Disappearing funds in
their bank accounts have raised concerns across Collier
County.
"Honestly, it's scary," Lisa Venn said. "I'm not going to
lie. It's a scary thing to happen."
The issue for Venn,
62, and for residents of at least 30 other Collier County
condo and homeowners associations are funds that have been
discovered drained from operating and other accounts.
Venn lives at Royal Bay Villas, a condo development on
Sandpiper Street near downtown Naples.
American Property Management Services of Naples is accused
in a civil lawsuit of draining the accounts and is subject
to a temporary restraining order. The order includes Orlando
Miserandino Ortiz and his wife, Lina Munoz Posada, acting as
officials of APMS. The amounts could scale into the
millions.
"We just found out Dec. 28," Venn said. "Pretty crazy."
Venn said that while there's nothing physically visible at
her development that is evidence of the alleged crime, the
aftershock of the missing funds is what provides the scare.
"I have to say our board has done a stupendous job in
mitigating risks to us to the best of their ability," she
said. "Making sure we have a new management company, making
sure our accounts are frozen, hiring an attorney."
The board contacted all the development's vendors to keep
them apprised and notified the association's insurance
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An issue for those who ive at Royal Bay Villas, a
condo development on Sandpiper Street near downtown Naples, and for
residents of at least 30 other Collier County condo and homeowners
associations are funds r=that have been discovered drained from
operating and other accounts.
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"Thank God he (Ortiz) paid that bill,"
Venn said, otherwise Royal Bay Villas could have found
itself in very deep financial waters as at least one other
community did.