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Rental ads for DVC and other points-based timeshares (by Mike N.):

The ad can be a bit confusing, but I read it as book any number of nights, with the nightly rental rate being listed.

I can understand why DVC owners place ads in this fashion, since they can book any room at any resort. I’m probably guilty of doing the same thing but to a lesser degree with my NH and VA timeshares, which are both lock-offs and floating weeks. If I submit an ad saying I book can any week of the year, and can rent either the entire unit or a lock-off separately, am I violating policy? I shouldn’t have to place THREE separate ads for a 2 BR, 1 BR, and a studio; that would imply I have three units.

I’ve seen that My Resort Network. (oh my gosh…a competitor) has a different fee for floating weeks.

Maybe Redweek has to take the initiative and create a separate section for rental ads for points resorts (DVC, Diamond, Wyndham, etc), but any suggestion to that effect will probably goes the way of all the other suggestions.

In the end , putting 'multiple weeks', lock-offs, etc in one ad didn't make much difference to me. I've rented my units 4 times in the past few years, but I've gotten little or no reponse from Redweek (or that nasty competitor TUG for that matter). My greatest success has been from Vacation Timeshare Rentals (gadzooks, another competitor). :)

phill12 wrote:

Just do what your doing here with checking this person out as much as possible and call the resort. Also make owner give you a copy of this years reservations and it shows he is the owner! As soon as he faxes it to you or mails it look up the phone number of resort reservations and call. Explain what your doing and give them the owners reservation number so they will verify this information is correct.

Just a little secret for you looking up the number and calling. A couple years ago I heard of some scam artist that rented out more than one unit and sent copy of reservations to renters with phone number to someone's cell number like wife/girl friend and they would verify all information as the resort and it was false.

I think there was a recent post on Redweek where a person contacted an alleged DVC owner about renting the unit. Evidently the “owner”, did not really own a unit, but just booked a reservation with DVC in the renter’s name. After the renter paid the “owner”, the renter got another bill from DVC asking for the money for the reservation. On a side note, there have been posts on TUG where people were booking DVC units through RCI and renting them out (a definite no-no). I don’t think this is the case here, but one must be careful. If a renter says you have to pay a $95 fee to the DVC resort, then the unit has been booked via an exchange.