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Re: WALK AWAY FROM TIMESHARE (by R P.):

We previously owned 9 timeshare weeks. This was before the prolific amount of timeshare rentals (and rental sites such as Redweek, VRBO etc.) ignited via the internet.

We had retired and wanted to travel, mainly to visit the areas we had always wanted to see in the USA, and we thought timesharing was the way to go with the advantage of exchanging and also the advantage of a full size apartment in nice resorts compared to a hotel/motel room.

We bought where we liked to go within an 8 hour drive from our home and would exchange on years that we didn't go to our owned timeshares.

As time went on and maintenance fees and fees related to exchanging became financially unfeasible, we sold all of our weeks and we now rent timeshares or condos when we travel, some for less than many maintenance fees or a little above the maintenance fees without the hassles of owning.

Timesharing served our purposes when we owned and we saw many beautiful areas of this great country, but in the last few years timesharing has not been the bargain that it was when we bought with all the rising fees related to owning.

pgolfer47 wrote:

Why would anyone buy 7 weeks of timesharing!!