Still Timesharing

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

We actually still timeshare!!!! 34 years now.

We own a week on the beach with year-round amenities rights, so it's our beach club. Beach parking and access, pool, chickee hut, BBQ grills, hot tub. We have never had to pay a maintenance fee because another owner or a friend rents it. This year it paid the maintenance fee plus $152, but normally it's a little more.

Our second owned week is for year-round golf rights, even though I golf at another course. Just don't want to burn that bridge. So far I've always been able to rent it out for at least the maintenance fee.

We don't do exchanges, but we do have three couples with 5 Year RCI Guest Passes, and I also do individual Last Calls and Extra Vacations. The price is normally $300-ish. I did one last year for extended family . . . 10 or 12 people . . . for around $450. It was a cash rental to a non-timeshare Orlando resort through RCI.

We're over 200 weeks with RCI.

We've been through one Sunset Clause.

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

This is my last year exchanging with RCI but I still use my Nola timeshare either to use or rent out

[scootr5 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close scootr5]

We own a week on the beach with year-round amenities rights, so it's our beach club. Beach parking and access, pool, chickee hut, BBQ grills, hot tub. We have never had to pay a maintenance fee because another owner or a friend rents it. This year it paid the maintenance fee plus $152, but normally it's a little more.

Which resort? Sounds like a nice plan!

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

Jimmy, you should know by now that nothing good lasts very long in the timeshare area. Are you singing "it's a wonderful day in the neighborhood" in the Ozarks yet ?

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Jimmy, you should know by now that nothing good lasts very long in the timeshare area. Are you singing "it's a wonderful day in the neighborhood" in the Ozarks yet ?

Our Beach Club building was built in 1959, has survived a few hurricanes, including Ian, has made it past the Sunset Clause, deals with delinquent accounts by taking deeds back through administrative foreclosure (then makes a profit re-selling them or renting them out), makes a profit renting out owners weeks (a process which pays the owners maintenance fee and then some), so in the world of timeshare it is doing pretty well.

The makeup of our Ozark-American neighborhood is greatly improved. HOF and AOF have gone on to where it is very hot all the time, and ECPLOF has simply gone. There is only one person who has been here longer than us. There are a couple of remnant assholes, but they are pretty much inconsequential.

Like I used to say, Time is a friend of the truth.

We got back two days ago, have put our docks back where they're supposed to be, and baled the lawn.

Now if I could just stop all the spoofed healthcare calls on my cell phone . . . . .

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Which resort? Sounds like a nice plan!

You wouldn't like it.

[bjpascoal Banned Find all posts View Profile Close bjpascoal]

Wow, that's impressive! Having a timeshare on the beach with all-year amenities sounds like a dream. I'm curious, how do you find managing so many weeks with RCI? I've been thinking about getting into timeshares myself but haven't heard much about the guest passes and exchange options.