Yes, Sell My Timeshare NOW and Timeshare Broker Services have always been your best resource for last minute timeshare vacation rental hot deals, but in recent months these deals have gotten easier for you to explore and even hotter than ever before.

Featured on the homepage of www.sellmytimesharenow.com, Amazing Last Minute Deals are timeshare vacation rentals you can book and enjoy even at the very, very last minute. Because these timeshare rentals are listed chronologically, with the closest rental dates first, you can find a great deal—an amazing deal—on a vacation property, and start your holiday as soon as tomorrow, if you like.

AMAZING LAST MINUTE DEALS ARE:

• Easy to book and make vacation and travel planning simpler than ever.
• Offered by owners, resorts, agents, or HOAs that are highly anxious to book this timeshare rental for you.
• Available (typically) for a full 7-day, 6-night vacation but may also be negotiated for a shorter 2, 3 or 4-night vacation. Some may even be available as overnight rentals (you never know until you ask!).
• Offered at rock bottom rental prices yet are at all your favorite or soon-to-be favorite vacation destinations, with spacious accommodations and great amenities.
• Afford you the best deals out there for a luxury vacation at a discount price.
• Ready to rent NOW!

When you wonder how others afford those fabulous vacations you never seem to be able to take; here’s your answer: LAST MINUTE RENTAL DEALS from Sell My Timeshare NOW.

As 2011 nears its end and 2012 awaits, we thought we’d look back at the top 5 timeshare resales and rentals for the year.

These popular vacation resorts all earned their ranking in the top 5 based on the overall number of offers to buy or rent made through Timeshare Broker Services and SellMyTimeshareNOW.com listings and ads.

Four of the five top timeshares are coastal or island destinations although their beaches vary from the Caribbean to the Pacific. All five represent top names in vacation ownership, but it’s important to remember that there are thousands of other fabulous resorts that didn’t happen to make this year’s Top 5, but are just as ideal for your next vacation or getaway.

You are invited to view the Top 5 List revealed in the slides below and then to visit us at www.timesharebrokerservices.com or www.sellmytimesharenow.com to learn more about these 5 resorts as well as to peruse all the great vacation opportunities we offer.

Vacations matter. They clear our minds, restore our bodies, enhance our relationships and create lifelong memories to cherish. Along with your intent to lose weight, exercise more, save money, and clean the garage, how about adding a very positive intent to your 2012 Resolutions?

How about making this your year you finally start taking the vacation time you need, deserve and have so rightfully earned?

Warm wishes from all of us at Sell My Timeshare NOW and Timeshare Broker Services for a safe, happy and blessed holiday and a bright and beautiful New Year!

This week, we announced that at Sell My Timeshare NOW and Timeshare Broker Services, we are hosting a Holiday Food Drive for the New Hampshire Food Bank. Our partner in this food drive is Cocheco PrintWorks.

Although this food drive is targeting the Dover, New Hampshire area for drop offs of canned goods and non-perishable foods, you can also get involved in other ways. Here are some facts about the food drive and about NH Food Bank that will tell you more about this effort and about why it is so needed:

• New Hampshire has one of the lowest poverty levels in the US but ranks #7 in the number of homeless children
• New Hampshire Food Bank is a program of New Hampshire Catholic Charities. So far this year, it has distributed more than 7 million pounds of food through a statewide network of approved agencies. Distribution is made to over 400 New Hampshire senior citizen homes, food pantries, shelters, day care centers and soup kitchens and more than 130,000 adults and children have been served.
• Checks are also accepted. Please make them payable to: NH Food Bank.
• You can make your donations through Thursday, December 22, 2011.
• Our drop-off location is 383 Central Avenue, Suite 260, Dover, NH 03820, which are the offices of Sell My Timeshare NOW and Timeshare Broker Services. We are located on the second floor of the Cochero Falls Millworks and you may park on the street or in the guest parking spaces in front of the building and use the entrance facing TD Bank.

You can learn more about this important effort at:

http://www.sellmytimesharenow.com/media/2011-holiday-food-drive/

We also invite you to read our most recent media release here:

http://news.hospitality-1st.com/SellMyTimeshareNOW-120811.html

The needs are great and the stories are endless.

This is a tough year for many people. Families—right here in our own communities—are dealing with hunger. Mothers and fathers are putting their children to bed at night knowing that those children have not eaten adequate or nutritious food. Senior citizens are choosing whether to buy medication they need or put groceries in their pantry. And countless others are making painful decisions in which housing, food, electricity and other basic needs compete for the same limited dollars.

Almost everyone has been challenged by the tight economy in recent years. But if you can share, even just a little, we invite you to help us support the New Hampshire Food Bank. Sell My Timeshare NOW and Timeshare Broker Services, along with Cocheco PrintWorks, are hosting a 2011 Holiday Food Drive.

Sell My Timeshare NOW and Timeshare Broker Services Food Drive

Now through Thursday, December 22, 2011, we’re collecting donations of canned goods and other non-perishable food items at our Dover, NH offices at: 383 Central Avenue, Suite 260 in downtown Dover.

