Why Nobody Wants Your Timeshare

The first important issue to understand is why nobody wants your timeshare. If you don't understand why there is little interest in your timeshare, it becomes a lot more difficult for you to make the essential and tough decisions in order to free yourself from your timeshare. Many people simply can't understand why something they paid a lot of money for seems impossible to even give away. Shouldn't there be people out there who want something that has value?



Timeshares do have value. The key issue to understand is whether that value exceeds the yearly maintenance and special assessment fees which the timeshare resort levies on the timeshare owner. As a timeshare gets older, maintenance fees tend to increase and special assessment fees become more frequesnt while the timeshare loses its luster to newer timeshares built in the area. When the yearly fees are more than what most people feel the timeshare is worth, that's when you'll find yourself in the timeshare trap because nobody is going to want to pay more in fees each year than what they think the timeshare is worth.

Before we get into the details of the various options available to get rid of a timeshare, it's important to have a basic understanding of what you can expect from the process of selling your timesahre.