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The newest timeshare product sounds pretty good, but there’s an obvious question that might quickly be raised by anyone who thinks about it for a moment or two: Why does an annual maintenance fee obligation continue to be part of the product if the purchaser is now deemed a “member,” and is therefore presumably no […]
In a recent piece, Forbes contributor Peter J. Reilly notes that “the notion that you can come out ahead financially by giving something to charity is inherently sketchy” – and is confounded even more when the timeshare industry is involved. What prompted these musings from Mr. Reilly? The noted tax expert was reacting, specifically, to […]
Recently, our attention was piqued by a report from CBS News entitled “When Your Vacation Home Ends Up Trapping You.” The story and its accompanying video made for a quick and effective look at some consumer complaints about the timeshare industry, particularly focusing on how many owners feel “fed up with being unable to sell […]
Timeshare consumers in Wisconsin are being urged to take caution and be on the lookout for a “sophisticated timeshare resale scam” currently targeting citizens of the state, according to the Wisconsin Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP). According to a report first brought to our attention by timeshare news site […]
None of us ever want to believe that a natural disaster will affect us personally – but, to badly paraphrase Shakespeare, thinking alone will not make it so. The reality is that many thousands of people, in this country and around the world, suffer through horrible and unpredictable weather events every single day, including earthquakes, […]
Millions of Americans are still reeling from the massive data breach at Equifax, one of the nation’s largest credit bureaus. According to Equifax’s notice to consumers, “criminals exploited a U.S. website application vulnerability to gain access to certain files” during the timeframe of “mid-May through July 2017.” While the company claims that they have found […]
I think it’s probably fair to state that timeshare purchasers could and should have meaningful protections in place to ensure that a purchase decision can remain an overall positive consumer experience. Understanding that many timeshare purchases are quite literally unplanned and unbudgeted until the very day they are purchased is essential to understanding the potential […]
For timeshare owners in the South – particularly in Tennessee – the BBB is offering a warning about one alleged timeshare resale company that is likely a scam. Specifically, the BBB has issued a warning to consumers to be wary of any timeshare purchase offers that come from Madison South Timeshares and its representative, who claims […]
Could the vacation rental industry, driven by the rise of services like AirBNB, Vacasa, and HomeAway, stunt the growth of the timeshare sector for good? It’s an interesting question, one that we’ve seen posed a few times before across the internet – particularly from this intriguing piece from Brett Hershman for Benzinga, an investor-focused financial […]
As consumers with a certain level of understanding of business, we probably attribute the lion’s share of timeshare resort revenue to two central factors: timeshare sales and timeshare rentals. As it turns out, there is a third major revenue stream that’s related to sales, but is an entirely separate source of revenue, and it’s a […]
LARGO, Fla.– An administrative petition has been filed against Florida’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation alleging that the agency’s approval of a request by timeshare developers to make statutorily mandated public offering statements available by providing an online address at the closing, rather than furnishing hard copies, violates Florida law. The suit, Rudisill, et al. […]
Timeshare resale scams tend to work like clockwork, popping up in droves at a few points during the year to dupe desperate consumers out of thousands of dollars at a time. We’ve broken down the steps of this pernicious – and all-too-common – scheme before; today, our attention was piqued by a news report from […]
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