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Has anyone purchased from Vallart Gardens? (by Sharon):

Lilya,

I have been posting messages in the forum for a couple of months now and wonder if you or anyone else has had any dealings with Mercury Property Management in St. Louis? I don't want to be redundant with my complaining about the scam that went on at Puerto Bahia Resort and Spa, but I am curious if anyone at all has received any services from Mercury Property Management. Our purchase will be a year old in December and we were told it would take only 60-90 days for them to liquidate our equity properties. In addition by mid-October of 2013 we would receive rental income at the rate of 2600.00 per week for 10 weeks. As I stated in previous messages, my agent from MPM is no longer there. This is a typical response that many or possibly all customers are told. Either that or their representative was promoted for doing such a good job. In our case, I was told in late August that the contracts that I sent in for liquidation and rentals last December ('12) were no longer in the system and were "pulled" by the Agent last April 2013. There is no record of why he did this.

I don't care if it's Vallara Gardens, Chrystal or Puerto Bahia..... they are all using the same fraudulant selling tactics. As a matter of fact, we were contacted by Jose while eating dinner at Claudio's on the Beach in Bucerias. We were offered Vallarta Gardens, but opted to see Puerto Bahia......by the way.... JOSE took us to Grand Mayan 8 years ago. He didn't realize and I didn't mention that I remembered him from 8 years ago when he took us to the Grand Mayan. Eight years ago he showed us a picture of his wife and family, ranging from a little child to his son that was in college. Ha Ha, he showed us the very same picture last December. I thought about making a remark about his still being in college after eight years...but I didn't. We are planning a trip to Vallarta soon. I'm sure Jose is still hanging out at Claudio's and that is the first place we will be visiting. It's going to be a loud conversation that everyone in the restaurant will be able to hear!

Has anyone in this forum ever received any money from Mercury Property Management?

lilya11 wrote:

What promises did they give you? I feel like we made a huge mistake purchasing from Vallarta Gardens after reading all these reviews. But at this point we are stuck with paying what we signed up for. We purchased a 2 bedroom villa, 4 weeks every other year. We were told we could use our weeks any time without any blackouts. We were also promised that we can resell the property to them after 2 years. We actually have a signed agreement for the resell. But at this point I am not sure if they will value their signature when the time comes. We also have a guarantee for market our weeks for 2013 and 2014 through Mercury Property Management. This was the only way my husband and I could have afforded the property. We really liked Vallarta Gardens. It is beautiful and we felt it is a good and a safe place for us to vacation with our 6 year old son. I would really appreciate it if you tell me what they promised you and why do you think this is your worst experience. All these stories are making me sick and I am having a hard time sleeping at nights because of the financial damage this may do to our lives if the marketing money doesn't come through as they said it will between 6 months to a year.