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

I'm responding to your forum message mostly out of curiosity. I posted a notice 3 years ago about the scams at Puerto Bahia. Everything you said in your posting matches what my husband and I went through. I did eventually get back 6 months of credit card payments, but not the initial $24,000 down payment on a 3-bedroom timeshare (2 weeks).

When you referred to the name "Jeff" it is the same name that we had to deal with when we complained to our Salesman Todd Dehn at Puerto Bahia (just up the road from Vallara Gardens). Actually, the man at Claudio's who made the initial contact with us tried to get us to go to Vallarta Gardens but we said no. He then talked us into going to Puerto Bahia. They also got very rude and rough with us and then offered us an additional 3 weeks along with the inital 5 weeks of rental income at $2600.00 a week from Mercury Property Managment. Who in the world would decline that offer? They also told us that we were to keep our mouths shut when we went to the Puerto Bahia office. We were not to say a word about what they had offered us.

We never did get a penny from MPM (Mercury Property Management) of St. Louis. We still have the 2 other timeshares that we thought we traded in. It's a SCAM in bold print. I did manage to negotiate with the person who took over George Triggs job, to take less time with no more payments, but the experience was so bad for us that we have never gone back to Puerto Vallarta and doubt that we ever will.

If you search the Internet of Todd Dehn and George Triggs you will see that they have now been in Costa Rica and Panama pulling the same scams. Pathetic that they can do this over and over.