They tricked you. You were told you could have a free stay, or a free snorkeling trip, or a few free meals—and all you had to do was sit through a short, low-pressure sales presentation. Then, when they had you where they wanted you, they turned the screw. They kept you there for hours, and put you through a multi-tiered, psychologically complex, torture-based session with the sole goal of convincing you—or, more truthfully, forcing you—to purchase an overpriced, highly freedom-limiting “investment.” One that will do nothing but diminish in value while actively stripping the wealth out of your bank account. You signed on the dotted line just to get the whole ordeal over with, and you left feeling like you’d been slimed. And afraid of what this means for your future.
We’re here to tell you it’s bad news, the whole lot of it. But there is a glimmer of hope in the gloom. And that glimmer is that you have the right, by law, to cancel a timeshare contract.
You have to act fast. Immediately, in fact. The right is limited in time—you’ve got only ten days from the day you signed your soul away (or when you received the last of the documents they’re required to give you—luckily you get the later of these two dates as the starting point for the countdown) until the contract becomes binding.
The timeshare lobby has done everything it can to diminish this right. They’ve convinced the legislature to make the process rigid and complicated.
Which is to say, you really shouldn’t do it on your own. Because one little mistake can mean the cancellation doesn’t go off the way it should, and you’re stuck with a vast financial burden foisted on you by people who would, in a righteous world, be locked away as criminals.
At The People’s Advocate, we are passionate about standing up for the victims of these deceptive, criminal practices. Attorney Joe Brien has decades of experience at confronting these doers of ill deeds. Contact us if you’ve fallen prey to these tactics and found yourself down thousands of dollars as a result—we can try to get that contract annulled. But (and this is no sales tactic): act fast! The time you have to rescind these contracts is distressingly limited by law.