with the company’s receiver.

The creditors meeting will resume June 23.

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Chimene Van Gundy, a New Braunfels entrepreneur who has boasted about making millions from buying and selling mobile homes, has gone bankrupt.

She’s referred to herself as the “Queen of Mobile Homes” and the “the Mobile Home Millionaire,” buying, repairing and selling more than 600 mobile homes in 17 states. She also has said she owns dozens of mobile-home parks.

In recent months, however, Van Gundy and one of her companies have been hit with multiple lawsuits by investors who allege she’s been operating a fraudulent mobile-home investment scheme.

Van Gundy filed for Chapter 7 liquidation Wednesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San Antonio, listing less than $50,000 in assets and debts in the range of $100,000 to $500,000.

Investors say she reneged on promises to pay them back principal and interest on money they loaned her company to buy mobile homes. The Express-News chronicled Van Gundy’s legal troubles in an article that appeared online just hours before her bankruptcy filing.

On ExpressNews.com: ‘Queen of Mobile Homes’ accused of running a Ponzi scheme

Five individuals and two companies based in California allege in their lawsuit in Comal County district court that Van Gundy has been operating a Ponzi scheme — intending to repay investors with new loans from other “unsuspecting individuals.”

Van Gundy filed for bankruptcy just eight days after the California plaintiffs convinced Judge Dib Waldrip to appoint a receiver to take over her company, Outstanding Real Estate Solutions Inc. (ORES), and her personal finances.

David Jed Williams and Clayton Matheson, San Antonio lawyers for the plaintiffs, argued that assets were in danger of being lost without a receiver taking control.

During an April 19 hearing, ORES’s operations director Meagan Dockens testified she didn’t know where the company maintained its bank accounts and that it had no current financial records.

“Everything I’ve heard is like the arrow is now with neon lights” for appointing a receiver over ORES and Van Gundy, Waldrip said after Dockens’ testimony.

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Waldrip appointed certified public accountant Charles H. Adams receiver.

Making matters worse for Van Gundy, 45, she fell in late December and suffered a concussion.

Dr. Andrew Wong of Neuromuscular & EMG Specialists of Texas said in an April 14 letter filed with the court that as a result of her injuries, Van Gundy has “significant deficits” in memory, attention and concentration.

Van Gundy is “mentally incapable of giving legal testimony,” said Wong, though he added she was able to continue working full-time. Her lawyer told the judge Van Gundy risked having an epileptic seizure if she testified.

Van Gundy didn’t attend the hearing but was in the courthouse, using a walker to get around.

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Her bankruptcy filing gave no details on her assets, liabilities or income. The petition said she has up to 49 creditors.

It’s the second time Van Gundy has filed for bankruptcy. In 1997, she and her husband at the time filed a Chapter 13 reorganization in Georgia.

Under a Chapter 7 liquidation, a debtor’s assets can be sold for the benefit of creditors. Bankruptcy filings generally put on hold any pending litigation against a debtor.

Michael Morris, a New Braunfels lawyer who has been representing Van Gundy and ORES in litigation, filed court papers Wednesday to withdraw as their counsel.

Morris indicated the interests of Van Gundy and ORES “may prove adverse” with the receiver’s appointment, so his continued representation of both “would be unethical.”

James Wilkins, Van Gundy’s bankruptcy lawyer, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Chimene Van Gundy refers to herself as the “Queen of Mobile Homes” and “the Mobile Home Millionaire.”

The monikers reflect the business she says she’s built buying manufactured homes on the cheap, fixing them up and then flipping them for a tidy profit.

The New Braunfels businesswoman boasts that mobile-home investing secured her a place in one marketing group’s “two comma club” for those who have earned more than $10,000,000.

Some who have invested with Van Gundy expecting heady returns, however, have a far different take on the entrepreneur. They say she’s reneged on principal and interest payments on the loans they made to her. And they allege she’s orchestrated a Ponzi scheme that has collectively cost them and others at least a few million dollars.

