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Re: Manhattan Club Lawsuit (by Karen B.):

I hired an attorney about 2 years ago just to get out from under the elephant. Just last week I received legal papers from my attorney which I signed in several places and had to have notarized and returned them to my attorney. I will be out but not sure if I'll ever get the token $100 but don't care.

I have been an owner since 1998 with a $550 maintenance fee at that time. When I bought I got other perks like I could divide my week and have up to 3 weekend usages as long as I booked a Friday or Sunday with my Saturday. It was nice because a group of us could rent a big van and I booked 2 rooms for a long weekend. I loved NYC and was happy with TMC accommodations and service. I always used my unit when I wanted to, but I booked at least 9 months in advance and usually went in early December. I continued to go but started trying to sell in 2013 (obviously unsuccessfully) because of the increasing maintenance fee. I paid my fee until July 2018 when it was due again because I just couldn't take it anymore. I got the threatening letter with late fees listed but ignored it and nothing happened. Not paying last year saved me enough for about half of my attorney fees.

My advice is to pay Mr. Zimmerman instead of the crooks and hopefully you will get something out of your investment. I support this but had already paid someone else to help me. I would take money if I could have gotten it but at this point I just wanted the monkey off my back.

robertb1802 wrote:

For those of you considering taking the $100 buyout, I'm afraid to tell you that no one else is going to get any money from TMC. They have been caught with their pants down in their recent attempts to extort the acceptance of $100 token payments to relinquish timeshare ownership in return for forgiveness of maintenance arrears. This is a blatant violation of the Assurance of Discontinuance (AOD), the agreement TMC entered into with the NY attorney general to end his criminal investigation of the company. This ill-advised attempt has already been discontinued, apparently when a TMC attorney woke up and made them stop their improper timeshare buying/selling activity.

This is a partial extract of paragraph 61 of the AOD:,

" 61. Respondents and their agents and employees, including The Manhattan Club Timeshare Association, Inc., shall not engage in any act directly or indirectly relating to the offer, purchase, sale, issuance, advertisement, marketing, promotion, distribution, negotiation, exchange or transfer of any timeshare interest..."

I would suggest that everyone read the Zimmerman Law Group's documents via the DropBox links that I recently posted. After reading the excellent legal arguments and evidence submitted to the court by Zimmerman, decide for yourselves if our case has any merit or chance of succeeding. More and more of us clearly believe it does, and so we encourage everyone to contact the Zimmerman Law Group at (908) 768-6408) or jmz@tmcsuit.com, and ask them to represent you too. Don't be left out of any financial settlement with TMC by failing to get on board.

Bob Biello