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Kiplinger’s & TARDA’s Timeshare Buying Dos and Don’t
Categories: Advocacy October 7, 2022
By Sheilah Brust, TARDA Board President Many of us still love the timeshare industry, but are concerned by the volume of complaints, lawsuits, arbitration cases, and Attorneys General investigations in which timeshare buyers describe deceptive marketing, sales and lending practices. We are grateful to Kiplinger’s and author H. Dennis Beaver, Esq., for joining our consumer […]
Read MoreKOALA’s New Tiered Membership Program
Categories: Experts September 22, 2022
September 22, 2022 KOALA representative Myles By Sherida Nett, Minnesota If you don’t know about KOALA , you should! We were not sure where to turn af…
Read MoreWhy a Vacation Village Owner Contacted an Exit Company
Categories: Timeshare Companies June 30, 2022
By Karen in Virginia – Vacation Village – Massanutten Unfortunate Owners Facebook Group We wrote to Vacation Village Patriots Inn in 2021 to request a release. We received an email back saying they do not take back a timeshare unless there is serious medical hardship. Timeshares were routinely sold as being a real estate product, […]
Read MoreTimeshare Dispute Resolution Strategy
Categories: Advocacy June 23, 2022
(Updated November 14, 2024) By Fran Dygulski Timeshare self-advocacy is an evolving process that can take weeks or years. When I prepared this report in February of 2020, I was in the midst of two timeshare disputes. The process was long and tedious, but in the end, my concerns were addressed and resolved. There are […]
Read MoreConsumer Law Protection – an Exit Company Disaster
Categories: Exit Companies May 23, 2022
May 23, 2022 By Derrick Higgins I am a retired investigator, but I did not do an in-depth job of researching Consumer Law Protection. They did not pro…
Read MoreThe Timeshare Tax Trap – 1099-C Question Revisited
Categories: Experts February 11, 2022
February 11, 2022 By Sheilah Brust, TARDA Board President It is tax time again in America and we have already received this year’s first question abou…
Read MoreWyndham Defaults – Six Military Veterans Report
Categories: Military January 2, 2022
January 2, 2022 Hundreds of veterans and active duty service members have reached out to share their timeshare experiences since 2016. Six veterans, w…
Read MoreWhy a $6.5 Million Fine is a Win (for The Manhattan Club)
Categories: Timeshare Companies November 19, 2021
By Irene Parker Like many, I considered the $6.5 million New York Attorney General’s settlement with The Manhattan Club (TMC) developers, Ian Bruce Eichner, Scott Lager, other associates, and a maze of at least five corporate entities, a win for TMC owners. I learned $6.5 million was anything but a win for owners. The Manhattan […]
Read MoreThe Oral Representation Clause and Diamond Resorts
Categories: Timeshare Companies August 12, 2021
By Bernadette Bernadette explains why reading the timeshare contract would not have helped her. Like many, Bernadette was told that in order to be released from a paid-in-full deeded timeshare, she must convert to points. This would not have been in her contract. A TIMESHARE TALKS interview with Bernadette from Oklahoma: My husband Fred had […]
Read MoreThe Universality of Timeshare
Categories: Experts August 5, 2021
August 5, 2021 Timeshare Consumer Association (TCA) was launched in the U.K. in 1997 by Sandy Grey, a timeshare owner himself who expressed the same c…
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