Anyone have experience with Castle Law Group, PC out of Tennessee

How ironic, I signed up through Jeff Johnson at Castle Law... A month later and after giving them about $750 no one followed up with me until I received a text from Jeff stating that he is no longer with the company. Several calls later and im not getting a response. The assigned processor on my case in out on maternity leave and i resently received a letter with the final Judgment for the timeshare foreclosure and until very resently i was getting calls from the collections agency. When I asked to the receptionist for my case# so i can refer on my next call i'm told that my case never made it to the paralegals therefore i didnt get a case assigned #. Hmmmm I want my money back.

That is exactly what I did. Disputed the charge and waiting to see what happens next. After I disputed the charge and this message was written how convienent it was to get a phone call from Caitlyn at the so called law firm. Now it will be another 2 weeks before she will no anything. Come on it is either you can or can't do something about our timeshare. Stop pulling peoples chains.

Thank you for the advice. I was able to dispute a good chunk of the monies with one of my credit card companies and the other credit card company said it was to late to dispute anything. I will still be going after this law firm for false representation. I have not heard from them still since my last email in February just letting me know they were sending out a second demand letter. Come on you been working on this since last September. Not even a respond from the timeshare about my deed or anything that was promised. Never been able to use the time share and not a penny back from them either. Beaware and just save for vacations everyone. Timeshares are not needed and neither is an attorney.

What was your luck in the end? I think we got suckered into this. We haven't heard from them in over a month!

Ugh!

Jeff Johnson, I have emailed your office. I need an email or a conversation with you. I have 6 children to feed and you took $4000 from me. I haven't heard anything in 1 month. I want my money back. I would rather go into foreclosure on my own.

jazzydancer82@gmail.com or woods1162007@gmail. Both emails work perfectly.

I will even put my phone number 231-218-8479. It works.

There is no reason you cannot reach me now.

I can get my money back, right? No one has done anything for me yet and according to my contact person my file hasn't even been reviewed "due to a high volume"....

I can get my money back, correct? I will get it back, correct?

I would love to be able to post a positive comment on this message board!

Report these people to the Bar Association in the state where they are licensed. That is if they are licensed which I doubt. Also file a fraud complaint with the Attorney generals in the state that you live and the state they claim they are licensed to practice in. Anyone can create a website and use a mail drop box for an address. Just because they claim they are a law firm doesn't mean they are and there are plenty of low life attorneys running around scamming people out of money.

One more time: NEVER pay anyone money upfront that claims they can get you out of your contract !! I have been repeating that phrase in here for many years and I will continue because these types of scams will never stop.

joep254 wrote:

I received a letter from this firm saying that timeshare laws have drastically changed and offering an informational meeting. I am wary of free "informational meetings", and after reading this thread I'm certainly not going to get involved with this firm. Thanks to all for the heads up.

Congrats, finally a smart person. I bet this law firm has connections to TIMESHARE EXIT TEAM!

got the same run around - this group of people started out under a different name - then they just changed chairs and started under a new name (same building - same location) several of us filed with the BBB of TN but nothing happened - I got all the same claims that they were working on my case......nothing - no closure on anything...just money taken

annettef88 wrote:

Thank you for the advice. I was able to dispute a good chunk of the monies with one of my credit card companies and the other credit card company said it was to late to dispute anything. I will still be going after this law firm for false representation. I have not heard from them still since my last email in February just letting me know they were sending out a second demand letter. Come on you been working on this since last September. Not even a respond from the timeshare about my deed or anything that was promised. Never been able to use the time share and not a penny back from them either. Beaware and just save for vacations everyone. Timeshares are not needed and neither is an attorney.

We recently received a letter from Civil Consumer Communications in Washington D.C. inviting us to a consultation regarding the impact of dramatically changing time-share laws. Appointments were "extremely limited" so we set up at appointment at a local hotel. Surprisingly, we were the only "appointment". We met with Dave Froehlich who is supposedly a realtor in Scottsdale, Arizona who represented Castle Law in Tennessee. Three agencies, three states - and we haven't even started. Mr. Froehlich had a sales pitch 5 miles long and, interestingly enough, not much was said about "dramatically changing" time-share law, other than to suggest that we take a look at House Bill 453. We have time-shares in Mexico with what is now called Vida Vacations (name has changed at least 6 times in the 22 years we have had these time-shares). Of course, he said he was "familiar" with Vida Vacations and he could make our time-shares disappear for $4,500 - oh wait, you have 3 separate contracts (?) - price just went up to $10,000! Excuse me - need I remind him that it was ONE owner with ONE timeshare organization and instead of 6 weeks purchased all at once, it was 2 weeks purchased in 3 separate years. It isn't 3 separate lawsuits. Mr. Froehlich asked that we not go to Mexico in 2017 although reservations and airfare were already reserved, because "that would look like we enjoyed the resort". Hello? we LOVE the resort and have been going there for 22 years. He would not give us a defense as to how these contracts were going to be dismissed other than going to the resort in 2017 would not be a good idea. After walking away and doing some research and mulling over unanswered questions and reading 5 pages of negative dialogue and Jeff Johnson attempting to defend Castle Law, no thanks.

