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Re: Exchange companies. (by Phil L.):

jaimied3 wrote:

My mother just bought a timeshare in Dominican Republic but we are new to how this whole process works. They said we get a year of II for free but are we forced to deal with them? She evidently has a floating week so each time she wants to book she has to call the resort to be assigned a week. It all just sounds like trouble to me.

We had same free first year in 2005 when we rebought at our old resort! There are other companies she could join that are smaller and no she doesn't have to belong to II. How ever she should sit back and enjoy first year free and learn about it before leaving. Some resorts work with II and Rci but remember II has Five Star and some other timeshares within their system.

Unless she is one of these people that bought to try and rent she should learn more about II and IMHO II is the best of the group and when you trade you get better unit(5 star) resorts.

We always pick weeks we want to enjoy our resort and don't worry about what someone else wants. This way you can always go to your resort and if you trade its really not going to matter what week you have unless its just one of the few bad times at your resort.

Families do vacation all times of the year so trading your unit should never be a problem with II,not saying you will get your first choice every year though!

One last thing about II and we use this any time we ever made trade when we owned few years ago is request first! If you do not get what you want then you can keep your resort. This is why we always pick weeks we want at our resort.

This is first year we might trade since rebuying our unit. We did request first for Hawaii and if we do not get what resorts we listed we will be on Lake Tahoe for firework show in 2008.

Getting your week is no big deal! You get a form from your resort to list three choices of weeks you want or can call your resort to request your weeks.

At our resort we pick 23 months early and if you want top week you need to do it. We take fourth of July week alot because we love the fireworks show on the lake!

Tell mother to slow down and just read and learn before deciding her next move. I would think if she spent good money to buy top resort she wants full use from ownership and this includes trading.

Good Luck! PHIL