New Owners

I had the same experience with their promises of unlimited weeks, but they made sure I had no proof by destroying the papers they had written on while I was out looking at the property. No accident there. I tried to file a complaint with the Missouri Attorney General, but since I didn't have written proof, it didn't go anywhere. My word against theirs.

My wife and I have been owners at Stormy Point Resort for 5 plus years. The rep you spoke to from Summerwinds Resorts totally lied if any of the info you shared is correct. Last summer Summerwinds sold the resort to Capital Vacations. They have been trying for a couple visits now to get us to convert our annual week 4 bedroom ownership to their points system with similar stories of unlimited access opportunities. We have declined to convert. At the moment this property suits our vacation plans and we will ride out the new ownership conversion until the dust settles. The resort is not a scam. The sales team you may have spoken to likley promised you the moon and stars. Caution is always the name of the game when visiting with Time Share sales teams. Their focus is primarily on getting your money and hooking you into a contract, often with craziness that will not be honored. So, bottom line, sorry that your experience was negative. Completely agree that is often the case. Stormy Point Resort itself is not a Scam. Just the experience you may have had with Summerwinds.

Yep, as owners at the SPV since 2015 we were offered the same conversion. We so far have declined to convert. I appreciate your story and others like it that have firmed our resolve to not convert. Ty.

We paid $12,000 for a two bedroom, were told we could use feistiva properties ( and we’re aloud to once), could up grade our T.S. To a larger size for a $50 fee. Many more lies...this time when I asked for a 3 bdrm , knowing I’d be told no (we’ve been owner since ‘05 or ‘06)...the female told me “promises are ment to be broken.” Gotta love it.

Timeshare is just a phase we went through. It lasted 30 years.

I can still remember all those tours the first week, all the lies, by omission and commission. That part of it has not changed.

That's a shame because it could be a valid concept, if it was based on real value.

We still own a couple weeks, but don't really timeshare.

jeannettek14 wrote:

. . . they made sure I had no proof by destroying the papers they had written on while I was out looking at the property. . .

Yet you went ahead and signed the contract?

Like all of us, you're smarter now than you were then, right?

Just to say it, in most cases any more, you can stay at a timeshare for less than the amount of the annual fee, without having to pay that purchase price, or be obligated to anything more than the week you are staying there, since most resorts are available to the public. At the very least, maybe a little bit more than an annual fee, with no further obligation.

How do we use are points to pay for the maintenance fees

https://www.facebook.com/stormypointbranson/?rf=190519768446545

vickij78 wrote:

How do we use are (our?) points to pay for the maintenance fees

My father-in-law saved his money for years and was somehow swindled into buying a two bedroom cottage at Stormy point. He was promised one week free every year. Next thing you know he goes to book a vacation and they tell him that his one week free is only one every 3 years! 😡 At first the maintenance fees were around $350 per year. Now they are up to $1200 per year!! Every year we come here they change his contract. Last year they told him they were going to a "points system" rather than giving out deeds anymore and CONVINCED HIM into signing over the deed he owned. This man is a poor farmer that has worked every single day of his life. It absolutely sickens me. We are the ones on vacation this week in Branson and he is not here, they have harassed and called us numerous times to try and get him to come up for another "meeting" and even tried to force me to go to one for the "friends and family" program. I said absolutely not, they acted shocked and talked about how I would get a free gift if I went to this meeting... and I just laughed at them. Then he said in order to qualify to go to the meeting I would need to make at least $50,000 a year.... I looked at the man in disgust and said no. He gave me a dirty look and started acting really rude for the rest of the time while we were checking in.

BEWARE! DO NOT CONVERT TO POINTS. We attended two of their "conversion" meetings and was told on the second meeting that if we converted we would no longer own at Summer Winds/Stormy Point and that then we could EXIT out at any time we chose through an EXIT plan which they shared information on with us... as long as our maintenance costs were up to date. Sounded like a deal to us....$12,000 to get out of the timeshare and be able to use the EXIT plan at anytime when we are finished. WELL we were invited back to Branson,for a free trip, to go through a NEW MEMBER Workshop to explain how to use our points. In the new workshop, after the initial howdy meeting from the "general manager" they move you to a "sales" representative who then goes into explaining to us that we really don't have many points(another sales pitch)and how we own 2 TIMESHARES rather than one which was a complete shock to my husband and I.....Capital Vacations and at SUMMER WINDS/Stormy Point and we really are paying the monthly fee of $92/mo to cover both timehare "maintenance fees". We were aware that there was a monthly maintenance fee BUT was never told that it included 2 TIMESHARES....that we never really got rid of the other timeshare through SUMMER WINDS/Stormy Point. We were sold on the conversion because we were told that it would get us out of the timeshare "legally" and that the conversion had an EXIT plan that you can exit and would never have to again worry about owning the SUMMER WINDS/Stormy Point timeshare for life. One of the questions we asked when we were considering the points conversation was to make sure that we didn't own 2 and that we were just moving from the Summer Winds/Stormy Point timeshare over to Capital Vacations points....which we were told was correct. LIED. So obviously we were upset and left without really understanding/learning how the point system works. All in all....we will be using the EXIT plan very soon...but not sure that now we can exit the timeshare through SUMMER WINDS/Stormy Point or if we will still own it for life. LEARNING LIFE LONG LESSONS.

In hindsight (34 years of hindsight) there aren't many timeshare programs that make economic sense.

I would like to know if there is a lawsuit with an attorney that I can call about this mess!!.....I have tried several times to reach these people with Stormy Point or whatever it is called now to speak to them. The twelve (12) numbers I was given, none of them work!! Please, can somebody help with this?

ain't timesharing wunnerfull?

Capitol Vacations. 843-286-5261

I want to get out of Stormy Pointe!!!! I do not want to buy into Capital Vacations.

jacquew20 wrote:

I want to get out of Stormy Pointe!!!! I do not want to buy into Capital Vacations.

Don't expect anyone to come to your rescue.

It took many years, but I was able to get rid of around ten timeshare weeks that had become useless. No one helped, but I'm like a yippy little dog that grabs your pants cuff and won't let go.

That's the attitude you need.

We now own just two weeks, for reasons other than timesharing.

A major shortcoming of timeshare (among the many major shortcomings) is that eventually every owner will not want or need it as much as they did, or thought they did, when they bought it . . . regardless of how smart they were buying it.

The industry has been slow to respond to that, but that issue began to show itself around 20 years ago.

If a resort is truly of value, they're best served by taking weeks back, and making them productive. If they won't take a week back, it speaks volumes as to what their real value is. I lobbied the board of a resort where we own three weeks, and after several years they took back our one remaining week. They could easily rent it out for more than the annual fee.

We signed off on the deed.that is suppose to be recorded at the court house. Also how many points did you get/ buy? I’d love to talk with you as we are very skeptical and still have time to get out

Barbara W./Harry K.:

Talking to anyone in particular?

We had the same issue. Were you ever able to get this resolved?