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Re: Getting rid of your timeshare (by Don P.):

We seemed to have gotten side tracked in here. I started this topic because my wife and I purchased timeshares years ago. We were trading our weeks with RCI before they were taken over by a greedy entity. We used to get the locations we wanted unti RCI started selling the weeks on the open market and denying them to the owners. For quite a few years now we have been trying to sell, donate or give them away to no avail. We saw an article in a newspaper that informed us about a group called ( NTOA ) National Timeshare Owners Association. The website is nationaltimeshareownersassoc.com. The president is Ed Hastry who can be contacted at hastry@aol.com.. With the membership we received a subscription to Time Sharing Today which is their newsletter publication. They also have meetings in various states to discuss the industry. We attended two annual meetings in Central Florida so far and they were fantastic for the information we received there. In an article in a recent edition of Tims Sharing Today a member shared his experience about getting rid of your time shares. He suggested contacting the time shares and offering to give thm back. I did just that with two time shares in Florida and they both agreed to take them back through quit claim deeds. I just paid the current years taxes and a minimal fee and they are now both gone. I didn't have to pay a post card company thousands of dollars to take them off our hands and the entire proceedure only took about a month. I wanted to let other time share owners know that they are not alone in their quest to rid themselves of their obligations to their time shares. There are ways other than abandoning them or paying outragious fees to dispose of them. I would recommend that every time share owner join the NTOA. They are the only voice for the owners like us. I believe in strength in numbers.