Timeshare stays without owning????

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Fairfield points. . .

With the posting of comments by members wanting to wheel and deal extra timeshare stays without the yearly fees and up front costs, I wondered if anyone has tried having a points owner secure a vacation resort for them.

One could look at the https://www.fairfieldresorts.com/ffr/resort/search.do and select an available unit. By communicating a desire to rent, appropriate arrangements could be made by the points owner.

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Fairfield points. . .

With the posting of comments by members wanting to wheel and deal extra timeshare stays without the yearly fees and up front costs, I wondered if anyone has tried having a points owner secure a vacation resort for them.

One could look at the https://www.fairfieldresorts.com/ffr/resort/search.do and select an available unit. By communicating a desire to rent, appropriate arrangements could be made by the points owner.

Absolutely. One of the best benefits of point systems in general is the ability to reserve weeks at any of the resorts. And, often, there is no guest fee or exchange fee.

This makes it very good for rentals, since all of them except for RCI Points allows you to rent your reservations.

And, it also makes it great for direct exchange since you can offer many resorts instead of just one for direct exchange. This increases your odds of the owner of the week you want is interested in something you have.

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JFTR, there have been a lot of complaints about rentals. It is widespread enough that it has attracted at least one classaction lawsuit.

To set the record straight, I do not object to owners renting their ownerships, the topic you have stated here. That is just one of the options that owners have, one of the rights for which they have paid the price.

I would be surprised if anyone objects to that.

I do object to the exchange companies accepting a week from an owner and then renting it. That is a conflict of interest which should not be allowed. Owners have been saying that for years, since the practice first became public.

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I tryed the RCI route for several years. Deposited points and exchanged for nice places to accomidate wants of TUG members. Everyone but RCI was perfectly satisfied.

RCI cancelled me and refuses my membership for that practice. I beleive that is just, as they are self serving. However, no one gets my Fairfield places for exchange any longer because they never get deposited to RCI.

I have wondered the proper way to phrase an ad about having points available that others might care about making use of.

Right now, I just have points. But, if someone cared to check availability and asked me to secure their desired resort, I could do so.

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Owner rentals of exchanges

Resort2me,

There is a reason that owners are not allowed to rent exchanges.

First, a people would be cherrypicking the good exchanges(like Manhatten Club) and renting them leaving nothing for the real vacation seacher to get.

Second, ebay and the internet in general would be filled with offers to rent(some being lagit and some being fraudulent). This would generally create total confusion in the market place.

Third, renters from ebay would be standing in front of the checkin desk with entirely different expectations than a timeshare owner. This would creat general mayheim at the front desk with no one taking responsiblity. RCI would get blamed whether it was their fault or not.

While you might argue that RCI is renting prime weeks as mentioned on the first example, they have generally made sure that number 2 and 3 do not happen.

If you are just a casual point renter then I have no problem with this but if you are buying points to specificly run a rental business that takes out prime inventory for profit then I don't agree with your efforts.

With all that said, I will rent or exchange from whoever has the place and time I want be it RCI, II, resortime, extraholidays, Marriott , Hilton or you if the system allows it legally.

Short

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Even when I rent (NOW), I am renting Fairfield units. Whatever units I secure are no longer available to anyone else.

I exchanged my points for units. What I choose to do (stay myself, or rent to another) is not jepardizing anyones ability to obtain unit for themselves. And this all legitament.

If I do the same through RCI however, all of a sudden I've commited a crime.
Really, all I've done is gone against RCI RULES. If I exchange through RCI, I still in effect have obtained ONE unit for my points. There are still just as many places left for others to get.

Now, lets go back to Wondering how best to word an ad.
I have points. They exchange within the Fairfield system and can legally be rented.

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JFTR, there have been a lot of complaints about rentals. It is widespread enough that it has attracted at least one classaction lawsuit.

To set the record straight, I do not object to owners renting their ownerships, the topic you have stated here. That is just one of the options that owners have, one of the rights for which they have paid the price.

I would be surprised if anyone objects to that.

I do object to the exchange companies accepting a week from an owner and then renting it. That is a conflict of interest which should not be allowed. Owners have been saying that for years, since the practice first became public.

For the record, I agree with you. It is bad for exchange companies to rent spacebank weeks outside of a reasonable sell off window about 45-60-days from check in. But, that's only because they do not provide fair compensation upfront for those deposits.

But, I don't think there is a conflict of interest if the exchange company paid something to the depositer for the week upfront. That could be in the form of points that can be directly converted to cash.