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Deedbacks (by KC):

jayjay states in relevant part: >>The resorts where you own would probably take deedbacks << ==============================================

I'm sure that they would, but I wasn't referring to any resorts where I own nor, for that matter, about any resorts located anywhere remotely near that geographic area. Deedbacks would not be offered to an HOA in SW FL by any owner with even half a brain, no matter how unhappy or broke he / she might be, since (as you correctly note) such weeks can be (and routinely are) easily and promptly sold. Accordingly, there would never be a need for an owner to even consider trying to "give" a week back to an HOA in that particular geographic area.

I'm well aware that most resorts don't take "deedbacks" and I certainly wasn't in any way suggesting otherwise in my post. I was merely pointing out that I personally know of a few resorts that CHOOSE to do so, and apparently somehow make that choice work, by the exact process which I previously described above. I formerly owned weeks at two out of the three facilities to which I refer. One is a (currently unrated) modest resort located in Daytona Beach Shores, FL. Another is a small (and equally modest) facility located in Vermont. A third facility I know of that takes "deedbacks" is one where I never owned (but have stayed at), located in New Hampshire.

In each one of these three specific instances that I personally know about, located in three different states, the resort is not large; under 30 units total in each case, I believe. Whether their small size (and manageable number of units / weeks) has any influence on the HOA's willingness and ability to accept and deal with processing deedbacks, I do not claim to know. I DO know, however, that each of them DOES accept deedbacks under the specific conditions which I cited previously. Apparently, they somehow make it work --- or they presumably wouldn't just keep on doing it.

I'm merely reporting an observation based on personal, first hand knowledge. I'm not advocating a cause or promoting any agenda in reporting the direct observation.