One common theme of some Timeshare Relief clients is a timeshare dilemma of whether to pass their timeshares and the associated fees and debt onto their children and heirs. What they don’t understand is that a majority of the children do not want the timeshares, especially if they come with fees and debt. Inherited timeshares are normally older, require more maintenance and upkeep and may have fallen out of favor in terms of modern amenities and location.
Ron & Joyce faced the timeshare dilemma recently. They had seen a Timeshare Relief presentation before, yet came again to analyze the Timeshare Relief option once more. They were not sure about paying to get rid of their timeshare. They wanted something back for a timeshare after spending too much money on the timeshare in the first place. But, they did not want to pay any more and certainly did not want their children to pay for the timeshare.
As they spent more time consulting with Timeshare Relief representatives, they realized that over time they would save a lot more money over the years by not paying the annual maintenance fees on their timeshares. The maintenance fees were a point of contention for the couple, having doubled within the last five years. In 2009 alone, the maintenance fees were over $5000. They worried that the fee hike constituted a trend. It was hard to imagine the impact on their finances if that happened again over the next five years, or worse what it meant should the timeshares be inherited by their children. Ron & Joyce felt that they really needed to get out of making those payments if they could.
The couple worried about passing the debt on to their heirs. They wanted to work with Timeshare Relief to prevent this from happening. This is a valid concern for many timeshare owners. Many couples, such as Ron & Joyce search for answers to help them with this problem. They come to Timeshare Relief with the question: if our timeshare is passed on to our heirs, who is responsible for the payments from then on? After other stops with people that couldn’t answer that question, couples such as Ron & Joyce, go to Timeshare Relief to see if they can get help to keep this from happening. Ron & Joyce felt better about having a chance to work with Timeshare Relief to consider their options for this problem.
How can you tell if you are doing the right thing when you are conducting business? Some people contact the Better Business Bureau and get some feedback about how you’re doing, of course. Better yet, the feedback from people who conducted business with you is a healthy indicator of how you measure up as a company.
But in some instances, former clients actually become staff members for the company because of the great experiences they had with them.
Over the years, Timeshare Relief had the opportunity to help people in exceedingly bad situations. Many positives come out of these opportunities, some of them being requests from former clients to become part of our staff. Former clients become motivated by their experiences and want to help others who face the same problems they did. They develop a passion and commitment to carry on the message to other timeshare owners that Timeshare Relief can help others just as it did for them.
Janice Borst-Smith is one of our staff members who was a former client. She is featured before on a video in the Timeshare Relief testimonial section. If you didn’t catch her story, Janice was a former timeshare owner that inherited a timeshare and all the fees that came with it. She came to Timeshare Relief and was able to get help from them to rid her of the timeshare. Janice and her family were so happy to finally get rid of their timeshare that they made a decision to join the company. Janice’s picture is featured on the Timeshare Relief website (www.TimeshareReliefNow.com) under the Our Team >> Travel Team section.
There are timeshare owners that meet with Timeshare Relief consultants every year that don’t want their timeshares, and then there are those who didn’t want to be the owners of a timeshare from the beginning. These owners often share their stories about inheriting their timeshares from their parents.
Most of the time the parents that bought the timeshares really enjoyed the timeshare, and sometimes the children had fond memories of vacations there too when they were younger. Now grown with children of their own, they find they just don’t get the same gratification out of the timeshare that their parents did. The real obligation of timeshare ownership isn’t fully recognized until they receive the first annual maintenance fee bill. They don’t realize until much later that the timeshare they originally thought was an asset is actually a liability.
The timeshare the children inherit is not the same timeshare their parents had. These timeshares are typically not modernized and upkeep may be lacking. Someone in the next generation just wouldn’t want to stay there; they’re just too outdated. Unfortunately, these children inherited the maintenance and fees associated with the timeshare so they are obligated to pay. They do not get the full enjoyment out of the timeshare that their parents did, so they wind up paying a lot for a little.
One individual who had enough of the situation was Janice Borst-Smith. She inherited a timeshare from her parents and realized that she didn’t want those high maintenance fees and aggravation resulting from the ownership. After facing the difficulty of getting rid of her timeshares, she came to Timeshare Relief to get help. After working with their representatives to find a solution, she was able to get rid of her timeshare. Janice now works for Timeshare Relief to help others who find themselves in similar situations that she was in.
