Unlucky2.1.2012
TUG Member
So first off I would like to thank all those who participated in past threads steering the "newbie's" into the right direction. I was lucky enough to be able to do a little research "after the fact of signing" that I fell into the well pitched and glamorous deal with Westgate Resorts in Orlando. Hadn't I read some of the post about timeshare monsters and the act of rescinding and cancelling a major mistake, I would have never known to go through the proper steps in the allotted time.
So here is the story June 18, 2013, a quick breakfast, a 90 minute sales pitch and wa la six hours later I was a proud owner of my first timeshare interest. Another sucker fish on the line is what I felt days later. I looked back and felt that I was pressured by sales person after sales person after managers speaking with us telling me and my wife that it was going to be a great opportunity and that we would never get this opportunity again and that we could not think it overnight and we had to decide then and there. It all seemed and sounded great at the time. So we decided to go through with it.
Papers signed, signed so fast we didn't even get a chance to read them in detail, the closing officer rushing us in signing document after document. She gave us our contract and additional information in it sealed air tight envelope and told us we would never need to open this envelope and to "store it in a safe place" as the envelope states. That drew a flag and indicator to do a little research of my own, even though I had already signed the documents. A couple nights later I open the forbidden envelope after reading the post on this website on rescinding a contract. I was given ten days to rescind and was lucky enough to find this out in time and set the ball in motion in only three days sending my cancellation letter by USPS and requesting a return receipt.
I received a call from a lady from Westgate today informing me they had received my letter and tried to talk me into staying with Westgate by dropping the price of the timeshare and adding other lucrative deals, I stated that I was not interested very politely and that financially I could not afford it at this particular time period several times. She told me that I was breaching my contract and that I would need to go with the new deal or have legal actions taken. I told her that I was a member of the Armed Forces and I was going to take the contract to military lawyers to see what options I would have. She told me she was going to have to take it to the legal section and that she didn't know the legalities of the process. Wow! She was just another sales person, how are you going to tell someone their breaching a contract if they don't know for sure they are breaching a contract. I told her to send me drafts of the new deal as well as all the legalities on cancelling the timeshare so I could have lawyers scan through it. I am still awaiting the email.
So here is my question to the ones who might know,
The sales lady told me I was breaching the contract because we signed a promissory note and notarized the warranty deed on the spot and may I add that the owner block of the deed copy I have was still not signed, and that we were locked in and could not cancel. Suspicious I think.
Should I be worried that I am going to plunge into this money pit with no hopes of getting out, or am I in the clear and have nothing to worry about? Has anyone had a similar circumstance?
So here is the story June 18, 2013, a quick breakfast, a 90 minute sales pitch and wa la six hours later I was a proud owner of my first timeshare interest. Another sucker fish on the line is what I felt days later. I looked back and felt that I was pressured by sales person after sales person after managers speaking with us telling me and my wife that it was going to be a great opportunity and that we would never get this opportunity again and that we could not think it overnight and we had to decide then and there. It all seemed and sounded great at the time. So we decided to go through with it.
Papers signed, signed so fast we didn't even get a chance to read them in detail, the closing officer rushing us in signing document after document. She gave us our contract and additional information in it sealed air tight envelope and told us we would never need to open this envelope and to "store it in a safe place" as the envelope states. That drew a flag and indicator to do a little research of my own, even though I had already signed the documents. A couple nights later I open the forbidden envelope after reading the post on this website on rescinding a contract. I was given ten days to rescind and was lucky enough to find this out in time and set the ball in motion in only three days sending my cancellation letter by USPS and requesting a return receipt.
I received a call from a lady from Westgate today informing me they had received my letter and tried to talk me into staying with Westgate by dropping the price of the timeshare and adding other lucrative deals, I stated that I was not interested very politely and that financially I could not afford it at this particular time period several times. She told me that I was breaching my contract and that I would need to go with the new deal or have legal actions taken. I told her that I was a member of the Armed Forces and I was going to take the contract to military lawyers to see what options I would have. She told me she was going to have to take it to the legal section and that she didn't know the legalities of the process. Wow! She was just another sales person, how are you going to tell someone their breaching a contract if they don't know for sure they are breaching a contract. I told her to send me drafts of the new deal as well as all the legalities on cancelling the timeshare so I could have lawyers scan through it. I am still awaiting the email.
So here is my question to the ones who might know,
The sales lady told me I was breaching the contract because we signed a promissory note and notarized the warranty deed on the spot and may I add that the owner block of the deed copy I have was still not signed, and that we were locked in and could not cancel. Suspicious I think.
Should I be worried that I am going to plunge into this money pit with no hopes of getting out, or am I in the clear and have nothing to worry about? Has anyone had a similar circumstance?