There shouldn’t be an issue if your guest is friends or family and if they compensate you for the maintenance fees that’s only fair. Don’t do it regularly. Not commercially. Also, if you have to give a week away use it as a birthday or Christmas gift so save money that way. Maybe you can trade something with someone also, some plumbing etc. This notion you should give your friends and family a $1200+ vacation (much more when you add in the tens of thousands to buy in) is absolutely ridiculous. It’s still a gift even if they pay some or all of your fees. You may have to make sure they understand that they are not renting and the true value of what they are getting compared to $250 a night for a hotel room. Your deeded home week you have the right to rent to ANYONE, and I had an uninformed corporate gal try to chew me out because I asked them to confirm for Redweek, they really disgust me these people. They wouldn’t have jobs without us. Anyhow, good luck renting the home week even for the maintenance! You might as well use it rather than lose the money. I wasnt even able to rent my Super Bowl week at Elara last year. This really burns me because yet another sales rep at the last update went on and on about go-koala and other ways to not only rent POiNTS reservations but also the RCI weeks. What a putz! In the driveway they have a cyber truck, Maserati etc etc. These jerks are making bank. Basically legal scam artists. I know the MF are very hard for people, my heart goes out to you. You don’t deserve to be lied to and blamed for getting in over your head and even if we might have been in good financial shape when we bought, inflation, a hurricane, death in the family it all freaking adds up. Hang in there.