Their complaints were enough to get Van Gundy dethroned.

A Comal County judge recently appointed a receiver to take control of one of Van Gundy’s firms — Outstanding Real Estate Solutions Inc. (ORES) — and her personal financial affairs. Part of the receiver’s job will be to locate assets and preserve what’s left for creditors.

There may be little to recover.

Chimene Van Gundy started Outstanding Real Estate Solutions Inc. to buy and sell mobile homes in 2015 after she was laid off from a corporate job.
Chimene Van Gundy started Outstanding Real Estate Solutions Inc. to buy and sell mobile homes in 2015 after she was laid off from a corporate job.

“Everything we’ve seen indicates ORES has no assets,” attorney Clayton Matheson, who represents some investors, said in arguing for a receiver during a court hearing. “The only property ORES is affiliated with is (her) homestead, which Ms. Van Gundy tried to sell…without telling us.

“So, at the end of the day, there’s nothing there,” he said.

The situation had gotten so dire that Van Gundy, 45, allegedly told one Georgia couple she’d pay them back by selling her eggs to a fertility clinic.

It’s quite the downfall for Van Gundy, who also pitches herself as a “real estate mogul,” “business coach,” “professional speaker” and “philanthropist.” A savvy self-promoter, she has appeared on various podcasts, YouTube programs and magazine covers. She also co-authored a book sharing her rags-to-riches story — and telling readers about the wealth waiting to be made in mobile-home investing.

Compounding Van Gundy’s troubles, she’s struggling with health problems after an fall in December. Her doctor advised she not testify at a court hearing in mid-April because she has to keep her stress level down.

Compelling her to take the witness stand, her lawyer Michael Morris said, “would be tantamount to her being forced to having an epileptic seizure.”

Van Gundy — who gets around with a walker — never entered the courtroom, remaining in an adjoining conference room over the course of the two-day hearing.

Difficult upbringing
By her own account, Van Gundy overcame a difficult upbringing to make her way into the mobile home investing arena.

Born in 1976, she said she was raised in Des Moines, Iowa, the fifth of seven kids.

“My family (was) pretty poor,” she said on the program “God Made Millionaire TV,” streamed last year on YouTube. “I also was raised in a church cult. That later led to me being thrust into the foster care system, where I was then trafficked, sex trafficked. Once I turned 17, I was emancipated and went on with my life.”

Van Gundy wed at 17 and had her first child a year later in 1995. The marriage lasted four years, a period in which her and her husband filing for Chapter 13 bankruptcy, court records show.

She later remarried. As Chimene Marsh, she earned a degree in criminal justice in 2007 from the University of Texas at San Antonio and had three more children.

She went on to work “multiple jobs in the corporate world” and as the “lead paralegal for several different law firms,” according to a profile in the 2021 winter edition of P.O.W.E.R. Magazine. It chronicles successful women.

Her second marriage ended in a “painful divorce” after 14 years, she said. She eventually married her current husband, Chad Hess. The couple have one child together. It’s not clear when she began using the surname Van Gundy.

New Braunfels-based Outstanding Real Estate Solutions Inc. borrowed money from investors to buy and sell mobile homes. Some investors allege they have not been paid the principal and interest on their loans.
New Braunfels-based Outstanding Real Estate Solutions Inc. borrowed money from investors to buy and sell mobile homes. Some investors allege they have not been paid the principal and interest on their loans.

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She was “making a lot of money” when she was laid off around 2013, she said on the podcast “Think Realty” three years ago. She was 36 when she got the pink slip.

“After that happened, (I) made a decision that I would never work for someone else again,” she said on “God Made Millionaire TV.”

On the advice of a friend, she read “Rich Dad, Poor Dad,” the bestselling but oft-criticized financial advice book by Robert Kiyosaki. It advocates building wealth through real estate investing.

