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The National Timeshare Owners Association (NTOA) announces three noteworthy Timeshare Owners Meetings.

• Sunday, October 4, 2009 Cherry Hill, New Jersey
• Sunday October 18, 2009, Orange County, California
• Sunday, October 18, 2009 Venice, Florida

The NTOA meetings will include an important update on the RCI lawsuit coming up November 30. This lawsuit affects every RCI member. Get the facts and make your opinions heard. The NTOA will have representation at all the RCI hearings.

Featured speakers will include the following timeshare industry experts, however not all speakers may be present at each location:

• Shep Aslshuler: Publisher of TimeSharing Today magazine and TimeSharing Express, will speak on topics of great concern to NTOAmembers and timeshare owners, including the importance of reading your timeshare documents and assessments.
• Woody Cary: President of Tri Com Management Co. who will speak on what you should expect from your management companies.
• Lisa Ann Schreier: author of “Surviving a Timeshare Presentation” and “Timeshare Vacation for Dummies’ which every timeshare owner should read. Available thru NTOA.
• Sandra Herrejon: of Platinum Interchange who will speak on how to make an exchange without paying a membership fee and more.
• Ed Hastry: founder and president of the National Timeshare Owners Association

I will also be among the featured speakers, and I really looking forward to this opportunity to share and exchange information with timeshare owners. These educational conferences are always extremely beneficial for everyone who attends.

Bring your questions, problems, struggles, and dilemmas, because this team of experts is committed to sending you home with the empowering information you need, to get the most out of your timeshare experience.

To find out more about the meetings and the benefits of becoming an NTOA member, go to: www.nationaltimeshareownersassoc.com

Straight talk and answers are always a specialty with the National Timeshare Owners Association but this year their educational seminars and timeshare owners’ awareness presentations have taken on new necessity and purpose.

In the face of a challenging economy and higher than usual default rates on loans used to finance timeshare, some timeshare resorts or management associations have tried to compensate by raising annual fees or levying new charges on member/owners. How do you, as a timeshare owner, know your rights?

When you have timeshare questions or you want to better understand your rights and responsibilities, the National Timeshare Owners Association is there to help, including hosting special conferences this year in which timeshare owners have the opportunity to ask tough questions and get honest answers to their timeshare questions.

I’ll be speaking at the next timeshare owners information meeting, along with:

• Woody Cary, president of Platinum Interchange timeshare exchange company and Tricom Management Company.
• Lisa Anne Schreier, author of Timeshare Vacations for Dummies and Surviving a Timeshare Presentation.
• Shep Altshuler, publisher of TimeSharing Today, The Independent Voice of Vacation Ownership.
• Ed Hastry, founder and president of the National Timeshare Owners Association.

Attend the National Timeshare Owners Conference Nearest You. Get the Answers You Need and the Facts You Deserve

The conferences are open only to members of the National Timeshare Owners’ Association, and are scheduled around the US. The next meetings will be:

• Sunday, October 4, 2009 1-4 PM Cherry Hill, New Jersey
• Sunday October 18, 2009, 1-4 PM San Diego, California.
• Sunday, October 18, 2009 1-4 PM Venice, Florida

Visit the NTOA website and find out how you can get the answers you seek and become a part of the solution in making timeshare ownership a better product now, and for the future! www.nationaltimeshareownersassoc.com

More excitement and expansion as we welcome Carol Kollm, the new Director of Marketing at Sell My Timeshare NOW.

Carol Kollm comes to us from CourseAdvisor Inc., a Washington Post Company, where she was the Director of Product Management and Design. She is also co-founded AlphaStrand, a strategic web development company that serves Boston law organizations and healthcare, including Partners Healthcare.

We are very happy to have Carol as part of our Sell My Timeshare NOW marketing team. Her range of experience is extensive and includes Web Usability and Analytics, Product Definition and Design, Project Management, Conversion Optimization, SEO, (SEM) /PPC, and Social Media Marketing. We know Carol will be an asset to our talented staff. We’ll be putting her online marketing expertise and landing page optimization experience to work as we take Sell My Timeshare NOW into a growth period, focusing on new services, technologies, and alliances all designed to target the needs of consumers as well as the changing needs of timeshare developers.

Within every challenge lies opportunity. At Sell My Timeshare NOW, we’ve taken on the challenge of the economy and used it as a springboard to expand our services, to analyze old mindsets about the timeshare industry, and to step up to the plate with new solutions. Adding Carol Kollm to our staff, along with other new changes we are making is part of the fresh new page we are helping to write in timeshare sales and the advertising and marketing of timeshare resales and timeshare rentals.

Follow this link to read Sell My Timeshare NOW’s media release about our new Director of Marketing.

Last April The Timeshare Authority told you about Danny Pang, a Los Angeles businessman, who the Securities and Exchange Commission alleged had raised hundreds of millions of dollars, (much of it from Taiwan) in investment money that he and his company then repaid with monies other clients had more recently invested in timeshare projects.

Now, the facts of the case may never be fully understood. Pang, age 42, died last week in an Orange County California hospital, one day after being taken from his Newport Beach home by paramedics. No foul play has been found in Pang’s death, pending results of a scheduled autopsy and of toxicology reports that may take as long as several months to be processed.

Was Timeshare Real Estate Investment Really Just a Timeshare Scam?

The charges brought against Pang alleged that his company was running what was essentially a Ponzi scheme, where he showed false returns on investments in timeshare real estate and life insurance policies, but was using the money from recent investors to pay returns to earlier investors. His family maintains his innocence.

Pang, known for socializing with Hollywood‘s rich and famous, attracted speculation about his high profile and luxurious existence including the allegation that he used investor’s money as a “personal piggy bank to fund a lavish lifestyle, that included spending $35 million on a fleet of jets.”

In 1997 Pang’s wife, former exotic dancer Janie Louise Pang, was murdered at the couple’s home. Pang’s attorney, Hugh “Randy” McDonald, was tried for her murder but the jury was never able to reach a verdict and no new trial was ever sought. The case officially remains unsolved.

Source: AP News and others.

Related The Timeshare Authority blog post:

Frequently Asked Questions About Timeshares and Timeshare Resales