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Well, a long story cut short we sold both of our timeshares here in the past month. We had a late August 2BR week at Shawnee and we wanted to sell that one as with 3-kids the unit was just smaller then we could deal with and after owning there for almost 5-years we were ready to move on.
We also sold our Killington Vermont week and in this case the buyers made us an offer we could not refuse. We were not actually looking to sell the unit but they new owners wanted a 5-bedroom Ski Chalet that could sleep 10 or more and they wanted our week so the long and short of it is that we sold that one too!
We are working on the transfers for both weeks and now we are debating if it is wise to start shopping for replacements or if we should take a year or two of renting weeks that we would not normally want to own. Some examples, we could do a Disney vacation (I would not want to own there so renting makes lots of sense) or perhaps if I can lose a lot of weight I have gained this past year I might consider a ski trip out west.
I do not get much vacation time at work (I get 10-days) so the little time I get off is precious but it is refreshing to know that this next year we have a lot of flexibility. We are watching for a couple "key" weeks/locations and we have the money from the sale of these two weeks sitting in a money market so we can jump at the right deal but we like to buy weeks and locations that we use as opposed to playing the exchange game. So, renting looks real attractive for this coming year...
Our kids are 11, 7 and 3 (almost 4) so Disney needs to be a trip we do soon.
Oh well, I have not been posting much so I figured I would admit that soon I will no longer be a timeshare owner although we will fix that again with the right deal!
We also sold our Killington Vermont week and in this case the buyers made us an offer we could not refuse. We were not actually looking to sell the unit but they new owners wanted a 5-bedroom Ski Chalet that could sleep 10 or more and they wanted our week so the long and short of it is that we sold that one too!
We are working on the transfers for both weeks and now we are debating if it is wise to start shopping for replacements or if we should take a year or two of renting weeks that we would not normally want to own. Some examples, we could do a Disney vacation (I would not want to own there so renting makes lots of sense) or perhaps if I can lose a lot of weight I have gained this past year I might consider a ski trip out west.
I do not get much vacation time at work (I get 10-days) so the little time I get off is precious but it is refreshing to know that this next year we have a lot of flexibility. We are watching for a couple "key" weeks/locations and we have the money from the sale of these two weeks sitting in a money market so we can jump at the right deal but we like to buy weeks and locations that we use as opposed to playing the exchange game. So, renting looks real attractive for this coming year...
Our kids are 11, 7 and 3 (almost 4) so Disney needs to be a trip we do soon.
Oh well, I have not been posting much so I figured I would admit that soon I will no longer be a timeshare owner although we will fix that again with the right deal!
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