Wyndham Vacation Ownership (Wyndham Timeshare) has commenced construction on their fifth Las Vegas timeshare resort, the Wyndham Desert Blue.

The initial phase of construction, which is scheduled for completion in 2010, will include a 19-story tower with 281 condominium-style timeshare units. Fifty of the timeshare condos will be penthouse style Presidential suites, while the rest will be one, two, and three bedroom timeshare suites.

The Desert Blue will be adjacent to the Las Vegas Strip and next to the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino.

Wyndham Timeshare Shows Commitment to Las Vegas

The addition of the Wyndham Desert Blue will give Wyndham timeshare 2400 timeshare units in Las Vegas. Franz Hanning, president and CEO of Wyndham Vacation Ownership says, “Our Las Vegas operations have continued to experience tremendous growth since our arrival in 2000. To date, we’ve sold nearly $1 billion worth of product in this market alone…We are committed to expanding our presence in this larger than life city, and once complete, Desert Blue will be one of the most in-demand properties in our portfolio.”

Wyndham Timeshare Resales and WorldMark Timeshare Resales

Currently the four Wyndham Las Vegas timeshare resorts are: the Wyndham Grand Desert, (part of the company’s FairShare Plus by Wyndham portfolio); the WorldMark Las Vegas; the WorldMark Las Vegas Spencer Street, and WorldMark Las Vegas Tropicana.

To find out more about excellent opportunities at these and other Las Vegas timeshare resales, visit Sell My Timeshare NOW.

The highly respected timeshare industry publication, Perspective Magazine, has announced plans to launch an independent consumer magazine for timeshare owners. The publication will target people who own timeshares, or who have timeshare points, fractional ownership, private residence club ownership, or other similar types of vacation ownership products.

In a very short time, Perspective Magazine has become the most-read, independent business-to-business publication in the timeshare and vacation club industry, so there is every reason to expect their new publication, Owners Perspective, to be equally relevant and successful.

According to Paul Mattimoe, president and CEO of Perspective International Ltd., “Rather than trying to adapt Perspective Magazine to suit owners also, we have decided to launch a second publication specifically for them. This way we can take the core content of the original magazine, but then tailor the rest to suit the consumer rather than the business side of the industry, providing both a much-needed independent resource for existing and potential owners, as well as a new and diverse advertising platform for businesses.”

The Director of Communications at Sell My Timeshare NOW, Steve Luba, agrees that this new publication will fill an important niche, saying, “Owners Perspective will get important industry information to timeshare owners and will be unlike the newsletters sent out by timeshare development companies, which tend to be more self-promotional than industry informative.”

Like Perspective Magazine, there will be no charge to receive the online version of Owners Perspective, and interested readers can sign up now for the publication scheduled to launch in July, at: http://www.ownersperspective.com

Apparently Disney Vacation Club Timeshare is trying to get the message across that they are not just about Disney vacations.

In an article published by the Orlando Sentinel on April 9, Jason Garcia writes about Disney’s new television commercials designed to promote timeshare sales, in which the actors focus on other vacation destinations before they get around to talking about the Disney theme parks. Now that is an interesting way to back into your timeshare sales pitch.

Disney Vacation Club Timeshare Advertising

The 60-second commercial, called “Little Travelers,” opens with children talking about all the places they have visited with their families, through Disney Vacation Club timeshare membership. The children talk about Costa Rica, the Grand Canyon, and England while the camera rolls on pictures of the Venice canals and the Eiffel Tower. Eventually, of course, the commercial gets around to talking about Disney theme parks.

The strategy is to eliminate any objection that buying Disney Vacation Club timeshare limits you to vacationing only at Disney properties. The marketing minds behind Disney Vacation Club timeshare want consumers to understand that Disney timeshare is owned in the form of timeshare points, which can be exchanged at hundreds of non-Disney resorts around the world.

Morningstar Inc., lodging industry analyst, Jeremy Glaser says, “I think when people look at discretionary spending, time shares are places that are pretty easy for some people to cut out.”

Yet just as we are hearing from so many timeshare resort developers, Disney Vacation Club timeshare’s director of marketing, Sylvia Woolfork says that they have seen no slowdown so far. According to quotes in the Orlando Sentinel, Woolfork says, “We’ve actually seen some pretty healthy trends in our business.”

Opportunities in Disney Vacation Club Timeshare Resales

To learn more about the opportunity to become a Disney Vacation Club timeshare owner, by purchasing a Disney timeshare resale, visit Sell My Timeshare NOW.

There are Disney Vacation Club timeshare resales available at these resorts:

• Disney’s Animal Kingdom Villas Resales
• Disney’s BoardWalk Villas Resales
• Disney’s Hilton Head Island Resort Resales
• Disney’s Old Key West Resort Resales
• Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa Resales
• Disney’s Vero Beach Resort Resales

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
[email protected]

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