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Re: More confused now than ever.... (by Mary D.):

phill12 wrote:

I sent out many messages and as been told, I low balled the request. I would negotiate from there but there are mid 20 - 30 floating times available at two resorts I am interested in. I made sure that the offer to rent was above what the normal maintance fees were and hopefully I get a hit back. It has only been a few days since I sent them out.....heres hoping

Remember that Hawaii is hard to get but Maui is the hardest one to trade/rent into if your looking at the big names like the Westins, Marriotts in Ka'anapali. Doubt you would ever rent for few dollars more than MF unless its last minute!

When they don't get close to the asking price they will then give it to II or the resorts own system to trade later!

As far as Maui, owners will deal more in the Kihei area and you can get very good price as the owners time gets near! Many of the resorts on Kihei are through Rci so owners are more ready to deal!

You can find great deals if you could fly to Hawaii at last minute. I found two different owners asking for less than $500 for one bedrooms at the Ka'anapali Beach Club in Maui on the Tug 45 days list. Trouble with this is getting air and car rentals with this short of a notice.

The owners had renters who backed out and they ran out of time and just wanted the money to cover their MF.

If you don't get response you want then don't rent! Rent what you want and when you want at your price!

I have seen my resort which rents for around $1200-$1600 for a week and there was a week for rent on there for $600 but you needed to use it the next week!

This is the deals you look for if you can leave anytime!

Remember these people paid for the ad to rent and if they want to much just move on to another group of owners. You might enjoy going back in couple months and see their prices dropping!

Myself I wouldn't waste my time with a owner trying to rent and doesn't even have a week or unit reserved! Unless you are taking a week in off season most of these owners can not get a good week at that point!

I have bonus time aprox 26 days available from the resort and was told by them I should rent some because my family could never use all of it in the next four years. If we don't use we lose! We went up twice for eight days and still have all these days left to use!

It would be same thing as trying to rent from owner who didn't get unit reserved yet but I can only get the week 15 days before it would be used! I read a post today of a family wanting a four to five day vacation in my area and someone posted to them about renting their bonus time! This is resort bonus time not II or Rci bonus time!

========= In deciding what to offer, consider first how badly you really want to go. If it is just a passing fancy, bid low and hope for the best, but if you really need a narrow range of dates at a certain location, you will have a good chance of--staying home.

As Phil mentions, the Floating Week people have nothing to sell but potential. They need your go-ahead before they nail down a date and if you dicker till it is gone, they can't help you. If possible, go with an owner who already has a confirmed week advertised. You might indeed wait and get a last minute special, only to find that air fares have gone up (as they do as time gets short) or they are already overbooked for your dates and you'll have to swim to Hawaii.

Think of what you would realistically pay for a night in a nice hotel. Then realize that a timeshare will be twice as nice. So why expect to get it at fleabag prices? MD