Resale purchase

[Lgilles]

I’m new to this timeshare and kinda confused about a lot. I love to travel on a budget and want to purchase a resale but don’t know which one to buy. I would like a 2 br. with a lock off to break it down with float weeks. What should I purchase and from where. I want something in Florida.

 

[CO skier]

I’m new to this timeshare and kinda confused about a lot. I love to travel on a budget and want to purchase a resale but don’t know which one to buy. I would like a 2 br. with a lock off to break it down with float weeks. What should I purchase and from where. I want something in Florida.

"Florida" is so overbuilt with timeshares, owners are offering $250 Visa gift cards plus a year's free usage to bribe people into taking over their timeshare. Timeshares are easy to buy, but can be difficult to sell when the time comes.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/327139592518?_skw=vacation+village+rci+points+timeshare+for+sale&itmmeta=01KTJMTJG83ECXXRKN0P1DRAY0&hash=item4c2b0a0946:g:T-0AAOSwCg9dJ4TL&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAABEGfYFPkwiKCW4ZNSs2u11xAU3Hi4n6dxrkNQc8of7uxtCgW2gRWdMgLA6YVJhYlVjSp5GJWJFS7cuaXIcsmrGp%2B4zvs%2FVbcEAqxUOYhrgskTtEr05DSV5c7X%2FgWS2U00GXed9SiAJ2w5fyOYpzHcBBkCQ2NIjWYqOUwavnVcRpchbaI45BFuAptUttsD8M5CD5QNIXz0j%2F%2BzY55v1C4Qe1eOp%2BJ2slElsnJjLPcZWSNnYANbMaTcsVw5YHWyj%2Bx0oAuOKtGTHVQsUh3mpNvSeFwsc%2B%2BBkzmx4pUTVX0uladaZamiW3js%2BZzX%2F0M%2FxP8Cx0JkeRbdUSNxmM7NjHREXKlR0ZULvYLmiqb4CX6yq2sX%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR6So6tTUZw

This timeshare will give you access to a 2 BR lock-off every other year. The real value is in the RCI access, where Last Call vacations are available for more than 50% off the costs of the 2 BR maintenance fees for a week plus 2 exchange fees for locking off the 2 BR into two exchanges.

Lots of good deals through Extra Vacations at Vacation Village at Parkway and other resorts, too! For example,

Take as many Last Call and Extra Vacations weeks as you want.

 

[CO skier]

Here was an even better deal at Vacation Village at Parkway for an EOY Even 2 BR Lock-off. 92,500 RCI points versus 74,000 for about the same maintenance fees.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/198239834906?_skw=vacation+village+rci+points+timeshare+for+sale&itmmeta=01KTJMTJG8310ZBXYA1CC8CC2W&hash=item2e2803d31a:g:jjgAAOSwJZVe6T2b&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAAA8GfYFPkwiKCW4ZNSs2u11xCUCGWCz75c85cipAX0TzXou79mxVZQiwm5Gp%2FmVMfEnDo3Sn%2F1xUCbjjiTm7HIK8To6hPQAjhdvHApIIAoRA62GXLIKk1iMgdvcuHUerjR0EEiWrCAyZ8hofK99AOzgHOd%2BLwvveADQq36TJRgFCy8Rh9cmqn3KtEXZWnUPqw1Zhmqco0xFs7VBx%2F9Hb7Rv6iS4iFvVtO7JtBYzy7ldmzFrxAFyGg%2BVRm8GGt6EGVOH160nQA9%2B6r3VdMGmJkQNdCsmtK0xx2EXPeBx1p4C1bgYq4UcRTi%2BtpDMq%2BtPkIIpQ%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR6So6tTUZw

 

[rickandcindy23]

Marriott and Sheraton are the best products to buy resale. I personally do not understand buying anything that trades with RCI. I love II.

I just bought a 2 bed platinum Marriott week very cheaply. I know what trades well and what doesn't, and I don't like the mish-mash of products on RCI and the extra fees for staying in most of the gold crown resorts.

 

[rickandcindy23]

I’m new here too and am trying to learn more about buying and renting of the timeshare reservation system.

Mark

Did you buy that week you own as resale?

 

[austdav]

Don't discount a single week timeshare, especially for newbi's. I own Magic Tree in Kissimmee. It is a gold crown resort. MF's on a 2bd are $625 a 1bd is $575. They are floating weeks. They haven't raised MF's in 15+ yr's. They have more free amenities than most Marriot's or Hiltons. You can buy them right from the resort. 1bd's are free & 2bd's are around 1K and they do a quick deed so little cost there. You can belong to any trading you want, or as many as you want. i belong to both rci & II.
Here's my point. For the MF's you would pay a lock-off starting around $1200 if your lucky, you could own 2 weeks above. The Marriot in Orlando probably around 2K for a week. Splitting a 2bd gives you 2-1bds. For the same mf's above you have 2-2bds. Of coarse some 1bd's can have a higher value than a 2bd along with the higher mf's. You also have to know you can get the 2 weeks you want because you're deeded the same week.
Most major point systems (marriot, hilton, wyndham bluegreen diamond) are going to charge around 2k for a 1week 2bd of points. The ones mentioned above probably 1k or more. But with points you need to check what resorts are in their system & see if that's what you want. Also a lot of people think because they have all these points in a 2bd they can get a lot of different stays and that is true but you have to give something up. In other words you have to go to a smaller unit, off season, week days not week ends, etc. If you stay x-mas week in a 2bd it will use all your points. That doesn't account for booking fee's etc.
The thing about trades is they have become a lot more expensive lately. To me it don't hardly pay. To pay a trading fee of 250-300 was bad enough but now the resorts your trading to want a cut also. So on top of the trading fee their can be resort fee's parking fee's etc which can up to another 100-300 depending on the resort. (thank you Hilton). Which to me makes trading not worth it a lot of times, but not always.
I have owned Marriot, Hyatt, they just got to a point they weren't worth it to me. I still own Hilton and I'm slowly coming to the same conclusion. And then there's Magic Tree which i love.
My point is to show some of the differences between the different systems. There is no right or wrong in what system you prefer. But if i was new to timesharing and starting off new i would buy a resort such as Magic Tree,1 week not 2, join a trading company mainly for the getaways. And after i had tried it for a while if i wanted something else later i would have a better idea. It is one of the cheapest way's i know to own a timeshare and learn. By the way, you can give your week back to Magic Tree for 2 yrs mf's or less anytime.