Finn Law Group, a St. Petersburg Law Firm, Offers Free Legal Help to Timeshare Owner Targeted by $8,000 Exit Scam

Sharon Sokol just wanted to be free of a timeshare she no longer used. Instead, unsolicited phone calls from a timeshare exit company ultimately cost her thousands of dollars in a scam and threatened her family’s finances. After Sharon’s story was featured in a national Newsmax investigation into timeshare exit scams, Finn Law Group, a St. Petersburg-based law firm, offered to take on her case at no cost.

Sharon's ordeal began the way many of these scams do. A company she had never contacted called her out of nowhere, promising to make her timeshare contract and its annual fees disappear for good. To get started, she paid the exit company $8,000 upfront. From there, she was instructed to send a certified letter to her own timeshare company and told to keep the exit company's involvement a secret rather than disclose who was actually behind the letter.

Neither instruction resolved her contract. Instead, the certified letter brought her timeshare company back on the phone with a far more aggressive tone than she expected. Representatives threatened to attach the outstanding debt to her property and warned her that the financial burden could eventually pass to her own children and grandchildren. Sharon was left thousands of dollars poorer, with her original timeshare problem still unresolved and her family's finances even more at risk.

Sharon's story became part of the Newsmax investigation into how timeshare exit companies operate. This is when J. Andrew Meyer, Esq., Managing Partner of Finn Law Group, learned about what she had experienced. Finn Law Group has been representing timeshare owners and handling timeshare contract cancellations for more than a decade. After hearing Sharon's story, Meyer extended an offer for Finn Law Group to handle her case completely free of charge.

According to Meyer, Sharon's experience carried every warning sign he tells timeshare owners to watch for: a cold call from a company you never sought out, a large upfront fee demanded before any verifiable work was done, a guaranteed outcome that an unregulated company could not actually stand behind, and instructions to keep the arrangement secret rather than deal with the resort openly. Mr. Meyer also pointed to the broader scale of the problem. In one federal case alone, regulators found that a single exit operation had taken more than $90 million from consumers, with older Americans making up a large share of the victims. Sharon's $8,000 was part of that same pattern playing out one family at a time.

Finn Law Group's offer reflects the different protections available when a timeshare owner works with a licensed attorney. An attorney can communicate directly and transparently with a timeshare company rather than requiring the owner to conceal who is assisting them. Licensed attorneys are also bound by professional ethics rules and can provide the protections of an attorney-client relationship when representation is established, offering consumers a level of accountability that unregulated exit companies do not provide.

About Finn Law Group

Finn Law Group is a law firm headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. The firm focuses exclusively on representing timeshare owners in contract cancellations, disputes, and negotiations involving timeshare developers, management companies, and their agents. For more than a decade, Finn Law Group has built its reputation on a simple principle: licensed attorneys, not sales representatives, should be the ones guiding consumers through the complexities of timeshare law and their timeshare contracts. Unlike unregulated timeshare exit companies, the attorneys at Finn Law Group are bound by professional ethics rules, can assert attorney-client privilege, and can represent clients in negotiation when a dispute cannot be resolved any other way.

A Warning and an Offer to Other Timeshare Owners

Finn Law Group encourages any timeshare owner who has paid upfront fees to an exit company, been told to keep an arrangement secret, or is facing threats from a timeshare company to reach out before the situation escalates further. Timeshare owners can learn more or request a free consultation at finnlawgroup.com or by calling 866-431-4417.