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Re: Re: Re: Re: Get out of Westgate Resorts (by KC):

I do not frequent Facebook; too much garbage to sift through there while trying to separate the wheat from the chaff. Personally, I choose to confine my timeshare related participation, time and input to only the timeshare-specific sites of (in order of priority) Timeshare Users Group (TUG) and RedWeek. People who are genuinely interested in timeshare issues should make the effort to seek out and find those two premier sites for informed knowledge on this topic --- not just wallow around in the sadly misinformed cesspools of Facebook content. Just my personal opinion and choice.

That said, I ALWAYS strongly advise anyone who will listen to NEVER get involved with (or ever pay a single penny to) ANY so-called timeshare “exit / relief / escape / rescue” outfit. With no exceptions, ALL of them are just deceitful and thieving parasites, several having already been successfully prosecuted by Attorneys General in various states --- with hopefully many more to follow in the future. Simply stated, they are all just hungry, greedy and deceitful thieves.

In regard to the portion of above post mentioning people potentially being “sued” for defaulting on promissory notes for timeshares, that practice is (for now, anyhow) actually very rare, your cited Orange Lake example notwithstanding. In fact, in states with anti-deficiency laws (Florida is just one specific example) creditors CANNOT really do anything more than foreclose and take back the timeshare, as long as the foreclosure action is not contested in any way. In such anti-deficiency state instances, the creditor (by law) CANNOT file liens against someone, garnish their wages, etc. for defaulting on a timeshare loan. Such protective anti-deficiency laws unfortunately do not exist in all states.

I don’t know anything about Orange Lake, but Westgate certainly has a well established track record of demonstrating a fondness for litigation. If there is any developer that would consider filing suit against its’ own customers for failure to pay off a note (ironically, for something having zero resale value), Westgate would top MY list of likely candidates. The good news is that the lawsuit option simply does not even exist for them in Florida, where numerous “Wastegate” resorts (and many other timeshares) exist, due to the consumer-protective anti-deficiency laws there.