The Best Financial Decision We Made Was Calling Chad

My wife and I sat down last year and calculated what our timeshare had cost us over its life. The purchase price. The maintenance fees across fifteen years. The special assessments. The years we paid and did not use it. The number was deeply uncomfortable. We had spent far more than we had ever received in value. The question was whether we could recover any of it by selling, or whether we would have to accept a total loss. We tried selling independently first, because we did not want to spend money on a service only to compound the loss. Six months of listing on three different platforms produced two inquiries, both of which evaporated after the first exchange. We accepted that doing it ourselves was not working and began researching professional resale services. Chad Jacobelli at JP Mutual Management came highly recommended in multiple independent places - an online forum, a Facebook group for timeshare owners, and a personal reference from a neighbor who had sold her property through him the previous year. The consistency of the recommendation across different sources gave me confidence before I even called. The call itself validated that confidence. Chad was specific where other companies had been vague. He acknowledged upfront that the sale would take time to find the right buyer and gave me a realistic range rather than an inflated estimate designed to win my business. He explained his process in terms that made sense and provided references I actually called before signing anything. The $34,900 our sale ultimately produced was at the upper end of Chad's initial projection. He had told us that range was achievable with the right buyer and some patience. Both proved to be true. We will not recover everything we spent over fifteen years. But we recovered far more than we would have from a desperate lowball sale or years of continued fee payments. Calling Chad Jacobelli was the best financial decision we made related to this property.