How do you rent out your floating week timeshare??

My husband and I have been trying to sell our timeshare for about 6 months with no luck. We did not use our yearly membership last year, and won't be using it this year either. I have tried listing on craigslist, but haven't had luck with that either. How do you advertise your timeshare for rent when it is floating? Do you reserve a week and then try to rent it? I am so over my head with this timeshare, and it has just become a huge thorn in our side, as the company (Raintree Vacation Club) has now been trying to charge an extra "special assessment fee" of around $1000 on top of our maintenance fees. If I could offload the thing and walk away I would.

kristenb69 wrote:

My husband and I have been trying to sell our timeshare for about 6 months with no luck. We did not use our yearly membership last year, and won't be using it this year either. I have tried listing on craigslist, but haven't had luck with that either. How do you advertise your timeshare for rent when it is floating? Do you reserve a week and then try to rent it? .

Kristenb Trying to sell now or even rent is hard to do and first point is if you own a good resort your chances are better. The old saying of location location still means something!

I always tell people to lock in the week they want then try and rent it and if its a holiday week even better. This way if no one rents you can still use it as you are paying for it.

You have stated you won't be using it so grab a top week to list and if not rented at least you can deposit it for future use.

I would never waste my time offering a floating week because this is like the tail chasing the dog. You wait until someone ask for a special date just to find out you can no longer get it. Remember people can rent regular weeks off many sites and pay almost what ever they want to the owner but a top/holiday week is a different story. It should be worth higher rent and puts you in a smaller group of rentals.

You can always tell renter your unit is available to buy and even offer within short time of their vacation to give them half or all the rent off the price. If any interest set the price before with them and write this offer on the contract listing price.

This is good idea so if they are talked into checking the resort out and hearing resort price they will jump at your low resale price plus part of their vacation money will lower the price even more. We sold our first timeshare this way years ago and helped couple friends do this last couple years.

If you have time to still pick your week do it and grab a top week from your resort.If your talking 2010 your probably way to late for a good week.Every resort is different but ours owning two units we can pick 24 months out and send our request in 60 days earlier so we always take July 4th week.

PHILL12

Thank you so much for your thorough reply! I should probably call and see if anything is available for 2010!

kristenb69 wrote:

Thank you so much for your thorough reply! I should probably call and see if anything is available for 2010!

Good Luck

Welcome back Mike!

PHILL12

phill12 wrote:

Welcome back Mike!

PHILL12

Ditto, where have you been Mike ... I've also noticed your absence from the forums.