ChrisH
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PLEASE WRITE TO MASS LEGISLATORS NOW - RE: Timeshare contract cancellations
If you live in MA, please send a letter to your local legislator and the Provincetown legislators as well. Find them by town at: http://www.mass.gov/legis/city_town.htm
If you live outside of MA, but own a MA Timeshare, please send your letter to the legislators representing the town where your timeshare is located.
If you want to include the Governor go here for contact forms: http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=gov3utilities&sid=Agov3&U=Agov3_contact_us
Ask that legislator to review the MGL for Timeshare Contract cancellation policies which include numerous complex documents for the purchaser to review with only 3 days to cancel.
Chapter 183B: Section 41. Providing prospective purchaser with public offering statement and resale disclosures; cancellation of contract; damages
Chapter 183B: Section 38. Public offering statements; furnishing to purchaser; contents
Chapter 183B: Section 39. Public offering statements; conversion buildings; contents
Explain that this amount of complex documentation may require the purchaser to have an attorney to review it before making the best decision.
And that the purchaser is most often not allowed to take documents home for review during the timeshares sales process – particularly if you have had that experience.
Explain that the offerings are often high pressured and for ‘today’ only.
Explain that these sales presentations often occur while you are at a vacation location and have no immediate access to your lawyer, banker (for loan purposes) or even the internet to research the company making this offer.
Explain (from your experience) that the details given by the sales rep often simply cover the highlights but none of the fine print in these contracts. Often leaving out important details.
Ask the legislator to introduce and/or support immediate legislation to change the contract cancellation to a minimum of 15 days within MA.
Ask the legislator to introduce and/or support timeshare an overhaul of timeshare laws under the MGL allowing for increased consumer protection.
Remind the legislator that in recent years timeshare scams and consumer fraud have been uncovered in MA including the Navigator Beach Club, the Edgewater Beach Resort and Beachside Village in addition to MA residents being imprisoned for Timeshare Appraisal and Resale scams by the Federal Government.
Ask them to introduce and support this legislation for extension of the cancellation clause NOW.
Ask them to introduce and support a law that would provide that any timeshare contract signed due to misrepresentation, fraudulent or deceitful information by the sales representative allow for the contract to be rescinded and all monies returned to the consumer, in addition to that representative and business being banned from any such continued occupation in the state of MA, and that business paying related legal fees if found guilty.
Making a change that helps all timeshare owners in the state.
If you live in MA, please send a letter to your local legislator and the Provincetown legislators as well. Find them by town at: http://www.mass.gov/legis/city_town.htm
If you live outside of MA, but own a MA Timeshare, please send your letter to the legislators representing the town where your timeshare is located.
If you want to include the Governor go here for contact forms: http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=gov3utilities&sid=Agov3&U=Agov3_contact_us
Ask that legislator to review the MGL for Timeshare Contract cancellation policies which include numerous complex documents for the purchaser to review with only 3 days to cancel.
Chapter 183B: Section 41. Providing prospective purchaser with public offering statement and resale disclosures; cancellation of contract; damages
Chapter 183B: Section 38. Public offering statements; furnishing to purchaser; contents
Chapter 183B: Section 39. Public offering statements; conversion buildings; contents
Explain that this amount of complex documentation may require the purchaser to have an attorney to review it before making the best decision.
And that the purchaser is most often not allowed to take documents home for review during the timeshares sales process – particularly if you have had that experience.
Explain that the offerings are often high pressured and for ‘today’ only.
Explain that these sales presentations often occur while you are at a vacation location and have no immediate access to your lawyer, banker (for loan purposes) or even the internet to research the company making this offer.
Explain (from your experience) that the details given by the sales rep often simply cover the highlights but none of the fine print in these contracts. Often leaving out important details.
Ask the legislator to introduce and/or support immediate legislation to change the contract cancellation to a minimum of 15 days within MA.
Ask the legislator to introduce and/or support timeshare an overhaul of timeshare laws under the MGL allowing for increased consumer protection.
Remind the legislator that in recent years timeshare scams and consumer fraud have been uncovered in MA including the Navigator Beach Club, the Edgewater Beach Resort and Beachside Village in addition to MA residents being imprisoned for Timeshare Appraisal and Resale scams by the Federal Government.
Ask them to introduce and support this legislation for extension of the cancellation clause NOW.
Ask them to introduce and support a law that would provide that any timeshare contract signed due to misrepresentation, fraudulent or deceitful information by the sales representative allow for the contract to be rescinded and all monies returned to the consumer, in addition to that representative and business being banned from any such continued occupation in the state of MA, and that business paying related legal fees if found guilty.
Making a change that helps all timeshare owners in the state.