Timeshare USA – Lies, damned lies, and statistics – Pt2
December 29th, 2023
Back in February 2023 we published part one of this article in which we featured a satisfaction survey carried out by the American Resort Development Association (ARDA). The survey was carried out amongst 1,600 timeshare owners, at the time we pointed out that with an estimated over 10m households owning timeshare in the USA, how […]
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Season’s greetings – A look back and forward
December 22nd, 2023
2023 has once again been a very interesting year for both timeshare owners and the TCA alike. As well as being interesting it’s also been a very busy year. Whilst crunching some numbers we established that our main email contact point has registered slightly over 700 inbound enquiries. Our online chat service soared past this […]
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Timeshare – Investment or not?
December 20th, 2023
We start with a refresher as to what, in basic terms, timeshare is. A timeshare is one of many ways to sort of get your hands on a holiday property. You pool your money with other people and each of you buys a share of time in the property each year. Note the emphasis on […]
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Timeshare USA – Another court case looming
December 18th, 2023
This time we visit Pennsylvania (PA) with an expected court case revolving around Split Rock Resort in Lake Harmony. PA Attorney General Michelle Henry announced a lawsuit against Split Rock Investments, LLC, and SCH USA, LLC, which conducts business as “Bel Air Owner’s Circle” over their alleged deceptive business practices and failure to live up […]
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Timeshare Canada – When Goliath beats David
December 15th, 2023
News has reached us of a court win for a developer/ property management company in British Columbia (BC), Canada in what can only be described as a very unusual case. The timeshare resort, Northwynd Sunchaser Villas, Fairmont, BC recently changed management companies. After taking over, the new management company decided that the resort was so […]
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Dispute Resolution Contract Services – Hilton Diamond scam
December 13th, 2023
News has reached us of yet one more supposed company peddling the Hilton Diamond scam. Rather than TCA outlining the approach we will leave that to the words of our enquirer: “I was cold called by a company called Dispute Resolution Contract Services at Abbeygate Business Centre, Luton. They claimed to be acting on behalf […]
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Timeshare USA – Special assessments
December 11th, 2023
For those not knowing what a special assessment is, in brief we will explain. As per every timeshare maintenance fees are payable, these fees do what it says on the tin, they pay for resort and accommodation maintenance. A special assessment is an unforeseen expense that timeshare owners have to contribute towards. If hurricane Doris […]
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Buying or upgrading timeshare with finance – good or bad?
December 8th, 2023
With entry level timeshare rapidly approaching £20,000 it’s hardly surprising that few have that sort of spare cash lying around, therefore for the majority, finance is required. Here begins the first problem, lending for timeshare purchase or upgrades may only be financed on an unsecured basis. Despite your belief that you are purchasing an asset, […]
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Club la Costa, Wyndham maintenance fee scam alert
December 6th, 2023
Once again we feel the need to put pen to paper to dispel the myth of the current fraud that is prolific amongst scam operators. In essence the scam is aimed at former CLC owners, the scammers state that even though the former owners have written confirmation from CLC of their ownership being terminated, it’s […]
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Lex Litigation – A new one on us
December 4th, 2023
News has reached us of yet another cold caller, this time Lex Litigation. Our enquirer was called regarding his ownership with Anfi, first off, he didn’t instigate the contact and secondly, how did Lex Litigation even know he was an owner at Anfi? Naturally when we hear of a new cold caller, the investigation team […]
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