Exploria Resorts refers owners looking to exit to upfront fee resale company

[TUGBrian]

At the top of my list on things that absolutely piss me off, is when the industry itself (ARDA for example), and individual resort developers actually REFER people to known upfront fee resale companies.

In this example sent to me today from an owner, they reached out seeking help in exiting their timeshare and were essentially told "sorry, we wont take it back, you will need to sell it yourself and here is a trusted company you can use" This company of course was timeshares only, who this particular owner contacted thinking their own resort wouldnt lead them astray would they?

For more options to transfer your timeshare, please consider reaching out to a reputable and legitimate timeshare resale company, such as Timeshares Only.  Timeshares Only is both trusted by ARDA and accredited by the BBB, with an A+ BBB rating.  Timeshares Only is independently owned and operated and has no affiliation with Exploria Resorts, though they are our featured reseller due to their familiarity with our product. 

They were then charged $499 to list their timeshare on the site for $2000. anyone want to place bets on if it ever got sold? no? how odd!

and people wonder why I make videos about defaulting on a timeshare as a legitimate option to end your ownership. If this is truly the solution that exploria has chosen for their owners who contact them for help on exiting a paid off ownership, I hope everyone starts defaulting on Exploria timeshares they cant sell.

 

[goaliedave]

Agree, that's ridiculous!

 

[LannyPC]

Timeshares Only has an A+ rating with the BBB?!?!

BTW, TUG Brian, what did you tell this person when he asked about TImeshares Only?

 

[TUGBrian]

they have recently joined TUG and listed their property for free hoping to attract a buyer.

its a week already enrolled in RCI points, so I hope they wont have any issues rehoming it when offering it for free.

 

[Laurie]

No affiliation with Exploria, eh? But 'how bout with Capital or whoever owns them? Maybe Timeshares Only is a subsidiary of Capital or otherwise connected financially. They are so evil. Grrr. And this is "interesting", given what's unfolding with the mess at Beach House Golf & Racquet Club in Myrtle Beach. Bad bad news.

 

[TUGBrian]

I doubt there is any legal relationship there, but likely a significant financial one!

no doubt TSO pays a very hefty sum for ARDA to promote them as a "trusted resale site", perhaps the same goes for exploria.

 

[Larry M]

This is going to backfire horribly on Capital or Exploria when the people are told to stop paying maintenance fees and all the properties go into default and then Capital or Exploria institute foreclosure proceedings.

Every one of those owners will bring the letter of recommendation into the courtroom and argue "I just did what they told me to do. And I want my $2000 back."

Can't help wondering if this was done by office staff trying to be helpful, not executives.

DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer but I go to bed with one every night.

 

[TUGBrian]

the documentation I was provided looked very much like a form letter, vs something typed up by an individual staff member etc.

It makes me ill to think that this is, or has become standard practice for any exploria owner who reaches out to try to surrender a paid off timeshare.

 

[SML123]

Timeshares Only has an A+ rating with the BBB?!?!

BTW, TUG Brian, what did you tell this person when he asked about TImeshares Only?

BBB is a dinosaur. Means nothing. Most people do not know that for all these years small businesses are EXTORTED to join BBB and once you pay the ridiculous annual fee, it allows you to remove negative comments. In the current internet climate the only people who even know about BBB or think they are worthy are too old to GOOGLE commentary about a company. Thankfully the BBB has lost its grip on businesses. I loathe the BBB.

 

[tschwa2]

At the top of my list on things that absolutely piss me off, is when the industry itself (ARDA for example), and individual resort developers actually REFER people to known upfront fee resale companies.

In this example sent to me today from a Capital Resorts/Exploria owner, they reached out seeking help in exiting their timeshare and were essentially told "sorry, we wont take it back, you will need to sell it yourself and here is a trusted company you can use" This company of course was timeshares only, who this particular owner contacted thinking their own resort wouldnt lead them astray would they?




They were then charged $499 to list their timeshare on the site for $2000. anyone want to place bets on if it ever got sold? no? how odd!

and people wonder why I make videos about defaulting on a timeshare as a legitimate option to end your ownership. If this is truly the solution that capitol resorts has chosen for their owners who contact them for help on exiting a paid off ownership, I hope everyone starts defaulting on Capital Resorts timeshares they cant sell.

Capital and Exploria aren't related at least the last time I looked. It looks like the info came from Exploria which doesn't mean Capital is without their faults but just because the letter was sent from Exploria to someone who owns at both Capital and Exploria doesn't mean that Capital (per your title) is referring owners to this company.

 

[TUGBrian]

apologies, this got a bit convoluted in the communication as the resort in question originally was/is a capital resorts timeshare.

but going back to the original email, the signature showed exploria resorts

THAT said, it does appear that this is a common theme, as this was just posted this morning on FB, knowing full well that this particular resort would have to be given away for nothing to attract a buyer. Ive seen this fairly regularly, but it was simply anecdotal until someone fowarded me an actual email from their resort and now there is proof of it.

 

[Sandy2213]

At the top of my list on things that absolutely piss me off, is when the industry itself (ARDA for example), and individual resort developers actually REFER people to known upfront fee resale companies.

In this example sent to me today from a Exploria owner, they reached out seeking help in exiting their timeshare and were essentially told "sorry, we wont take it back, you will need to sell it yourself and here is a trusted company you can use" This company of course was timeshares only, who this particular owner contacted thinking their own resort wouldnt lead them astray would they?




They were then charged $499 to list their timeshare on the site for $2000. anyone want to place bets on if it ever got sold? no? how odd!

and people wonder why I make videos about defaulting on a timeshare as a legitimate option to end your ownership. If this is truly the solution that exploria resorts has chosen for their owners who contact them for help on exiting a paid off ownership, I hope everyone starts defaulting on Exploria timeshares they cant sell.

I’m in that boat now! We paid for 25 years. We jumped through all the hoops Capital Vacay asked us so we could deed in Lieu of. Sent in paperwork 3 times. They never responded. I was told they would respond. Now we are getting collection letters.