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Silverleaf timeshare, a family-favorite timeshare resort with more than a dozen properties, announced last week that Michael A. Jenkins will rejoin its Board of Directors to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of Janet Whitmore.

Jenkins, who is the President of Leisure and Recreation Concepts, Inc., served as a member of the Silverleaf timeshare Board of Directors from 1997 to 2002. The Board of Directors has also designated Herbert B. Hirsch, already a Silverleaf Timeshare Board Member, as the audit committee financial expert.

Silverleaf Timeshare, a Popular Drive-to Timeshare Vacation Option

The first seven Silverleaf timeshare resort properties were Texas timeshares and Missouri timeshares, opened in 1989. Then in 1997, the company went public; that same year it opened Timber Creek Resort to serve the St. Louis, Missouri market and Fox River Resort to serve vacationers from the Chicago, Illinois area.

One of Silverleaf timeshare’s most popular resorts is the Oak N’ Spruce Resort that serves the New England/New York market. In 1999, Apple Mountain Resort opened in the Blue Ridge Mountains, attracting vacationers from the Atlanta area. In the past decade, Silverleaf timeshare has added a beachside Galveston timeshare (Texas); an Orlando timeshare, (the Ocean Breeze Resort); and the Pinnacle Lodge, for Winter Park, Colorado ski vacations.

Silverleaf timeshare has opted for a unique strategy, building many of its resorts in beautiful, but sometimes lesser known destinations, located where high density populations can visit them easily – often within a convenient one-day or half-day drive. The idea of owning drive-to timeshare sounds better than ever to many budget-tight vacationers, which means that the idea of owning a drive-to timeshare resale looks absolutely fantastic.

Silverleaf Timeshare Resale Opportunities:

• Silverleaf’s Villages – Flint, Texas
• Silverleaf’s Seaside Resort – Galveston, Texas
• Silverleaf’s Ozark Mountain Resort – Kimberling City, Missouri
• Silverleaf’s Orlando Breeze Resort – Davenport, Florida
• Silverleaf’s Oak N’ Spruce Resort – South Lee, Massachusetts
• Silverleaf’s Holly Lake Ranch – Holly Lake Ranch, Texas
• Silverleaf’s Holiday Hills Resort – Branson, Missouri
• Silverleaf’s Hill Country Resort – Canyon Lake, Texas
• Silverleaf’s Fox River – Sheridan, Illinois
• Silverleaf’s Apple Mountain – Clarkesville, Georgia
• Silverleaf Timber Creek Resort – Desoto, Missouri
• Silverleaf Piney Shores Resort – Conroe, Texas
• Silverleaf Lake O’ The Woods – Flint, Texas

Marriott Vacation Club International (Marriott Timeshare) has expanded the Napili Villas as part of the final expansion phase scheduled for Maui Ocean Club Hawaii timeshares.


A total of 71 new two and three-bedroom timeshare villas are part of the expansion, along with a sports court, new swimming pool area with bar, and a fitness center. These beautiful Hawaii timeshares include fully furnished kitchens, Wi-Fi access, luxury showers, and multiple flat-panel televisions.

Marriott Timeshare Resales on the Beach

With opportunities in Maui Ocean Club timeshare resales starting at under $10,000, Hawaii timeshare at this elegant Ka’anapali Beach resort property has never been more affordable. The beautiful beach was once a favorite vacation destination of Hawaiian kings and is an ideal spot for you to plan a “royal” Hawaii timeshare vacation.

Adjacent to the Ka’anapali Golf Club, your Hawaii timeshare vacation at the Napili Villas puts you in an ideal location for experiencing the thrill of golf at this PGA Tour Stop (former home of the EMC Ka’anapali Classic Golf Tournament) and the 2008 venue for the Big Break Ka’anapali.

In the Lynchburg, Virginia area of Huddleston, a Smith Mountain Lake resort community is making plans for a new waterfront condominium complex.

The Mariner’s Landing Development will construct the new resort, to be known as “Longview at the Pointe”. Plans are to sell the two and three bedroom condo units in four-week intervals, although full ownership options will also be offered.

The Point Is Not Selling Timeshare; It’s Buying Vacation Ownership

Jay White, a marketing consultant whose family owns the resort community, calls it, “…Just another type of ownership at Smith Mountain Lake.”

Good point! The developers didn’t wake up one morning and think: Our business goal is all about selling timeshare.

Instead, they looked at an opportunity (for their business and also for families in need of vacation options), and they considered how they could make vacation property ownership available to more people.

White, in an interview with The Lynchburg News and Advance, called the pricing, “… affordable compard with other offerings at the lake…”

“It’s just another way for people to enjoy the lake and not bankrupt themselves,” said White. “In my mind, the goal is to offer an affordable product someone can buy young and continue to upgrade until they want to retire and get the (vacation) home of their choice.”

Selling Timeshare Probably Started in a Cave

Once upon a time, there were no doubt two cave dwellers who wanted the same rock shelter. In order to accommodate the wishes of both, they decided to share the space, alternate who slept closest to the fire pit, and both contribute by dragging home freshly killed stegosaurus steaks. In every sense of the word, the two were involved in shared ownership, marked by the intervals of whos turn it was to sleep by the fire.

Timeshare shouldn’t be thought of as some suspicious idea, nor should it be viewed as a get-rich-quick plan by anyone in the business. Timeshare is really a very simple concept of shared ownership, enabling people who could never afford the cost and upkeep of sole ownership to still enjoy their little piece of vacation heaven.

Today’s timeshare is an evolved business model that translates to making vacation ownership available to the greatest number of people possible. And every day, through the sale of both new timeshare and of timeshare resales, vacation ownership is happening.

As Jay White so aptly put it in talking about the Smith Mountain Lake property, “This is really becoming a great destination, a great resort, and it needs to be affordable for people to enjoy it. If it’s going to be successful, it’s got to be available to people who can afford $750,000 or $50,000.”

Now let’s throw in the idea of timeshare resale properties, some of which are priced at $5000 or less, and you truly get: Affordable Vacation Ownership.

Follow this link to learn more about Virginia timeshare resales.

Since the disappearance of Jennifer Kesse three years ago, The Timeshare Authority blog has tried to keep you updated on developments in this very sad and mystifying case.

Kesse, then 24 years old, went missing on January 24, 2006, from Orlando where she lived and worked for Westgate Timeshare. All signs of Jennifer seem to vanish around 7:30 AM on a busy Tuesday morning, as she was preparing for work or perhaps had already left.

A massive local and national search campaign has been carried out by her family and friends, turning up remarkably little. The police hold her case as ACTIVE and continue to aggressively search for any information about her disappearance. At one point, David Siegel, founder and CEO of Westgate timeshare, where Jennifer was employed in accounting, even offered a quarter million dollar reward for information that led to her safe return.

Last week, approximately 70 highly trained professionals searched an area in Orlando near Kesse’s condominium, in response to possible new information from a confessed murdered, currently awaiting sentencing in an Orlando jail.

Anyone with information that might help in solving this case can call the Orlando Police Department at (407) 246-2470 or the Kesse family tip line at (407) 722-2162.

Related The Timeshare Authority Blog posts:

• Remembering Missing Westgate Timeshare Employee, Jennifer Kesse
• Video Recently Released in the Case of Missing Timeshare Company Worker, Jennifer Kesse