Manhattan Club Lawsuit

Does anyone actually know what to do to get out of the maintenance fees? Can they go after your other assets?If both owners die ,can your children’s inheritance be impacted? Pt

Has anyone dealt with a company called the Stonegate Firm to get out of the Manhattan Club?

STOP PAYING THE FEES. They will not go after your other assets. Your best advice is to stop paying them. As long as you pay, there is no incentive to let you go.

Good luck.

Thanks for the not paying advice. But I would still like to know if anyone has dealt with the Stonegate Firm. Thank you.

It's a sham company. I'll read you some excerpts from the lawsuit against them from Capital Resorts Group for shady practices. I hope this helps.

1. The Marketing Defendants operate a fake law firm that charges consumers exorbitant fees in exchange for illusory services.

2. The Stonegate Firm represents to consumers that it will reduce or eliminate legal obligations that consumers owe to timeshare developers through the rendition of legal services.

9:25-cv-13124-BHH Date Filed 10/24/25 Entry Number 1 Page 2 of 41

3. Despite its name, the Stonegate Firm is not a law firm.

4. Neither Post nor Colbert are attorneys.

5. Stonegate Firm's websites, stonegatefirm dot com and timeshareexit dot co , falsely suggest that the Marketing Defendants have the ability to provide legal services, thereby justifying exorbitant fees charged to unsuspecting consumers.

6. As further deception, Stonegate Firm's website utilizes fake, AI-generated, photographs of purported attorneys.

7. The Marketing Defendants deceive consumers into paying for services that the Stonegate Firm knows it cannot and does not provide.

8. The Stonegate Firm has no actual service of its own and no means to deliver its advertised services.

9. Instead of providing the advertised services, and in an effort to legitimize its scheme, the Marketing Defendants utilize the name of one or more licensed attorneys who they pay directly for their participation in the scheme.

10. Post and Colbert, individually, created the scheme at-issue in this matter and first utilized other lawyers to give the appearance of providing the advertised services.

11.Thereafter, Post and Colbert partnered with the Legal Defendants and created The Stonegate Firm, LLC to match Stonegate Law's name.

12. Stonegate Firm, which was created after the inception of the scheme, is the mere instrumentality and alter ego of Post and Colbert, who have directed the scheme both before and after the creation of Stonegate Firm and Stonegate Law. -2- 9:25-cv-13124-BHH Date Filed 10/24/25

Thank you. It certainly helps.

How did you know about this lawsuit against Stonegate? The Better Business Bureau gives them an A+ rating.

Thank you, CT, for the information on the Stonegate firm and the lawsuit against it. From what I see on the Internet, it's an ongoing matter in court.

Your information is useful, and it reflects a less-than-honest environment in various aspects of the timeshare business.

The longtime expression of "caveat emptor" (buyer beware) seems very relevant to the timeshare business.

RP hit the nail on the head with his post (Dec. 12).

cliff20 wrote:

It's a sham company. I'll read you some excerpts from the lawsuit against them from Capital Resorts Group for shady practices. I hope this helps.

1. The Marketing Defendants operate a fake law firm that charges consumers exorbitant fees in exchange for illusory services.

2. The Stonegate Firm represents to consumers that it will reduce or eliminate legal obligations that consumers owe to timeshare developers through the rendition of legal services.

9:25-cv-13124-BHH Date Filed 10/24/25 Entry Number 1 Page 2 of 41

3. Despite its name, the Stonegate Firm is not a law firm.

4. Neither Post nor Colbert are attorneys.

5. Stonegate Firm's websites, stonegatefirm dot com and timeshareexit dot co , falsely suggest that the Marketing Defendants have the ability to provide legal services, thereby justifying exorbitant fees charged to unsuspecting consumers.

6. As further deception, Stonegate Firm's website utilizes fake, AI-generated, photographs of purported attorneys.

7. The Marketing Defendants deceive consumers into paying for services that the Stonegate Firm knows it cannot and does not provide.

8. The Stonegate Firm has no actual service of its own and no means to deliver its advertised services.

9. Instead of providing the advertised services, and in an effort to legitimize its scheme, the Marketing Defendants utilize the name of one or more licensed attorneys who they pay directly for their participation in the scheme.

10. Post and Colbert, individually, created the scheme at-issue in this matter and first utilized other lawyers to give the appearance of providing the advertised services.

11.Thereafter, Post and Colbert partnered with the Legal Defendants and created The Stonegate Firm, LLC to match Stonegate Law's name.

12. Stonegate Firm, which was created after the inception of the scheme, is the mere instrumentality and alter ego of Post and Colbert, who have directed the scheme both before and after the creation of Stonegate Firm and Stonegate Law. -2- 9:25-cv-13124-BHH Date Filed 10/24/25

Must if these companies are scams. I got out of it working directly with MC

in your will can you will the property to TMC??

Yes but they don't have to accept it.

CH. How did you work with them? They tell me there is nothing they can do.

I returned my timeshare and lost 10,000 dollars. I don't care. I just wanted to get them away from. me. Good luck with your situation. I feel so relieved

Jessie Owens

I returned the timeshare back to the Manhattan club and lost my 10,000 dollars but I am relieved and done with them

I want to give it back for nothing also, but they will not take it. When did you do it? How did you do it?

I feel like our group lawsuit is a scam. I was well aware it could be for nothing but it is still painfully that TMC cheats, lies and steals our money and nothing has come out of hiring a lawyer. So disappointing.

I couldn’t agree more. It’s been such a long time after hiring them.

karenm1384 wrote:

I feel like our group lawsuit is a scam. I was well aware it could be for nothing but it is still painfully that TMC cheats, lies and steals our money and nothing has come out of hiring a lawyer. So disappointing.

Call the billing office. I don’t know if they are still doing this, so if not ask if there’s a waiting list if opportunity resurfaces. I had to pay $100 and they took it back. I recall it took a while. This was several years ago.

In the meantime if they don’t take it back just ignore them. They threaten but if you scroll through all of these messages it seems like nothing happens with the threats and no one’s credit is affected. At least per this Redweek column.

How do we even get updates from the current attorney working on it. Seems to have gone nowhere since Zimmerman turn it over to the other firm, Does anyone even have the new phone number and contact attorney or case #

Here is the info: Steven M. Hoffberg

Hoffberg & Associates

29 Buckout Road

West Harrison, NY 10604

(914) 949-2300 tel

(845) 625-2547 fax

steve@hoffberglaw.com