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Fold or Draw? (by Kathy K.):

I have been visiting the Redweek website about 1x/month for the past 6-8 months and recently paid my dues and joined a couple months ago. We purchased a week at Marriott Mtn Valley Lodge in Breckenridge, CO (13 years ago) from the developer and got the studio (queen bed and a queen sofa-sleeper). It is a floating winter week. We turned our weeks into II every other year and got the 110,000 points the odd years. Initially this worked out well and we travelled a good deal w/our points and even got some "bonus weeks"--but we NEVER stay at our home resort, nor did we intend to when we bought it. Recently we are finding that we can never get a trade through II from the week we turned in. I am beginning to suspect it may have something to do w/the size of our unit, but can't figure out why we can't get what we want (last try was No Carolina in the 1st week of July about 7 months in advance). We are now wondering if we should just sell it (on Redweek) and rent our weeks through Redweek and be done w/this TS potential liabilty. Or should we hang on to it b/c Marriott is a fairly reputable organization to work with? It just doesn't seem worth the $765 dues we are paying when it has been so difficult to use it in the past 2-3 years (I now know that II is a big part of this problem)! Advice???