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Timeshare topics... (by KC):

donp196 wrote:

I will guarantee that no HOA is going to spend the time and money to take a person to court and try to prove that they were deceived by the owner who legally transferred their ownership to another . That point is mute and nowhere is the owner responsible to guarantee financial responsibility when they transfer ownership.

Not sure about your legal background or experience (and I think you actually mean "moot"), but I respectfully submit that your above quoted "guarantee" lacks any foundation or merit. As a sitting elected member on a timeshare Board of Directors, I can assure you that it's not particularly difficult (or expensive) to simply reverse and void a blatantly phony transfer, such as those sometimes effected (temporarily) by bogus "Viking Ship" LLC operations, for example, or by deeds signed over to non-existent (or deceased) people as new "grantee". It doesn't even actually require or involve taking the misguided grantor to court, but merely requires proving the "acceptance" itself to be legally deficient and invalid in order to void the deed and put the ownership (and all fees owed, plus interest and late fees) right back onto the lap of the person(s) who unwisely and quite mistakenly chose to believe that they could just quietly slink away from their legal obligations merely by identifying a bogus new "grantee" in a legally deficient and invalid deed. That unfounded belief just ain't so, bro.

That observation aside, developer sales presentations is an entirely different and completely unrelated topic. Personally, I think that lying, deceitful timeshare developer sales weasels are among the lowest forms of life inhabiting this planet --- they are lower than whale excrement which has sunk to the ocean floor, in my opinion. However, people still CHOOSE to parade into those timeshare presentations for the relatively worthless "gifts", then endure hours of lies and psychological manipulation, then freely and voluntarily CHOOSE to sign on the dotted line and commit to paying obscene amounts of money. Their contract plainly states ** in writing**" that any oral representations made by sales personnel are not in any way binding unless also overtly reflected in writing within the four corners of the contract. Furthermore, buyers are also handed written rescission (cancellation) rights and instructions, as is required by applicable state law, at the time of contract execution. Apparently, many buyers don't bother to read ANY of this material handed directly to them --- neither before nor after voluntarily executing the contract. Accordingly, at the risk of seeming harsh, my sympathy is limited for such ill considered decisions, poor choices and a complete lack of effort to examine or understand the financial and legal commitment which they plainly CHOSE to make of their own free will.

Didn't Tom Hanks (as Forrest Gump) once say something like "Stupid is as stupid does" ?