Holidays are one of those times when everything seems to be taken.  This is especially the case if you are looking at going to visit a new location or one that is very busy like New York.  Like most things, there are ways around this type of obstacle.  For example you can schedule your trip years in advance.  That’s always a good thing, if you know what tomorrow brings.  Then there’s the possibility of staying with some friends.  But as my mom always said, “relatives and friends are good for a day or two, but after that they stink”.  So for most people having someone stay with them for more than a couple of days, is not a good thing.  It doesn’t mean that you don’t enjoy them, or that you don’t want to see them again.  It’s as another friend of mine said about visitors in her home, “it cramps my style”.  So if these are out of the question, what do you do then?

Timeshares!

If you haven’t thought about the solution being a timeshare, might just want to.  Timeshares By Owner is a company that allows for you to have a home most anyplace in the world.  This includes South Africa, Canada and New Orleans.  There are numerous advantages to having a timeshare and I’ll cover some of them here.  One of the biggest ones was the time crunch on places for the holidays.  If you have a timeshare that problem is substantially reduced if not eliminated completely.  Imagine if you will, the place of your dreams is no longer a dream but a reality, and one that you can multiple times a year if you should desire too.

Timeshare Advantages

Here are a handful of quick advantages that you can (depending on your agreement) grab ahold of with a timeshare.

1. You can go to places you’d never dreamed you would be able to visit.
2. No clean-up costs.  You go and visit and then leave.
3. You aren’t responsible for maintenance and repair of the place.
4. You can go to popular places when they aren’t packed.
5. You can go to popular places and have a place to stay when they are.
6. You can have many timeshares without limits.
7. You can sell your timeshare if you’d like.
8. No closing costs.

Loving your timeshare is one thing, but if you have one and you have to sell it, that can be a challenge.  This is especially the case if and when you have someone that lacks experience in the area.  Selling a timeshare is like most anything else, the more experience you have, the better off you are going to be.  It’s not something that you can assume anyone can sell.  It’s also not something that you can post a sign and hope that someone is going to see it.  These are two things that make selling a timeshare more complicated then selling most anything else.

Problem One: Knowing What You’re Doing!

Knowing what you’re doing is one of those two-edged swords.  How do you get to know what you’re doing, if know one ever gives you the chance?  Sometimes it means buying and selling your own first, sometimes it means having a real estate business and branching into it.  Both of these ways can work for you.  The second is often better for one simple reason; when you’re starting to buy and sell timeshares, you don’t have to rely on that for your source of income.  That will be a big plus for everyone involved and the amount of stress to do your deals will be substantially less.

Some things for you to consider are:

1. How much if any commission are you going to charge?  If you are, what are the circumstances that you’re going to apply them.
2. Are you going to take a commission on the sale of a timeshare?  If not, how are you going to make your money?
3. Are you going to guarantee your services?  While having a guaranteed doesn’t promise business it sure will help, especially when you’re new!
4. Who is going to pay the closing costs: The buyer, seller or both?
5. Are you going to have a Full Time Concierge and client service team?  If so what services ares are they going to offer to your customers?
6. Lastly, what type of exposure are you going to be giving your customers?  Are you going to give them the access to the widest possible audience.  What this means is that you’ll have access to TV, Radio, Print (newspapers and magazines) and lastly Online!

The second question was how do you sell your timeshare without posting a sign.  In the last paragraph there was mention many ways to sell a timeshare.  Arguable the fast way to sell one is going to be online.  Why?  The answer is simple;  If done right, it can give you the most exposure around the word, to the most people the fastest.  If you’re looking at selling timeshares, then you have to have the exposure needed to do just that and do it quickly.  Why quickly?  Because people are going to want to know that their ‘product’ is out there and is being seen by the highest number of people possible.