Snappy Sam
TUG Member
Visit to the Belaire today!
Wow! Now that was an experience! We followed both Karen's and Bruce's advice (who have now become our new best friends
) and delivered our letter to Jonathan and Marcos personally at the Belaire. Both Jonathan and Marcos were just fine to deal with but then we met Antonio, who we were told is one of the partners of the project! Incredible!!!! He is actually Jonathan's father and is best described as the "godfather of the property ". We hadn't met him on Saturday. Antonio spent time insulting both of us, called us "stupid" on two occasions for not being visionary and not smart enough to know how to make big money. He mentioned all of his connections to important people and properties in Las Vegas, Mexico, Dubai and Sicily and that he is a multi-millionaire who retiried at age 37. He wasn't happy when I asked him if he was retired why he was there working which encouraged him to continue with his "lovely"comments.
After he finally walked out after approximately 40 minutes, we met with Marcos, a new young salesperson Michael who also is a nice young man and Chris a gentleman who interviewed us again about why we rescinded. We finally recieved a letter from Carlos stating that our total payment would be refunded to our visa account within 15 days. I gave them copies of the rescission letter, copies of the instructions they provided in our contract for rescinding and copies of the other signed documents. We let them know that we've sent the same to PERFECO and also to our U.S. Consulate here in PV. We met with a representative from their accounting department who said that we had to give them back the original contract they issued to us so that the company wouldn't have to pay tax on the money from us. We did give them the originals but also let them see we had copies of everything.
We also filed a "dispute" with our credit card company so they have a record as well. We will be sending the credit card company copies of our letter of rescission and all other documentation. We will keep you posted to let you know if our money is credited within the fifteen day period they've promised.
In terms of building...Antonio guaranteed us that Phase one, the first tower would be completed by February 09. His other employees said March 09. There were only three men on site "working." One was literally up to his armpits in water in a large hole where the first tower is to be built. We were told by Antonio that this project wasn't cheap work such as the construction at the Peninsula which he says sunk over 8 feet after the completion of their first tower. We can tell you that we saw numerous men working today at the Peninsula project, the ICON project and the new building at the NH Krystal which currently is over 5 floors high in less than a year's time. Not completed, but the majority of the framework is done and they are putting in the interior walls.
I will be returning here on business at least two more times this fall and winter and will again let everyone know what I see at that time. Today, sadly was very discouraging. Again thank you to all for your advice and you will see as as members shortly! Just as soon as I can use my credit card again in the next 48 hours!:whoopie:
Wow! Now that was an experience! We followed both Karen's and Bruce's advice (who have now become our new best friends
) and delivered our letter to Jonathan and Marcos personally at the Belaire. Both Jonathan and Marcos were just fine to deal with but then we met Antonio, who we were told is one of the partners of the project! Incredible!!!! He is actually Jonathan's father and is best described as the "godfather of the property ". We hadn't met him on Saturday. Antonio spent time insulting both of us, called us "stupid" on two occasions for not being visionary and not smart enough to know how to make big money. He mentioned all of his connections to important people and properties in Las Vegas, Mexico, Dubai and Sicily and that he is a multi-millionaire who retiried at age 37. He wasn't happy when I asked him if he was retired why he was there working which encouraged him to continue with his "lovely"comments. After he finally walked out after approximately 40 minutes, we met with Marcos, a new young salesperson Michael who also is a nice young man and Chris a gentleman who interviewed us again about why we rescinded. We finally recieved a letter from Carlos stating that our total payment would be refunded to our visa account within 15 days. I gave them copies of the rescission letter, copies of the instructions they provided in our contract for rescinding and copies of the other signed documents. We let them know that we've sent the same to PERFECO and also to our U.S. Consulate here in PV. We met with a representative from their accounting department who said that we had to give them back the original contract they issued to us so that the company wouldn't have to pay tax on the money from us. We did give them the originals but also let them see we had copies of everything.
We also filed a "dispute" with our credit card company so they have a record as well. We will be sending the credit card company copies of our letter of rescission and all other documentation. We will keep you posted to let you know if our money is credited within the fifteen day period they've promised.
In terms of building...Antonio guaranteed us that Phase one, the first tower would be completed by February 09. His other employees said March 09. There were only three men on site "working." One was literally up to his armpits in water in a large hole where the first tower is to be built. We were told by Antonio that this project wasn't cheap work such as the construction at the Peninsula which he says sunk over 8 feet after the completion of their first tower. We can tell you that we saw numerous men working today at the Peninsula project, the ICON project and the new building at the NH Krystal which currently is over 5 floors high in less than a year's time. Not completed, but the majority of the framework is done and they are putting in the interior walls.
I will be returning here on business at least two more times this fall and winter and will again let everyone know what I see at that time. Today, sadly was very discouraging. Again thank you to all for your advice and you will see as as members shortly! Just as soon as I can use my credit card again in the next 48 hours!:whoopie:
