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

irenep59 wrote:

The developers have done a great job suppressing the secondary market.

I agree with this observation, particularly in regard to the unlimited greed of slimy Westgate. In my personal opinion, they are simply the worst of the worst in the U.S. Only in Mexico could you find sleaziness at the Westgate level. What relatively little I know about DRI certainly isn't good, but maybe DRI practices will change for the better with their recent acquisition by HGVC; Hilton is a comparatively respectable operation (for a developer, anyhow). I guess time will tell...

In my several decades of timeshare ownership, I have always refused to become associated with any developer / "chain". At least with resale timeshare purchases at smaller "independent" resorts, the hungry, salivating corporate greed is long gone from the property and the resort HOA is now comprised solely of actual (unpaid) fellow interval owners — not a bunch of paid stooges beholden to a corporate employer, as is always the case with “chain” situations.

That said, ownership at "independents" certainly doesn't mean that it will be easy to part with that ownership later; in the end it's all about supply and demand, but at least resale ownership at (and later departure from) "independents" doesn't involve the loss tens of thousands of dollars --- as is so often the case with developer-direct purchases.