feelingblue
08-31-2008, 04:51 PM
some nightmares come back years after you thot they were gone.
bought a TS week at Westgate Miami Beach in florida in 1998, fees went up a lot over the next 3 years and i was in financial trouble in 2001 so i told them that i could not pay, and i wanted their help in reselling the TS. They laughed. I had been told there was a resale service, but that was not true.
i wrote and called them to suggest they take the week back and resell it. they replied with a letter saying if i did not pay the back fees they would foreclose. I called again to tell them to go ahead.
that was the last i heard from them until this year when a collection agency contacted me for the fees for the last 8-9 years, and extra charges. I disputed the debt of course, but what now?
Q1 is the homeowners assoc obligated to inform me of a debt I owe? they stopped sending me bills for taxes and fees in 2001. so if they don't ask me to pay how can i.
Q2 the HO-Assoc changed somehow .. the collection agency got the debt from a Newport homeowners assoc .. not westgate. Aren't they obligated to tell me, as a member, if the condo is sold?
Q3 how does it go with these agencies? if i offer them part of what they are asking for just to go away, and they accept it, does that end it there?
any one else getting nailed like this?
bought a TS week at Westgate Miami Beach in florida in 1998, fees went up a lot over the next 3 years and i was in financial trouble in 2001 so i told them that i could not pay, and i wanted their help in reselling the TS. They laughed. I had been told there was a resale service, but that was not true.
i wrote and called them to suggest they take the week back and resell it. they replied with a letter saying if i did not pay the back fees they would foreclose. I called again to tell them to go ahead.
that was the last i heard from them until this year when a collection agency contacted me for the fees for the last 8-9 years, and extra charges. I disputed the debt of course, but what now?
Q1 is the homeowners assoc obligated to inform me of a debt I owe? they stopped sending me bills for taxes and fees in 2001. so if they don't ask me to pay how can i.
Q2 the HO-Assoc changed somehow .. the collection agency got the debt from a Newport homeowners assoc .. not westgate. Aren't they obligated to tell me, as a member, if the condo is sold?
Q3 how does it go with these agencies? if i offer them part of what they are asking for just to go away, and they accept it, does that end it there?
any one else getting nailed like this?