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

Your experience was exactly what we experienced at Puerto Bahia (just up the road from Vallarta Gardens). I am curious about the person you refer as Jeff. Our Salesman was Todd Dehn, but after we tried to cancel and went through all aggrevation they sent us to a person referred to as Jeff. I suspect that Jeff just moved up the road. I know that Todd Dehn and George Triggs are now in Costa Rica pulling the same scams......google their names and you'll see.

We were not able to cancel the transaction at Puerto Bahia but my Credit Card did refund some of the charges.

We were also told that they would take our 3 other timeshares in trade through a company called Mercury Property Management. However, when I googled MPM it was a vacant parking lot and they were not registered with the BBB. I called MPM as asked why their letterhead address was a vacant lot. They told me that the printer had made a mistake and they had not had it changed. I asked why they were not registered with the BBB and I was told that they didn't want to pay the fees. We also had a 180 day time frame for them to sell the other properties. After the 180 days was up I called MPM only to be told that the person I had been working with was no longer worked there and my contract had been pulled. They could give me no reason why they didn't have the contract or all the paperwork that I had sent them and informed me that I had reached a call center.

After shutting off my credit card they finally did send me an email. I told them the problem and informed them that they would get no more money. I imformed them that I had sent by registered mail my complaints and they had 10 days to cure.

They didn't cure in 10 days but did offer a larger house and fewer weeks and I had to pay no more money.

However, we had such a bad experience with this entire group who said they were ReMax (but were not) that we can't even think about going to PV.