Sell Timeshare

With so many resources touting the message that you cannot sell timeshare, how does a timeshare owner who wants to resale his or her property know where to turn? 2012 has certainly been the year in which the mainstream media is stuck on a message that if you do sell timeshare you currently own, you will only receive a dollar, or perhaps a penny for the vacation ownership you paid thousands to buy.

What’s the truth  and how do timeshare owners know who to trust and who to believe when it comes time to sell timeshare they no longer want or use?

Sell My Timeshare NOW has been offering reliable timeshare resale and timeshare rental services for almost 10 years. We’ve seen timeshare resellers come and go in the marketplace. But our company has steadily moved ahead. We have grown our inventory, expanded our customer base, and expanded our services, as we continue to help more timeshare owners buy, rent, or sell timeshare on the secondary market.

See for Yourself that We Sell Timeshare

And you can see for yourself that we really do sell timeshare. We publish our daily business online on our website to prove it. Visit our Live Offer Feed. Here, 24/7 you can see the offers coming in to buy or sell timeshare through our websites.

In a live feed, you can see the Ad Number for every timeshare unit, interval or timeshare points we have advertised for sale or rent on which a buyer makes an offer. You’ll find the name of the resort and information that tells you whether this is an offer to rent timeshare or to buy timeshare.

On our live fee of Timeshare Offers, you will also find the amount of the offer and the day, hour, and minute the offer is being made. Many of the offers you see are the initial offer on a timeshare unit or interval, meaning that after negotiations either between the buyer and seller or between the timeshare broker and the buyer, the final offer accepted was higher.

Not only does our feed of  Timeshare Offers show you what is happening today, it also shows you week by week, this same offer information for every week since January 1, 2005, when we first began tracking our timeshare sales and rentals in this way.

Yes, you really can resell timeshare. See for yourself.

There are two trustworthy ways to resell timeshare: (1) by owner or (2) through a licensed Broker.

At our company, VacationOwnership.com, (the companies you formerly knew as SellMyTimeshareNOW.com and Timeshare Broker Services) we offer timeshare owners a dual option—that is, a choice in whether they choose to sell their timeshare through by owner advertising or choose to use a licensed Broker.

Why this choice? Because timeshare owners can have many types of needs and the timeshares they own come in all brands, sizes, venues, and popularity levels. And now more than ever, when the daily news is filled with accounts of timeshare scam and timeshare resale fraud, it is important for owners, sellers and future sellers to understand which choices are reliable and effective.

Timeshare for Sale By Owner

FSBO –for sale by owner—is a term many people have gained familiarity with through the residential real estate market. Homeowners choose to resell their residential homes themselves for a variety of reasons. Some homeowners have limited or no equity in their properties and cannot afford to pay the commission a real estate Broker would require from the sale. Other owners believe they can show off their property’s features and benefits better than anyone else. Still others have different reasons for wanting to be hands-on in the real estate resale process. And timeshare owners are no different; they select the sell-by-owner option for the same reasons that motivate sellers of residential real estate.

For sale by owner timeshare requires that the owner market his or her timeshare property to an audience of prospective timeshare buyers and that he or she then handle inquiries about the timeshare as well as the negotiations and the steps necessary to bring the transaction to closing. Along the way, the timeshare seller may choose to pay a professional to handle some of these steps on an à la carte basis.

For many timeshare owners, the most challenging part of this process is advertising and marketing the timeshare. How do you get your timeshare real estate in front of a large base of interested buyers?

Typically your best option is to turn to a timeshare company that can offer you high visibility on the internet through a site that targets potential timeshare buyers. Our websites receive more than 1.8 million pageviews per month from website visitors who have demonstrated an interest in buying or renting timeshare.

To maintain this level of visibility takes a team of technology professionals who understand how to analyze search patterns and the behavioral intent of consumers and know how to maximize the internet marketing and optimization strategies necessary to keep your timeshare ad in front of people have demonstrated an interest in buying a timeshare just like yours. It’s a constant process of adjustments, updates, and monitoring, and we think our team is the best in the industry at doing this.

When you choose a timeshare for sale by owner service, expect to pay an upfront fee to advertise your timeshare. Note, this is not a fee to sell your timeshare, which is what  consumer protection agencies rightfully warn against. If you bought advertising space in a magazine for the purpose of privately advertising your timeshare resale, you would have to pay for the space before the magazine ran your ad.  In the same way, timeshare owners are charged a fee to advertise their timeshare on a website.

