Ed Hastry discusses the role of the NTOA in educating timeshare owners about the use of their timeshares and important issues facing the industry.

 

 Interview with Ed Hastry, President of the National Timeshare Owners Association [4:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Shep Altshuler publishes one of the most influential timeshare owners magazines in the country. He has a unique perspective on owner issues and shares his thoughts on the industry and what is important to today’s owners.

 

 Timesharing Today Magazine publisher Shep Altshuler discusses the state of the timeshare industry. [4:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week we released our statistical analysis for the 4th quarter, 2008.

It has been absolutely amazing that during a time when business looked its bleakest for many industries, including some timeshare developers and hoteliers, here at Sell My Timeshare NOW, we saw remarkable growth.

Because we are a privately held company, Sell My Timeshare NOW is not required to release quarterly reports to our stockholders. However, we believe that everyone who buys timeshare, sells timeshares or rents timeshare with us, is entitled to an update on how things are going. For this reason, we publish quarterly statistical synopses of our business growth and development.

You can download the full 4th Quarter 2008 business synopsis here.

And follow this link to read our press release about the report:

Despite the Economy, Consumers are Buying and Renting Timeshare Resales and Sell My Timeshare NOW Has the Numbers to Prove It

Here are some of the facts you will learn about Sell My Timeshare NOW:

• From 2007 to 2008, the overall number of offers to buy or rent timeshares advertised and marketed by the company increased by 85 percent.
• Totaling $461,470,158, we averaged over $1 million per day in offers.
• During the fourth quarter of 2008, the number of offers to buy or rent timeshare increased by 73 percent, quarter-over-quarter from 2007 to 2008, and increased by 43 percent in the dollar amount during this period.

You can also find copies of past reports archived on our website at www.sellmytimesharenow.com

Everyone at Sell My Timeshare NOW and The Timeshare Authority joins in wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

We thank you for every time you have visited our timeshare blog and our website, and we pledge our continued effort to offer you safe, reliable ways to sell timeshare, plan vacations, and manage your vacation ownership experiences.

Our Holiday Wish For You Is:

Time shared with your family and friends.

Time when you can relax from the holiday hustle and bustle and experience the peace and joy that were meant to be part of this special season.

Time when you can forget about debts, illness, the economy, and your day-to-day worries.

And a few blissful moments when you can look toward 2009 with optimism; anticipating easier days, fewer worries, and sunny vacation time shared with those you love.

Did Santa find your house? You and your children may enjoy this look at Santa, on the job, courtesy of NORAD Santa.

At Sell My Timeshare NOW, we market to timeshare resale buyers…the right way.

How can I say this with such certainty? Because both our own research and a third party website traffic tracking system verifies that 80 percent of the people that come to our website, www.sellmytimesharenow.com, are prospective timeshare buyers and renters.

When you advertise your timeshare resale or timeshare rental through Sell My Timeshare NOW, you are putting it in front of a widespread and highly interested marketplace of people who have already decided that buying timeshare or renting timeshare is right for them.

Yes, we want to help you sell your timeshare resale, or rent it as a timeshare rental. We are honored to have your business, and we work hard at Sell My Timeshare NOW LLC, to give you the best service possible with personalized attention to all the details that make your timeshare sales transaction unique. But we also recognize the importance of the timeshare buyer and the timeshare renter. Attracting and maintaining a steady influx of interested timeshare buyers and renters is one of the most meaningful things we can do to benefit timeshare sellers and timeshare owners who want to use their property as a timeshare rental.

Your Best Choice for Timeshare Resales and Timeshare Rentals

Let’s face it, you can advertise your timeshare resale on any timeshare resales website, but unless that timeshare sales website can promise you an incredible amount of traffic and that the traffic will genuinely be interested in buying or renting timeshare, then your timeshare may never move at all. Sell My Timeshare NOW uses the best and most effective strategies in internet marketing today, translating to maximum exposure.

Here’s what you want to do: Contact Sell My Timeshare NOW at 877-815-4227. Ask us to prove to you just how much website traffic we receive. Then move forward, advertising your timeshare resale on www.sellmytimesharenow.com. You will have full confidence that your timeshare is highly visible on the World Wide Web, to a market that specifically targets timeshare buyers and renters.

This short video (also found on YouTube) tells you more about how Sell My Timeshare NOW will market your timeshare resale or timeshare rental in the most effective way possible.

Okay, summer is over, and perhaps you failed to use your timeshare once again. If you have a timeshare that you are not enjoying, and you are not interested in using it as a timeshare rental, then you should consider selling it as a timeshare resale.

But do you understand your options for reselling your timeshare?

One choice is to work with a timeshare broker, a real estate professional who will handle your timeshare resale for you. You will be using a licensed real estate broker, and you should expect the broker to charge you a commission when your timeshare sells. Commissions for timeshare resales are typically higher than real estate commissions for selling a home, so expect to pay as much as 15 to 30 percent in sales commission.

For Sell by Owner Timeshare Resales Advertising

Your other realistic option for selling your timeshare is to let Sell My Timeshare NOW advertise your timeshare for you. Using the vast exposure of the internet, your timeshare ad can be seen by interested timeshare buyers all over the world.

The job of a timeshare advertising company is to position your timeshare resales ad so that it draws global visibility in a worldwide marketplace. And nothing does that better than internet advertising does. Where once your daily newspaper or even television was a good way to attract many buyers, today’s tool of choice for maximum exposure advertising is the internet.

This short video can help you learn more about your options to sell timeshare efficiently …

Sell My Timeshare NOW LLC is the number one timeshare advertising and marketing company on the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing, privately held companies in the US. WOW! We are very proud.

