Timeshare USA – Lies, damned lies, and statistics – Pt2
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
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?
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 Canada – When Goliath beats David
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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Buying or upgrading timeshare with finance – good or bad?
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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Lex Litigation – A new one on us
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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Selling your timeshare – the lack of buyback
As we have reported many times, sites such as eBay are awash with sellers trying in desperation to dump their unwanted timeshares. Having studied some of the listings, TCA concludes that some sellers are living in cloud cuckoo land with the prices they are asking. Others would be pleased to offload some very nice resorts […]
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What’s worse than buying a timeshare? – Trying to use it!
Over the years that TCA has been communicating with timeshare owners, the pattern of complaints has moved from maintenance fees being number one to lack of availability. Don’t get us wrong, rising maintenance fees still figure at the number two position but overshadowed by a mile by the inability to make bookings. With the total […]
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Contracts and Arbitration Experts SL – Another cold caller
TCA recently received an enquiry concerning the above company. Below we quote the actual comment from the enquirer: “I was contacted by Contracts and Arbitration Experts out of the blue about a timeshare release company that I had used and only paid deposit through credit card. The Spanish company was Arbitration Consultants S.L” Arbitration Consultants […]
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Timeshare EU – The 14 day killer
Ever since the EU timeshare Directive of 2008 was adopted by member states into their own statute law, countries at the forefront of timeshare, such as Spain have had to tow the line. The 14 days we refer to is basically a cooling off period, in other words, a period that allows would be buyers […]
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