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Re: Huge Difference Between Purchase and Resale (by Orville F.):

Ease your mind knowing that in ten years your maintenance fee will seem like peanuts compared to what other people are paying in less equipt smaller hotels. My family paid $270 per night in a teeny hotel room in Waikiki and could not find a better room. It was junk!! (compared to a timeshare that is) This weekend we are going to a business thing in Vegas and are spending $200 per night with our AAA discount at a hotel room. Don't beat your self up, now that you know what you didn'y know, you'll save thousands on your next one. They say that most owners buy more T/S's and even more likely the longer they own.

Also, people that own timeshares have just recently found a way to let them go (probably pentup desire for years) And people who bought are just recently finding a new means to acquire. Don't think that this gap will never close or at least come closer together. Timesharing has always been for the people with "means" as those with less means discover their new abilities, I think there will be more demand and less inventory.

I bought a week in Palm springs for a total of less than $1000. $440 maint. = 52 weeks at $1000 is $52,000 for all year and would cost $1760 per month which includes all services, utilities, taxes, insurance, repairs and even maid service!! Believe me when I say that secondary prices have to go up!!

This is just a whiplash time we're going through and as more and more people get interested in vacationing and not wanting a full time second residence it will come around.