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Re: Marriott Aruba Surf Club - looking for tips to buying a RESALE (by Don P.):
Consider renting . Once you purchase a timeshare you commit yourself to a lifetime of increasing maintenance fees and assessments until you can unload it to someone else . Read through the forums and you will see stories of people who's lives have changed over the years and now they are straddles with maintenance payments they can no longer afford due to changes in their lives .
You did the right thing by not purchasing at a presentation now take the time to look at the whole picture .