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Re: Vacation Village in Berkshires Hancock Massachusetts (by Irene P.):
Corporate Vacation Village has worked with members to take back timeshares. Berkshires took a unit back, but it helped that the husband was a paraplegic, shot 30 years ago while on duty as a police officer. His wife stayed there when he was in the hospital and said she had been deceived into buying. Their contact: Ms. Robin Peck https://vacationvillageresorts.com/berkshire_mountain_lodge/index.html rpeck@tricommanagement.com 413.997.3537 Extension 1 Robin Peck, General Manager This is ARDA's Coalition for Responsible Exit https://responsibleexit.com/
Below is a quote from ARDA-ROC Chairman McKelvey. I sat behind behind him while he testified. I have found several resorts with no responsible exit. Call VV Berkshires and ask them if they are a member of the timeshare industry lobby ARDA. Let them know that ARDA is promoting responsible exits. Please post back and let me know what they reply. I am preparing a research report. Mr. McKelvey, representing ARDA ROC, testified “most of the developers I know and certainly most of the timeshare managers I know, and I managed timeshare properties for thirty years… every single resort had a dissolution policy, every single (one). There was a way to get out. You had to come to your management company, and based on what the board of directors instructed us (the management company) to do in the terms if they had to pay a fee or if they had to be current, whatever those situations were, we did not have a one that did not have a dissolution policy and a hardship policy….”