Donators denounce a Montrealer who claims to want to “access the property” by asking the public to make it bank transfers and by giving it their cans, while she already owns a building valued at $ 450,000 with several housing units.
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“I almost fell at the bottom of my chair when I learned that my gifts do not finance his first, but his second house! She presents herself as a first buyer who tears it away, but we are far from that in reality. […] I feel like I was fooled, ”deplores Marie-Anne Perron.
In this photo, Ms. Gamache-Belisle invites the public to send him bank transfers, when she has accumulated more than $ 100,000 for her funding.
Facebook screenshot
This mother of the La Petite-Patrie district has repeatedly gave empty bottles and money to Élyse Gamache-Bélisle for her project which has been in the headlines since 2021. The “queen of cans”, as she is nicknamed, claims to amass containers recorded to raise a background of $ 115,000 and thus “campaign for access to the property”. The 42 -year -old Montrealer invites the public on her social networks to make her interacting transfers squarely and to give him bottles for her prize pool.
However, according to public documents obtained by The newspaperMme Gamache-Belisle accessed the property, there is a good Lurette. Since 2011, she has had a building with four dwellings in Drummondville bought from her grandparents for $ 80,000. The quadruplex value is estimated today at $ 450,000.
Photo of the quadruplex that Montrealer has on rue Notre Dame in Drummondville since 2011. She bought it for $ 80,000 at the time from her grandparents. It is now worth $ 450,000.
Google Maps screenshot
“She pretends to be a single -parent mother who does not have the funds to buy a first property, but that is not true. Why does she not sell her building in Drummondville, instead of taking the money from the public? And why does she never say that she is already a owner? ”Sébastien Villeneuve protests, a former donor.
Ms. Gamache-Belisle even installed a trash can in front of her house to collect the containers recorded by the public for her project.
Photo taken from the Facebook of Élyse Gamache-Belisle
Too complicated to explain, according to her
In recent years, Élyse Gamache-Belisle has been presented in media as a mother of Villeray who harvested cans to buy “a first property”.
On a 98.5 FM article published in 2023, we can read that Montrealer wants to buy a “first property” with her cans. However, the quarantine has already owned since … 2011.
Screenshot of the site 985fm.ca
“It is not normal that I cannot acquire a property is to an anchor it and backfill me in my neighborhood,” she said in November 2021, in an interview with the program Our 1920s in Télé-Québec.
In interview with The newspaper Wednesday, Mme Gamache-Belisle claims not to be able to sell his building in Drummondville since it constitutes “his retirement fund”. She alleges having made for $ 400,000 in renovations on her quadruplex.
The Montrealer posing with an imposing harvest of empty bottles for her project.
Photo taken from the Facebook of Élyse Gamache-Belisle
But why never mentioned on his social networks or on his blog already owner?
“The context is difficult to understand. It is a property that I cannot live. I should open my books and people see. […] I have already talked about it in an interview with The press In 2021, ”said Montrealer.
Video in which the “Put of Funds” is explained:
$ 3000 in rent each month
The quarantine admits having four dwellings which bring him nearly $ 3000 in rent every month. However, it mentions that its units are offered at “affordable prices”.
“There is no shortage of transparency because I do not give off money with that,” she says. My funding project is something else. I don’t know how to explain it. If I had really been able to acquire a property in Montreal in 2021, I would have really done it differently. ”
In an interview with the newspaper, Élyse Gamache-Belisle assures not to lack transparency with his project.
Photo taken from the Facebook of Élyse Gamache-Belisle
Our representative contacted one of his tenants in Drummondville who said he was surprised to see the project of his owner, considering that it has a good job in a multinational video game.
“She still increased my rent by $ 62 two years ago and $ 40 this year. It is too much, in my opinion, but hey, ”said Maxime, who did not want to reveal his last name.
