My wife Robyn and I love going on vacations. We live in Phoenix, Arizona. Although it’s beautiful for most of the year, it gets HOT here in the summer. One of our dreams for retirement is to escape the heat for several weeks every summer.
Like many people, and probably you, we have stressful jobs and need to get away to “recharge our batteries” once in a while. One of the best ways to do this is to enjoy the activities and scenery in other areas. We’re not rich, but we like to sightsee, play golf, swim, shop, and enjoy other amenities at nice, reasonably-priced resorts. Staying in nice hotels to do that, for even a week, would be expensive and often inconvenient. Furthermore, the costs of lodging keep going up year after year. We wondered how to accomplish our dream.
The answer is…
We bought a lot of timeshares. The cost of lodging is fixed, and we don’t have to eat out if we don’t want to. In fact, we’ve bought more timeshares than we can use right now, because it’s a lot easier and cheaper for us to buy them now than it will be when we retire in a few years.
Because we currently have more timeshare weeks than we can use, we rent out several of them. We’re not looking to make a profit on them, and we’re not looking to sell them. We would just like to cover some of the ongoing costs.
We belong to several “points-based” resort groups, including Wyndham, Bluegreen, and Shell Vacations Club. With these clubs, we use our points to choose the specific resort, time of year, and unit size we want for any vacation. In general, because of their popularity, you need to reserve the best weeks 10 to 11 months in advance of their start date. We know how to do that, and we can make them available to you (assuming we don’t keep them for ourselves to use!).
In addition to the resort clubs we belong to, we have access to additional inventory held by the two largest timeshare exchange companies in t, Interval International (II) and Resort Condominiums International (RCI). Timeshare owners deposit their unused weeks into II and RCI in exchange for the right to reserve some other timeshare week. These exchange networks include more than 2,500 resorts in over 75 countries and constantly have thousands of timeshare weeks available.
We reserve some weeks early that we know will be attractive for renters or we might want to use ourselves. We call those Premium Rentals on this website. However, we don’t want to use up all of our points that way. We save some of them so we can respond to specific requests, which we call Upon Request Rentals.
Please contact us for more information.
