Cancelling a timeshare - RCI -not possible -HELP

I would think carefully about leaving it in your will to be honest. I only know the law in Scotland, but this at least lets you see what would happen in Scotland, and may also apply if you are in England. If you were to leave it to CLC in your will, they will become a beneficiary. If your main beneficiaries wished to make a change to the will (deed of variation) then CLC would be included in that. Also, any beneficiary can turn down a gift left in a will so it's not really valid in that sense if you know what I mean.

My mother had a CLC points club membership, and passed away a few years ago. I found some paperwork and had handed some of it to the lawyer - including the deeds which they asked for to surrender and I didn't realise the lawyer had them. They allowed me to sign a piece of paperwork to say the deeds were lost though, so you shouldn't have to have the deeds to surrender (in theory). Now I had a lot of hassle with them. They said my name was on the timeshare. There are obviously some other personal issues here, but it would seem that my signature had been forged (not by club la costa) but I'm still unsure what would be the gain in my mother doing that. She had somehow made me a joint owner of the timeshare with her (despite personal issues etc...so it was not some sort of good deed she was doing, and must have had another reason that I probably don't want to know about). Anyway this perhaps turned out to be my tool for leverage on this, because I told them quite clearly that I was going to seek legal advice on how they had forged signature on their paperwork, which was supposedly done in Spain in their office without me present!!.

Hopefully some others can help out here, but I would advise to be very firm with them. If you are unable to get out of this make sure your children are not involved on any paperwork, and make sure they do not do anything after you pass away to maintain ownership. They were trying to offer me use of weeks while the timeshare expired etc, but I declined all offers knowing that it could make me more 'involved'. They were very sneaky with me, even giving me numbers of dodgy resale companies who wanted money upfront. They told me I had a final date of xx/xx/xx for surrender if unable to sell etc, and when I went back to them before that date they claimed I had to give notice and had now left it too late and would have to pay a further year's maintenance fee. I was very angry at them and stuck my ground and they gave in.

If you want rid of it, get the most vocal person possible to phone up and deal with it. :rotfl:

I wish you luck. I hope you get it resolved.

I might be wrong but I seem to remember there was a fee for transferring the time share. So if you found a buyer you still had a fee to pay them as well to transfer the deeds to another name.

I'd go down the route of just telling them you can't afford it and insisting you surrender it due to mis-selling etc and see if you get away with that first. No harm in searching the web for other ideas that might have worked for other people too.

I take it your mothers timeshare is in Spain? Have you thought of contacting a local solicitor to find out the legal status.

My b-I-l was left a flat by his father, in a communally managed block in Spain and while b-I-l was in the UK the water pipes burst and flooded it. The block's owners association- ie the tenants as a whole (or maybe just their Chairman) tried to deny all liability although the damage to their flat was caused by a communal service under their block, so technically the responsibility of the tenants association as managers.

My b-I-l got in touch with a local "lawyer" and reports that he spoke perfect English and has been very polite and helpful in sorting it out and advising them of the legal position in Spain.