Why would anyone buy a timeshare?
Timeshares provide flexibility and guaranteed vacations every year. The average cost of
a timeshare is nominal compared to a lifetime of hotel stays. Accommodations at timeshare
resorts are larger, with private bedrooms, fully-equipped kitchens, spacious living room
areas, and more amenities.
What does a timeshare do?
A timeshare is a type of vacation property with a shared ownership model. With a typical timeshare,
you share the cost of the property with other buyers, and in return, you receive a guaranteed
amount of time at the property each year. In many cases, timeshares are smaller units within a
larger resort property.
Are timeshares ever a good investment?
Timeshares should not be considered investments since the vast majority of timeshare
contracts lose value in the secondary market, and they do not generate income for owners
How much does a timeshare cost per year?
Annual fees in the $300 to $400 range are typical, although larger shares or peak-season
shares can have higher annual fees, often more than $1,000 every year. These fees are
due whether the share owner uses the property or not.
Many people have a question when thinking of buying a timeshare??????
Does it make financial sense or does it make sense at all to buy a timeshare? Well, the
answer can be both yes or no depending on who is buying and for what purpose it is
being bought.
In this article, we will discuss why it makes sense to buy a timeshare. One of the most
traditional answers could be that you own it, but when you rent something you don’t own it.
The timeshare industry has grown by leaps and bounds since its inception in this country
and many notions that people had earlier have been clarified. Timeshare is no more a
small business.
Big hotels and resorts are into the timeshare business now. It is estimated to be a
Five billion-dollar-a-year industry worldwide and approximately two million Americans
have timeshares.
You might be wondering what lured so many people in America alone to timeshares. Here
are some reasons
Consider this fact you pay rent to stay in a hotel. You pay the rent for staying in a
hotel for a week. Suppose it is $900.
If you consider a period of 30 years, multiply the cost of living in a hotel for 30 years
by $900. It will be $27,000.
You spend that much amount and only get a suite with only a bathroom. Now consider this,
if you buy a timeshare for $10,000 which has a maintenance fee of $450 annually. The cost
for 30 years will be $10,000 plus 450 multiplied by 30.
The answer will be $23,500 which is $3,500 less than renting a hotel suite. But here is
an interesting fact. You still get to own your timeshare property which will earn some money
if not the original price.
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So your actual expenditure on your vacation will be way less than renting a hotel suite.
Then who can ignore the comfort of a home in a timeshare property?
A typical timeshare unit has two or three bedrooms, more than one bathroom, a kitchen, a
laundry room, and a pool plus not to forget all the resort facilities.
Does it make sense now? It does because it also saves you from the hassle of planning your
vacation each year because you know when you have to go in turn offering you a guaranteed
vacation every year.
How many hotel rooms can accommodate large families and friends? With a timeshare vacation,
you can invite whoever you want and can host reasonable size gatherings.
A timeshare is like money lying safely in your bank. You can sell it whenever you want.
Not only that if you buy a deeded plan, the timeshare gets inherited to your heirs also.
Compare the timeshare with buying a vacation home. You don’t have to worry about upkeep
and maintenance also. The management company will take care of everything.
You just have to pay the maintenance fee for that. But what a pleasure you can live like
you are living in a hotel and still get a feel of your home and have to do nothing.
Apart from these benefits, timeshare companies offer you so many discounts like bonus weeks,
discounts on airfare, car rentals, attraction tickets, restaurants, and much more.