I purchased my original timeshare from ILX in Sedona, Az. The maintenance fees were $700 per year. They were bought out by Diamond Resort International and low and behold--$1600 per year maintenance fees. We had tried to sell the timeshare several times while it was ILX and found it was worthless! Now it is even more worthless. When DRI took over ILX, I called and tried to give them back the timeshare. They said no! I asked to speak to several levels of supervisors, all of whom said they had no buyback or deed back programs. I called and tried to deed back the timeshare twice. After reading the posts above, I just called DRI's Loss Mitigation Department and spoke to Ann. She told me that DRI ended the mutual deed back and release program 5 weeks ago. When I complained that I had twice called to try to deed back my timeshare, she basically told me I was lying because they had no record of my calls! Now the only way to lose the timeshare is to not pay the maintenance fees. I told her what they are doing must be illegal, and she told me it is not. Bottom line, the management can do whatever they please. Where is the US Attorney General on this issue? This is fraud. I wish an attorney would start a class action lawsuit. If so, I'm in.