“That book changed my life,” Van Gundy said. She scraped together $20,000 by selling her grandmother’s jewelry and other heirlooms and borrowing $3,000 from her husband so she could attend classes through Kiyosaki’s “Rich Dad Education.”

“And that’s how I launched my business,” she said. “I was determined that I was going to change my life and my kids’ life. Nothing was going to stop me.”

Before the fall, brand building
Van Gundy “noticed the need for mobile homes and affordable housing,” according to the P.O.W.E.R. Magazine profile.

So she incorporated Outstanding Real Estate Solutions Inc. in late 2015 at a time she said she had a negative net worth of $50,000.

Within 16 months, she said she had made $1.2 million investing in mobile homes. She didn’t give details about any of her transactions, however.

“It’s an untapped market in real estate,” Van Gundy said on “God Made Millionaire TV.” “Not a lot of people know about it. Most investors think of it as trailer trash. They don’t think of it as a legitimate way to make money.”

She added, “It’s really the last affordable housing in America.”

Van Gundy’s story contains some discrepancies. For instance, she was introduced on the podcast “Embracing Vision” in May 2020 as having bought, fixed and flipped more than 600 mobile-home units and owning 30 mobile-home parks. Yet in the winter 2021 edition of P.O.W.E.R. Magazine, the profile writer put the number of units bought and sold at more than 500. Either way, the numbers couldn’t be independently verified.

Van Gundy partnered with former telecommunications executive Michael Trofimoff, 60, of Dillard, Ga. He’d started out as an investor learning about mobile homes from Van Gundy.

“We had driven 36 mobile-home parks together,” he said on the same “God Made Millionaire TV” program. “She taught me what to look for in the parks. She taught me about different architectural styles and what that means, different manufacturers. She had me crawling under different mobile homes looking at underbellies.”

Asked by the program host about the pair’s business partnership, Trofimoff said they were “primarily raising investor money so that we can continue to buy homes and parks, and pay our investors very well.”

Trofimoff called his venture Georgia Mobile Home Investing (GMHI) and promised investors annual returns of 15 percent to 22 percent, depending on the size of the investment.

Some of the investors recruited by Trofimoff are among those who say they are still owed payments on their loans.

At the April 18 court hearing on the application for the appointment of a receiver, Morris — the attorney for Van Gundy and ORES — attempted to distance his clients from Trofimoff. All of the plaintiffs’ contracts were with Trofimoff, not Van Gundy or ORES, Morris said.

But the promissory notes the investors received say “GMHI is partnered with Outstanding Real Estate Solutions.” Investors were told their invested funds would be secured by liens on “one or more mobile home(s),” though the notes didn’t identify any by location. Both Van Gundy and Trofimoff’s names were printed next to the signature line where either could sign.

Trofimoff didn’t respond to requests for comment.

‘A complete scam’
Gary Topper and his wife, Sherry, of Cumming, Ga., invested $20,000 for five years with ORES and GHMI in 2018. She had worked with Trofimoff for about 20 years. The following year, they invested another $20,000 on the same terms.

Trofimoff then set up a conference call with the Toppers and Van Gundy to pitch another investment opportunity.

“It was her raising money for a deal, a larger mobile-home park that they were looking to acquire, and she needed the capital quickly,” said Gary Topper, 55. “It was 100 percent return on your money…in 30 days.”

So the Toppers invested $100,000 of their retirement savings.

The 30 days came and went, and they never saw the $200,000 they were promised. Around the 45th day, Van Gundy mailed them a check but it bounced, he said. They later received another check for $200,000 that cleared.

Within two weeks, he said, Van Gundy told them that they could quickly double the $200,000. Rather than risk the entire $200,000, he said he and his wife chose to invest the $100,000 profit they made on the earlier investment. “House money,” he called it.

The Toppers haven’t gotten that money back or the interest they say they’re owed. Payments also stopped on their two earlier $20,000 investments.

