Should We Buy? Just attended Marriott Vacation Club Presentation.

[jp10558]

We are in the same boat. The choices are overwhelming. We have always rented timeshares through red week and are inclined to sticking with this strategy. We have not found any program yet where buying in makes sense for us, but we still have a lot of research to do. If you find a Marriott property where buying in makes sense, we would love to hear about it because we like the experience at those Marriott properties where we have rented.

You may want to make a should I buy post on the New to Timesharing forum. I don't want to pollute this thread because of my own "forum etiquette" (not some actual rule here necessarily), but I've generally had the opposite experience where Red Week was soo much more expensive to rent there - but you have to deal with so many variables. So I think (if you're interested) that this is worthy of it's own thread, and would potentially be instructive for everyone. One thing this thread didn't do which I think would be helpful would be to copy the questions from this thread:

"What to Buy" Questions for New Timeshare Owners

Here are some questions you can answer to focus your timeshare wants/needs. Suggestion - copy the questions below, and start a new thread entitled "My Survey" or "What should I buy?," or something similar, and answer the questions in a NEW thread. 1) Is there a vacation destination you wish...

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and put those answers in your new thread also.

 

[davidvel]

We are in the same boat. The choices are overwhelming. We have always rented timeshares through red week and are inclined to sticking with this strategy. We have not found any program yet where buying in makes sense for us, but we still have a lot of research to do. If you find a Marriott property where buying in makes sense, we would love to hear about it because we like the experience at those Marriott properties where we have rented.

You will break even in about 3 years for most resorts. Ko Olina being one.

 

[frytard]

I can relate. Even the kids, who are on most of our deeds, are sick of hearing me talk up timeshare.

Our oldest son, Mr. Practical, said, "I don't want to inherit all of these timeshares, so I would appreciate it if you would take my name off of them." I was like.

We own a lot of Sheraton Broadway, and I am considering re-deeding all of them into Rick's and my name only. I don't know what will happen to the II account.

Adopt me when you have a chance I guess...

I took over my moms timeshare in 2021 and it has been great. Although i dont like how the companies keep taking the little perks every year which is something scary to have the property and who knows what will will 10-20 years down the line and making me hesitatant from owning more then 1 property if things go south. Althought I would like an RCI Trader for the sole reason of Big Island Waikaloa seems tradable vs MVC i heard it never is there.

I like to do "comfort and relaxing travelling" with the timeshare like Hawaii, Florida, Vegas etc and I feel timeshare is the best way to go with having a kitchen and everything. But I balance it with my other travelling with Japan this year and went to 3 other Asia countries last year. Really no need for a kitchen in those places since I am usually out from 8 AM to 10PM even with a Toddler.

 

[RetirementPlans2028]

You will break even in about 3 years for most resorts. Ko Olina being one.

As far as U.S. resorts, we are looking at those in Hawaii, but there is another topic about the management fees at those properties going to 15% that we do not fully understand? We are wary of having no control over MF, which we need to just get over if we decide to buy. I will dedicate some time to the questions posed in the "what should we buy" and start a new thread when we've thought those through. Thank you.