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Re: Is TUG Helpful? (by NoOneYouKnow):

nooneyouknow wrote:

I would like to direct this to those who are trying to decide if timesharing is for them. There's a lot of conflicting information out there, from those who hate them to those who love them.

What I suggest you do is listen to those who love them, in fact, love them so much that they are almost-daily (hourly) on TUG, letting everyone know how smart they are. What I suggest you do is listen to what they inadvertently say.

Find a thread about deedbacks or exit strategy, discussions about ways to get out of a timeshare ownership. The first thing you will notice is that in short order someone will make it clear that they don't want any discussion about those topics. They will team up against those who do want to discuss it, and the moderators, and even the owner, eventually, will side with those giving a hard time to those wanting to discuss it.

What's most revealing is when they explain why they are opposed to anything that would allow owners at their resorts to end their ownership. Those timeshare-lovers, the ones who brag and gloat about their resorts, are concerned that if annual renewal was optional, that if owners could get out, giving up everything they had paid in, and even a significant final payment to end their ownership, so many of their fellow owners are so dissatisfied that they would opt out and that it would put their resort in jeopardy.

So, they prefer that their resort harass, threaten, intimidate and sue dissatisfied owners.

To be fair, I understand the concern some owners have about there being a way for dissatisfied owners to be able to exit. Obviously, everyone will want to exit their timeshares eventually, for one reason or another, and it's not like people are beating down the doors to enter. So, just from a natural state of affairs, without anything being done to counter it, the owner base will dwindle.

Did I say that right?