Villa La Macha - Scott Pearson Beware of that Owner Scott Pearson Washington DC
When I was interested to rent his Costa Rica vacational house, I asked the owner Scott Pearson about the rental fees and contract. His communication was so slow. He explained that he was out of town for her grandmother's funeral which it was understandable. Finally, afterwe reached the agreement. I paid 50% deposit ($7,500) for renting Villa La Macha for three weeks. But suddenly, I just got the news from my sponsor that they had to cut the budget and could not sponsor my film project due to bad ecomony.
I informed Scott about my situation and had to cancel the reservation (two days after Scott received my deposit). Scott told me that he would not refund 7,500 dollars till he finds someone to rebook. I told him that it was so unfair because it was only two days of booking, not good reason to withhold the refund. he pointed out that his term that I will not be able to get the refund till the cancellation dates are rebooked. I pointed out that HE HAVEN'T SENT ME THE CONTRACT WHICH I REQUESTED IN THE BEGINNING. I believe he tried to advantage ob my bad situation. Please BEWARE OF THAT GUY, SCOTT PEARSON!
Mark ****
Fishers, Indiana
U.S.A.
1 Updates & Rebuttals
Scott Pearson
Washington,District of Columbia,
U.S.A.
A response from Villa La Macha
#2REBUTTAL Owner of company
Sun, April 05, 2009
Mark is clearly upset that he lost his rental deposit. But our rental terms are clearly posted on our web page and Mark was aware of them. They state that deposits are non-refundable upon cancellation unless we are able to re-rent the dates.
The reason for this is that we do not operate a hotel with many rooms. We rent one house. And when someone places a deposit we mark the house as reserved and turn away future inquiries. After Mark made his deposit we turned away three groups inquiring about rentals. Who knows how many others never inquired because our availability calendar read "booked". When Mark finally did cancel (far more than "two days" after making his reservation) it was too late for most groups to plan travel to the area, and, so far, we have not been able to re-book the dates. We have tried hard to do so, recontacting the people we turned away and more recently offering steep discounts. If we are able to re-rent, we will happily refund Mark's deposit.
Mark is upset that he lost his deposit. He has threatened and harassed and libeled us. However we have lost far more he has as we have three empty weeks and a rental deposit that represents less than half of the rental rate for those weeks.
If you visit www.villalamacha.com you will see dozens of comments from happy guests who have stayed at Villa La Macha.
Please contact me at villalamacha@aol.com if you wish to inquire further about Villa La Macha or this unfortunate dispute.
Scott Pearson