ORES representatives gave a series of excuses for not paying, Gary Topper said. At first, they said ORES’ bank accounts had been frozen due to “activity in Dubai.” Later, it was problems related to the pandemic and then issues with ORES’s banks and payment processing companies.

In November, Van Gundy told them she would repay them with $250,000 she’d collect for selling her eggs to a fertility clinic, Topper said. Van Gundy and Trofimoff, however, stopped responding to their calls, emails and texts, he said.

“There’s no question it’s a complete scam,” he said. “She always presented herself as a Christian and someone of faith, trust and respect. We talked specifically about those attributes, and that’s something my wife and I take to heart. I basically just called (Van Gundy) out on that: ‘You’re a lying, manipulative crook.’”

Topper provided a declaration in the Comal County case — even though he’s not a plaintiff — to assist in efforts to get a receiver appointed.

Topper said he’s spoken with FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission investigators but has been instructed not to say anything about those conversations.

Hawaii investors
Investors from around the country lent money to ORES, including dozens in Hawaii.

Boram Shin, 32, a Honolulu office assistant, said a friend referred her to Santos Kidd, a financial adviser pitching investment opportunities with ORES. Kidd gave her a PowerPoint presentation over dinner.

“Whatever spell he had, I fell into,” Shin said.

She invested $20,000 with the expectation of quarterly payments of $1,500 over five years, for a total of $30,000. She’s received only $500. The investment represented half of her savings.

Shin has spoken with eight other people in Hawaii who loaned money to ORES. Collectively, they invested almost $1.2 million with the company. Some took out home-equity lines of credit while others pulled money out of their retirement accounts to invest, she said.

“I should not have let my emotions from Santos’ presentation to sway my decision so quickly,” Shin said. “I should have given it a few days to think about it.”

For his part, Kidd said he checked out ORES by flying to Texas to see for himself that everything Van Gundy was doing “was real and not a scam.”

“I saw the mobile home, I saw the office, I saw the people,” he said, adding he didn’t personally invest.

He was duped just like the investors, he said. Van Gundy has cost him clients and significant business. In a letter to her, he said he recounted “how much he hated her and what she’s done to me and my family and my clients, and how she ruined my whole life.”

On Tuesday, Kidd and his firm were named in the Comal County lawsuit by a California investor who has intervened in the case. The investors says he’s received only $25,000 on his $100,000 investment. The investor had traveled to San Antonio to attend an investment seminar led by Van Gundy and Kidd in 2020.

“Kidd repeatedly extolled the financial prowess of Van Gundy and how lucrative investing with Outstanding Real Estate Solutions would be,” the investor alleged. Attendees were told investing with ORES was “low risk” and “easy money.”

Fighting back
Other investor lawsuits against Van Gundy and/or ORES are pending in Comal County, as well as in Dallas County district court and in Georgia federal court. The Georgia case also names Trofimoff and GMHI as defendants. The claims vary but include fraud, civil conspiracy to defraud and breach of loan agreements.

Van Gundy and ORES raise a couple of defenses in asking the courts to dismiss the suits. They say they weren’t able to perform under the agreements because of COVID-19 and a national moratorium on evictions.

Their “inability to claim rent from eviction-immune tenants severely compromised (their) income receipts, making it impossible and/or impracticable for the defendants to generate sufficient income to cover business expenses,” they responded.

ORES has provided owner financing for low-income buyers and those with poor credit. But it’s not clear why the eviction moratorium would affect the part of ORES’ business that borrowed money to buy and sell mobile homes.

Morris, Van Gundy and ORES’s lawyer didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Van Gundy and ORES also argue they’re not liable for breaching the promissory notes because the interest rates they agreed to pay investors— as much as 100 percent — were usurious as defined by the Texas Finance Code.

“It’s certainly possible that ORES deliberately offered interest in excess of the legal rate in order to entice the investments but have a defense later if they failed to pay,” said David Jed Williams, an attorney for the group of plaintiffs — five individuals and two companies based in California — that sought the appointment of a receiver.