You can learn more about this food drive by visiting our website at: http://www.sellmytimesharenow.com/media/2011-holiday-food-drive/

And you can learn more about the New Hampshire Food Bank at: www.nhfoodbank.org/

Each year the NH Food Bank collects over 7 million pounds of food and facilitates its distribution to more than 400 New Hampshire food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, day care centers and senior citizen homes. By their efforts, some 130,000 adults and children in need are served.

We also encourage you to visit, and “Like” both the NH Food Bank and Sell My Timeshare NOW on Facebook. You’ll find us at:

https://www.facebook.com/SellMyTimeshareNOW

and the NH Food Bank at: https://www.facebook.com/nhfoodbank

The holidays typically leave everyone busy and often overwhelmed, but there are a few smart financial moves that can really benefit you if you find time and take care of them now. And for some timeshare owners, selling your timeshare may be one of them.

Must-Dos before 2012 rolls around:

1. Contribute as much as permitted to your retirement account. You only have until the last day of the year to contribute to your 401(k) through your workplace. Yes, you can add to your IRA or ROTH IRA up until April each year, but for your workplace 401(k), the deadline is December 31. Ask your HR department how much you have already contributed this year. For workers under age 50, the maximum is $16,500 and for those over, it is $22,000. If you are under these caps, try to raise your contributions between now and New Year’s Eve to realize the best tax savings for 2011.

2. Pay in advance. If you have bills that are partially or wholly tax deductible and you can, pay them before December 31 to gain the tax deduction in the current year. Examples of bills that may be tax deductible include the interest portion of your home mortgage, college tuition, or expenses you can claim as business deductions.

3. Consider selling your timeshare. It’s likely that as a timeshare owner, you have recently received the bill for your annual dues on your timeshare or vacation club membership. For most people, this bill averages about $750. But if you are not using your timeshare, this may be one expenditure you can save in the future by selling your timeshare in 2012. No, you won’t make back what you paid for it, but you will eliminate what it costs you going forward. And while not all timeshares are easy to sell, many timeshares resell quite well. Ask the timeshare resale specialists at Timeshare Broker Services to help you. It will cost you nothing upfront, and you’ll be under no obligation. Call 877-884-9577 to learn more.

4. Review your utilities and services. One call to your telephone, cable, satellite or other service provider can save you money every month. Plans and service options change constantly and many companies that provide services you regularly use have ways to save you money you may not be benefitting from now. Ask companies to look at your services and see how they can help you. In some cases this can be in the form of bundling services in order to save money, a loyalty discount or credit, adding features at no cost to you, discontinuing features for which you are paying but not using, or even a free home energy audit that puts you in a better position to save.

5. Share. Now is the ideal time to make charitable donations. Studies show that sharing generously with others increases your personal feelings of contentment and satisfaction, activating the same “happiness” areas of the brain as is triggered by eating a good meal. Publication 78, Cumulative List of Organizations described in Section 170(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, provides you the full list of charities to which your donations are tax deductible.

And always, when exploring ways to save on your state or federal income taxes, be sure to consult you CPA, tax attorney or other tax expert.

Saturday morning, while many of us are sleeping in or enjoying one more pumpkin latte, Jerome Bocquet, our Vice President of Brokerage Sales & Rental at Timeshare Broker Services, will have his running (or maybe walking) shoes on, participating in the HOPEworldwide  Fundraising Event that is a part of the Runnona Walk.

Held at Lake Nona, (Orlando, Florida) the 5K Run/Walk will begin at the University of Central Florida’s College of Medicine and will wind through Lake Nona Medical City, offering views of the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, Orlando VA Medical Center, Nemours Children’s Hospital and UCF’s just-opened College of Medicine.

The event’s start time is 8:00AM for all who are walking or running the 3.1 miles of a 5K race. Later in the morning, there will be a Halloween Costume Contest for children, the Nemours Kids’s Run and at 9:30AM, the Awards Presentation.

Proceeds from the race will benefit the Tavistock Foundation. Jerome Bocquet is walking in support of HOPE worldwide, an international charity that harnesses the compassion and commitment of dedicated staff and volunteers to deliver sustainable, high-impact, community-based services to the poor and needy. 87 percent of HOPE Worldwide expenditures go directly for program costs.

To learn more about HOPE worldwide, please visit their website at: www.hopeww.org

And “Go Jerome!”

Frankly, much of the messaging about where the timeshare industry stands and where it’s going is confusing. And because it is often difficult for those who are part of the industry to discern, it can be truly a puzzle to consumers.

