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Re: Has anyone purchased from Vallart Gardens? (by Kevin K.):

My wife and I are also victims of the Vallarta Gardens in La Cruz de Huanacaxtle, Bahia de babderas, Nayarit scam. On 10/13/2017, we listened to a very convincing pitch from Ricardo Ballestenos and Garth his sidekick and the terms went like this: 1) Buy our Coconut Palms Beach II timeshare for 17k after 300 days or less through a markeing company called PILA. 2) 18440 for a every other year with 4 weeks other than xmas time with 8666.80 check down and payments of 586.87 over 24 mths. 3) 1260 maintenance for the one bedroom penthouse. 4) Lots of perks incl the use for one day on their private 45 footer, pick up at the airport, storing our clothes so we wouldnt have to haul them back and forth, service dog, etc. I became concerned when PILA never contacted us within the 300 days. Turns out they went out of business, but I was contacted by several timeshare resale scammers after my queries. I did manage to call Ricardo and he was beside himself as to why PILA had not followed up and I did finally hear from someone about honoring the original agreement, but that fell through as well. Vallarta Gardens is complicit in all the activities going on with in their house regarding these sales people even though Joanna and others say they are not affiliated in any way with them. The paperwork was completed by them in their offices. Anyways, I got a hold of Patty Bryant with Timsharecancelservices.com and she was most understanding and gave it to me straight. For 3195 they will push from their end and get results with in 8-9 mths to a year for a possible recovery of any funds due to the fraudulent sales tactics in-house. No guarantees, stop paying the collection people, ruin your credit if necessary, but under no circumstances pay anything else. Of course, this transaction ruined me financially and we can not pay the 3195, so she said to raise as much hell as possible with the attorney general here, as well as Mexico, the resort, threaten posting negative resort info, form a Gofundme page, etc.

The story got worse. I mentioned being contacted to resell my Vallarta Gardens. Victor Vargas, in short, fraudulently purported he was a realtor with realty-network inc out of New Jersey and had a Mexican buyer willing to buy my VG unit. I did what I could with due diligence, checked the website, made some calls, etc and ended up sending 2 payments to a Mexican bank to handle the resale. Turns out it was a scam as well. 12500 or so later, and now a request to send an additional 26k for some additional international paperwork for legal stuff. We didnt have that and it prompted me to recontact VG. They were apologetic, but did not help at all and maintained their position that the sales people are in no way connected with the resort and had no information regarding what was going on and referred me to reread my contract and they would abide by their end and nothing more about these guys. As long as they see money there, selling timeshares, they are going to rest assured in a constant stream of gullible people wishing a good future. Someone needs to stop them.

My wife and I are now stuck with 2 timeshares. We have no money going into retirement to enjoy the time away. Make a little to much to qualify for food stamps. And, I hope I can forgive myself and everybody else so I dont lose myself to hell.