There are numerous fraud companies offering
to ‘relieve’ you of your timeshare liability. Do not do business with anyone who
cold calls you or advertises such a service in a newspaper or on TV or on the
internet. You will end up many thousands of pounds poorer and still own the
timeshare.
Even if you do actually find a buyer some
resorts refuse to affect a transfer because they ‘don’t like the
buyer’ or give some other spurious reason. Whilst this is an illegal
interference in a proper contract, it may be impossible to complete the sale
quickly. In some cases, the resort may kill the sale by imposing an exorbitant ‘transfer fee’. Reverse
premium brokers are quite used to this improper conduct and may take on the
timeshare companies through the courts to obtain a sale/declaration.
Your resort/club may offer you a deal to
get out. You pay them a lot more, money and they promise to release you from
the continuing obligation to pay.
Few Options that Time Sure Provides:
Option 1. Sell to Another Consumer
This option is somewhat difficult! The
demand for timeshare is at an all-time low with almost all weeks in mid and low
season, floating weeks and points being somewhat worthless. Consumers are
advised to consider a transfer with a reverse premium using a recommended
broker. Only fixed high season weeks in top quality resorts appear to be
selling although prices are only a fraction of what the owner originally paid.
This is one of the most important factor that timeshare contract termination company provides.
Option 2: Hand back the ownership to the resort or club
Some resorts offer a free “Get Out” to any
owner who writes to request termination; others only provide this opportunity
to those who are over 75 and/or are unable to travel or are “bankrupt
and/or insolvent”
Option 3: ‘Walk away’ by stopping payment of the annual fees
This is still an effective method, but
attracts significant risks. In respect to the stopping of payments by the
consumer – this may provoke an adverse reaction from the timeshare company and
further strain future relationships between the two parties. In response, it is
likely, that the timeshare companies will threaten those who default. If a
consumer seriously considers this option, then it is advisable that they have a
backup plan and have consulted others for sound legal advice. In saying this,
in some cases, it has brought the issues into focus and settlements for
consumers have resulted.
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