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[ 2012 ] Fairmont / Sunchaser / Northwynd official thread with lawsuit info!

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I have been watching this saga for quite some time and I am truly sorry to those leasees, owners or whatever they are. I guess this goes to show that it is best to rent and never sign a timeshare contract.
 

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I have been out of the country backpacking overseas since October 2017, I had signed at last minute from abroad to let MG negotiate a settlement for us. That was the last I heard from him as he did not update my email address that we sent him, Then suddenly in February I am being asked to pay a settlement agreement amount, somehow he figured out he had the wrong email address. I replied that I could not afford that so he indicated that I should fill out a hardship form, I explained that internet access was limited and explained in an email why I could not afford the settlement amount. All of a sudden I was approved as a hardship case and given an extension to pay when I get back in the country.
So could some one explain to me since this is all new to me, as we had bought a 1993 resale contract is the interest rate of 26% now 5% and is this being appealed? Is this our last option
and is all the other appeal exhausted now? Trying to catch up on what has happened.
Any suggestions on what to do next. Have not signed or paid anything yet. Am nowing being offered a revised settlement amount
 

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I have been out of the country backpacking overseas since October 2017, I had signed at last minute from abroad to let MG negotiate a settlement for us. That was the last I heard from him as he did not update my email address that we sent him, Then suddenly in February I am being asked to pay a settlement agreement amount, somehow he figured out he had the wrong email address. I replied that I could not afford that so he indicated that I should fill out a hardship form, I explained that internet access was limited and explained in an email why I could not afford the settlement amount. All of a sudden I was approved as a hardship case and given an extension to pay when I get back in the country.
So could some one explain to me since this is all new to me, as we had bought a 1993 resale contract is the interest rate of 26% now 5% and is this being appealed? Is this our last option
and is all the other appeal exhausted now? Trying to catch up on what has happened.
Any suggestions on what to do next. Have not signed or paid anything yet. Am nowing being offered a revised settlement amount
You have to ask yourself was the Freedom to Choose a Unfair Practice to our Lease Contracts? Than ask yourself why was MG in a big hurray to collect money from time owners at 26.8% interest and the threat of 162% if you did not pay the 26.8% when he knew Justice Young was ruling on interest rates by Feb15/2017? This is White Collar Crime. What was he being paid by Kirk Wankel to stab us in the back? You have to ask yourself was this a planned Bankruptcy. The most important were they breaching your contract and did they give you notice in writing sent as registered mail of any changes to your contract like unilateral amendments and modifications to your contract. Are you aware that Richard Gotfried the UCP member of Fish Creek in Calgary is working with us. If not check out page 208 and send Richard the offers MG is proposing so he can see how this poor excuse of a lawyer operates. This is all Fraud.
 

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So could some one explain to me , as we had bought a 1993 resale contract is the interest rate of 26% now 5% and is this being appealed? Is this our last option
and is all the other appeal exhausted now? Trying to catch up on what has happened.
Any suggestions on what to do next. Have not signed or paid anything yet.
 

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Re-read Spark1's post - it sums it up the situation in a nutshell, perfectly. If it is too brief for you read the posts from page 100 to current to get a better understanding of what has happened to those of us involved and what still is going on.
 

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It’s my understanding that Colin knight and his fairmont cronies are in bed with Wankle and company. Some names have changed but the same players. Absolutely a planned bankruptcy. Then take advantage of a liberal court in BC and contract law and bingo ya got a money tree!! I went to the FBI and they saw the stink all over this pile of poop!!
 

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It’s my understanding that Colin knight and his fairmont cronies are in bed with Wankle and company. Some names have changed but the same players. Absolutely a planned bankruptcy. Then take advantage of a liberal court in BC and contract law and bingo ya got a money tree!! I went to the FBI and they saw the stink all over this pile of poop!!
You have to understand that Collin Knight was not the only owner of the Fairmont Resort Properties LD. He also had 3 women that owned 25% each of that resort and Collin Knight owned the other 25%. One of these women was our Trustee’s X-wife and the other two were connected to his Lawyer Firm. Should we assume there is a conflict of interest here. This Trustee also designed the Freedom to Choose which we all know had nothing to do with our contracts. Why did he have to use the Supreme Court of BC to inforce this White Collar Crime on us. This was a unfair Practice and Albertan’s should of been Protected by Service Alberta and been able to use the Fair Trading ACT To fight this. BC owners should of been able to use Protection BC. The Government of Canada and these Two provinces proved there is no Canadian Consumer Protection for Lease Time Owners in this country. The owners of Rafter Six also lost everything because of this planned bankruptcy. My first phone call pertaining to this white collar crime was made to BBB in Calgary and they told me when this all started why would you pay anything,it is so easy to go bankrupted in this country. Was he so right. We all should be working with Richard Gotfried and give him all the information we can that he can use in the House of Commons. Because the owners are from Calgary there are two departments that failed us that being The Justice Minister and The Service Alberta Minister. The Service Alberta Minister resigned and I can not wait until May 2019 to say good by to this NDP party. Also 2019 so we can get rid of this terrible Prime Minister. Canadian Consumer Protection for Timeshare Lease Owners means nothing to these two governments.
 