It has just been amazing and it only continues to get better all the time. Sell My Timeshare NOW is about to reach our five-year company anniversary and in that time, our growth has been spectacular.

To our expanding list of accomplishments, we have recently added, according to the 2008 Inc. 5000 List: Second Fastest Growing Company in Any Field in the State Of New Hampshire, and nationally, the 637 Fastest Growing Company of Over 7 Million Companies In America Today.

Inc.com also identified Sell My Timeshare NOW as number 21 among the Top 100 Businesses in the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH area and number 44 on the Top 100 Advertising and Marketing Companies list.

Sell My Timeshare NOW is Growing Because of You

Sell My Timeshare NOW is growing because timeshare owners want, need, and deserve a way to advertise their timeshares for sale or rent to a global marketplace of interested vacationers. They need a way that is easy, reliable, and cost effective, and Sell My Timeshare NOW is that way.

At the same time, interested timeshare buyers and timeshare renters need an online resource where they can search for timeshare resales for sale or rent, based on price, schedule, or destination. Once again, Sell My Timeshare NOW is their answer.

Thank you Inc.com for recognizing our accomplishments and most of all, thank you timeshare buyers, sellers, and renters who have helped make Sell My Timeshare NOW an internet success story.

Follow this link to read our full press release on becoming the Sell My Timeshare NOW is Fastest Growing Privately Held US Timeshare Advertising Company.

We are very pleased to announce Carla Nicolay as Sell My Timeshare NOW’s new Director of Human Resources.

Carla is a New England native, who received her Bachelor of Science degree from North Adams State College in western Massachusetts, but later headed west. At San Diego State University, she completed her Certificate of Human Resources. Besides her energy and compassion, Carla brings over twenty years of experience in the field of human resources, fifteen of which has been at the management level.

While in San Diego, she was employed by Midway Home Entertainment, a video game software developer and publisher. There, she helped grow the company from 65 employees to 350. She was one of six start-up employees of High Moon Studios, a video game software development company also located in San Diego. There she was instrumental in creating a corporate culture and helping High Moon as it increased to 300 employees.

In 2005, Carla received a Workplace Excellence Award in the small business category, awarded by the San Diego chapter of the Society for Human Resources Management.

But at Sell My Timeshare NOW, we are very glad Carla is back on the east coast. Carla says, “Sell My Timeshare NOW is a great place to work, to build a career, and to be part of a company with a proactive growth plan for the future. I look forward to being part of the team that has built this proven industry leader.”

As the global leader in timeshare resales and timeshare rentals via the internet, we are a fast growing company, already growing from 3 employees to nearly 100, in a very short time. We are glad to have Carla on board and glad she will be part of the team as we look toward a bright future helping people buy, rent, or sell timeshare in an easy and effective way.

The Timeshare Owners Blog has a new name and a new look, growing and changing to keep up with your needs.

When our blog began, 4 years ago, we posted information several times each month. As readership grew and the need escalated to get more news to more people, we started posting weekly, which quickly evolved into 2 and 3 times per week. Now, we typically update the blog daily, Monday through Saturday.

Our goal is to speak to timeshare owners and people who are interested in becoming owners, yet also to people who have never imagined they might want to rent or buy timeshare, because they just do not recognize the opportunities timeshare has for them. We seek to educate and enlighten our readers with a broad scope of vacation ownership and travel industry information, and a focused eye on all things timeshare.

We are no longer a blog just for timeshare owners…we are the definitive resource for all news TIMESHARE…the good, the great, and even the troubling. We are the resource, the answer, and the authority.

And effective today, we are now known as: The Timeshare Authority.

Our look is sleeker and cleaner; information is easier to find. Our new URL (our web address) is http://www.thetimeshareauthority.com/

Now when you type in our old address, you will be redirected to The Timeshare Authority. But you will still be able to find past articles and information on our new site.

We hope you like the changes you find here as we continue to redefine our service to better meet your requests and your needs.

The March 31 Timeshare Owners Blog ran a post titled, They Wouldn’t Have this Problem if They’d Bought Timeshare Resales. We were looking at a situation that occurred when a timeshare developer presold timeshare units, in many cases without recording deeds, but failed to build the timeshare resort. In another instance, the resort is built and operational, but this same developer and his partner failed to pay bills on the property or to give owners their share of the timeshare rental money.

Robert Reposa of Hingham, MA, the property owner, now owes thousands of dollars in unpaid state and federal taxes, not to mention the restitution he owes to timeshare buyers at the two properties: the Navigator Beach Club and Beachside Village in Falmouth.

The MA Attorney General has 50 complaints from timeshare owners who paid for, but did not receive, deeds for the unfinished timeshare units at the Navigator Club. On Tuesday, the Navigator Beach Club was sold at auction to a man who says he does not intend to use it as a timeshare resort. What happens next is just a wait and see situation for timeshare buyers, some who are out as much as $50,000.

Contact Information Regarding the Troubled Timeshare Deal

The Timeshare Owners Blog will continue to provide information about this timeshare deal gone wrong as it becomes available, as well as offering good advice for avoiding this problem when you buy timeshare. Here is a list of phone numbers and contact information that may be helpful if you have questions about the property or the ongoing investigation:

Massachusetts Attorney General.
(617)-727-8400

Consumer Complaint Form

Det. Sgt. Ben Wunderlich (Working the case for the Dennisport Police and coordinating with the Attorney General’s Office and the District Attorney’s Office)
(774) 352-1433

Robert Reposa
(781) 264-5296

George Fintonis
(508) 398-9153
george@capecodoceanresorts.com

Website for victims and others trying to learn more about this situation:
http://www.navigatorbeachclub.org/

This is an interesting link to the actual property auction from the ABC affiliate in Boston, WCVB:
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/video/15827067/index.html