My husband and I both decided to get out too. I can't tell you how many times since we got out, that we have said, thank goodness we are out of this mess." I continue to read the post and make comments because even though I am glad we are out, a part of me still gets angry due to the fact that my parents gave us their timeshare a timeshare that we spent many summers there having a great time and I was looking forward to sharing that experience with our grandchildren. Some might say, you got your money worths, but think about this, until a couple of months ago when it became easy as pie to sell back your deed, if we would have contacted Eagle Village a year or two ago and said, we want out, we got our money's worth, Eagle Village would definitely not have said, no problem, we got our money's worth out of you too so you can get out of your timeshare. No, they would have said, no way, you signed a contract, you are in this until death do we part and even then, if you have children, they would have had to take over the timeshare.
What my point is, we paid or in our case my parents paid maintenance fees for 30+ years and now have nothing in return. In fact, we had to pay money to get out and now John Oakes made it easy for us to get out. He made us feel uncertain and scared about the future of Eagle Village. Were we going to have to pay high assessment fees, etc. Except for some videos showing a bulldozer knocking down some trees, he never let us know exactly what the plans were. He never told us what went out to bid and who got the bids and what each person contracted was going to be doing. He did not even show up at this last meeting, which that alone speaks volumes about the lack of transparency he has shown to us. Bottom line, he took advantage of us.
