Becky Markey

Boycott. #JustJenny, once one of my radio favorite talkshow hosts, is advertising that she is excited to be interviewing Westhate Timeshare Corpoate Resorts Jackie Siegel on an upcoming radio show, while Jackie shares her (“awesome”?!) Queen of Versailles story. The saying that comes to mind is Marie Antoinette’s, “let them eat cake”. The Parisian gold fixtures, for instance, are being paid for on the backs of the plethora of unsatisfied, “FEE-D (fees) up!” timeshare owners, in order to vacation 1 week a year, while riddled with hidden fees, is shameful. Owners deserve a REAL option-out. Owners don’t deserve the illusion of Westgate Legacy, where every WR Legacy Representative will surely agree, that the deed-back/transfer process is lengthy and often rejected by Westhate. An owner 1st has to find a buyer on their own (WR disallows sales via realtors, nor any agent who would earn a profit). Then the owner must draw up one’s own Purchase & Sale agreement (Westhate Legacy’s instructions are to buy the forms from a local “Office Max”), and have all parties sign. NEXT in the lengthy process, is to submit the signed P&S agreement to Westgate Resorts for their “Right of First Refusal”, which actually means that WR can refuse to allow the owner to sell to get out of the “deed” (for basically a larger hotel room with a kitchen), IF it is available for the “floating week”. After all that, WestGate Legacy often disapproves. 1. One reason for WR blocking the sale, is if the new potential owner (s) have a low credit score, (or any risk of NOT paying the maintenance fees or assessments). 2. The developer wants to sell the units, (especially with Westgate Resorts Cocoa Beach soon being expanded). Thus WR has no incentive to allow owners to sell and get o, instead settled with a lifetime of maintenance fees property taxes, which after the owner passes the heirs are then financially responsible. It’s a business-hostage situation, that for some reason (Tourist dollars? Campaign donations?), our “consumer protective” government is allowing to happen, here in the United States.