Building Your Timeshare Portfolio

Plan it out
We have several clients that have just bought their fourth timeshare from us, so we thought we'd dig a little deeper into the details of building a timeshare portfolio.  Building your timeshare portfolio is one place where advance planning helps.  We're going to look at several all important areas; your vacation plans, your budget and your travel dreams.

Your Vacation Plans
First, let's ask some important questions;

1. How much do you vacation every year?  Be realistic about the amount of time you vacation.  Will it increase or decrease?  Is it flexible or static?

2. Where do you like to vacation?

3. How many people do you have to plan the vacation for?

4. Do you like variety or consistency?

5. Do you want to stay in a timeshare every vacation or only some vacations?

6. Are you able to plan travel months in advance or do you mainly travel at the last minute?

7. Are you looking for vacations you can drive to, fly to, or a combination?

Let's say you have three weeks vacation each year and like to travel for two of those weeks.  One Warm Vacation and one ski vacation each year.  Your family of 4 likes variety but has also been known to return to vacation spots you really loved.  You've promised the kids that they can each bring a friend along on one vacation a year.  For budgetary reasons your family has decided that timesharing is the best way for you to enjoy excellent accommodations in resorts you want to travel to, while allowing you to do some financial planning.  With timesharing you can control your vacation costs. 

Work With a Timeshare Reseller
Many of us in the Timeshare Resales business are happy to help someone find the right timeshares for their needs.  Those needs include tradability, maintenance costs, quality of the resort, and many other factors.  If you simply answer the seven questions above and give those answers to your reseller, you can help the process immensely.   We want to help you buy a timeshare. 

Hunt on EBay
I've been emailing a guy name Charles for close to a year now.  He's been hunting on eBay for just the perfect resort, perfect price, etc.  Because he's looking for perfection he's having a hard time, and has yet to buy a timeshare.  You see, one of the perfect ingredients to Charles is a price so low it makes everyone want to own that resort.  He's willing to troll on eBay week after week, hoping that he places a bid then no one else ever sees the unit and he wins it.  you can do this, especially if you're looking for the bargain of the century.  But usually your friendly Timeshare Reseller can help you find the right resort within your price range or close to it.

Lockout Units
Lockout or Lockoff Units are considered by many people to be the best values in timesharing, and if you're truly building a timeshare portfolio we'd suggest you consider buying a lockout unit. Why?  Because you buy one timeshare and you pay maintenance on that one timeshare.  But you have at least three options for banking your timeshare.  Bank one half, bank the other half, bank both halves as one big unit. 

For example.  We have a 3 Bedroom lockout timeshare at Westgate Town Center, a 5 Star Resort close to Walt Disney World.  This timeshare unit is a 3 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom lockout .  It can be banked as:

You get the point.  It gives you flexibility.  Use the 2 Bedroom unit for the 4 people in the family.  Use the 1studio as an exchange with RCI or Interval International for you and your wife to take a romantic week all by yourselves.  All for one maintenance fee!

More Information
Hopefully this helps you a little bit.  Building your timeshare portfolio can be great fun for the entire family.  You can spends hours and days researching the numerous excellent resorts available, or you might already know the ones you want and can tell your reseller what you would like to buy.  Either way, we hope this has helped.  Feel free to email us specific questions. 

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