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Hope is fading for the customers of Bella Modular, after liquidators moved in to seize assets from the troubled Perth builder. Dozens of customers have lost their life savings, shelling out more than $100,000 for homes that were never delivered.

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00:02This is all that's left at Bella Modula.
00:06The place has been stripped pretty much of anything that's moveable and perceived by somebody as being valuable.
00:12The liquidator almost empty handed at the company's headquarters in Hopeland, south of Perth.
00:18It certainly doesn't look good. We're not looking at being able to sell physical assets here.
00:22We're looking at financial recoveries.
00:24Recoveries to help payback customers stripped of the Australian dream.
00:28And we'll be facing out that way.
00:31This paddock is where Terry Beard should be living as she recovers from cancer.
00:36Just our nice two bedroom forever.
00:39Granny flat, not a lot of housework.
00:42Come in from doing the horses and sit down and enjoy the surrounds.
00:47Do you think you'll ever get that from Bella?
00:48No, never.
00:49She paid over $100,000 from her retirement savings to Bella Modula only four weeks ago.
00:56I felt terrible because I was homeless at 76, you know, and I have worked hard.
01:02Terry is one of dozens left out of pocket and out of home.
01:06Company director Chloe Pigden and her husband Trent have declined multiple requests for comment.
01:12The victims of Bella Modula estimate they're owed about $4 million.
01:17But looking around the yard here, there isn't much for liquidators to salvage.
01:24It's not just customers.
01:26Turning up at the yard are subcontractors like Brad Harris.
01:29He says he hasn't been paid for two and a half months.
01:33Being a small company, $60,000 is a lot of money.
01:37So, yeah, do all the hard work and then, you know, just get treated like s**t in the end.
01:42The losses of many now officially being tallied.
01:45It's fun in the end to say today, part of my brother fell last year.
01:46The losses of the one.
01:47The losses of the loss of the beginning.
01:48The losses of the loss of you.
01:50This восemᾶ.

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