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Re: Re: Re: Get out of Westgate Resorts (by Irene P.):

According to court documents, nothing happens if you default on maintenance fees or a loan, but never say never, they could become more aggressive. I read a 100 + page deposition, their VP of lending deposed. According to his testimony:

Out of 621 original owners, Westgate only brought foreclosure proceedings against 244 accounts. Of the 86 remaining owners, only four testified they were foreclosed. With respect to the 86 owners Westgate decided to foreclose upon, none testified that their credit was damaged as a result of nonjudicial foreclosure, or were aware of any such impact. Westgate had not sought deficiency judgments as a matter of policy and is not entitled to under Florida law and the law of almost every state.

I was planning to attend this trial, but it settled: https://insidetimeshare.com/fridays-letter-from-america-exit-industry-on-trial/

They refused to take back a fully paid for timeshare from someone in their 90s, their daughter a prominent attorney, if they paid their resale broker his $800 commission after finding a buyer for $500. This from the Westgate family with their 90,000 square foot home, 30 bathrooms, the wife's cloths closet 5,500 square feet while grandmas and grandpas are refused a release from fully paid for timeshares. They need to be taken off ARDA's Responsible Exit website, they claim they are a founder and offer the only guaranteed exit. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Their aggressive litigation is against law firms, legitimate and otherwise, and exit companies, as developers refuse to admit they are driving people to exit companies by the deliberate suppression of the secondary market. Westgate is one of the worst. They have written into their contract that they will require 50% of a broker's commission so no legitimate resale broker will accept a listing for a Westgate timeshare. So people find SellMyTimeshareNow charging $1,700 to list a Westgate timeshare with negative resale value.