Marketing your timeshare resale on a high visibility timeshare sales website that has targeted web traffic from prospective buyers is probably the best possible way for you to advertise your timeshare by owner and offers the greatest likelihood your timeshare will sell.

But for sale by owner is not the right choice for all timeshare owners who want to sell their timeshare. In tomorrow’s The Timeshare Authority, we will look at our second option for resales: timeshare Broker sales.

Our newest media release, distributed on March 29, 2012.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SellMyTimeshareNOW.com and Timeshare Broker Services, both owned by Vacation Hotdeal Companies, Inc, announced today that the company is rebranding its timeshare resale and rental services, licensed timeshare brokerage, and resort services as VacationOwnership.com.

Founder Jason Tremblay says, “The timeshare industry and the vacation ownership product have changed significantly since our company was founded in 2003. As we approach 10 years in timesharing, we recognize how much our services have developed and evolved and that our future includes continued expansion and enhancement of services. With this in mind, we are unifying our products and services under one strong, all-encompassing name: VacationOwnership.com.”

The company sees VacationOwnership.com as a single brand that consolidates its messaging and will increase consumer understanding of its services. As part of VacationOwnership.com the company is launching a recently acquired domain that will be uniquely for its for-sale-by-owner (FSBO) timeshare resale and rental ads: TimeshareResales.com. Tremblay explains, “We have no immediate plans to discontinue use of our existing brands, but we are very excited that going forward we will be representing the timeshare industry, specifically the secondary marketplace as VacationOwnership.com, a name that is compelling, memorable and comprehensively speaks to all aspects of timeshare vacationing.”

Equally as important as the company’s marketing to consumers is its capability to serve the needs of timeshare resorts, developers, and HOAs. “Changing your brand is a big move for a company,” says Tremblay. “We sought to develop a brand that would be more timeshare industry and developer friendly. Our current industry partnerships are numerous, strong, and growing; they are an important part of our business. We offer many customized owner services that resorts can depend on and we are constantly working to present our company and our services in ways that are embraced and accepted by the timeshare and vacation ownership industry.”

VacationOwnership.com is launching the first phase of its new brand rollout in conjunction with the timeshare industry’s premier event, ARDA World 2012, the annual international timeshare and vacation ownership conference hosted by the American Resort Development Association. ARDA World 2012 will be held, April 1-5, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Look for Jason Tremblay and other company representatives at the conference at Booth 532, and at other convention events. They will be easy to spot, as they will all be wearing hot pink badges proclaiming, “Now you can call us VacationOwnership.com”.

Although the company began solely as an online advertising service for by-owner timeshare resales and rentals, in 2006 it added licensed timeshare brokerage to provide vacationers more choice in how they bought, sold, or rented timeshare. In 2008, the company took on $10 Million in growth capital from Edison Venture Fund to expand its services and the following year, began providing customized owner services to resorts HOAS, timeshare developers, and timeshare management companies.

VacationOwnership.com is an industry leader in timeshare resale and rental services, with websites that average more than 1.8 million pageviews per month and yield a proven market of timeshare buyers and renters. Edison Venture Fund, known for its commitment to high-growth, entrepreneurial technology companies, is the company’s sole institutional investor. VacationOwnership.com is headquartered in Dover, New Hampshire with offices in Orlando, Florida.

We are excited to share with you our company’s new ad, which appeared for the first time in the February 2012 issue of Developments Magazine from the American Resort Development Association (ARDA).

As the ad explains, we offer:

“Timeshare Resales You Can Say YES To.”

Because we’ve taken care of the “no’s”

No upfront fees.

No strings attached.

No kidding.

We deliver proven resort resale and rental solutions, customized to meet your needs and your high standard of customer care.

Your business. Your way. From a company you can trust.

We are proud of the ad, proud of what we accomplished since our founding in 2003–very proud of the customers we’ve served and the relationships we’ve built.

We wanted to take this opportunity to share this message with you, to invite you to watch for this advertisement and others we’ve produced that will be appearing this year in timeshare and vacation ownership industry publications.

And most of all, we want to invite you to do just what the ad suggests: Contact us at 317-213-2553 and find out more about how we help timeshare buyers, renters, sellers, developers, HOAs, resellers, and others who have inventory and seek to buy, rent, or sell timeshare.

…no kidding.

Read this month’s issue of Developments here: http://www.nxtbook.com/ygsreprints/ygs/g24005arda_dev_feb12/