Here are a few relevant facts that should be insightful to timeshare buyers, renters, sellers, and current timeshare owners in trying to get a handle on the true popularity of timeshares and the health of the timeshare product:

• The timeshare industry registered $6.4 billion in total sales volume for 2010, which represents a 1.6 percent increase over sales in 2009. This number reflects only new sales of timeshare and does not include the multi-billion dollars in timeshare resales and timeshare rentals.
• Timeshare resort occupancy rates were 79 percent in 2010; an interesting contrast to hotel occupancy rates, which rose from the previous year, but still only reached 58 percent.
• 329,200 timeshare intervals sold last year at an average price of $19,300. Again these figures reflect only at the sales of timeshare from developers, not timeshare resales that happened privately, though a timeshare broker, or through a timeshare resale advertising company.
• Beach timeshares remain the most popular and the most prevalent. Timeshare resorts at golf or theme park destinations tend to be the largest in size and island destination resorts are typically the most expensive and have the highest occupancy percentages.
• In the US, there are approximately 1,548 timeshare resorts. Differences in numbers reported for this often stem from confusion over how  resorts with many phases of construction counts their properties.
• 8.1 million timeshare intervals are owned in the US alone.

With many naysayers ready to condemn the industry, reporting of its impending death and downfall, numbers like these present quite a different (and eye-opening) story.

Before you make any decisions about timeshare, get the facts. Be an informed consumer so that if you chose to rent or buy a timeshare, you wind up with a vacation product you enjoy, fully utilize, and that comes with only good surprises.

It’s great to be at the ARDA West Regional Meeting (American Resort Developers Association) here at the  Westin Denver Downtown.

Yesterday’s activities got underway with ARDA-WIN Programming and event registration. It was my honor to be part of a panel that addressed, “HOA Challenges and Solutions: Postcard and Rescue Companies, Resales, and Rentals.”

John Funk, Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell, was Moderator of the panel that included: John Lee of Christie Lodge; R. Scott MacGregor of InnSeason Resorts; and me, Jason Tremblay of Sell My Timeshare NOW and Timeshare Broker Services.

We looked at some of the timeshare industry’s significant challenges and ways to solve these challenges. Questions raised included:

• With association maintenance fee delinquencies increasing what are positive methods for HOAs to find replacement owners?
• What can HOAs do about weeks being transferred into trusts, clubs or to individuals who have no intention of paying the fees?
• The current challenge that is putting the reputation of timeshare resales on the line.

Thursday evening’s activities included the Opening Reception with Product Showcase, and time for networking.

Friday’s Schedule at the ARDA West Regional Meeting

The Friday schedule for today is  busy with an  8:05 AM Breakfast and ARDA Updates, including information from and regarding  ARDA-ROC, AIF Research and State Legislative Issues.

Speakers are Kevin Riley, ARDA-ROC; Chris Stewart, ARDA State Affairs; and Darla Zanini, ARDA International Foundation.

Morning sessions include:

• “Retaining Owners Loyalty” moderated by Clark Rowley, Scottsdale Camelback Resort, with speakers: Jeff Andrews, East West Resorts and  Kimberly Tramontana, Breckenridge Grand Vacations.
• “New ADA Requirements”  moderated by Amy Bellman, Baker & Hostetler LLP, with speakers: Jessie Creighton, Ballard Spahr LLP and John Farrow, FARROW Commercial Construction
• HOA Board/ “Ask the Attorney” moderated by Gary Kujawski, Christie Lodge Owners Association with speakers: Candyce Cavanagh, Orten, Cavanagh, Richmond & Holmes LLC; and Jennifer Hayes, Foley & Lardner LLP

Lunch with Guest Speaker Aaron Acker, HOA Information Officer, Colorado Department of Regulatory Affairs, will bring an outside perspective on the latest and hottest regulatory and legislative issues in the HOA and Timeshare industries.

Thank you ARDA for offering these informative and important meetings and to all the sponsors who help make them possible. Special thanks to: ARDA-ROC; Epsilon Targeting; First American Title Insurance Company; RCI, HD Supply, and Interval International.

$284,876,202 in qualified offers to timeshare owners in the first three quarters of 2011!

At Sell My Timeshare NOW and Timeshare Broker Services, we are excited to announce our third quarter sales results.

Between January 1, 2011 and September 30, 2011, Sell My Timeshare NOW and Timeshare Broker Services, as part of Vacation Hotdeal Companies, Inc., presented $284,876,202 in qualified offers to timeshare owners who contacted us seeking to sell or rent timeshare they currently own.

These qualified offers include:

• $225,000,000 in offers to buy a timeshare, and
• $60,000,000 in timeshare rental offers
• 3rd Q sales results were up 24 percent over the same quarter in 2010 at Sell My Timeshare NOW for timeshare sales and rentals
• 3rd Q sales results were up 88 percent over the same quarter in 2010 at Timeshare Broker Services for timeshare sales and rentals

Yes, that right… 88% increase in sales for Quarter3 2011 as compared to Quarter 3 2010!

And you never have to just take our word for our sales and rental offers … you can see them for yourself.

Go to http://www.sellmytimesharenow.com/owners/index/content/buyeroffers/

Here you can view a live feed of offers to buy or rent timeshare. You will see the ad number, the resort, the date, the amount, and the type of offer.