Original Message:
Re: Marriott One Week Owners and the Destination Club (by Charles S.):
dennish144 wrote:I apologize for being off topic and hope that you will return to the topic at hand after my thought.Rental of Dest Pts and/or Timeshare Weeks - Certainly, some are willing to give away good weeks at extraordinarily low rental rates and the same for Dest Pts. This, however, is probably more a sign of desperation than the true market. I use excess points to acquire good weeks or fractional periods for rent and do achieve higher values than those mentioned in earlier comments.
I hope prices for timeshare weeks/points have bottomed out. As owners, let's help ourselves and other owners by carefully considering our prices for both. Incidentally, Marriott Vacation Club is doing it's part by raising prices.
These might be only my thoughts, but I do not want to see further erosion in our values or the usefulness of our interests.
Marriott is raising their rates. I heard that from Marriott's Owner Services and read it on TUG. Owner Services also said that Marriott will be exercising ROFR more too. So we will see what will happen. However, if you are the average person who is a legacy owner, you just don't want to add on to your maintenance fees. Especially those of us who own in Hawaii.