A SECRETIVE colony for people who wanted to live off the grid in "earthships" has collapsed, leaving a community divided.
Some out-of-pocket investors have been critical of the community's
founders but others remain supportive, threatening The Sunday Mail with a
class action should the paper publish an article, the Courier Mail reports.
The Sunday Mail can reveal what was meant to be a dream Utopia in the
forested foothills just over the Queensland-NSW border has turned into a
nightmare.
Villagers paid up to $160,000 each to be part of Bhula Bhula but have
now split into squabbling factions as they try to protect or recover
their investment.
American celebrity Don Tolman’s son, Tyler Tolman, invites all who “resonate” with the dream of a healthy, happy alternate lifestyle on 3,500 acres of pristine paradise, to check out this “fantastic community” — Mt Warning Ecovillage. In his video appeal the Bali-based health coach doesn't warn potential investors that since 2014, the "developers" of this prospective“community” have been running an ever-expanding land-share scam.
Tyler Tolman Spruiks Mount Warning Ecovillage Scam
Tyler Tolman knows that the kingpins behind the dystopic "Village Community", (who he does not name),have, since 2014, left a long trail of angry, disenfranchised investors, who have been deceived and defrauded in this scam. Despite warnings, Tyler continues to promote their false narrative.
Those
who have recently discovered their trust was betrayed join the growing number of defrauded investors clamoring to
recover money that disappeared on a one-way trip down the scamsters'
greedy gullets.
Tyler Tolman invites his followers: “If you want to be part of the community - the dream — come along. It’s worth it!”
Get in quick! There
is a big discount for all who bite the cherry and buy a share in the utopian Ecovillage knowing there is no development approval by Tweed Shire Council for the advertised idyllic home-sites beside lagoons and waterfalls that are protected as water
catchment for a proposed future dam to provide drinking water to the Gold Coast. Tolmanboasts that the projected Mt Warning Eco Village will cover 6,000 acres: “The size of a small country... that’s what’s required for things to work.”
No, Tyler Tolman! A land scam the size of a small country with a dash of celebrity and a dose of perjury can land the dishonorable in jail. What’s required for the dream to work is not big land and lying lips, but integrity and authenticity.
Selling shares in a village without development approval is like building the proverbial house on sand. It will not succeed. Many defrauded investors in the fraudulent fiasco, the "Bhula Bhula Village Community" have painfully discovered this truth.
Heal thyself, Tyler Tolman: corrupt roots don't produce good fruits.
