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The war is over --- your side lost... (by Carol S.):

I know your frustration, we recently got talked into buying four weeks with the promise of rental return from the resort etc, being able to trade in our other timeshare of ten years (points)etc. Long story short we now have all this time and too have had a hard time. Up to this point we have not been able to exchange far in advance. due to not knowing when we could go, Recently we can and again have been told that the reason RCI does not have inventory because owners deposits have not been made yet. (BS) I understand to a point, but like alot of us waiting a year, having an ongoing search and still coming up with little. From what I have read too that owners put there time in one and two years in advance, so there should be more, but as others say they pull the good ones.

Also very little five star resorts, used to be alot more. Have been looking at going to Thailand in Feb 2013. Very little avail, may be a bit late, have found resorts on the extra vacation for rent for less than what I would pay to exchange fees and joining fees to be able to book it.

Cambodia it says 35 resorts avail on the extra vacation, but on the regular inventory, none come up. Not much avail when I want them, but if you want to travel in the hot and humid season which is most of the year extra vacations have some for Cambodia.

What we are trying to do is rent out a couple of the weeks we do have to cover our maintence costs, use the other timeshare that they were unable to transfer, but gave us credit towards the weeks timeshare. Having weeks and points is helpful since points we can book a few days and try to use the week where we can. I guess, being willing to try differant places makes it work sometimes.

We book places like Whistler BC ( alot of trades and beautiful area) Also Banif BC. We live in AB, so try to do somethng, but not always what we want. The Oregon Coast area is very hard to get. I was told that there were not many and most owners use them themselves, the same for other popular destinations. As far as the kids go for passing it on, if there name is not on it, they have the right to refuse to accept it and is turned over to the state. If they accept it they will take ownership of it. So, check the laws in your area, as we live in Canada. We made the mistake of being encouraged to put our adults sons on the recent one and how much more convient it is for them to use etc. Luckly it is not deeded and hopefully we should be able to use it for twenty years or so more and then they will only have ten years left.

Like people have said hopefully you have a timeshare that you like to go to and makes it easier to only deal with RCI if you are trying to go somewhere else. Were all in the same boat and have lots of company.