This Section is to Help those seeking to Buy or Sell Timeshare

We simply are offering our humble and honest opinion on what you need to ‘look out’ for in regards to Purchasing a Timeshare Resale or Trying to Sell YOUR Timeshare.

1. If you are seeking to Buy a Timeshare, the main concern should be credibility and legal ability.

1. Meaning, what is the Firm able to do and not able to do?
2. Are they legally able to work with title documentation or do they have the professional know how as how to work with the title firm smoothly and quickly?
3. They should ALWAYS have a licensed financial broker that works directly!
4. They should ALWAYS have some type of Licensed and Bonded firm!

2. If you are seeking to Sell a Timeshare, there is a common misconception:

1. A few companies offer the idea that Real Estate Professionals MUST ONLY be used to sell your timeshare. 
2. Another OPINION to THINK ABOUT
3. If a real estate agent splits an average of 3% commission with their broker of a total transaction and the average timeshare resale is approximately  $12,500 then that = $187.50 on average that the agent would make.
4. If the average house sells for approximately $200,000 the average agent commission split = $3,000
5. That means the agent would have to sell 16 Timeshares to = 1 House sell!
6. WHICH DO YOU THINK is EASIER?  WHICH WOULD YOU RATHER DO?
7. ENOUGH SAID ON THAT SUBJECT

3. If you are seeking to Buy or Sell a Timeshare….NEVER pay an upfront TITLE or APPRAISAL Fee!

1. In the timeshare resale industry a Professional Resale firm will have a licensed marketer that is an inventory manager.  This position will help agents set recommend prices to the owner trying to sell.  Of course, keep in mind that it is the ‘Owner’ that actually decides the final price to accept on the property!  DO NOT ever let someone undercut your efforts to sell your property.
2. When you buy or sell property, the title is done at the closing and no payment is needed for this prior. 
3. Additionally, if the agent or firm you are working with does not have Licensed Financial Representatives in-office, there is NO way of them charging any type of Title Fee!  Therefore, it is illegal and unable to obtain a FEE from you for TITLE at all!

1. If they DO NOT have these financial representatives in-house, then they cannot ‘handle your property closing’ at all.  Period.  NO questions asked.  They should not be trusted to help you in regards to this matter.

4. If you are curious about how marketing and advertising is handled by multiple of different firms out there that claim they see thousands of people coming to there site each and every day.  Then you will want to read this small write-up done by a marketing professional that has been retained in this industry over the last 12 years.

1. A lot of companies state that they are currently averaging over 10,000 to 30,000 total visitors to their website EVERY single day!  Along with stating huge numbers that simply confuse the customer.  The number of visitors is important because these are the visitors you know are interested in resale or purchase of timeshare
2. The facts that are thrown out to the consumer is used to caused overload and to make it obvious that you should choose them in order to help you purchase or resale your Timeshare.  There is purpose in this method.  It is the oldest marketing trick in the book.  Show the largest numbers as possible and overload the consumer with facts so that they simply say okay…okay…that sounds good and choose to believe that you know what you are speaking about and are some kind of professional.……When in fact at least 50% of these “VISTITORS” are their ‘OWN’ clients visiting their site. 
3. The next time someone throws tons of numbers out, ask them for their Commercial Seller License Number or ask them if their Firm is a State Incorporated Advertising Corporation.  After they have taken a long pause with no answer, you will know the answer.  Most advertising Corporations with relation to timeshare resale will not have the license or bond information you have requested. Politely tell them goodbye and ask them to NEVER call again!!
4. You see, you will NEVER be able to get direct 100% accurate data on this issue.  Frankly speaking, think about it for a minute….


1. Your ‘non-Advertising incorporated firm’ Speak’s to tons of people each and every day, listing them for a fee and state that the MAIN & ONLY marketing is just this ‘ONE’ website.
2. Oh, lets solve this issue real quickly.  No matter what the firm says or states, if you look at their website, you can NEVER find links going anywhere except back to that ‘ONE’ site!  They have no multiple marketing sites or pages or multiple domains for the purpose of rental marketing or anything like that. 
3. So, after every 4-6months, ….you have thousands of people potentially each and every day looking up their property to see if anything has changed.  Most people think that they can ‘see’ some kind of ‘status’ directly upon viewing their listing, which is not true in any case.
4. Additionally, about 80% to 90% of ‘ALL’ marketing and advertising done by resale companies, listing companies, by Owner ad companies or Marketing Firms are ‘ONLY’ ads trying to get a ‘NEW’ client to list and ‘NOT’ to buy or rent!!!   Please don’t be fooled here. 
5. If ALL your marketing ad’s directly to reach people trying to sell timeshare point back to your One and ONLY website, then you will Generate THOUSANDS of visitors each and every day!
6. So, the MAJORITY of these ‘unique’ visitors are ‘not’ true visitors!


5. For example, SBACorp is a Licensed Commercial Seller Firm that is a State Incorporated Advertising Corporation that will NEVER get new or marketed to clients seeking to list or sell their timeshare coming to the their property marketing site initially!
6. ALL ….I repeat ALL of SBACorp’s marketing to ACQUIRE NEW clients is done via ‘DIRECT RESPONSE MARKETING’
7. What is Direct Response Marketing?
1. Direct Response is a client that is marketing to based upon the idea that they saw an ad somewhere in a Magazine, classified ad, or internet search as well as receiving an email that drives that client to an online           secure Form that they complete and request a Company to contact them directly!!
2. These ads ALWAYS direct consumers to a separate ONLINE form Outside of a Firm’s website!
3. The purpose is to get that client to get their contact data to the Licensed and Incorporated Firm quickly so that that Firm can respond and then direct them to how the retainer would operate.
4. Please, please do not fall for this Marketing trick!  USE a firm like SBACorp that uses solid, proven and viable marketing methods that work if you are trying to resale your Vacation Ownership Property.