I once asked my resort about taking back the timeshare but they declined and referred me to Timeshare King to sell my unit. Can you please tell me how were able to persuade them to do a "deed back"? Any advise will be greatly appreciated. Thank you

donp196 wrote:

All they want is your $ 3,000. They will promise you anything to get your money and once you pay them then the excuses start. They will claim that they did everything they could and you will be out your fee and many regrets. Try calling your home resort and ask them to take it back through a " deed back ". I did that with two timeshares and I didn't need to pay an attorney. Let them know that you intend to get rid of your timeshare with or without their assistance and it is in their best interest to work with you. They don't want the loss of maintenance fees and legal costs. It's a win win for both parties.

I called my home resort and informed them that I was going to get rid of my timeshare with or without their assistance and I explained to them that it was in their best interest to work with me. If I got rid of it on my own I didn't care if the new owner paid his future maintenance fees or not and as long as I was off the deed I didn't care.

I was determined to get rid of it and I made sure they knew I was serious. They accepted my offer and it was completed in less than three weeks and all it cost was a minimal filing fee. I was current with my maintenance fees and assessments. That was back in 2011 I got rid of two timeshares that way. Now my back account has grown since I no longer not only don't have any timeshare fees but I find that I don't travel as much because I don't feel like I have to since I don't own them anymore.

Each person has to be their own advocate. NEVER pay anyone money upfront that claims they can get you out of your contract. Make it your priority to get rid of it and be forceful and follow through.

I was prepared to give it away to anyone including a homeless person who wanted to live indoors for one week a year. I was willing to pay for one year of maintenance fees for that person so they could enjoy the first year on me.

It amazes me that when a corporation uses loopholes and questionable tactics they are called savvy but when an ordinary person uses them they condemn him. I didn't care what they thought as long as I got rid of it.

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NEVER pay anyone money upfront that claims they can get you out of your contract for an upfront fee especially a low life law firm that uses the forums to troll for business . This is the new form of ambulance chasing. Apparently they have sunk to a real low to come into the forum to try to convince people to send them their hard earned money.

Read some of the previous posts in this thread and see the run around you get once you send them money. There is a reason people know that attorneys are the lowest form of life on this earth. I read everyday in the newspaper about law firms being investigated for fraud and corruption .

If you find that you want to use the services of an attorney find one where you live that you can actually walk into their office and talk to someone. There are many qualified attorneys right in your back yard. Don't be foolish by using an attorney that someone told you about on the internet. I hear all the time about people being ripped off by someone on the internet. Don't be the next story read the past posts in the forum.

johns3930 wrote:

You must be a salesman who is just scared of loosing his commissions.

We all know that sales loses the commission when a buyer exercises their right to rescind. Do the sales folk lose their commission if months or years later a law firm is able to negotiate that a contract be cancelled?

What percentage of your clients that are past their time to rescind are you able to get the contract cancelled with no further money due? What is the percentage of those that get their contract cancelled with a reduced payment owed to the developer? Out of those that are cancelled what is the percentage of clients that actually recover at least enough money to pay off the lawyer fee or more? What is the average cost and average length of time to resolve a clients case be it positively or without a positive resolution.

Hi, Could you share your process with me? I just signed a contract with Welks resort that I absolutely need to get out of. What do you ask for? What do you say? Thanks for any help!

auriannap wrote:

I just signed a contract with Welks resort that I absolutely need to get out of. What do you ask for? What do you say?

How long ago did you sign? You might still be within your rescission period. If you are, then follow the rescission instructions exactly and get on it immediately!

We signed with Castle Law Group in October 2015. We paid them (Castle) the $3500 up front. We didn't ask for any money back from the resort, we just wanted out from the contract. We only paid on the contract for 3 years & had 7 years left. Getting out, without any refund, was fine with us. An expensive lesson learned- don't buy a timeshare!! Run away. We signed the Mutual Release Agreement in January 2016 with Capitol Resorts Group (Grand Crowne). It took another month and a half for Grand Crowne to stop deducting the payment from our account. Which they refunded to us. We stayed current on our monthly payments & maint. fees during this process. Good riddance. I am not advocating any firm. I'm just saying it worked for us to go through a lawyer. If the timeshare were paid for, we probably would have tried to get out of it on our own, but we owed quite a bit.

I have trouble with your story because there are no mortgages on timeshares. The financing is done through independent companies. One has nothing to do with the other. To me it sounds like a shill promoting the unscrupulous law firm.

NEVER pay anyone money upfront that claims they can get you out of your contract. If you feel you want to consult an attorney find one where you live that you can actually walk into their office and speak with someone. There are a lot of attorney scams on the internet and this sounds like one to me. Ambulance chasers pose as satisfied customers on the internet. Why would anyone send thousands of hard earned money to someone they " heard about " on the internet ?

I worked hard for my money and I would never trust someone that I don't know who told me a story in the forum. As we know no one ever lies on the internet....... right !!

heidil105 wrote:

We signed with Castle Law Group in October 2015. We paid them (Castle) the $3500 up front.

Three thousand five hundred dollars? That's an awful lot to pay a law firm. If anything, you're doing a serious disservice to this law firm by saying that you paid them $3500.