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belaire golf resort and spa (by D. L.):

IS THIS A SCAM ? My husband and I were contacted at home telling us the Hotel U wanted to buy back some of our weeks, they said we needed to send them $8,000 for paper work, ect...After sending our money we heard nothing or recieved nothing so we went to the Hotel U in Puerto-Vallarta November of 2011 only to hear that we needed to come up with another $10,000 to pay the taxes on the money that we were going to receive to buy back our weeks from the Belaire which is now the Hotel U. The man went by the name Mario Santori, he stated we paid $35,000 for the Belaire weeks plus we bought another one the following year that was $35,000, and being Belaire it no longer existed. He said that it was the Hotel U now and they were buying back these weeks and that we already gave them $8,000 to start the transaction and that was only for the paper work but now he had to collect for the taxes. He said the Mexican government needed to be paid this money in order for them to be able to pay us the money to buy us back. Well, we wanted the Hotel U to buy them back from us and he said we had no choice, He said he was sorry but this is how their Government works. So we payed them the $8,000 he said we owed. Well nothing was heard from them so this March we went to pay them another visit. We again met with Mario and he said the same thing but this time it was $10,000 for capital gain. I told him we wanted to think about all of this and he said we had to pay it right then and there, and then the Hotel U would pay our flight to Las Vegas and thats where we needed to go to get paid our money. Again, we felt this had to be true. He said he would call us where we were staying and he would make all the arraingement for us to fly to Las Vegas so we could get paid. Well we were stayng in Puerto-Vallarta for 3 weeks, and after we thought about it we figured we would go back to talk to Mario and let him know we could fly to Las Vegas now seeing we were on vacation with no commitment. Well we showed up unexpectedly on their behalf and Mario walked in and immediately said he needed to catch an important phone call. With that he left the room and the security guard walked up to us saying Mario left the building and we needed to leave. We were escorted out of the building so we stayed outside by the street, we knew Mario never left the building because his car was still there. Our friend who stayed outside waiting for us watch this whole thing take place. Well after waiting for 45 n=minutes, Mario never came out of the building so we deiciced to go to Profeco. Our friend spoke Spanish,no one spoke English there at the time. PROFECO STATED THAT THEY HAVE MANY PEOPLE LIKE US CONCERNING HOTEL U WHO HAVE ALSO PUT IN COMPLAINTS but they wouldn't go into specifics. The sad part of this all is we believed Mario and the HOTEL U, and so has many many other's...I have cried to think we were lied and deceived by Mario,the hotel U . This is what the Hotel U sent us in a newsletter :

The Buy Backs are for all the members that are interested in selling back their member- ships. The Buy back sales and liquidations are moving quickly. If you are interested in the Buy Back, our assis- tance will be available to help expedite the process, please contact our Member Services at 1-866-438-1448 Ex 2208. The third week of April the installers, architects, carpen- ters and electricians will ar- rive from Monterrey, to be- gin the preparation and measurements for the pre- fabs which will be taken from here and prepared in Mon- terrey, where they will be modified and constructed . They will be sent back to Puerto Vallarta by truck. When the pre-fabs arrive they will be installed into the Casino. The same crew that will do the construction for our Casino has just finished two Casinos’ in Veracruz and Puebla. They want to com- plete four Casinos’ within five months. They will be ready to begin construction this month after the Easter Holi- days. They are shooting for the Grand Opening of the Casino in August. After the Casino is completed, the tower will be next for its completion, eve- ryone is excited, and every- thing is a Go!

............. WE NOT ONLY LOST $70,000 OF OUR HARD EARNED MONEY BUYING THE BELAIRE BUT THEN WE BELIEVED THE HOTEL U WHEN THEY SAID THEY WOULD PAY US $ BUT WE NEEDED TO GIVE THEM $8,000, THEN ANOTHER $8,000 THEN $10,000.......