ilene13
TUG Member
We bought our first timeshare in 1980. We have always considered them as guaranteed vacations not investments. Many of the questions in this thread bother me. Amongst our 7 weeks we own 3 platinum weeks in Aruba. We have been traveling to Aruba since 1987. Until the Ocean Club was built in 2000, we stayed at the Hyatt. As an educator we have always gone to Aruba weeks 50-52. For the past 4 years I have been having a lot of trouble getting the weeks that I want because many owners consider it a business, they own multiple weeks and seasons they book the weeks very early and then use them as rental property. It is not fair to the owners who want to use their weeks. So, asking about how much people earn using their timeshare as a business is pretty upsetting to me! The intent of timeshares is not to create side businesses for people.