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Dennis, I bought Desert Springs Villas I in 1999 on a resale for just under $18,000 and have made the most out of exchanging for rewards points, locking it off and trading the smaller portion (and the larger, of course), for two-bedroom residences all over the world. In 2005 or 2006, I received a call from Marriott's resale department, offering to buy my unit for just over $20,000 net to me. I was told they had a shortage of inventory at the time. (Apparently those same resales were then going for over $30,000 when buying from Marriott.). I've never regretted turning them down, as I continue to make the most out of my ownership. But I was quite surprised to learn that it might actually have been possible to make a profit in timeshare - at least for that brief window of time!