Timeshare Real Estate

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.

Interval International, one of the largest and best-known names in timeshare exchange and vacation services, has expanded its selection for resort exchange. Now affiliated with Interval International are:

• The Grande Bay Resort & Residence Club in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
• Heraclea Hotel Residence on southern Italy’s Ionian Coast
• and the currently under construction, La Gran Reserva Anapoima in Colombia

Each of these luxurious properties offers (or will offer when completed) Interval International members the opportunity to exchange their timeshare points or interval ownership for a vacation destination resort that is distinctive and memorable.

The Grande Bay Resort & Residence Club in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands

This Mediterranean-style resort offers one-, two-, and three-bedroom villas, ranging in size from 550 to 1,680 square feet, all with spacious interiors, vaulted ceilings,  fully equipped kitchens, state-of-the-art electronics floor-to-ceiling windows and balconies offering expansive views.

“The Grande Bay Resort & Residence Club offers our members the opportunity to vacation in St. John, one of the most desirable destinations in the Caribbean. They will be able to enjoy the unspoiled natural beauty and wealth of recreational activities of this exclusive locale, which is the least populated and most secluded of the U.S. Virgin Islands,” says David Gilbert, Interval International’s executive vice president of resort sales and marketing.

Heraclea Hotel Residence

Located just outside Policoro, Italy, the Heraclea Hotel Residence is a serene getaway overlooking the Ionian Sea, and offers one-bedroom apartments with kitchenettes and large verandas.

Darren Ettridge, Interval’s senior vice president of resort sales and business development for Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia, explains, “Heraclea Hotel Residence is an undiscovered jewel our members will love. The town of Policoro was founded on the ruins of the ancient town of Herakleia and is within easy reach of a number of significant natural and cultural sights and attractions.”

La Gran Reserva Anapoima

Under construction on the outskirts of Anapoima, southwest of Bogota, when completed the master-planned community of La Gran Reserva Anapoima will feature 69 fractional villas. The resort is being built by Constructora Bolívar S.A. that owns and operates Zuana Beach Resort. Carlos Arango, president, Constructora Bolívar S.A. says, “This project is the beginning of a new chapter in our business and continues the successful relationship with Interval that began more than a decade ago. We look forward to introducing our existing owners, new buyers, and Interval members to this unique development and its upscale amenities in the spectacular Andes Mountains.”

To learn more about these beautiful resorts and other opportunities in timeshare exchange through Interval International, visit http://www.resortdeveloper.com

One of many timeshare and vacation ownership industry announcements made during last week’s American Resort Development Association convention (ARDA World 2012) was one made by Oyster Bay Beach Resort’s management company, Iron Shore NV and sister company Ansley Associates, Inc. The  Caribbean timeshare resort’s  management company announced that Oyster Bay Beach Resort will now be utilizing timeshare software from provider SPI Software.

Michael Dolente Esq., partner at Ansley Associates, explains, “We turned to SPI because we wanted the best timeshare PMS system. Until this point, we had been using an outdated system. We looked for software that would be flexible and timeshare-oriented. SPI Orange will enable us to easily track our members’ use of their resort privileges, enhance their guest experience on site and fully integrate with our on-property guest services and point-of-sale.”

Oyster Bay Beach Resort is a unique Caribbean timeshare, tucked away among tropical palms on the island of St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles, in the beautiful Caribbean. The 138 timeshare unit property is located on an 8-acre peninsula with pristine shoreline. The resort is known and loved as an island hideaway, with Moorish arches, natural stone towers and romantic balconies.

SPI Software VP of Sales Matt Brosious says, “Oyster Bay Beach Resort is situated on a very picturesque and secluded promontory in St. Maarten. It’s a very popular destination, requiring a full featured PMS that is easy to use and improves the guest experience. We are very pleased to have been selected as their PMS software provider.”

SPI Software is a leading provider, developer and operator of advanced business software technology applications for the vacation ownership industry, including, timeshare, fractional, vacation clubs and others using either traditional or points-based usage strategies.