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The New Timeshare “Easy Exit” Scam: Why Desperate Owners Are Perfect Targets

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Timeshare scammers don’t necessarily need to find people who are careless, gullible, or financially irresponsible. They need to find people who are frustrated, frightened, and desperate for a solution. Unfortunately, the timeshare industry provides plenty of them. Some owners have been paying maintenance fees for 10, 20, or even 30 years. Others have discovered that

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FBI Warns About Timeshare Exit Scams: What Owners Need to Know Before Paying Anyone

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If you’re desperate to get out of a timeshare, you may be exactly the type of person scammers are looking for. That’s not meant to frighten you. It’s something every timeshare owner should understand before handing thousands of dollars to someone promising an easy way out. The FBI has warned that sophisticated criminals are specifically

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Westgate Resorts is Suing Its Own Timeshare Owners—Who is Winning in Court?

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I wanted to know whether Westgate Resorts really sues its own timeshare owners who stop paying. Not whether Westgate could sue them. Not what an exit company says might happen. And not what someone posted on Facebook. I wanted to know whether Westgate has actually taken its own timeshare owners to court—and what happened when

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Before You Pay a Timeshare Exit Company Thousands of Dollars, Read This

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If you’re considering paying a timeshare exit company $3,000, $5,000, $8,000, or even $10,000 to cancel your timeshare, there is something I believe you should do first: understand exactly what you’re paying for. The FBI has warned timeshare owners about increasingly sophisticated fraud schemes targeting people who want to sell, rent, or get out of

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RCI Members: Here’s What Really Happens at the Resort’s “Update” Meeting

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Millions of people belong to RCI, and if you’re one of them, you already know how it works: you trade your week or your points, and you show up somewhere new. RCI is a real, long-standing company. It was founded in 1974 and is now part of Travel + Leisure Co. (formerly Wyndham Destinations). RCI

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Stop Paying Timeshare Maintenance Fees: Use That Money to Cancel Instead

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Before You Pay Your Next Timeshare Maintenance Fee, Consider This: Use That Money to Cancel Instead If you’re already thinking about getting out of your timeshare, you may be wondering why you should keep paying timeshare maintenance fees year after year. Before you pay your next fee, here’s a simple question: How much is your

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Inside the “Owner Update”: How Existing Timeshare Owners Get Sold More

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Most people picture timeshare pressure as something that happens once, at the very first presentation, when you’re a stranger to the industry sitting through your first pitch. In my 15 years in this business, working resorts across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean, I watched a different sale do at least as much damage:

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The Company Behind Your Iberostar Club Membership

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What One Owner’s Actual Contract Shows About Who You Sign With, and Where Your Information Goes Iberostar Hotels & Resorts is a real, large hospitality company with properties across Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, and beyond. Nothing in this article claims the hotel brand itself is running a scam. What this article documents is something narrower

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The Timeshare Cancellation Questions Owners Ask Each Other Most (Answered by Someone Who Used to Sell Them)

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If you own a timeshare and you’ve ever searched for answers online, you’ve probably landed in a Facebook group or a forum thread full of owners asking each other the same handful of questions. I see the same questions over and over, and I understand why — nobody explains this stuff to you when you

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