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Re: Against RCI/II Rules to Rent out Exchanges (by Mary D.):
joanp60 wrote:I just tried to get a summer beach location in DE, MD, NJ and could not find any. All I can find is winter. And this is with me checking 2 years in advance! The only thing RCI said is I can put in a 'search'. I wouldn't mind doing that if I didn't have to put something upfront first but I don't want to pay or to take my week out of the spacebank when I am not guaranteed that they will find anything with their search. Joan
====== A deposit remains active for two years. For you to get something 2 years ahead, someone would have needed to deposit a week for 2 full years in advance of the check-in date. Right? You don't want to put something in upfront. Why would they? Do you see the problem? Once you have made your own deposit, RCI can make a continuous search and let you know whenever an appropriate match appears. If you do not deposit, you are always in line behind anyone who did and wants the same thing you do.
This is precisely why they created RCI POINTS which automatically deposits members' weeks each year, creating a pool of availability. The down side is that, by contract, POINTS owners can never rent out either your owned week or an RCI week secured by exchange. (Just confirmed this with RCI.)
I have also learned that while RCI POINTS members can exchange for RCI WEEKS deposits, WEEKS members do not have full access to POINTS deposits. However, when a POINTS member takes a WEEKS deposit, a compensating POINTS week is deposited in WEEKS.
WEEKS members can also reserve via the "Nightly Extra Vacations program, which began as a result of surplus nightly availability within the POINTS system."
With the best will in the world, nothing ever seems to be as simple as we'd like!
If you really don't want to deposit your week with RCI you could look for a rental offered on RedWeek or ask for one on RedWishes. MD