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Re: Determining realistic rental prices (by KC):

kurtp8 asks, quoted only in directly pertinent part:

>> .....how do I determine the market value for these locations during these time? I would like to pull up redweek.com history during these times, but it isn't intuitive ot me. Is it possible to do this, and if so, how? << ====================================

To the latter point, the short answer is no, it's not possible to accomplish on Redweek what you have described (nor most other sites either, for that matter, since "history" is just exactly that --- yesterday's news and likely obsolete figures). All you can really hope to do on RedWeek is locate the respective resorts in the "Timesharees for Rent & Sale" section and see if there are any comparable weeks listed for rent there during the same period (unlikely, in my prediction).

What I would do, personally, would simply be to spend the short money of a few phone calls to contact the respective resorts directly by phone, simply to find out (as a faux prospective renter, not by declaring yourself an owner who is actually competing with them for rental business) what THEY charge for a weeks' rental for the same size unit in the exact same time frame you have in hand. Obviously, your subsequently advertised rent amount will have to be plenty enough *below* that resort rental figure to justify anyone even considering undertaking the risk and complexity of a private rental in the first place. Without a substantial savings over the resort rental pricing, smart renters will likely (and quite correctly) feel that's it's safer, easier and wiser to just rent directly from the resort, if that is indeed exactly where and when they MUST be there for some particular reason (event, holiday, etc.).

Good luck.