Monday, November 30, 2009

Relief from Timeshare Promotional Baits

Timeshare promotional meetings are some of the biggest bait that is thrown by timeshare companies to vacation goers who are considered as prospective clients. Most timeshare owners seeking for timeshare relief were also caught up by sales agents during these presentation sessions.

Prospective clients are called up by timeshare telemarketers. Most are informed that they won a certain price which they have to get from the office. Others are simply invited to attend the presentation and they are promised with a number of freebies. Once these prospective clients agree to attend the sales presentation, they can already be considered as captured market. Timeshare sales agents seldom let go of prospective clients without making sure that the client leave more personal information like credit card numbers.

One of the best ways to avoid being caught up with a timeshare during the presentation is to leave behind your purse and other important stuff in your homes. That way, you really do not have anything to pay for the property. Never give out your credit card details because they will be able to transact the purchase even without your information and approval. And once they do so, it will be difficult to cancel the purchase.

Selling the package to be able to get rid of the timeshare is not easy. So if you can still avoid getting a timeshare package, do so. It is not a joke to own a timeshare because of the maintenance fees that they regularly charge, as well as the special assessment fees they require. So if you are hard pressed financially, avoid a timeshare presentation.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Relief for Timeshare Owners in the Third Quarter Resale

Owning timeshare has its own pros and cons. More and more timeshare owners are seeking timeshare relief because of financial reasons. However, in an economy where the price of hotels and vacation home rentals continues to increase, buying timeshare on the resale market is one of the few things a family can do to cover the increasing vacation costs.

Advertising companies have shown great market performance through the strong market resale during the third quarter. A recent study showed that in the third quarter, online timeshare resale and rental advertising and marketing company reported 33 percent increase from the revenue last year towards the same quarter. Based on the report, timeshare companies have seen economic stability and year-end projections for the industry.

Also, there are over millions of visitors accounted per month browsing advertisement sites for timeshare resale. In connection, there are a lot more advertisement in marketing sites offering timeshare resale or rental. From the same report, the third quarter revenues raised up to $5.1 million.

Many timeshares today are deeded ownership as a real property like residential homes. However, timeshare resales are not suffering from the types of problems that have hurt the real estate market across the country. Despite the difficulty experienced by most timeshare owners, timeshare vacation ownership remains one of the fastest growing segments of the vacation and tourism industry.

With that note, you must have the idea of when to sell or rent out your timeshare. Remember that when you rent or buy timeshare, you lock-in the vacation price today. Knowing the market trend will help you make that firm decision. You can rest assured when you know you can get a fair exchange for your property. And so this might be the proper time to get rid of your timeshare.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Desperate Owners Should Avail of Some Form of Timeshare Relief other than Reselling

Reselling timeshares is the most popular mode of timeshare relief today. Most timeshare owners who wish to get out of their timeshare contracts choose to sell their timeshares. This is to offset the expenses that they have incurred when they first bought their timeshares not to mention all of the maintenance fees as well as other timeshare bills paid by the owners over the years.

Nonetheless, the timeshare secondary market is currently inundated by timeshares from a multitude of owners who are reselling their vacation packages. Thus, finding buyers for a timeshare on resale is fairly difficult given the current timeshare resale environment. A simple search on any online public auctions on the Internet will turn up timeshares sold for ridiculously low prices, sometimes even for one dollar. The reason for this is the overwhelming supply of timeshares for resale which in classical economic theory would naturally drive prices to record lows. Worse, timeshare owners who are reselling their timeshares are not only competing with each other but are also competing with the timeshare developers themselves for the same set of consumers.

Thus, owners who wish to resell their timeshares must not expect that their timeshares will be sold in a given amount of time at a fixed price. The more desperate timeshare owners are best off by availing of some other form of timeshare relief in order to successfully get rid of their timeshare vacation packages. Those who opt to resell their timeshares must still be prepared to shoulder all timeshare bills, as they are still the responsibility of the timeshare owner until ownership is effectively conveyed to some other individual or party.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Starwood Hotels Seek Relief for its Timeshare Division

Timeshare sales all over the world have been dropping in view of the ongoing global economic recession. Worse, the droves of timeshare owners who are getting rid of their timeshare vacation packages mean worse financial straits for timeshare companies in the coming season. The economic crunch has seriously affected the luxury vacation industry most especially the timeshare business. Major timeshare companies all over the worlds have experience massive losses on sales not to mention total company revenue by reason of the recession.

Even the largest timeshare developers have not escaped the effects of the credit systems crash. As a matter of fact, Starwood Hotels, one of the leading timeshare developers in the United States reported massive losses to its timeshare division for the third quarter of this year. Operational revenue for Starwood timeshare vacation packages dropped a total of $ 47 million US dollars in contrast to its sales in the third quarter of 2008.

Starwood Hotel’s timeshare division reported a 31.7 percent fall on total company revenue amounting to about 125 million US dollars compared to its timeshare sales in 2008. Worse, Starwood has recently executed cost-cutting corporate measures for its timeshare division. Starwood Hotels is planning massive employee layoffs to increase company savings. Potential timeshare buyers can take advantage of Starwood Hotel’s predicament as the mean sale price of Starwood timeshare vacation packages fell to almost 22 percent. However, this is unfortunate for many existing Starwood timeshare owners who opt to sell their vacation packages for timeshare relief as Starwood unit values is currently at its lowest.