No Judgment, No Pressure — Just a Professional Who Got It Sold

My husband and I made our timeshare purchase many years ago when we were young and easily persuaded by a very compelling presentation. We are not embarrassed to admit that now, but for a long time we were. We had paid far more than the resale value. We had paid maintenance fees for years on something we barely used. We had, in the polite language of financial advice, made a poor decision and were living with the consequences of it. That history made us reluctant to reach out to anyone in the timeshare industry again. We had been sold to once and had not forgotten it. When we finally called JP Mutual Management, we were guarded and probably a little abrupt. Christopher was patient with us. He did not try to oversell what he could do. He asked about our ownership straightforwardly and gave us an honest assessment of what it was worth on the resale market — which was considerably less than we had originally paid, something we already knew and appreciated him not pretending otherwise. He explained that our ownership, while not premium, did have a buyer market. He described who typically bought this type of product and why it appealed to them. He said he could have a buyer within four to six months at a realistic price range of $26,000 to $31,000. The sale closed at $28,600 in just over five months. The transfer paperwork was completed by the JP Mutual team and everything was clean. Christopher Newton handled our situation with professionalism and a genuine lack of judgment. After so many years of feeling foolish about our original purchase, working with someone who simply focused on the solution was exactly what we needed.