How lovely that Wyndham gets to decide whether the name of a notary public, as registered by the state, is acceptable for use on legal documents.
Positive progress on our deedback of Wyndham Villas at Fairfield. We received a quit claim deed from Tara Cove Condos HOA 2 days ago. We're getting it notarized on Friday.
They had a form on the website that I filled out, but never got a response. I called on Oct. 22, and after a 45 minute hold was able to talk to a rep about returning the timeshare contracts. Based on my contracts, length of ownership, and grandfathered Silver VIP status, I qualified for the Limited Edition Certified Exit. I have points transferred to RCI that I can use up until the do the paperwork with would be about 2 - 3 weeks. After that, I lose all access to RCI. I should receive my paperwork from them in 7-9 weeks of my call. I have 30 days to sign and return the paperwork to them. It was recommended I use certified USPS, Fed-Ex, or UPS. After that it would be 4-6 weeks before my exit is completed. I do have to keep payment of my maintenance fees up to date. The Limited Edition exit will give me 3 years of my 441K points to use maintenance fee free. I will be at the regular non VIP status, and can not use guest certificates. Based on when my exit is complete, my use year of the points for the 3 years may change from Jan-Dec to Mar-Feb or such do to the fact my closing may be after Jan 1. We will now wait and see how this progresses. BTW, the rep I talked to was very courteous and helpful. Also, since having read a lot of posts about them not taking converted weeks back, I think they took mine because it is a very desirable property at Avenue Plaza in New Orleans.
My understanding is that they aren't taking any converted fixed weeks. Most Farfields are older resorts and are more likely to have been sold originally as fixed weeks as yours was, so it may be that currently at least, Fairfield resorts aren't accepted in certified exit.
is that resort still independently owned and just managed by wyndham?
WHOOPS . . . bad info from RCI as the $100 voucher expired 10/31. No worries . . . I didn't want to spend $300 to get $100 in value back from a poor customer service issue last December.
So we did start the process back at the beginning of October. I did a 6 week follow-up with them as I've yet to receive the surrender documents to officially start the process. They did say it could take around 9 weeks, so hopefully I'll see the paperwork soon.
I've owned at Fairfield Mtns for >40 years; converted 1 fixed week to points about 25yr ago. Wyndham tells me they don't own FM so they can't take it back. Tried several times calling and sending certified mail to the resort itself--didn't even get the courtesy of a reply to the letters. I can't give it away and family doesn't want it. Got info from some exit companies but they are scammers and charge a lot of money which I did not pay. I decided 2 yr ago to simply stop paying MFs. Had 2 calls from a collection agency (first one nice, second one not so much); then a letter stating the collection agency turned it back to Wyndham. Nothing in over a year, although Wyndham sends the bill every month, which gets filed.
That’s funny. Even the repo man doesn’t want it!
