Timeshare Rentals

Last month RCI (Resort Condominiums International) timeshare exchange announced a strategic alliance with LeisureLink, which followed the September news that RCI was making a substantial financial investment in the LeisureLink company.

LeisureLink is the company behind the electronic distribution of many vacation rentals, condo-hotels, (or condotels), and timeshares via several of the online travel sites as well as traditional travel agencies.

Kenneth May, (who at the time of the announcement was chairman and CEO of Group RCI) said, “Our alliance with LeisureLink underscores our belief in the non-hotel vacation accommodation experience and our commitment to grow this segment. We now have a distribution arrangement that is focused on properly marketing the advantages of this type of vacation accommodation. With their technology, we’ll be able to provide a turn-key program for our affiliates and inventory providers to bring a vast array of rental properties to the online travel market faster and easier than before.”

What does this mean for timeshare owners?

Well, it certainly seems that RCI timeshare exchange company is focusing even more of its time, energy and finances on being RCI timeshare rental company. It also implies that RCI members, on some level, will be competing with all vacationers (whether they are RCI members or not) for the same great deals in timeshare vacations. And it absolutely begs the question of how available timeshare exchange options will be through RCI, when the company has the opportunity to rent the primo vacation destinations and vacation times, and tell timeshare owners, “Sorry, there is nothing available for exchange at the location (or date) you want.”

Am I speculating? YES. But since this all came into place, Kenneth May has stepped down from RCI (effective on November 2, 2007), leaving even more confusion about the direction and intent of RCI.

So now would be a great time for someone from RCI to contact us, end my speculation, and let us know that they aren’t forsaking timeshare owners who are members of RCI exchange in favor of the opportunity to mass market timeshare rentals.

Remember, as a timeshare owner, you do have options. You can choose not to be a member of any timeshare exchange company. You can exchange only within a limited network of resorts operated under the same brand. You can also look into smaller timeshare exchange companies, where many timeshare owners choose to be members because they feel they get a more personal level of service.

And in the end, RCI’s ability to court the general public as timeshare rental customers will be greatly impacted by the inventory they are able to maintain of RCI member’s timeshare exchange properties. All we can do is wait and see how well (or how badly) this turns out for timeshare owners who are members of RCI.

Sell My Timeshare NOW has launched a new program called, “Rental Assist.”

Many vacationers and travelers already know that renting timeshare is an excellent way to enjoy spacious accommodations at great resorts. After all, why not stay in a timeshare where you are likely to have a full kitchen (sometimes with in-suite washers and dryers) and dining space for the family? Instead of renting multiple hotel or motel rooms, why not rent a timeshare that sleeps four, six, even eight or ten? Most families today no longer share one bathroom and one TV at home, so why do it when you go on vacation?

Renting timeshare is a true win-win for both the timeshare renter and the timeshare owner who uses his vacation property as a rental. If you cannot use your timeshare right now, and you can’t or don’t wish to bank it, then it only makes sense to use it as a timeshare rental. Timeshare owners offset some of the ongoing costs of owning timeshare. Vacationers who want to rent rather than buy timeshare, get to enjoy the accommodations and amenities of a luxurious timeshare resort.

Renting Timeshare at Sell My Timeshare NOW

So far this year, offers to rent timeshare at Sell My Timeshare NOW have exceeded $18 million—and remember that is not money that goes to a timeshare developer, a timeshare management company, or even to us at Sell My Timeshare NOW—this is money that goes straight to the person or couple that owns the timeshare.

But Rental Assist is only going to make renting timeshare even better. We are taking our timeshare rental services to the next level by offering in-house matching services for timeshare owners who want to use their timeshare as a rental and vacationers who want to enjoy renting timeshare at competitive prices.

If you’d like to find out more about Rental Assist, call our timeshare specialist at: (877) 815-4227

Visit our website at www.sellmytimesharenow.com

Or read our newest press release on Rental Assist from Sell My Timeshare NOW.

