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Re: How can I rent a timeshare? (by Mary D.):

dereks41 wrote:
jenniferh259 wrote:
Okay, if I have someone (friend/family), who wants to vacation somewhere, and I use my points and book the exchange through RCI, I would have my friend/family pay the exchange fee and guest pass on their credit card. Then, however, couldn't they technically give me a gift--monetary or other that would be equal to the point value used? Could a gift be considered renting? Also Fairfield points can be rented, can they only be rented by other owners? Could the person possibly rent the points from me first, and I then just book the exchange? I'm just curious as to how RCI could prevent these two scenarios... JH
RCI cannot prevent anything, if you own a deeded property ( I.E. a week or two or three etc.) at a resort, that is your property for that week. You may choose to do whatever you would like with it. I own a week at The Grandview in Las Vegas through RCI. I am under the points system, not the weeks system so i recieve a certain amount of points depending on what week i own. I may choose to do whatever i like with those points whether its booking a week at the resort with my points and having someone else stay there, as long as they have a guest certificate.

========== Not if RCI POINTS catches you. A genuine guest if fine; an actual rental is not. RCI POINTS and RCI WEEKS have identical rules on insisting that the weeks reserved through them cannot be used for commercial purposes. (rental)

If you actually have your purchase contract at Grandview and did not have your owned week automatically deposited in RCI POINTS to secure that Grandview week by exchange, then it is yours to do with as you jolly well please. Once it enters either the RCI WEEKS or the RCI POINTS exchange systems, it can only be exchanged for time to be used by you or a genuine guest. Since you say you own Grandview "through RCI", I am not sure what your current status is.

=Correction, in case you don't pick up on my later entry. RCI says RCI POINTS owners contractually are obligating their ownership to RCI. While you can choose to reserve you own "purchased" week, you are NOT allowed to rent out EITHER that or a week you get via RCI POINTS. Sorry. MD