{"id":40084,"date":"2025-07-05T06:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T06:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/40084\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T06:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T06:29:10","slug":"myers-breaks-down-bad-math-of-timeshares-news-sports-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/40084\/","title":{"rendered":"Myers breaks down bad math of timeshares | News, Sports, Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wendy Myers of Marietta holds the books she\u2019s written, the latest being \u201cNever Buy Timeshare: A Practical Guide to Understanding, Owning and Canceling Timeshare and Vacation Club Properties.\u201d (Photo Provided)<\/p>\n

MARIETTA \u2014 A Marietta woman\u2019s new book warns people to stay away from timeshares.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the main thing is just don\u2019t do it at all,\u201d said Wendy Myers, a businesswoman who wrote \u201cNever Buy Timeshare: A Practical Guide to Understanding, Owning and Canceling Timeshare and Vacation Club Properties\u201d to avoid getting trapped by a timeshare.<\/p>\n

The book is her fourth with the other three for do-it-yourself landlords and how to organize and declutter.<\/p>\n

Avoiding timeshares is the first piece of advice from Myers. The money put into the timeshare and escalating maintenance fees and other unknown and hidden expenses and costs often exceeds what the property will sell for, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe math never works out,\u201d Myers said.<\/p>\n

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The book is a guide for consumers to understand, evaluate and escape predatory vacation-ownership schemes, she said. Millions of families are struggling with escalating maintenance fees, some increasing at rates far exceeding inflation, for vacations they can no longer afford or access, she said.<\/p>\n

Recent surveys conducted in April across Facebook timeshare user groups reveal widespread frustration with booking difficulties, hidden fees and misleading sales presentations, Myers said.<\/p>\n

A major problem is the person who is selling the timeshare isn\u2019t bound to tell the truth, Myers said. Read what the contract says, not what the salesperson says, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe timeshare industry operates like a casino: the house always wins,\u201d Myers said. \u201cConsumers are told they\u2019re making a real estate investment, but that\u2019s false. This is a vacation product, period. And people need to understand what they\u2019re really buying.\u201d<\/p>\n

Myers has attended dozens of timeshare presentations. It is a crisis, she said.<\/p>\n

Besides warning against a timeshare, the book provides: strategies for every scenario with legal documents, state-by-state rescission periods and contact information for legitimate exit programs; a step-by-step guide for those trapped in unwanted contracts; evaluation frameworks for consumers considering purchases and strategic advice for maximizing value if owners decide to keep the timeshare. The book includes template letters for rescission, cease-and-desist orders for collection agencies and notices for canceling automatic payments to help owners without the expense of legal consultations.<\/p>\n

The book helps readers distinguish between legitimate exit strategies and fraudulent companies that promise impossible outcomes, Myers said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople type \u2018cancel timeshare\u2019 into search engines thousands of times daily,\u201d she said. \u201cThey\u2019re looking for help, but instead they often find more scams. This book provides the honest information that the industry doesn\u2019t want consumers to have.\u201d<\/p>\n

The book is available at Amazon.com.<\/p>\n

Myers with her husband, Todd, own and manage rental properties in Marietta. They\u2019ve been in business for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n

Myers\u2019 previous books are \u201cQ&A with Ask the Landlady: Answers to All Your Burning Landlord Questions about Acquiring, Managing and Maintaining Rental Properties on Your Own\u201d in 2024, \u201cLessons from the Landlady: How to Avoid My Mistakes and Be Successful in Real Estate\u201d in 2023 and \u201cLift Your Family Out of Chaos: How to Live with, Schedule and Organize Your ADHD Family of Collectors, Hoarders and Procrastinators,\u201d a guide to getting organized that was published in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wendy Myers of Marietta holds the books she\u2019s written, the latest being \u201cNever Buy Timeshare: A Practical Guide…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,64,171,31902,31900,31901,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-40084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-myers-breaks-down-bad-math-of-timeshares","12":"tag-myers-breaks-down-bad-math-of-timeshareslocal-news","13":"tag-myers-breaks-down-bad-math-of-timesharesnews","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114799218833641525","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}