We purchased and paid off a timeshare with Villa Del Palmar about 8 years ago and after years of increasing maintenance fees and the slow realization that most of what the salesman claimed about flexibility options were blatant lies, we stopped paying our maintenance fees and thought we would just lose our ability to use the membership. We were wrong!
We have now been sent to collections for the past several years of fees and we are trying to figure out how to cut our loses and stop the bleeding. I contacted Resortcom and requested a "Membership Surrender Packet" but they won't send it or even talk about the cost or what is involved until the past due amount of $2500 is paid. What I am afraid of is another scam and that once the fees are paid they pretty much tell me there is no such packet or that it is so expensive that it doesn't make sense. I would rather put that $2500 to a lawyer as a last resort.
Has anyone here been successful in terminating a membership? Does this packet really exist and if so, does anyone know what kind of fees they are going to require? We desperately want to put this thing behind us without taking a hit to our credit. I can't even imagine being stuck with this for the next 22 years.
We have now been sent to collections for the past several years of fees and we are trying to figure out how to cut our loses and stop the bleeding. I contacted Resortcom and requested a "Membership Surrender Packet" but they won't send it or even talk about the cost or what is involved until the past due amount of $2500 is paid. What I am afraid of is another scam and that once the fees are paid they pretty much tell me there is no such packet or that it is so expensive that it doesn't make sense. I would rather put that $2500 to a lawyer as a last resort.
Has anyone here been successful in terminating a membership? Does this packet really exist and if so, does anyone know what kind of fees they are going to require? We desperately want to put this thing behind us without taking a hit to our credit. I can't even imagine being stuck with this for the next 22 years.