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Worldwide Property Transfers - Timeshare Resales

Apr 21, 2011

Has anyone dealt with this company. I am thinking of buying a timeshare from them on redweek.com. Please post your experience with the company. I did speak to someone at their office and they seem to be legit just wanted to make sure....


Andrei A.
Apr 21, 2011

andreia2 wrote:
Has anyone dealt with this company. I am thinking of buying a timeshare from them on redweek.com. Please post your experience with the company. I did speak to someone at their office and they seem to be legit just wanted to make sure....
Within just the past very few days, several such (nearly identical) inquiries about this (heretofore completely unknown) entity called "Worldwide Property Transfers" have very suddenly popped up on several different timeshare sites on the Internet.

A suspicious and attentive cynic (...yes, that's me...) might be inclined to believe that someone is simply trying to "manufacture" some "name recognition" by placing multiple "have you heard of this outfit?" inquiries in various timeshare sites on the Internet.

Speaking only for myself and for my own 30 years of direct timeshare experience, the answer is a resounding "NO, I have NEVER heard of this outfit before --- NEVER!".


KC

Last edited by ken1193 on Apr 21, 2011 07:15 PM

Apr 21, 2011

Maybe you can help me with a purchase of a timeshare Ken since you have not heard of don't know of this company. Were do you list your timeshares..... with your 30 years of experience. Any suggestions on Windward Passage in Ft Myeres, FL. This is property I am looking at from worldwide property transfers. Any advice would be appericiated.


Andrei A.
Apr 22, 2011

andreia2 wrote:
Maybe you can help me with a purchase of a timeshare Ken since you have not heard of don't know of this company. Were do you list your timeshares..... with your 30 years of experience. Any suggestions on Windward Passage in Ft Myeres, FL. This is property I am looking at from worldwide property transfers. Any advice would be appericiated.
I'm not at all sure what you mean by the question "where do you list your timeshares". I generally USE what I own, each and every year, very rarely renting out any of my weeks --- and I haven't advertised or sold off any weeks in a number of years now.

You may or may not already be aware that Windward Passage in Fort Myers Beach, FL actually has a large number of its' own "in house" resale listings, handled by a broker on site named Klaus Zingraff. However, those listed prices are quite inflated (unrealistically high asking prices, plus "building in" the sales commission). If you call the resort, they could surely direct you to the resort's own site where all those weeks offered for resale "in house" are listed.

In my own experience and personal opinion, the two very best sites in existence to find resale listings are this one (RedWeek.com) and MyResortNetwork.com. You can search either site by geographic location and / or specific resort. However, on RedWeek you must first join as a member in order to be able to respond to any RedWeek ads (not the case on MyResortNetwork). There are also lots of (...a thousand or so on any given day, actually) low cost timeshare listings on eBay, but rarely are any truly prime weeks ever actually found as eBay auction listings.

One specific word of caution about Windward Passage if you are considering buying a "floating" or "flex" week there --- regardless of the source of your intended purchase. Floating week owners there CANNOT EVER reserve ANY week between weeks 5-15 (which is most of the winter)! I learned this lesson the hard way some years ago when I bought a floating week there, only to later discover that I could NOT go there in the winter months (which was the ONLY time I had any interest in being there AT ALL). The seller had conveniently "forgotten" to mention that particular restriction to me, and I was too inexperienced at the time to ask all of the right questions. I later sold that week at a significant financial loss, but I was completely honest with my buyer about the severe reservation restrictions attached to any and all "floating" ownerships at Windward Passage.

I hope that some of the above helps you. Good luck.


KC

Last edited by ken1193 on Apr 22, 2011 02:30 AM

Apr 22, 2011

Ken I appericiate you're help and giving us a better understanding of FLEX ownership at Windward Passage. Will keep you posted and other's on redweek.com with our transaction if we choose to go with worldwide property transfers. Anyway again thank you for your input and assistance. Happy Easter to you and your family!!!


Andrei A.
Apr 22, 2011

I used these folks when I bought my Hawaii timeshare. I had no problem everything went as expected.


AnthonyLV
Apr 23, 2011

I bought a timeshare from them on Jan 20 2011 at Westin Ka’anapali Ocean Resort Villas SOUTH (Week # 51 & 52 – Oceanfront) within 45 days they had a deed stamped from Hawaii emailed to us and then mailed it off to Starwood. The longest time was taken by Starwood to transfer the ownership which I was told by Starwood the processing times runs 6-8 weeks. Overall happy with the service provided by worldwide property transfer will buy another week soon from them just returned from Harborside at Atlantis we will be looking for a week their… Global Resort Transfer the title company used for our closing was great with follow up’s and wish Starwood transfer would have been completed quick but anyways we got it in our name and are happy owners.


Patrick P.

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