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Howzzat ??? (by KC):
gerards23 wrote:All you "own" is a contract which is sometimes vague. Want to vacation? Then just book into a nice hotel wherever & whenever you desire. You don't need to "own" your personal hotel room.
This overly simplistic statement is not factually correct. Many timeshare ownerships are deeded, fixed weeks in fixed condo units; essentially representing fractional real estate ownership; we own six such weeks. What we literally own, by recorded legal deed, are individual weeks in condominium units (they are hardly "hotel rooms"). We pay considerably less in annual maintenance fees per owned week than it would cost us to stay in a "hotel room" for a full week in any of those particular areas.
To each their own of course, but we much prefer our spacious condos with two bedrooms, living room and full kitchen over any "hotel room". For that matter, "hotel room" reservations would be hard to come by at all for a full week straight in the prime areas and prime seasons where we choose to own and use our particular timeshare weeks.
Your statement may be partly accurate for RTU's, vacation clubs, and "points only contracts", but they are just a small segment of the various other forms of timeshare ownership of which you are evidently unaware.