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In yesterday’s The Timeshare Authority blog we talked about selling timeshare by owner, (FSBO) a service we offer through our company and one of two reliable ways to sell your timeshare now. (See: Sell My Timeshare NOW and the Timeshare for Sale By Owner Choice)

By owner timeshare resale is one way an owner can resell timeshare, but for many timeshare owners, it is not the best option. If your schedule is busy, if you are uncomfortable handling your timeshare sale yourself, or if you simply have no interest in the do-it-yourself approach, then timeshare brokerage is the best option for you.

As we explained yesterday, different choices fit different owners and different types of property ownership, which is why we offer dual option resale:  (1.) by owner or (2) through a licensed Broker.

Timeshare Broker Services

If you choose to sell your timeshare through a timeshare broker, the process couldn’t be simpler. You turn the responsibilities of marketing the timeshare, working with buyers, and handing the timeshare closing over to a licensed timeshare Broker (a real estate Broker) who handles it all, start to finish. You pay zero up front—that’s no upfront fee—to sell your timeshare.

A Timeshare Broker Works for You

For some timeshare owners, selling their timeshare themselves is a perfect choice. But many people find, that this is one responsibility they prefer to hand off to an experienced, licensed professional. Here’s how one couple described the sale of their timeshare through our timeshare broker services:

My husband and I were so pleased with the sale of our Mexican timeshare at Cabo san Lucas. It was a scary thing to try and do but we found that with your help nothing could have simpler. We made the deal and you pretty much did everything for us. We just needed to provide the papers that you needed and to sign on the dotted line wherever it was necessary. Thank you so much. We recommend your service to anyone wanting to sell a timeshare….it was a piece of cake!”

Vacation Ownership That Doesn’t Own You

Vacation Ownership means different things depending on who you ask. There’s the kind of vacation ownership that involves sole possession of a beach house, mountain cabin, or other holiday getaway property. When you first buy that vacation retreat, it may seem like the best idea you ever had. You pack up the kids and the dog and head for your “second home” as often as you can. But after a short while, things begin to change.

Your kids realize they don’t like being away from home so often. They want to stick around on weekends and hang out with their friends. Even your spouse starts making excuses for why the family shouldn’t make the drive to the vacation house next weekend.

Still, you aren’t concerned; you planned ahead to use your vacation home as a rental when you aren’t enjoying it yourself. Yet, there’s the hassle of scheduling and confirming the renters. Soon you are looking for a management agent to handle these responsibilities for you, along with that of finding a plumber, repair service, pest control, and endless number of other tasks that befall homeowners. That vacation home you dreamed of owning starts to own you, (rather than you owning it) as the costs and responsibilities mount, outweighing the pleasure you are deriving from it.

Making Vacation Ownership Work for You  

But there is another side to vacation ownership and a brighter picture that is a better fit for millions of vacationers.

The opportunities of vacation ownership through timeshares, especially affordably priced timeshare resales and timeshare rentals, enable you to own vacation property in a way that is customized to your budget and your vacation style.

Timeshares, purchased as deeded ownership or as vacation club points, allow you to pay for only the days and nights of vacation you expect to typically be using each year. Rather than the cost of owning a vacation home 365 days a year, timeshare vacation ownership lets you pay for and “own” the weeks you actually anticipate using your timeshare, typically one, two, or three weeks of vacationing. The cost for maintaining that vacation home the rest of the year is a responsibility you don’t have to bear.

Instead of owning the headaches of a second property; you have taken ownership in a vacation lifestyle. You have made a commitment to your family and yourself to enjoy the vacations that you need, deserve, and have earned. Timeshare means taking ownership in vacationing without letting the costs and responsibilities of a vacation home take ownership of you.

Until the development of the Partner Portal for Timeshare Resale and Rental, the secondary marketplace for timeshare lacked a service that functions in the way the MLS in traditional real estate serves real estate sales and rentals. The Partner Portal for Timeshare Resale and Rental provides consumers a true multi-listing service for timeshare while affording the timeshare and vacation ownership industry the opportunity to benefit from marketing through a single, consolidated website service with a high-visibility online presence.

