Resort Condos Plus - anyone?

Anybody know anything about this company based in Houston? They contacted me about my timeshare, said they had a buyer. Once they negotiate the price and settle it with the buyer, they take a "fee" for $1350 (credit card) and then you get your money. I went to their website and I also saw they aren't in the Texas Better Business Bureau, although they don't have any complaints. After googling their name, I found a thread where some people complained and some claimed they came through on their promises. It isn't quite the same promise as the up-front listing fees, but then again, most people are wise to those by this point, are they not?

What kind of makes me suspicious is the fact that they claimed to be able to take the timeshare off my hands for the price they claimed. I know there are many people trying to sell their timeshare at this same resort and most would take 1/10th of what they paid, yet this company claims they can get me basically what I paid, if not a little more. If there is truly someone that stupid out there who will buy it, okay, but I just don't see it.

Anyone have any contact with this company? There website is www.resortcondosplus.com

michaelm381 wrote:

Anybody know anything about this company based in Houston? They contacted me about my timeshare, said they had a buyer. Once they negotiate the price and settle it with the buyer, they take a "fee" for $1350 (credit card) and then you get your money.

michaelm381 wrote:

What kind of makes me suspicious is the fact that they claimed to be able to take the timeshare off my hands for the price they claimed. I know there are many people trying to sell their timeshare at this same resort and most would take 1/10th of what they paid, yet this company claims they can get me basically what I paid, if not a little more. If there is truly someone that stupid out there who will buy it, okay, but I just don't see it.

Call their bluff and tell them you are interested if you use escrow and a closing company that YOU choose. See how quickly they back off.

lillianh18 wrote:

You do have to pay $1350, but not until they get it sold. You can't take proceeds out of your profit when selling your timeshare because it's not regular real estate like your house.

Please quote me the law where a company cannot take their fee AFTER the sale. Why doesn't the company pay the seller then ask for the fee? The previous poster said the company contacted him and said they had a buyer. If so, please tell me what the $1350 fee was for. Buyer usually pays for all closing costs.

lillianh18 wrote:

I actually used them to sell one of my timeshares. Very good company, because they do the financing. You do have to pay $1350, but not until they get it sold. You can't take proceeds out of your profit when selling your timeshare because it's not regular real estate like your house. I'll definitely use them again in the future when I want to get rid of the 2 other timeshares I own.

SHILL ALERT ....... There's nothing out there that says you HAVE to pay an free upfront with a timeshare resale company ..... where you got this wrong information is beyond me ..... they take the fee upfront because that's all they want, they've made their money.

I have been contacted by this company. They are now charging $2000 for selling a time share. I do not know the final results. Does anyone know any thing about this company? I feel very uncertian concerning their reality.

markb542 wrote:

I am not sure why everyone is bickering in here. I used resort condos plus and yes they sold my timeshare at westgate vacation villas..Yes i did pay the 1350.00 up front even though I was very very skeptical. I have recieved my check for 14,900.00 and it took a little over 60 days..My sales rep chris gibson was good (although it seems he only works 3 to 4 days a week)..I would use them again and recommend them to anyone... Thanks Mark Butler Naples, Fl PS...use a service before you speak negatively about them...

I'll make this short .... this is a bunch of BULL and I smell several SHILLS here. You must take us as being complete idiots to believe your post ..... nobody in their right mind would pay a developer price ($14,900) for a Westgate resale timeshare when they can buy for pennies on the dollar everyday of the week on Ebay and many timeshare resale sites on the internet.

patj66 wrote:

I have been contacted by this company. They are now charging $2000 for selling a time share. I do not know the final results. Does anyone know any thing about this company? I feel very uncertian concerning their reality.

The constant mantra on Redweek's forums and all other timeshare forums on the internet is DO NOT PAY AN UPFRONT FEE IN THE HUNDREDS/THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS to a resale company to simply put your timeshare in a database that no one will ever see. ALL THEY WANT IS YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER AND THE UPFRONT FEE, PERIOD.

This is a poorly disguised scam to collect the up front $1,949 fee to perform a so called "Registration in their service" so that you can have access to the info on their so called potential buyer. It's amazing how fast they give up when you tell them that the only way this deal will go thorugh is by them collecting that fee in the sales proceed. This is a different twist on the same con game that www.timeshares.com plays for listing timeshares. If you bother looking into their listing, you will find that the majotiry of them are listed at 10% to 20% of their original purchase value. At that price, I prefer to keep my timeshare and enjoy it. As another person said, what kind of fool would buy a timeshare at the builder price when they are available at 10 to 20%.

