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Timeshare Resales (by KC):
andreia2 wrote:I'm not at all sure what you mean by the question "where do you list your timeshares". I generally USE what I own, each and every year, very rarely renting out any of my weeks --- and I haven't advertised or sold off any weeks in a number of years now.Maybe you can help me with a purchase of a timeshare Ken since you have not heard of don't know of this company. Were do you list your timeshares..... with your 30 years of experience. Any suggestions on Windward Passage in Ft Myeres, FL. This is property I am looking at from worldwide property transfers. Any advice would be appericiated.
You may or may not already be aware that Windward Passage in Fort Myers Beach, FL actually has a large number of its' own "in house" resale listings, handled by a broker on site named Klaus Zingraff. However, those listed prices are quite inflated (unrealistically high asking prices, plus "building in" the sales commission). If you call the resort, they could surely direct you to the resort's own site where all those weeks offered for resale "in house" are listed.
In my own experience and personal opinion, the two very best sites in existence to find resale listings are this one (RedWeek.com) and MyResortNetwork.com. You can search either site by geographic location and / or specific resort. However, on RedWeek you must first join as a member in order to be able to respond to any RedWeek ads (not the case on MyResortNetwork). There are also lots of (...a thousand or so on any given day, actually) low cost timeshare listings on eBay, but rarely are any truly prime weeks ever actually found as eBay auction listings.
One specific word of caution about Windward Passage if you are considering buying a "floating" or "flex" week there --- regardless of the source of your intended purchase. Floating week owners there CANNOT EVER reserve ANY week between weeks 5-15 (which is most of the winter)! I learned this lesson the hard way some years ago when I bought a floating week there, only to later discover that I could NOT go there in the winter months (which was the ONLY time I had any interest in being there AT ALL). The seller had conveniently "forgotten" to mention that particular restriction to me, and I was too inexperienced at the time to ask all of the right questions. I later sold that week at a significant financial loss, but I was completely honest with my buyer about the severe reservation restrictions attached to any and all "floating" ownerships at Windward Passage.
I hope that some of the above helps you. Good luck.