Renting an II week

[donnacook]

Someone posted that you cannot rent an II week. Is this true? Why not? If you purchase a guest certificate, why can't they check in under their name? If I've paid my MF and II fees, it makes sense to me that I could sell my week to someone if I wanted to. Comments? Experiences with this?

 

[BevL]

Paragraph 7(k) from the Interval Terms and Conditions says:

"(k) Membership in II may be used only for personal and noncommercial
purposes. Any other use of membership benefits may result in the
suspension or termination of a Member’s privileges, as well as any
existing Confirmations and loss of fees associated with all II
memberships and Confirmations held by such Member."

Renting an exchange is considered a commercial purpose.

Frankly, if you're renting a unit to your brother-in-law and he's reimbursing your maintenance fees, exchange fee and guest certificate, you're probably never going to have a problem. If you're renting out exchanges on ebay or Craigslist and you get caught, they will close your account and you'll use any weeks you have on deposit or exchanges you've made.

Is it fair? I suppose you could say it's not. But it's the rule you agreed to when you bought your membership.

 

[Keep Traveling]

It's against their rules...

They can cancel your account, with all trades in there or deny the person checking in access to the resort.

If they allowed this...Everyone would snap up all the good weeks and just rent them.

If you want to rent something, you can rent your home resort/week.

KT

 

[donnacook]

thanks!

new to BBS discussions. This is VERY helpful! I am a rule follower and would not risk my II membership. My problem is that I have several weeks banked and I'm in a use it or lose it situation. Not sure how to resolve my problem.

 

[Mel]

Allowing friends or relatives to use your weeks, and having them reimburse you is not commercial, and II (or RCI for those that own at RCI affiliates) would be hard pressed to prove it is commercial. Because they are friend and family, you would also be in a position to make clear to the that they are not "renting" your weeks.

Go ahead and see if some friend would like to use your exchanges - that's allowed, or there wouldn't be guest certificates.

 

[chalee94]

II will let you pay extra to extend the expiration of the deposit to some extent.

otherwise, you could simply give away a week or 2 to friends or family.

 

[DeniseM]

Donna - Scroll up to the top of the page and click on "private messages" in the top right corner.