I received a call from Mike Dean of Resorts Condos Plus.. He told me he had a buyer for my timeshare and that they were going to pay 5k more than I paid for it and that they had already put down 5,500. Here is a new twist on the scam..he had the buyer call me and ask me questions about the resort, anyone selling timeshares should know everything about what they are selling..I was told it was going to cost me $2,050 after the sale, then all of a sudden he wants a credit card number for the money up front, he told me he can not take it from the sale because it was illegal..yeah right..I tried calling the numbers back that came up on my caller ID and they all went to cell phone voice mail boxes...none identified the company...I have read some reports where all of a sudden the sale well fall through once they have your money...well they are not getting any of mine....SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM....

martinp50 wrote:

I received a call from Mike Dean of Resorts Condos Plus.. He told me he had a buyer for my timeshare and that they were going to pay 5k more than I paid for it and that they had already put down 5,500. Here is a new twist on the scam..he had the buyer call me and ask me questions about the resort, anyone selling timeshares should know everything about what they are selling..I was told it was going to cost me $2,050 after the sale, then all of a sudden he wants a credit card number for the money up front, he told me he can not take it from the sale because it was illegal..yeah right..I tried calling the numbers back that came up on my caller ID and they all went to cell phone voice mail boxes...none identified the company...I have read some reports where all of a sudden the sale well fall through once they have your money...well they are not getting any of mine....SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM....

Kudos to you for not believing the lies those thieves told you. They'll tell you ANYTHING to get that upfront fee they they'll simply disappear and/or direct your call to a bogus voice mail.

This is my main reason for posting on Redweek's forums ..... to educate people on all the timeshare scams out there ...... the MAIN one being upfront fee resale company thieves/criminals/scammers that all they want is your credit card number to charge that upfront fee (in the hundreds/thousands of dollars) then you never hear from them again.

I welcome the day when all timeshare owners are educated and they put all the scammers/thieves/criminals out of business and/or have them arrested and imprisoned .... that's how strongly I feel.

I was contacted by Riley Tyler yesterday, a loan specialist of Resort Condos Plus saying he could sell a timeshare week I had for around 17-18K, much more than I paid for it. He wanted $1450 to be paid after he had the buyer financing locked in. I told him the money should be taken from the buyer during closing, and that amount was too much for a title search. Since I had never heard of Riley and his company I would have to look into who he was and his company. He called me again today to close the deal, yet when I said I was still checking on him he changed his tune and said another seller had taken the buyer's offer. He wanted to keep me on his calling list for future transactions. Reading what has been posted here it seems this business is a scam and Texas Attorney General should be examining their operation for fraud. Certainly a subject for investigative reporting!! The old saying "If it seems to good to be true, is probably is." Buyer beware.

I would definitely report this to the Texas Attorney General. This is the only way all upfront fee scammers will be put out of business (contacting Atts Gen in the state the scammers are located) .... that and reading forums like this one that tries to educate.

If people sit by and do nothing then the thieves will continue to lie and steal your money.

anyone looking for info about resort condos plus get any answers? did you go through w/sale thru them? we too were just contacted Friday aft.by Chris Osborn from RCP saying they had a buyer who was going thru the financing process w/them but would probably be qualified to pay our asking price of $85k. William Sanders a sr. executive w/the company then called us minutes later saying the family had been approved for the full amount of $85k and they were still on vacation at the resort. They would have had to pay double to buy the our timeshare directly thru the resort. We would have to pay $2050 up front for closing costs. When I said normally the buyer pays he said resorts sales are different. William said to call him back on Monday w/our answer. After reading these posts I'm really confused. I did question how this company all of a sudden had someone qualified to pay our full asking price. All of you who are complaining, did you actually use this company or were you just contacted and felt it was a scam? We are really interested in selling our timeshare but want to make the right decision.

karinv9 wrote:

anyone looking for info about resort condos plus get any answers? did you go through w/sale thru them? we too were just contacted Friday aft.by Chris Osborn from RCP saying they had a buyer who was going thru the financing process w/them but would probably be qualified to pay our asking price of $85k. William Sanders a sr. executive w/the company then called us minutes later saying the family had been approved for the full amount of $85k and they were still on vacation at the resort. They would have had to pay double to buy the our timeshare directly thru the resort. We would have to pay $2050 up front for closing costs. When I said normally the buyer pays he said resorts sales are different. William said to call him back on Monday w/our answer. After reading these posts I'm really confused. I did question how this company all of a sudden had someone qualified to pay our full asking price. All of you who are complaining, did you actually use this company or were you just contacted and felt it was a scam? We are really interested in selling our timeshare but want to make the right decision.

There's nothing to be confused about if you read these forums on a daily basis, one more time NEVER EVER PAY AN UPFRONT FEE IN THE HUNDREDS/THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO ANY COMPANY TO LIST/SELL YOUR TIMESHARE no matter if they tell you they have 20 people lined up to buy it ..... it's a lie.