The plaintiffs are not seeking to recover interest in excess of the legal rate, Williams added.

Those plaintiffs accuse Van Gundy, Trofimoff and their firms of using investors’ money to “repay other investors in their Ponzi scheme, pay their own bills, (invest) in real estate or other assets, and/or enrich themselves and others.”

They collectively invested $850,000. They allege Van Gundy has been converting her assets into cash, which “strongly suggest(s) that she is attempting to remove or dispose of any property in this state that might otherwise be available to her victims.”

She had put her New Braunfels home on the market with an asking price of $1.5 million. That led the California plaintiffs to file a lis pendens — or notice of suit — to put a cloud on the title and effectively stop any sale.

In March, Love and Light Outreach, a Washington state nonprofit established by Van Gundy, lost an 80-acre ranch at 814 Hueco Springs Loop Road, New Braunfels, at a foreclosure auction. The property secured a note for about $2.7 million. The organization was formed in October 2019 to “promote Christian doctrines,” but watchdog organizations that track nonprofits have found no tax returns on file for it.

Morris called Meagan Dockens, ORES’s director of operations, to testify in an effort to fight the receivership application. She said she had never heard Van Gundy say she was partners with Trofimoff or his company.

Under cross-examination by Williams, Dockens said ORES had no current accounting records and she didn’t know where ORES had bank accounts.

After her testimony, Judge Dib Waldrip said, “Everything I’ve heard is like the arrow is now with neon lights” for the appointment of a receiver over ORES and Van Gundy.

Waldrip signed an order appointing certified public accountant Charles H. Adams of New Braunfels to take possession of all of Van Gundy’s and ORES’s property — save for exempt property such as her home and any retirement accounts — and financial records.

Van Gundy and ORES had five days to turn over to Adams all funds on deposit with financial institutions, as well as tax returns for the last three years.

Adams declined to comment on whether Van Gundy and Ores had complied.

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Unless Ms. VanGundy can provide a list of the mobile homes (addresses, etc.) that were "refurbished," I'm thinking we have all been scammed. When the "director of operations" says, "ORES had no current accounting records and she didn’t know where ORES had bank accounts," that is, as the Judge stated, a red flag. I wonder how many of the people who directed investors to ORES (such as "account managers" are worried about their liability. We got our last interest payments in early 2021. Ms. VanGundy has her current residence at 914 Avery Parkway, New Braunfels, TX 78130.

Omg, so I'm pretty sure I'm not getting my $ back huh? How can I get my $ back?

This woman took so much money from me and numerous others all across the states! Do not invest with her!
CHIMENE VAN GUNDY SCAM OUTSTANDING REAL ESTATE SOLUTIONS

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Victim Location 11234
Money Outstanding- over $50,000.00
Type of Scam- Mobile Home Investment

Chimene Van Gundy is a complete fraud. I invested with her and Outstanding Note Solutions, EverFlow Wealth (those are the companies she uses). She talks a good game and garner sympathy. Even going as far as having her "coach" Marijo call to smooth things over. As I told her coach I was only interested in getting my money. Her payments were almost always late prompting me to demand the return of my money since she violated the terms of the agreement.

She always has a sob story about why there's a delay, and it's always someone else's fault- the bank, the government, a mixup in processing, etc- that is, when she chooses to reply. I have written several emails over the past 2.5 years demanding the complete return of my investment. Around September 2021 I sent an email that I plan to file complaints with every agency that regulates her business. She finally responded at that point and she promised to pay in full in November. She has not paid, has not answered any emails, texts, voicemails or phone calls. At this point she has not made a payment since May of 2021. Shes running Paid ads on Social Media to "show people how she invests in Mobile Homes using none of her own money", offering courses, but yet she cannot repay the people she does owe. She's out on Social Media flaunting her lifestyle that she continues to build with money she should be paying back to her lenders.

