Renting your home week - where do you post

[JMoon]

Curious as to what services you all use to rent your home week and your experience with that service. Thanks in advance.

 

[brp]

Well, if you become a supporting Member, you have access to the TUG Marketplace, and I know that folks have posted some of these rentals there.

Cheers.

 

[JMoon]

Happy to do so, just wondering if the TUG Marketplace or Redweek reaches a broad enough audience. This is new to me. I picked up a 2-week fixed week(s) deed for weeks 10 & 11 at Sunrise lodge. I have 4 kids so I'm not flexible in my travels. Typically, one of those weeks falls on Spring Break... figured I'd rent the other week, just wondering where I will have the best luck.

 

[dioxide45]

Happy to do so, just wondering if the TUG Marketplace or Redweek reaches a broad enough audience. This is new to me. I picked up a 2-week fixed week(s) deed for weeks 10 & 11 at Sunrise lodge. I have 4 kids so I'm not flexible in my travels. Typically, one of those weeks falls on Spring Break... figured I'd rent the other week, just wondering where I will have the best luck.

Why not use both? Perhaps Go-Koala too. You will pay a fee upfront to list on Redweek, but you get a certain amount of ad credits on TUG when you buy a membership. Those credits should be enough to last you several years. Koala is free to list but they charge a commission on the back end. You can list on multiple sites. Facebook groups are good too.

 

[andre10056]

Curious as to what services you all use to rent your home week and your experience with that service. Thanks in advance.

Since you make mention of your "home week", I think one of your inquiries to your home resort should be whether or not they will allow you to split the week up into multiple stays. For example, a 3 night stay and a 4 night stay. Or a 5 night stay and a 2 night stay. If you are allowed to do so and can do so via paying for a "midweek cleaning" (which, for me depending on the resort, has ranged from $70 to an outrageous $250), that increases your chances of successfully renting using sites like airbnb and VRBO.

Ideally, of course, you'll be able to rent the full 7 nights to a single renter. Dedicated timeshare rental sites like Redweek, Koala, and the recently identified vakaymood may work for you. Redweek will charge to list. Koala and vakaymood will not. Redweek generates a good number of responses. I have never been contacted via koala or vakaymood.

Another timeshare rental site that used to be OK but has all but disappeared and that I, personally, would like to see resurrected is myresortnetwork. How nice it would be to have a viable competitor for Redweek, particularly in light of all the games Redweek has started playing recently. $19.95 per rental ad which compares very favorably to Redweek's $59 plus $99 "if it rents". But we'll all have to support that site in every way we can in order for it to possibly be able to better compete with Redweek.

You can also rent 7 night rentals via airbnb and VRBO but you need to be careful when you set up the ad. Make sure you set up your calendar to allow for the rental of only your week. I would also be hesitant to allow anyone to "instant book" because if you've made even the slightest mistake and can't deliver that which was instantly booked, you'll pay beaucoup bucks as an airbnb and/or VRBO penalty.

But where Airbnb and VRBO shine is in partial weeks' and last minute rentals. Most people don't want to rent for seven nights. They expect a quick getaway of a few days. So you can set up your ad with a minimum stay of three days and then perhaps adjust it after you get your first renter. For example, I rented via Airbnb my Palm Beach in Orange Beach, AL for 5 nights initially (with my ad requiring a minimum stay of three nights) and then simply changed my ad to then allow for a minimum stay of two nights...and the latter got rented same day. All seven nights were then rented. I had to pay for a midweek cleaning of $70. The per night charge was much higher than what I tried to get for a full seven nights via timeshare rental sites.

There's no reason not to try to rent on TUG. Just recognize that, in my experience, TUGgers will expect to pay next to nothing for any rental. But isn't that the nature of TUG? Timeshare owners comparing notes on how to get things dirt cheap, how to circumvent this or circumvent that, how to beat out anyone else in getting the best exchanges. That mindset will make it difficult for you to get what you might prefer to get as a person renting out your timeshare on TUG.

 

[HuskerATL]

. For example, a 3 night stay and a 4 night stay. Or a 5 night stay and a 2 night stay.

Technically, in HGVC you can only rent out your Homeweek which is 7 nights in exactly what you own.

 

[GT75]

Since you make mention of your "home week", I think one of your inquiries to your home resort should be whether or not they will allow you to split the week up into multiple stays. For example, a 3 night stay and a 4 night stay. Or a 5 night stay and a 2 night stay.

Per HGVC rules, the definition of HW:

Home Week – A Club Member’s ownership interest(s) in an accommodation at their Home Resort. For purposes​

of participation in the Club’s reservation system, a Home Week consists of a consecutive day period in the​

accommodation type purchased at a Home Resort anytime during the calendar year during the Season in which the​

Club Member purchased checking in on the resort’s standard check-in day. ​

 

[andre10056]

Technically, in HGVC you can only rent out your Homeweek which is 7 nights in exactly what you own.

OK. Well. If that's the case, never mind on planning on multiple rentals per week. But airbnb and VRBO would still be options. And you COULD still designate a lesser period as an option (5 nights for example). The guest would just officially check in late and/or check out early if all he/she rented were 5 nights.