I followed up with a phone call again today and was told the recorded dead & checks were sent to the resort on 9/9/08 and my paperwork mailed to me the same date (a week ago).
Now I'm checking my mail closely.
Under the good news/BAD NEWS category...we got our deed with a postmark on the evelope of 9/17/08. The recording date was 7/8/08 according to the sticker attached to the deed.
A check with the resort however revealed that it was recorded under information of the old resort (Summer Bay) rather than the new resort (Summer Bay Desert Club) and as of April 2008, all deeds needed to be recorded with the new info. This is due to the Summer Bay relocation to the new resort. I knew this sale would likely be complicated.
The resort has sent back the deed with instructions to the title company to record it correctly before they will accept it. There is also $661 in maintenance fee's due on this week which the transfer company was supposed to pay as well. I have an e-mail dating back to August stating they were issuing checks for transfer and maintenance fee's so at least I have it in writing from them.
I spoke with the closing agent today who asked for 48 hours to research and find out what needs to be done. I'm VERY polite on the phone and straight forward. I paid MF's to the seller which should be in escrow with Timeshare-Freedom (I hope!!!). Additionally, unbeknowst to me, the seller on the deed is listed as the infamous Darmish Patel with RAN.
This will be our 5th TS week I've purchased in and the only one so far which hasn't just gone through as a matter of course.
I will update this as it proceeds.