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I am attempting to rent a unit at a Wyndham timeshare. How can I verify that the person I contacted through RedWeek is the owner of the week he is advertising. He wants a $250 nonrefundable deposit to close the deal, and I would like to be sure that he has reserved the week in question. Thanks for your help.
 

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Pay the deposit with a credit card. If you find out he's a fraud or doesn't deliver as advertised you can dispute the charge with your credit card company. I tell my new renters if they question my legitimacy to pay the PayPal invoice I would send them to pay it with a credit card even if they have a PayPal account so they can dispute the charge if need be.
 

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You can also ask to see a screen shot (or PDF) of the reservation. I've sent a prospective renter a copy of the existing reservation in my name before as well so they know I actually have the unit/dates in question.


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DeniseM's link has good pointers, though it seems to me that #6 is more appropriate for fixed weeks than for floaters or points-based bookings.


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Very dear friend would like us to take over her timeshare. She worked for Fairfield and was gifted the unit years ago. We live in Arizona and this could be a great fine for us. BUT, her fixed week is 1 or 2 of the year. Unit is a Tanglewood 2B 2B which is great, with $600 MF. Our two timeshares are floating weeks, with Interval, so please explain the fixed week for us. We really don't ski in our 70's, we are more likely to travel to the resort on the spring and fall shoulder season. I don't have a RCI travel index to refer to for that time of the year.
Will we have any luck exchanging for Hawaii or elsewhere?
Also, do we have to belong to RCI to just exchange within the Wyndham resorts.
Any thing else we should know? Transfer fees etc.
Julie
 

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<snip> ...her fixed week is 1 or 2 of the year. Unit is a Tanglewood 2B 2B which is great, with $600 MF. Our two timeshares are floating weeks, with Interval, so please explain the fixed week for us.
Fixed week 1 or 2 is always first or second week in January --- not a time period of much interest to you, at least based upon your stated post content.

We really don't ski in our 70's, we are more likely to travel to the resort on the spring and fall shoulder season.
Not by using a fixed week 1 or 2 (i.e., first or second week in January).

Will we have any luck exchanging for Hawaii or elsewhere?
I'm admittedly not an exchanger, but intuitively it seems to me that getting to Hawaii with this early January AZ week as exchange fodder may be a bit optimistic.
With all due respect, I suspect that "elsewhere" is a much more likely exchange.

Also, do we have to belong to RCI to just exchange within the Wyndham resorts.
Wyndham owns RCI ouright and a Wyndham ownership provides you with a RCI membership (wanted or not), for which you are billed within the "program fees".

Any thing else we should know? Transfer fees etc.
Wyndham mandatory transfer fee is $299. If this is a fixed week, there is an associated deed. A new deed would have to be prepared and recorded (and the $299 provided) before Wyndham will entertain or process the ownership transfer. An outfit like LT Transfers charges about $150 for this part of the transfer process.

Your friend may be intending a kind gesture, but is this really something that you can and will actually use to productive and enjoyable advantage? :shrug:
 
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Thank you, good points for us to consider.
 

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Wyndham owns RCI ouright and a Wyndham ownership provides you with a RCI membership (wanted or not), for which you are billed within the "program fees".

This doesn't apply to fixed weeks, unless it's been converted to points.
 

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This doesn't apply to fixed weeks, unless it's been converted to points.

That's news to me; thanks for the clarification. My (...former, I'm very happy to say) Wyndham fixed week had indeed also been "converted" to points (by a prior owner, certainly not by me). RCI membership (which was actually of no use or interest to me anyhow) was "included" so I assumed, apparently incorrectly, that RCI membership was "included" with all Wyndham fixed weeks. I never considered or realized that such weeks having also been "converted to points" was even a factor. Live and learn.
 
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I am attempting to rent a unit at a Wyndham timeshare. How can I verify that the person I contacted through RedWeek is the owner of the week he is advertising. He wants a $250 nonrefundable deposit to close the deal, and I would like to be sure that he has reserved the week in question. Thanks for your help.

I always make the reservation before I ask for any money and I send a copy of the confirmation (in my name) to my customer I then ask for a $100 deposit with which I add the customers name to the reservation. They get their confirm before they pay me the balance. They are welcome to call the resort to be sure the reservation is really made.

If I have a customer that is as concerned as you seem to be I also invite them to do a conference call with Wyndham for confirmation and I have been known to send them a copy of a deed. I also have a list of past satisfied customers to refer them too

One of the reasons I spend as much time here on TUG is so that when someone googles me they can see that I am well known in the community and kinda respected.

Basically I bend over backward to demonstrate my legitimacy. If thats not enough. I suggest they stay at a local hotel and leave me alone

Perhaps your guy has already reached that point with you
 

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That's news to me; thanks for the clarification. My (...former, I'm very happy to say) Wyndham fixed week had indeed also been "converted" to points (by a prior owner, certainly not by me). RCI membership (which was actually of no use or interest to me anyhow) was "included" so I assumed, apparently incorrectly, that RCI membership was "included" with all deeded fixed weeks. I never considered or realized that such weeks having also been "converted to points" was even a factor. Live and learn.

Too many systems to keep up all the rules straight... especially when they change up periodically.
 
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