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Re: Has anyone used Timeshare Realty Specialists (by Mark H.):
agree that Steve is a shill
1st: Pacific Monarch is now Diamond Resorts International. All Pacific Monarch properties and timeshares are now Diamond Resorts International, and you are still the owner.
2nd: There is no Real Estate licence for Timeshare Realty Specialists. Since you can not Commercially buy or sell real-estate (time shares are real-estate) without a license in the state of California, this company is breaking the law. That is why they have an "F" rating on the BBB web site.
A person working with you to buy your property can provide you with their personal Realtor license number (which is most likely not theirs but some unknowing Realtor that this person is posing as) What they need to do is provide you with the license of the broker that they are working for (Timeshare Realty Specialists) they will not be able to do that since there is no license for that Broker.
They can not legally take money up front from you without (i) a written Advance Fee Agreement – with necessary supporting materials -- has been submitted to and reviewed by the Real Estate Commissioner/DRE, (ii) a No-Objection Letter is issued by the department to the broker, (iii) the advance fees are properly handled and accounted for as "Trust Funds" belonging to timeshare owners.
anyone can advertise your timeshare. you can pay this company to advertise it. They can not however sell it, and they can not purchase it if it does not sell. They would need an actual licensed real estate broker to do that for them.
some links you can copy paste: http://www.dre.ca.gov/files/pdf/ca/2012/ConsumerAlert_FraudWarningTimeshareResaleFraud.pdf
http://www.dre.ca.gov/
http://www.bbb.org/san-diego/business-reviews/timeshare-resale-and-rental-marketing/timeshare-realty-specialists-in-la-mesa-ca-172006353/