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Re: Renting exchanged RCI weeks is expressly prohibited (by KC):
rogerm240 wrote:Gifting or selling your exchanged week does not harm anyone. It has been paid for.........
Whether or not you believe it "does not harm anyone", renting out a week obtained by exchange from either RCI or II clearly violates the written terms and conditions of membership of both of those two exchange companies. True "gifting" (where there is no money changing hands) is another matter; that's permissible by obtaining a guest certificate from the exchange company.
The true POTENTIAL for "harm" under the existing terms and conditions of RCI or II membership is that a unsuspecting tenant could actually be turned away at check-in if it was somehow discovered that they were part of a (clearly prohibited) "exchange rental", losing both their occupancy AND whatever money they paid for that prohibited rental. The violating exchange company member could also have his / her membership in that exchange company suspended or terminated outright, but I have more concern for the innocent and unsuspecting prospective "tenant".
Over the years, there have been first hand accounts (on Timeshare Users Group discussion forums) of people actually getting caught renting out weeks they obtained by exchange, with the exact consequences described above. Do people still do it --- and often manage to get away with it? Yes, but it's still a roll of the dice and I would advise any prospective tenant to have NOTHING to do with the prohibited rental of a non-owned timeshare week which was obtained by "exchange" from RCI or II. It's just too risky.
P.S. I do not belong to either RCI or II and I frankly have no use for either one (particularly RCI). I am merely pointing out the "tenant" risk if they unknowingly get involved with the (prohibited) rental of a (non-owned) week obtained by "exchange" from RCI or II.