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It’s my understanding that Colin knight and his fairmont cronies are in bed with Wankle and company. Some names have changed but the same players. Absolutely a planned bankruptcy. Then take advantage of a liberal court in BC and contract law and bingo ya got a money tree!! I went to the FBI and they saw the stink all over this pile of poop!!
It's just too bad that the FBI, RCMP, the Canadian courts, et al. can know about this and watch it go down without somehow intervening.
 

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I see the "new hotel" formerly known as Hilltop is now offering Villa Sales on the Mountain View Villas website. Looks like the sins of the past are about to be reintroduced to a whole new set of victims!
 

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It’s my understanding that Colin knight and his fairmont cronies are in bed with Wankle and company. Some names have changed but the same players. Absolutely a planned bankruptcy. Then take advantage of a liberal court in BC and contract law and bingo ya got a money tree!! I went to the FBI and they saw the stink all over this pile of poop!!
Torqued if you can send me a email address I have a court case I would like to send you. I am looking for a American Citizen that will show the proper authorities this planned bankruptcy which was used for this White Collar Crime. It was majority Seniors that were extorted millions now paying for the new mountainside Resort.
 

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Spark I’ll get an email address to you tonight. Thanks for the suggestion
 

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I'm seeing this trailer for season 4 of this series several times a day lately.

And each time, the first 5 seconds brings to mind a few possible names.

I'm thinking that if we can find a way to laugh once in a while through this tragedy.

 

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This whole experience has been a nightmare. It has left many of us emotionally and perhaps financially bankrupt. Those of us that have "settled" have kissed goodbye to a lot of money that we will never see again.
My question is - has anyone (Canadian) looked at the possibility of recovering some of our losses by claiming a capital loss for income tax purposes? It would be nice if this is possible. The courts seem to believe that we owned a capital property and held us liable for all the responsibilities that came with it.
Meow I think this is brilliant. If all of us that paid used this as a capital loss the government would become very interested.....after all the judge decided we were "owners" and owners are entitled to capital losses of property.
 

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Meow I think this is brilliant. If all of us that paid used this as a capital loss the government would become very interested.....after all the judge decided we were "owners" and owners are entitled to capital losses of property.
Who would be interested in reading how the Trustee of the resort was totally involved with the owners of Fairmont Resort Properties Ltd and why I feel this could be a conflict of interest. This is why I feel the Bankruptcy could of been a planned Bankruptcy after reading this.
 

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Who would be interested in reading how the Trustee of the resort was totally involved with the owners of Fairmont Resort Properties Ltd and why I feel this could be a conflict of interest. This is why I feel the Bankruptcy could of been a planned Bankruptcy after reading this.
One can observe Collusion, but how do you prove malfeasance?The problem all along is that everybody is in bed with everybody else; the objective being that a popular tourist destination shall not fail and that the timeshare owners will pay the price of shoddy workmanship and failing buildings. One would hope for strong consumer protection and the Integrity of a contract, but it did not happen and an innocent public pays the price.
 
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Thanks GypsyOne I would like to send you a court case with Lee and Sandy Merriman to prove to you how our Trustee was in bed with the owners of Fairmont Resort Properties Owners in my opinion. If you could give me a email address I can forward it to you. Use any email address if you do not want to use yours like a friend.
 

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Thanks GypsyOne I would like to send you a court case with Lee and Sandy Merriman to prove to you how our Trustee was in bed with the owners of Fairmont Resort Properties Owners in my opinion. If you could give me a email address I can forward it to you. Use any email address if you do not want to use yours like a friend.
I'll take your word for it and pass on the email.
 

