Real Cost of Owning a Timeshare

Timeshare properties give the opportunity to take a vacation in a different resort every year. The timeshare owners don't really own the property, but only of share of it. They can enjoy a new accommodation for a specific period of time every year.

Purchasing a timeshare means sharing the property with other people. The timeshare exchange system starts when a real estate developer builds or owns a large resort property. This property is divided into timeshares, also known as time allotments. The duration of this time allotment is one week. In a few cases, goes up to one month.

Let us take an example to understand this system. For example, a real estate developer buys a resort of 200 rooms. The year is divided into 52 weeks. 200 rooms are multiplied by 52 weeks to get the potential number of customers using this facility during one week. It gives 10,400 potential customers. If 10,000 dollars are charged weekly per room, the developer earns up to 104,000,000 dollars per year as an initial payment.

The trap for timeshare owners is the fee charged in the name of the maintenance fund. At the beginning, these charges are kept very low, giving the owner a sense of contentment and relaxation. Unfortunately, this relaxation and contentment generally vanish after a while, as the maintenance charges go up to 1,000 US dollars per year. Let us go back to our example. 10,400 timeshares, if multiplied by 1,000 USD turn to be 104,000,00 US dollars. Is it acceptable that the maintenance charges of a 200 rooms resort could be 104,000,00 US dollars per year?

It is said that timeshare ownership gives us flexibility. This helps us to change the location and time period. However, this requires membership of an exchange company. This adds another financial burden, which is the membership fee of that exchange company. In addition to this membership fee, an annual fee to maintain this membership is also required to be paid, regardless of the fact that this facility has been used or not.

The dilemma does not end there. Another trap of timeshare exchange programs is waiting for the owners. The timeshare exchange programs points are given when the initial purchase of the membership is done. These points have different values, and make you eligible for getting the room of your choice in a resort. For example, the points are used to get a room closer to the swimming pool.

There are many types of visible and hidden charges which increase the overall cost of a timeshare. The overall cost includes initial membership, purchase fee, annual maintenance charges, exchange club fee, additional exchange costs. The accumulation of all these costs makes a timeshare cost around 2000 US dollars per year.


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