In September of 2011, our company launched the Partner Portal, creating the only comprehensive showcase for resales and rentals within the timeshare and factional industry. Immediately, timeshare sales on the secondary market began to benefit as Brokers, resellers, timeshare resale companies, management companies, homeowners associations (HOAs), and developers with large or small amounts of resale and rental inventory could showcase their timeshares on the power websites of SellMyTimeshareNOW.com, which collectively receive more than 1.8 million pageviews a month.

Utilizing the technology platform that our company maintains for high optimization and maximum exposure, companies with clean rentable or saleable timeshare inventory can—for no upfront fee—expose their listings to a targeted global marketplace of buyers and renters.The Partner Portal for Timeshare Resale and Rental is ideal for those who manage large or small amounts of inventory and are challenged to efficiently find buyers and renters. Functioning like a no upfront listing fee service for timeshare, the Partner Portal gives the timeshare industry a way to move timeshares from a company’s inventory into its revenue stream.  And best of all, it’s as easy to use as uploading a spreadsheet.

1. Anyone with clean timeshare rental or timeshare resale inventory can use the Partner Portal, whether it’s for rental burn inventory, unused trade-in inventory or choice timeshare resales and rentals.
2. Account set-up is very simple and it is a one-time only process.
3. Once the account is set up, the timeshare ads for rental or brokerage resales can be uploaded from a spreadsheet.
4. All timeshare resale and rental listings are reviewed for accuracy, and then ads are created for these timeshares. The published ads are standardized to ensure that the information  is complete and factual.
5. Once reviewed, the timeshare ads appear on the most highly visible timeshare resale and timeshare rental website on the web.

To learn more visit: www.sellmytimesharenow.com/portal.

Timeshare investment is a topic that draws a lot of attention. The mainstream media is often quick to point out what a poor investment timeshares are. But were timeshares ever mean to be an investment?

Here’s what Dictionary.com has to say about the word “investment”:

in·vest·ment:

1. The action or process of investing money for profit or material result.
2. A thing that is worth buying because it may be profitable or useful in the future.
3. An act of devoting time, effort, or energy to a particular undertaking with the expectation of a worthwhile result.

Timeshare Investment is Not for Financial Return

A timeshare is not an investment for financial return. In a world that once assumed all real estate purchases yielded  profit when resold, the economic decline of recent years has served as a wakeup call that even some seemingly sound ‘investments’ such as the homes we buy don’t always return us a profit when resold. This simple fact alone  knocks definitions 1 and 2 off the list in terms of timeshares.

But what about definition number 3? Is a timeshare an investment in the sense that it brings you a worthwhile result? 

According to research  conducted by Ernst & Young LLP and published in the State of the Vacation Timeshare Industry Study 2011, there are more than 8 million timeshare owners in the United States, among whom there is a satisfaction rate of 85 percent.

Some of the reasons timeshare owners use and enjoy their timeshares include the facts that they find the accommodations spacious; they know what to expect from their resort (or one they exchange for) so vacation planning is easy; and they know that timeshare resorts typically offer amenities to entertain and engage family members of all ages.

But perhaps one of the most important ways that timeshares yield “worthwhile results” is that they create a pattern of vacation commitment. Both research and our instincts tell us that vacations are good for our mental and physical well-being, they recharge our creativity, help us build stronger bonds with family and friends, and allow us time to restore, recoup, and recharge. And when the commitment is made, and the vacation is paid for in advance, it’s amazing how motivated we become to take that much needed time off.

Vacations are, in fact, an investment in yourself. Whether you stay in a hotel room, a tent, or you buy or rent timeshare, you won’t see a financial return. There is no such thing as a timeshare investment. But the ways in which you will benefit by taking that vacation may turn out to be worth far more than the money you spend.