Lifetime in Hawaii in Honolulu has a program for the units that they either bought back or reacquired due to foreclosure. In order to get the weeks sold with maintenance fee paying owners, they are offering weeks at $1000 each. If you buy 2 you get the 3rd for free. That is 3 weeks of timeshare for $2,000 and the maintenance is less than $700/week. These are floating weeks with no season. Hawaii does have year round attraction so even if you can't reserve a summer or winter week the spring and the fall are also great for vacationing.
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Retail resale weeks at our old resort that is proactive go for a pretty stable $1500-2000, but association-owned weeks go for $700. They generally get $900 when they rent association-owned weeks (more than the $503 annual fee), $225 commission when they rent owners' weeks (on top of the $503 they already got, and offer association-owned weeks for rent to owners for $503. All of that adds up to significant income, thus the fairly-low $503 annual fee. When they rent owners' weeks, owners receive $700.
Several owners have a month or more in Snowbird season, and $2000/month is about half the going rate for beachfront in the area.
It helps that there are year-round day rights for local owners.
In a worst case scenario (like last year because of Red Tide) our Snowbird week did not get rented, so we got year-round beach access, swimming pool, hot tub, BBQ grills, etc. for $503. The other "beach club" we are eligible for doesn't have anywhere near that, costs more, and has a waiting list.
I keep thinking I'll dig through and take a look at the last financial, and maybe I will, some day.
They could be a little more up-to-date when it comes to promotion and communication (no email or texting), but it is on the Internet, and there is a resale broker, too.