To all those deposit holders who are writing in to this site expressing their disappointment: This is a great forum to warn others and to vent but not significant enough to get results. I am also a deposit holder but am not satisfied to sit around talking about it and not naive enough at this point to believe that Paragon ever had legitimate intentions.
Go to google ; type in some of the names of people Bill Gale has had either working for him or somehow associated with Paragon when the sales effort was heavily in place.
(Lyle Wexler, Larry Webman just for starters-)
You will see that their back grounds and prior company success stories were not exactly squeeqy clean.
"Professional artists" is what you might call this group.
Look at the people that were making promises to us about building our dream home on behalf of Paragon.
This is just a quick wake up call to any one who still may be in dream land
but let's move on.
If we are going to remain anonymous on this website, fine - we can still use
our collective power to get results.
There are no more people out there for Paragon to rip off.
The damage to us has been done pure and simple.
The real question is "What can we all do constructively to get our hard earned deposits back?
I have a solution and I want everyone to join together.
I have spoken with the Fl. Attorney general's office.
The Florida attorney general states that they have" not received enough complaints from vicitms to justify the resources to pursue Paragon."
They need large numbers of complaints.
If there are possibly hundreds of victims out there, the florida attorney general
needs to have a lot more complaints on their desk to take true investigative
and legal action. Call everyone you know that has a lot and tell them what
we need to do becuase as time gos on, chances will get slimmer and slimmer of getting our money back. (Forget about calling them in yr 5 and
asking for your money back. If you can't reach them now, where do you think they will be in 2 more years?)
What I am asking you will not vost us a dime - only a bit more effort.
No attorneys need to be involved as an attorney will only collect more fees from you
and in the end, we will get stopped at the pass with a myriad of legal bureacracy.
I have already tried with an attorney so don't waste your time with attorneys.
Paragon knows it will cost us thousands and thousand of dollars in legal time
to go after them and on one will bother. They are all laughing at us knowing no one will invest the money and time and that class action suits could take years. Meanwhile they are being unjustly enriched with our hard earned funds.
People: stop sitting in "lala - land" still believing that your dream home or lot will become a reality and that the only reason there are delays are becuase everything is done on "Tico time" -not true! I have personally seen other
non Paragon related developments go up successfully in the last few years having traveled there numerous times.
So have you had enough with my tyrades?
Do you really want to see our us legal system help us as tax payers?
Do you want to make sure Paragon is pressured to the max to return your deposit?
Here is what we all must do as soon as you get off this website.
1. Call the Seniors vs crime unit in Coral Springs Florida at 954-340-4168.
(address ;2801 Coral Springs drive, Coral Springs, Florida 33065)
By the way, you do not have to be a "senior". I am not.
This is a special volunteer group
fostered by the Florida attorney general and they are in the county in which
Paragon's Hollywood office is located in.
Speak with Fay Staub the manager and request she fax or mail you the simple 2 page
complaint form related to a case against Paragon Properties in Hollywood Fl.
2. Submit the forms to Bob Glazer. (He is the one who deals with Paragon cases.) within 48 hours with copies of all your agreement for deed.
Do not procrastinate even one day getting this package back to him.
3. Call and follow up on the friday of the week you submit your package. As Bob is only in on Fridays. If he is not in, speak with Stanton who also knows Paragon quite well.
Tell him you want to make sure they are collecting all these additional new complaints
(That is a 3 minute call to make sure they got your package.
Best investment we can make at this point.)
4. We must get 90 more complaint packages filed in addition to the ones
Seniors vs crime has now.
Once we get to 90, we should be good to go.
The Deputy regional director, Al Payne, can contact the Florida attorney general's office and forward all the complaints. I will personally follow up with him
once I know here are 90 complaints at Seniors vs Crime.
Al Payne is aware of the Paragon firm but his hands are tied from escalating this.
Why? Becuase we as consumers have not given him a serious enough reason
in numbers to go after Paragon. I was personally told by Seniors vs crime that
at the point there are a total of about 100 cases, the complaint count will be significant for the Fl. Atty general to take action and launch a full scale.
I urge you all to take action today on this matter because I firmly believe
there are power in numbers.
Signed,
Mad as H*ll and not going to take it Paragon Victim
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