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I'm a bit confused... (by KC):

gregoryr49 wrote:
If they failed to pay the transfer fee but filed the papers with the register of deeds should my name be off this timeshare?

The term "transfer fee" in the timeshare world generally refers to the fee which is required by some (...but not all) resorts to initiate making a change in their internal ownership records. A resort will only seek or process this transfer fee (usually paid by the new owner) AFTER a deed has been officially recorded and AFTER the resort has been provided with a copy of the new officially recorded deed.

The term "recording fee", on the other hand, refers to the fee which is charged by a governmental entity (County, more often than not) to officially record a new deed, assigning a book and page and instrument number to the new deed in the process of doing so.

It is not clear to me from your quoted post whether or not you maybe actually mean RECORDING fee when you referred to "transfer fee"???

I hope that you are not in the following situation, which is the real danger and risk with some Post Card Companies. They sometimes never actually place title in their own name with a new deed at all. Instead, they operate under a "Power of Attorney" from the current owner, which authorizes the PCC to TRY to sell the timeshare on behalf of the owner. However, if the PCC fails to "unload" the timeshare in such PoA instances, the current owner REMAINS the owner and the PCC is off the hook (...but still with you money in their pockets). I sincerely HOPE that this is not YOUR situation because if so, YOU are still the legal owner, DESPITE having paid money to the PCC. I hope that it's instead simply a matter of a recording fee not having accompanied a proper new deed; a County is not going to record the deed until they have their recording fee. Or, if it really is just a matter of a transfer fee being paid and a new deed HAS already been properly recorded, then the simple solution is to just provide a copy of the new recorded deed to the resort and pay the transfer fee (which is usually less than $100).