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If you purchase from SMTN, there is simply no option other than to use their closing process and pay their (inflated and overpriced) closing fees. Period. There is no “negotiating” that indisputable fact. SMTN makes even more money on the closing process and they certainly are not going to give up that gravy train. The only real alternative is to just accept that as a potential SMTN buyer you [b]must[/b] pay their exorbitant closing fees --- so just reduce your offered price accordingly. Your offer may or may not be accepted, but it may be worth a shot if this particular timeshare is one that you really want and cannot find elsewhere (that seems highly unlikely to me, quite frankly, but I suppose it’s possible). To expect an owner who listed on SMTN for big bucks to pay even MORE money to SMTN toward closing costs, on top of the hefty amount they already paid to place the listing in the first place, is simply not a realistic or reasonable expectation. SMTN would never consider presenting such a request to a seller they have [b]already [/b] gouged for big bucks.