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I'll take your word for it and pass on the email.
That’s fine. This case was never ruled on and the last I heard Lee Charles Merriman,and Sandy Lynn Merriman and Adam Heyadat are trying to get court time to carry on with this case. The stamp on this document Supreme Court of British Columbia Vancouver Registry June 25/2013.
The defendants were Northwynd Limited Partnership and a Fairmont Resort Properties LTD
Fairmont Resort Properties LTD
Fairmont Funding INC.
Fairmont Marketing Corp
FRPL Finance LTD
FRPL Management LTD
LL Developments LTD.
Dunvegan Petroleums LTD
Philip Matkin professional Corporation
Northwynd Limited Partnership
Northmont Resort Properties Ltd
Resort Villa Management Ltd.
Northwynd Properties Real Estate investment Trust.
Sunchaser Vacation Villas at Riverside, Hill Side and Riverview.
Lake Okanagan Resort 2001 LTD.
Page 8 The Wives and the Knight
51/ FRPL Finance and FRPL Management are 75% owned by a company belonging to the 3 Wives of the MATKIN LAW OFFICE, and 25% owned by the Company belonging to Collin Knight.
I only dealt with Collin Knight When we bought. I feel our Trustee was to involved with the owners of the resort. These 3 Wives were they all his X Wives and how were they connected to our Trustees Law Firm. With this situation it is very easy to plan a bankruptcy. I feel this is all Fraud and extortion and this case should of been ruled on and no Freedom To Choose.
 

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One can observe Collusion, but how do you prove malfeasance?The problem all along is that everybody is in bed with everybody else; the objective being that a popular tourist destination shall not fail and that the timeshare owners will pay the price of shoddy workmanship and failing buildings. One would hope for strong consumer protection and the Integrity of a contract, but it did not happen and an innocent public pays the price.
You will agree that Freedom to Choose Freedom to Leave was designed to look after the bond holders and kill the Vacation Villa Lease Contracts. I would bet not one Supreme Court Judge in BC read a Vacation Villa Lease. This is my last Post and hope justice
is done against crooked Judges and Lawyers.
 

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My husband and I are one of the victims in Geldert group. We feel ripped off by Northmont and betrayed by our own attorney. We live in Spokane, Washington State and purchased the Fairmount timeshare in 1999. When we got the ridiculous settlement of $36,000 early this year, we talked to several attorneys here. They all said: "nobody would pay that kind of settlements, don't pay until they contact you". So we did not pay at the time, but just got a bill of $56,000 from Northmont on Sept 6th. That day happened to be my husband's birthday and he joked that was the "biggest" gift he ever got.
We consulted with one bankruptcy attorney yesterday and she suggested us not to file bankruptcy but try to negotiate with Northmont to get the bill lower. She was not sure if we could get it lower but would try. Otherwise, she said that Northmont could put a lien against our property.
Both my husband and I searched on the internet all day yesterday and finally found TUG BBS with good postings. We got on the petition started by Dorothy Zazelenchuck and noticed that there are only 385 people signed up including us, but we need 1000. We saw the June video from Truth's blog and liked Richard Gotfried's arguments on the Northmont scandal.
Now we want to know if people from the Geldert Group are willing to fight against our unfair settlements. Are there any groups that are hiring attorneys or working with politicians to help us out? We are in America, and there are not many people here who purchased Canadian timeshares, so we can not get any support from the local timeshare holders. Anybody in the forum please give us the updated information, and we really appreciate it!
 

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My husband and I are one of the victims in Geldert group. We feel ripped off by Northmont and betrayed by our own attorney. We live in Spokane, Washington State and purchased the Fairmount timeshare in 1999. When we got the ridiculous settlement of $36,000 early this year, we talked to several attorneys here. They all said: "nobody would pay that kind of settlements, don't pay until they contact you". So we did not pay at the time, but just got a bill of $56,000 from Northmont on Sept 6th. That day happened to be my husband's birthday and he joked that was the "biggest" gift he ever got.
We consulted with one bankruptcy attorney yesterday and she suggested us not to file bankruptcy but try to negotiate with Northmont to get the bill lower. She was not sure if we could get it lower but would try. Otherwise, she said that Northmont could put a lien against our property.
Both my husband and I searched on the internet all day yesterday and finally found TUG BBS with good postings. We got on the petition started by Dorothy Zazelenchuck and noticed that there are only 385 people signed up including us, but we need 1000. We saw the June video from Truth's blog and liked Richard Gotfried's arguments on the Northmont scandal.
Now we want to know if people from the Geldert Group are willing to fight against our unfair settlements. Are there any groups that are hiring attorneys or working with politicians to help us out? We are in America, and there are not many people here who purchased Canadian timeshares, so we can not get any support from the local timeshare holders. Anybody in the forum please give us the updated information, and we really appreciate it!
Are you sure the bill was from Northmont or was it from Northwynd.
 
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