As online research has revealed, as of February 3rd, 2014, Jill Schnedler at Coldbrook Equestrian Center at 214 Coldbrook Rd, Hampden, ME has until May 3, 2014 to become current on her mortgage payments or she will be in foreclosure and evicted from the property. Jill Schnedler has not made a payment to her mortgage since May 1, 2012. I happened to be there as a boarder during this time and I remember her fighting to get the money together to make this payment and it wasn't a full payment, either. Who knows when her last FULL payment was made? Probably never...
Since learning about this foreclosure, I have also learned that Jill Schnedler is still advertising for summer camp at her barn! Instead of "riding camp", as it once was, she now has "Farm Experience" because she doesn't have the horses to have campers riding anymore. Instead, you have to pay a $100 non-refundable deposit for camp and the rest of the camp fee must be paid BEFORE camp starts. All "Farm Experience" camps are $175 per week. If you fail to cancel two weeks in advance, you are still responsible for the whole $175. You must pay the $100 non-refundable deposit or she cannot guarantee you a spot in camp. In other words, she wants everyone to jump up and just pay her the money because it cannot be returned no matter what you do. Easy money, I would say! She also has one week of "Eventing Camp" and one week of "Dressage Camp". Both of these fields, she knows little as she hasn't taught either in a number of years and cannot execute any of it herself any longer. These both cost $250 for the week. You are still responsible for the whole fee if you do not give two full week's notice!
My favorite part about this: Camps start, and go every single week, in mid-June. Her foreclosure date is May 3rd. She wants everyone to jump on the wagon and pay the $100 non-refundable deposits for easy money and then no one can get their money back and she does not have to teach camp because she will be foreclosed on and evicted from the property. Quite the scam she has going here!
Please, everyone, beware of Coldbrook Equestrian Center and its scam artist, Jill Schnedler. She will milk you for everything you have and still try to get more out of you!
On another note:
There are more rumors about me coming from Jill Schnedler! In late April 2012, I drove down to New Hampshire to get a horse who she had at her barn in previous years: Farrah. Farrah is owned by a woman in Bangor, Cindy, and Cindy requested Jill to go to New Hampshire to get her back as she was not working out where she was at the time. Cindy gave Jill some gas money to drive down and we took it from there, we met up with Jill Schnedler's old high school friend (and she bought us a fabulous lunch) and then continued home. Just miles away from Coldbrook Equestrian Center, Jill Schnedler's truck ran out of gas. We called my mom to fill a gas can and fill it up to get us back as Jill had no money for gas at this point. Not only did Jill Schnedler never pay my mom back for this gas but she dared to ask if my mom would help pay for the gas for a horse that has nothing to do with us! How absurd! Jill Schnedler also tried to get my mom to like Farrah so maybe my mom would want to lease her and make it so Jill Schnedler did not have another mouth to feed with the money she did not have. She also asked us if my mom would let her borrow my mom's new Tundra. I was not even allowed to drive it so of course, we declined. No way were we going to let her dogs destroy my mom's truck!
Now the story goes like this: Apparently my mom wanted Farrah and FORCED Jill to go to New Hampshire to get her and then we REFUSED to pay for gas and then LEFT Farrah in her care and took no responsibility.
If you ask me, I think we could ask Cindy, Farrah's owner. I'm pretty sure she will say that she asked Jill to get Farrah and I'm pretty sure I was asked to drive down with Jill Schnedler. Quite honestly, I would have rather not driven down in her unregistered, uninspected Excursion that has no driver-side mirror and only one windshield wiper in the pouring rain on that dreary, awful day. I could have thought of a million other better things to do. We never forced her to do anything. We were nothing but helpful and appreciative until we realized we were just being used and abused by her.
I really hope no one else gets sucked in like that. However, whoever is managing her Coldbrook Equestrian Center and Manes Danes & Everything Maine Facebook pages is being sucked in. Jill Schnedler cannot even afford internet or her smart phone to update them herself and has conned someone else to do that advertising for her.
Please stay away from this scammer!
