My survey

[Darcyd35]

1) Is there a vacation destination you wish to visit most of the time or on a regular basis? if so where?
Las Vegas

2) Do you want to visit your home resort at least half the time, or do you want to trade more than half the time?
At least half the time if not more

3) What are your 5 top trade destinations?
Hawaii, California, Myrtle Beach.. that's all I can think of.

4) How many people do you usually travel with?
A lot, I have 3-4 kids with he usually and my hubby and my mom.

5) Can you travel any time, or are you locked into the school schedule?
Any time (hooray for homeschooling)

6) Can you make firm plans 12 or more mos. in advance?
Yep

7) Can you vacation for a full week at a time?
Yep

8) What level of accommodations do you prefer on a scale of 1 to 5 stars?
3-5

9) How much can you afford to spend upfront, without financing?
$1000

10) How much can you afford to spend every year for a maintenance fee that will come due right after Christmas, and increase each year?
$5-700

11) Are you a detail oriented planner?
My husband is!

12) Do you understand that once you buy atimeshare, it may be very difficult to sell or give away, and you are responsible for all fees, untilyou do?
Yes

 

[Mosescan]

Your location list is a good match for HGVC but you’d need a lot bigger budget. You’d likely need a 3 BR unit so 8400-9600 points. Initial buy in, resale, is around $1/point + closing costs. Maintenance fess, even at a good Vegas location would be $1200/yr.
HGVC is a solid 4 stars but it’s not cheap.

 

[DeniseM]

10) How much can you afford to spend every year for a maintenance fee that will come due right after Christmas, and increase each year?
$5-700

For a party of 8, you need at least a 2 bedroom that sleeps 8 (many only sleep 6.) $500-700 is about half what you should expect to spend for the maintenance fee for a timeshare that sleeps 8.

 

[Darcyd35]

We recently attended a presentation at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas. I did like the property.. so I started looking around.
I found a guy looking to sell, for how much I'm not sure yet.. but he did say the maintance fees were $700 and paid for the year.
He also said it was a floating week.. I think that's a good thing?
Forgive my ignorance in all of this, up until about a week ago I had no idea what a timeshare even was.

 

[Darcyd35]

Oh, and I should note, when we went down there (Vegas) there were 6 of us in a 2bdrm.