On the subject of selling a timeshare, many unwary timeshare owners seeking to rid themselves of their timeshare fall prey to listing companies that propose to list their timeshare for sale. Such companies have been under investigation by state Attorney General’s for fraudulent and deceptive practices and a proposed timeshare seller wishing to sell his or her timeshare obligation should first consider selling their timeshare by listing it on sites. Following are few ways that the termination companies could help in your exiting from the burden of contract.
Few of the Other Options:
- Other options are to list it through the developer, if the developer handles re-sales, or through a timeshare resale broker. One thing the proposed timeshare seller should not do is pay an advance fee for the sale of their timeshare. It is these advance fee practices that have fallen under the scrutiny of state Attorney Generals.
- Another frequently discussed solution to the problem of how to be released from your timeshare’s financial burdens, is to donate the timeshare. Where there once were a number of organizations that accept deeded-timeshare donations, with the ever-increasing burden of maintenance fees which seem to go up every year, such organizations are a vanishing breed.
- Transferring ownership to a third party who will merely take over the yearly maintenance obligations is another “exit strategy.” These persons, however, won’t pay you for the timeshare and in many cases the timeshare company will simply refuse to recognize the transfer or alternatively impose onerous resort transfer fees making the transfer to a third party prohibitive for those faced with financial difficulties.
In recent years, however, new techniques pioneered by real estate attorneys who specialize in timeshare litigation have emerged. These techniques reached their ultimate fruition in a series of lawsuits filed in California on behalf of a group of timeshare owners who wanted nothing more than the complete release, termination and cancellation of their timeshare interests.
Other similar actions have followed, all seeking cancellation and termination of timeshare interests for the type of fraudulent and deceptive conduct that is frequently utilized by timeshare sales people to induce unwitting potential owners to sign on the dotted line.
As a result of the filing of such actions, timeshare contract termination company have become much more agreeable to releasing timeshare owners from their timeshare obligations even without resort to litigation.