A small regional advertising campaign is attracting lots of national attention lately with a series of short, extremely simple newspaper ads and television commercials. The ads are for First Community Bank; a bank with nine branches in and around Mobile, Alabama-branches located in communities like Citronelle, Zeigler Corners and other places with which most of us are not familiar.

The reason the advertisements of this small bank are in the limelight is the distinctive simplicity of their style and message: “We are an UN_BIG bank.” First Community takes a lot of pride in the fact that when you call them, real people answer the phone and provide you real service.

Isn’t it funny that this simple approach stands out so much, that it is earning kudos and awards (including a prestigious Telly) for the ad agency behind it? “UN_BIG” resonates a message we all appreciate, namely, “you won’t get lost in the shuffle here.”

Sell My Timeshare NOW is a leader in timeshare resale and timeshare rental. We help timeshare owners from all over the world advertise and market their properties when they want to sell timeshare or use their vacation ownership as a timeshare rental. We create a global marketplace with a vast inventory offering exciting options to buy timeshare or rent timeshare, and I frequently write about our amazing growth as a timeshare resale and timeshare rental advertising and marketing company.

But that doesn’t change the fact that, we are still just 85 friendly, personable, hard-working people here in Dover, New Hampshire. We offer services in a BIG way from a company that can truly be described as “un-big”. We are not one of those big-name timeshare companies whose representatives stop you on the street and try to convince you to spend the next three hours listening to their timeshare deal.

We figure you can decide for yourself whether you want to buy timeshare or sell timeshare. Our job is to make it easy for you to do what you know is right for you. Big service, but no middlemen, no hidden fees, no smoke, mirrors, complicated language, and never any arm twisting.

The Travel Mole recently cited a Harris poll that said, for the eleventh year in a row, Americans list Australia as the number one place they would like to visit. Yet less than a half million Americans make it to Australia each year, and there has been ostensibly, no increase in American tourism to Australia since the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Tourism officials in Australia feel confident that the problem lies with time and money. When you head south to Australia, you really head south. Air travel from Los Angeles to Sydney is, at best, a fourteen-hour flight. Then there’s the cost. By the time many people shell out the money for air tickets to Australia, there is not much left over for lodging and other expenses associated with vacationing.

So here’s the twofold plan that just may get you to the land of wallabies and koalas. First, Australia is a growing destination for timeshare development and offers fabulous opportunities in Australia timeshare resales and rentals. And as the millions of satisfied timeshare owners will attest, buying timeshare lets you freeze the price of vacation accommodations for as long as you own your timeshare.

The Future of Australia Tourism

Tourism Australia (the governmental agency responsible for promoting Australian tourism) is working to entice Americans to the Land Down Under by educating US travel agents about the options and desirability in Australian vacations.

To help make air travel to Australia more affordable, Qantas airlines is offering the Aussie Air Pass, which starts at a little over one thousand dollars. Qantas is also working hard on a campaign designed to show Americans that air travel on Qantas is more comfortable than the standards most of us have come to accept from US budget airlines.

The Future of Australia Timeshare

In a statement issued in September 2005, Senator Grant Chapman, Chairman of Australia’s Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, said, “In my view the timeshare industry has the potential to continue to make a significant contribution to the tourism industry in Australia. Timeshare is a viable product, and there are many thousands of happy timeshare participants in Australia and overseas.”

Australia is committed to helping US vacationers enjoy everything from the Great Barrier Reef to the Coober Pedy; from the Sydney Opera House to the Golden Outback. I can’t think of a better way to start planning your Australian vacation than by looking at the opportunities available in by-owner timeshare resales and rentals at Sell My Timeshare NOW.

Partial List of Sell My Timeshare NOW Australia Timeshare and Vacation Resorts:

• Bright Resort
• Cedar Lake Country Club
• Holiday Club Pacific Australia
• Port Pacific Resort
• Sandy Point Beach
• Seashells Beachfront Resort 
• Surfers Royale
• Tamarind Sands
• Whitecliffs Beach Resort
• WVC Tinaroo Lake Resort