Hi Jeff - I find that the best strategy is to reserve a prime week, and then advertise it, rather than advertising points:
1) Renter's like it simple - they don't want to figure out points, etc.
2) By the time a renter puts in a request, the prime weeks will no longer be available.
In Tahoe - weeks, 51, 52, President's week, and most of July are strong rentals.
To figure out your price, look at the Comps on websites like Redweek, TUG, Craigslist, and price your rental in the bottom 10%. Note that the top 50% of the prices will probably never rent, because their owner is unrealistic.
A 2 bdm. rented on Redweek for - 12/25/11 - 01/01/12 -$1,995. However, there are other listings for slightly different dates, that haven't listed. With a school holiday, people usually want a Sat. or Sun. check-in.
Right now, a lot of people are trying to rent their timeshares, so you want to price your week competitively, market it well, and make sure you have a lot of traffic - because you have a lot of competition. I personally use these cheap or free websites to post my Ads:
TUG Timeshare Marketplace -
http://tug2.com/timesharemarketplace/
1 year Membership - $15
Ads - free up to 25
www.craigslist.org (free)
www.redweek.com
Membership - $14.99 for 12 months
Timeshare Rental Ads - $24.99/ea for 6 Months
Timeshare Resale Ads - $59.99/ea for 12 Months
www.myresortnetwork.com
Membership - free
Timeshare Rental Ads - $19.95 ($24.95 - floating weeks)
Timeshare Resale Ads - $34.95
There is also a list of resale websites at the top of the Buying, Selling, Renting, board that you may want to take a look at.
Some people don't like Craigslist, because you get a lot of scammers who respond, but they are painfully obvious, and I just ignore them. Another tool I use to eliminate the scammers is that I only accept payment by Paypal which requires a verified bank account or credit card to be registered.
On Craigslist, you need to create a Craigslist Acct., create 3 different Ads with different titles and wording, and rotate them every 3 days. You don't have to rewrite the Ads - if you create an Acct. they will be saved in your Acct. and you can just use the "renew" function, to renew the oldest Ad every 3 days which will bring it to the top of the listings.
As far as selling - the timeshare market is very depressed right now, so you'd probably have to give it away. Most timeshare are selling for 0-10% of original retail.
Here are the recent completed ebay listings for Diamond Resort Points -
http://www.ebay.com/csc/Timeshares-...=Timeshares&LH_PrefLoc=0&_fsct=&LH_Complete=1
