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Ruff Decisions: Animal Housing Options While You’re Away
Instead of boarding at kennels, many travelers take their pets along for the ride, leave them with friends or family, or hire professional sitters. Each of these options comes with pros and cons.
Finding Best in Show Kennels
If you can’t take your furry best friend on vacation with you, you may have to book him or her into a kennel.
Prepping Your Pet for a Kennel Stay
For your pet’s stay to go well, it’s not enough to select a kennel carefully; you also have to prepare your pet properly and then care for it properly after its stay.
Trouble with Timeshare Exit Companies
Timeshare owners are often bombarded with offers to help them get out of unwanted contracts. But Checkbook found many timeshare exit operations provide little, if any, service for their high fees.
How Timeshare Exit Companies Operate
Whether or not an exit company and its attorneys will succeed in terminating a timeshare depends on the methods they employ, how aggressive they are, and a resort’s determination to keep owners in their contracts.
What You Should Really Do If You Want Out of a Timeshare
There’s a good chance that with a little know-how, you can get out of a timeshare on your own for free or at little cost, rather than paying exit companies thousands of dollars.