Also, I'd like to ask what timeshare on the face of this earth is worth $85,000? Who in their right mind would pay that much in the first place and especially on the resale market?

After they get your $2050 upfront then they'll inform you that the buyer has backed out, but the $2050 fee is theirs ..... in other words, they got what they wanted, the upfront fee.

Please take the time to read all you can about upfront fee resale companies on the internet and the fact that they are all SCAMS.

Also, see how fast they hang up on you when you tell them they can take their fees after they sell, not before.

karinv9 wrote:

We would have to pay $2050 up front for closing costs. When I said normally the buyer pays he said resorts sales are different.

Off the buyers a great deal. Tell them you will sell it for $75,000, but the buyers pay the $2050 in closing costs, for a savings of almost $8000. Or ask that you use an escrow company of YOUR CHOICE to hold the money until the closing is complete.

In either case, as jayjay pointed out, they will hang up the phone.

Dear Mike, KarinV9 adn jayjay,

It sounds to me your out to destroy this company and you have NOT conducted business with them yourself. It sounds to me that your are ex-employees that have been fired, because you are using such nonsense as selling on ebay, which anyone with a brain knows that if you are selling a timeshare on ebay, it is at bottom dollar because it is in foreclosure or has so many liens against it, you're willing to give it away. There are no upfront fee's at all with Resort Condos Plus. The fee's associated with the sale of your timeshare are your responsibility. It is NOT REAL ESTATE, therefore, it is not sold with Title Insurance and any liens, foreclosures, taxes would all transfer to the new owner. Transactions have to be done legally to transfer a title from one to another. I just think it is a shame that someone is trying to ruin a company's reputation by taking advantage of people on here that are trying to sell and are turning here of all places for answers. You all obviously have nothing better to do than come here everyday and trash the company you once worked for. Maybe if you had better work ethics and moral standards you would not be collecting unemployment, sitting at home all day on your computer bashing your previous employer, but you would be at work financing loans and making good money like you once did.

First, I'm not going to drop down to your level and hurl insults at you. You've already shown me what type a person you are. So I'll just lay out my opinion and if you want to discuss the merits of your company that's fine, if you want to sling mud, then no thanks.

I have no problem with people paying fees to sell a timeshare. I do have a problem with companies asking for the money via a credit card.

Why are you so quick to collect the money? Most of the negative comments are from people who have their credit card charged BEFORE they receive any type of signed agreement.

If your company was so "reputable", then you should let the seller use an escrow company of their choice to handle the money.

Timeshare transactions have deeds that have to be recorded and they are public record. So, please tell us a few of the successful sales that have been recorded throughout the US, I'm sure one of us "unemployed" RedWeek members will have time to contact the town or county for verification.

rjh8 wrote:

Dear Mike, KarinV9 adn jayjay,

It sounds to me your out to destroy this company and you have NOT conducted business with them yourself. It sounds to me that your are ex-employees that have been fired, because you are using such nonsense as selling on ebay, which anyone with a brain knows that if you are selling a timeshare on ebay, it is at bottom dollar because it is in foreclosure or has so many liens against it, you're willing to give it away. There are no upfront fee's at all with Resort Condos Plus. The fee's associated with the sale of your timeshare are your responsibility. It is NOT REAL ESTATE, therefore, it is not sold with Title Insurance and any liens, foreclosures, taxes would all transfer to the new owner. Transactions have to be done legally to transfer a title from one to another. I just think it is a shame that someone is trying to ruin a company's reputation by taking advantage of people on here that are trying to sell and are turning here of all places for answers. You all obviously have nothing better to do than come here everyday and trash the company you once worked for. Maybe if you had better work ethics and moral standards you would not be collecting unemployment, sitting at home all day on your computer bashing your previous employer, but you would be at work financing loans and making good money like you once did.

Do what? I have never worked for any timeshare company (including Redweek), and I would dig ditches before I went to work for any timeshare resale company that asks for an upfront fee of any type as they're ALL SCAMS, even with their slick webpages.

I merely owned 9 timeshare weeks at one time and have educated myself by reading as much as I can on the subject of timeshare ownership and I try to pass that education onto Redweek forum members.

If your company takes any kind of an upfront fee to sell or rent an owner's timeshare, then you're in the same category as all the other scammers.

Sorry to burst your bubble but your inflammatory comment to members of this forum proves that you are nothing but a shill that works for the company in question or you are the owner. Also sorry that our education here is making an impact on your profits ..... that's what we regular Redweek forum members strive for .... to out ALL SCAMMERS.

Have you not read all the negative testimonials on this thread from some of your former clients? That's proof in the pudding sir. I'm sure there's more negative publicity if Resort Condos Plus is googled.