PUERTO PLATA.- A company owned by Austrian investors today filed several lawsuits against the Lifestyle Vacation Club for more than US $ 31.7 million for alleged breach of contract for the development of a tourism and resource retention project that should have been reported since 2010 by Sale of timeshare contracts.
The company Esmiralda SRL, through the coordinator of its team of lawyers, Nelson Jáquez Suárez, informed the rupture of its links with the Lifestyle group and claims the retained resources and control of its property "to fully develop the tourism project that Currently it is practically frozen and includes in its first stage 12 villas for vacations and 120 condominium apartments. "
In a meeting with the media, it was explained that in addition to Lifestyle Holidays Assets Holding, the lawsuit includes its subsidiaries Tisha Investments Overseas and Quismar Dominicana. The payment of the retained goods and the termination of the contract is done by the company Esmiralda, which acquired the properties in 2008.
Attorney Jaquez stressed that this kind of contractual breach, among foreign investors, unfortunately affects Puerto Plata as an investment destination and as a time-share offerer; And adds to the set of customer complaints caused by Lifestyle not only in Puerto Plata, but also in other destinations, including worrying complaints that circulate on the Internet and that have been recently reported in our country on social networks.
The coordinator of the defense council of Esmiralda said that it has been necessary to go to the Dominican courts, because the few times in which a rapprochement or a short response via e-mail has been achieved, the Lifestyle Group claims that they have nothing on Which is accountable since they are not promoting or selling the properties.
"This is absolutely false," said Jáquez, and anyone can check it by visiting dozens of Internet sites where the project is advertised, and hundreds of people testify after having acquired real estate under the timeshare in Costa Esmeralda.
The company Esmiralda SRL, through the coordinator of its team of lawyers, Nelson Jáquez Suárez, informed the rupture of its links with the Lifestyle group and claims the retained resources and control of its property "to fully develop the tourism project that Currently it is practically frozen and includes in its first stage 12 villas for vacations and 120 condominium apartments. "
In a meeting with the media, it was explained that in addition to Lifestyle Holidays Assets Holding, the lawsuit includes its subsidiaries Tisha Investments Overseas and Quismar Dominicana. The payment of the retained goods and the termination of the contract is done by the company Esmiralda, which acquired the properties in 2008.
Attorney Jaquez stressed that this kind of contractual breach, among foreign investors, unfortunately affects Puerto Plata as an investment destination and as a time-share offerer; And adds to the set of customer complaints caused by Lifestyle not only in Puerto Plata, but also in other destinations, including worrying complaints that circulate on the Internet and that have been recently reported in our country on social networks.
The coordinator of the defense council of Esmiralda said that it has been necessary to go to the Dominican courts, because the few times in which a rapprochement or a short response via e-mail has been achieved, the Lifestyle Group claims that they have nothing on Which is accountable since they are not promoting or selling the properties.
"This is absolutely false," said Jáquez, and anyone can check it by visiting dozens of Internet sites where the project is advertised, and hundreds of people testify after having acquired real estate under the timeshare in Costa Esmeralda.