First time offering my unit for rent and Sellmytimesharenow.com

I have listed my timeshare through Redweek and received a message from what sounded like an interested renter. Sent an email agreeing to the offered price and 15 minutes later received a phone call from Sellmytimesharenow.com wanting to know if were at all possible to change my starting date. One thing I have not found on the forum site is anywhere to rate owners and renters to make each other aware of potential problem owners/renters or third parties that appear to represent themselves as renters.

Is it unusual to have a third party involved in the transaction in this way? I would be very uneasy not dealing directly with the renter.

Dennis

dennisc136 wrote:

I have listed my timeshare through Redweek and received a message from what sounded like an interested renter. Sent an email agreeing to the offered price and 15 minutes later received a phone call from Sellmytimesharenow.com wanting to know if were at all possible to change my starting date. One thing I have not found on the forum site is anywhere to rate owners and renters to make each other aware of potential problem owners/renters or third parties that appear to represent themselves as renters.

Is it unusual to have a third party involved in the transaction in this way? I would be very uneasy not dealing directly with the renter.

Dennis

Hi Dennis,

Don't do business with that person. His account has been removed from RedWeek.com. What that guy was doing was wrong.

Thanks, Marty

I am also a first time renter and received an E-mail from Sellmy imeshareNOW per Beth Breton. Anyone ever deal with this company or person. It sounds like a broker . Nancy

nancyl213 wrote:

I am also a first time renter and received an E-mail from Sellmy imeshareNOW per Beth Breton. Anyone ever deal with this company or person. It sounds like a broker . Nancy

I have received emails from "vacation clubs" looking to fulfill a request, but I don't consider sellmytimesharenow to be in that category.

If you want to pursue the contact and SMTN claims to have a renter, then all you need to tell them is when you get the money, you will put send out a confirmation in the person's name. DO NOT send SMTN any money to complete a transaction.

I think Marty's message below pretty much says it all.

marty8084 wrote:

Hi Dennis,

Don't do business with that person. His account has been removed from RedWeek.com. What that guy was doing was wrong.

Thanks, Marty

Hi everyone, and especially marty8084.

I just wanted to clear up a misunderstanding that seems to be lingering on this thread regarding account activity from our employees on the Redweek site.

All of the employees that work for our rental department currently have active accounts in good standing with Redweek. This includes James, the person referenced earlier in this thread.

All activity that has taken place has been in an honest attempt to fulfill inquiries from people looking to book a rental of a timeshare that come into our website. We are only looking to fulfill those requests, nothing more. In our search for a week available for rent, we may on occasion find it advertised on Redweek and, in efforts to satisfy that rental inquiry, may contact the owner. We explained this process with the management from Redweek during the ARDA convention in Orlando and they fully understand this process. After all, this is about successfully matching those owners looking to rent their timeshare (in this case, the owner advertising on Redweek) with a customer looking to rent (the inquiry coming into our website). If Redweek had staff actively looking to fulfill rental inquiries, we would welcome their contact of our owners advertising on our site in a similar manner.

In the first quarter of 2009, we received over 34,000 rental offers from people looking to book a rental through our website, and we may not always have inventory on our site which matches every inquiry. This is a common practice in the industry and is a win-win for everyone involved.

I hope this clears up any misunderstanding about this process and please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Thank you, Steve Luba Director of Communications SellMyTimeshareNow.com

Can you please tell me how I can rent Wyndham points. I have 154000 points which can be exchanged in the Wyndham system. How do I go about renting these points or do I have to reserve a particular week at a particular location and then offer that for rent?

juliannem10 wrote:

Can you please tell me how I can rent Wyndham points. I have 154000 points which can be exchanged in the Wyndham system. How do I go about renting these points or do I have to reserve a particular week at a particular location and then offer that for rent?

Hi,

There are a couple of different ways you can use RedWeek to rent your vacation club/points system week. First, if you have a home resort, post your rental on your resort's page like a normal rental posting. If you do not have a home resort, you can take one of the following steps:

1. As long as your vacation club/points company allows you to transfer weeks you have obtained through their system, post rental ads across several of the resorts you may be able to book. Mention in the "Details" section that you still have to reserve the unit and it may or may not be available. Just make sure you deactivate all of your postings when you have rented one of them.

2. Book a week at what you think is the most desirable resort. Then just post that one week for rent like normal.

Thanks, Marty

marty8084 wrote:

...Book a week at what you think is the most desirable resort. Then just post that one week for rent like normal.

I use this method to rent my floating week, however, I list the rental using the dates of the high demand season, then in the description I state the WEEK X is available and others are based on availability. If someone wants a different week, then I contact the resort and change the reservation if possible.

I also suggest booking a week that you would use in the event the week is not rented.

Also various websites have Want Ads (or example RedWishes). Keep searching these ads as well. Someone may want to rent a TS in a location where you can use your Wyndham points.