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Plain-language guidance on timeshare cancellation, consumer protection, and how to protect yourself from the industry's sharper edges.
So, it’s early into your new year, and you’re still feeling giddy about last year’s financial ‘win,’ when you and your timeshare developer ‘shook hands’ and agreed to go your separate ways. At last the bleeding has stopped! Your holidays were no doubt […]
As we’ve pointed out on this website previously, there is a growing movement around the country wherein state attorneys general are stepping up when it comes to matters of consumer protection – particularly as the federal government, including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) takes a step back. Well now, with the state of the […]
There can be no denying that the timeshare industry is a behemoth. The American Resort Development Association (ARDA), an industry trade group, estimates that the industry is worth roughly $8.6 billion – putting it in the conversation with the music industry ($7 billion) and even Major League Baseball ($9 billion) in terms of revenue. By […]
When you own a timeshare interest, you’re subject to certain unavoidable fees, including assessments and annual maintenance payments, which tend to increase, year over year. For what owners pay, there is an expectation that, at the very least, being able to use one’s timeshare weeks or points should be a relatively straightforward, easy process. In […]
Believe it or not, “it’s not too soon to start thinking about your 2018 itineraries” – at least according to USA Today, which recently published an article that also helpfully reminds readers that “spring break is only a few weeks away.” And a reminder that 2018’s peak travel season is “just around the corner” isn’t […]
news Plenty of timeshare owners sign up for their interest with a vision of an annual vacation at a luxurious ‘home resort’ dancing in their heads. Others are willing to take on the obligation of timeshare ownership in order to exchange their weeks or points for stays at resorts across the country, or even around the […]
An Orlando, Florida man has pleaded guilty for his role in a telemarketing scam that targeted timeshare consumers, and which ultimately defrauded more than 1,000 victims, many of them elderly, of more than $3.3 million, according to a release from the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Nevada, brought to our attention by timeshare […]
news Recently, NBC Boston ran a story entitled “Resolving Timeshare Termination Turmoil,” a piece well worth checking out for anyone who may be curious about the oft-tricky process that awaits consumers ready to get out of their burdensome timeshare obligations. The piece – which you may read or […]
As we continue our headlong sprint into the holiday season, the Florida Bar has a word of advice that benefits not only attorneys, but everyday consumers: “Beware of Holiday Cyber Scams.” The Bar dove into this topic in a recent blog post, available here. As it notes, though cyber security “may not be at the […]
Perhaps you’ve read about yet another timeshare scam in your local newspaper, or maybe you’re being pitched to attend a timeshare sales presentation while on a vacation. But, if you aren’t already a timeshare owner, the concept can be a little bit confounding. They have a bad reputation […]
As we at Finn Law Group approach the beginning of our eighth consecutive year practicing our own branch of “specialty law,” representing timeshare-owner clients seeking relief from lifelong contractual obligations, I wanted my year-end message to reiterate our stance that we’ve maintained since we started our timeshare resort practice: “We have never, ever, left a client […]
news There are all sorts of tactics that resort developers and their sales teams use to lure fresh buyers to timeshare sales presentations every year. After all, as our own Michael Finn has said, the timeshare is, in many ways, the “mac daddy of impulse buys.” Some of the most common tactics that resort companies use […]
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