I'm pursuing all legal avenues to get my money back and to get this practice to stop. It's time for the "Mobile Home Queen" to face the truth- She's a con artist.

Based on the complaints here, it's clear that everyone has been fed the same lies as I have. I think it's also time for a Class Action Lawsuit.

Everyone who has been affected by this scam also needs to file a complaint with every Regulatory Body to put an end to Chimene and her actions of stealing people's money.
Non Payment Of Investment, SCAM, LIES

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Chimene and her assistants at Outstanding Real Estate Solutions have been lying about issuing payments throughout 2021. Blaming it all on the Covid moratorium but I doubt the mobile homes existed to begin with. More than likely an elaborate ponzi scheme. She is also threatening to sue people who post negatively about her online.

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We all probably have security instruments for the same homes. Let's file a Class Action Lawsuit

Oustanding Real Estate Solutions is far from Outstanding. Chimene Van Gundy is holding so much money of mine it is unbelievable. She promises to give a return for investors and has not communicated one bit to me. She has given excuse after excuse of the reason why she has not paid out and it is getting VERY old. I cannot believe she does not care to even update people on when they will get their money. STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY AND THIS WOMAN.

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We have options. It's time to stop Chimene Van Gundy from scamming people out of their money

This woman has taken thousands from investors. She hardly blinks and eye and lies to investors about receiving their funds over and over again. She does not even care to make things right and come out to keep her reputation. Multiple lawsuits are being filed against her because she has not paid hundred of investors across the US. She writes promissory notes and does not pay as she says she will. I am not sure how this woman can live on this earth having known she has scammed, so many women, men, mothers, daughters, fathers, brothers, etc in her own country. Shame on her!

+3

Let's Join those lawsuits- Class Action

$20,000 investment for a promissory note of one mobile home. It's a fraud; you won't get paid. Many people where I am at in Hawaii got scammed, and she and her business partners are running this scam under various names across the country. From our research her real name might be Chimene May Marsh. Apparently she has a couple of cases against her.

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Core Rivers Land Investments LLC
Address 1895 Cross St New Braunfels Texas 78130

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Chimene Van Gundy and Outstanding Real Estate Solutions are taking people's money and not delivering on their contracts. BEWARE this company and this lady as they are NOT trustworthy. Chimene Van Gundy and her company has negatively changed many people's lives and are continuing to do more damage daily! Michael Trofimoff of Viridis Holdings LLC is her partner and there are a few law suits currently going on suing Chimene and Michael. Beware these people as they make good claims but then do not deliver. They target people with savings and find marketing gurus to pitch her bill of goods to new audiences that are unware of the damage she and potentially Michael have caused.

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If you want to stop Chimene Van Gundy, Please file a complaint with the BBB of TX, The Texas Attorney General, and the department that oversees the dealer's license for Chimene Van Gundy

Thanks for sharing. We need to redouble our efforts and join a class-action suit against Chimene Van Gundy to put a stop to her scam

Has not paid investors in over a year. Makes false claims. Outstanding Real Estate Solutions and Chimene Van Gundy need to be stopped before they take more money from innocent people. It is not right to target trusting people and take their hard earned savings. Even if Chimene Van Gundy is going through a difficult patch within business her manner in dealing with the situation highlights the potential that she was a scam artist from the start. Perhaps she knows something about mobile homes, but when it comes to managing investors funds, signs point to the potential that she is a scam artist and fraud. Potentially even a darker meaning as she seems un phased by her current actions and is ready to take more money from retirees, mothers, and other vulnerable people. How she can do this without having her conscious kick in is alarming. I pray the right thing is done and the many investors are able to get their funds back. She has negatively impacted many people's lives and it is not right.

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Please file a complaint with the BBB of TX, The Texas Attorney General, and the department that oversees the dealer's license for Chimene Van Gundy. She needs to have that license revoked

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