July 29, 2010 8 PM Central

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Basic and advanced renting tactics

Please click the picture below to enroll for our Webinar:

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Attend our FREE Webinar all about renting your timeshares for a profit and we know you will walk away more confident that you can rent your timeshares and help them enrich your vacation experience.  This Webinar is taught by a timeshare owner who has rented hundreds of timeshares over the past 11 years and can help you do the same.

Everyone attending the Webinar will get a copy of the Webinar both as an eBook and access to the recorded Webinar to replay later.  Additionally we are selling a combo pack of How to Rent Timeshares Kit and Timeshare Rental Agreement Kit for just $10 instead of the normal $15.

If you can’t make the Webinar the special promotional price is available now and until July 31, 2010.  Click the picture below to order the combo pack:

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If you buy the combo kit above you can read it and be prepared to ask the author questions that impact your particular situation.

Hope to see you at the Webinar on July 29, 2010 at 8 PM Central for 2 hours.

Thursday July 1, 2010 – 8 PM CST

The NEW Marriott Vacation Club was announced June 20, 2010 – it’s 100% Point oriented and not week oriented! This is exciting news and we are holding a Webinar to discuss all aspects of the new Marriott Vacation Club.  Should you join or not?  How much to join? Please sign up below – we are limited to just 150 folks – and it’s FREE!

This is a VERY complicated system and full of twists and turns.  There are many time-sensitive offers and decision points that will be covered in the Webinar.   We will send you reminder eMails so you don’t forget.  We will NOT sell your eMail address to anyone.  There is no cost or obligation for attending the Webinar.

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Universal Orlando just opened the Wizarding World of Harry Potter TODAY!

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It’s official folks – the name of the new timeshare division of Marriott is “Marriott Vacation Club Destinations” which will be launched on Monday, June 21, 2010. The website will be: www.MarriottVacationClubDestinations.com You heard it hear first!

A new court ruling in Spain on the 27 of May 2010 is set to see an avalanche of timeshare compensation claims against developers, the ruling can now be used by European timeshare owners to seek compensation from illegal contracts signed after 1996 In Spain and its territories.

It is now thought that up to 400,000 contracts were made illegally after 1996, industry experts believe that timeshare compensation claims could reach 2,000,000,000 (Billion) Euro.

Magistrate D. Juan Carlos Socorro Marrero has ruled that a timeshare developer in Gran Canaria must pay back double the amount of the timeshare deposit taken within the cooling off period. In a case brought against Anfi Sales SL, part of the Anfi Del Mar Group in Gran Canaria the Magistrate commented” The case of paying an advance instalment is in opposition to what is dictated in the law 42/1998, article 11, the second section of this mentioned rule permits the acquirer “at any time” to get back double the stated amount.”

Anfi Del Mar reportedly one of the most largest and luxurious timeshare developments in Europe is now set for up to 10,000 new claims for timeshare miss-selling under the 1994 European timeshare directive. Anfi Del Mar, built by the Ling Group in Gran Canaria in 1989 and once owned by the largest travel agent in the world “TUI” is said to be in a state of panic at this ruling. “TUI” who own and operate several of the best known UK high street tour operators including Thomson were also responsible for taking illegal timeshare deposits at Anfi from 2001 to 2004.

At present there are over 200 live claims for timeshare miss-selling against Anfi Del Mar in the Spanish court system and with fresh claims coming in at a rate of 10 a week before this ruling, it is not known what affect this will have on the stability of Anfi Del Mar.

Under Spanish law, even if a property is sold on all debts and encumberments are passed to the new owners, so even if a timeshare property has changed its ownership, the new owners will still be liable for new compensation claims.

However in Tenerife in the last two years a number of timeshare developments have already been repossessed by the unscrupulous developers by way of inflating yearly maintenance fees, once seized they split the apartments up and sell on as real estate, this then circumvents this ruling, it is widely thought within the industry up to 200 developers operating out of Spain, Canaries and the Balearics are already moving to sell off timeshare resorts that have or will have actions brought against them.

Five out of the top 10 timeshare developers in Europe including Brand name companies have taken illegal deposits during the cooling off period and some as late as 2009 were still selling illegal contracts. In contracts shown to Claims Directive this year, one developer based in Mallorca, Spain is still taking illegal deposits even after this was outlawed in a 1994 European timeshare directive, that Spain adopted in 1996. The European timeshare industry does have a regulatory body, however 4 of its paid members are developers that have broken these laws previously, and until the regulatory body in place condemns these actions committed by their own members, there will not be a fair regulatory body representing timeshare owners in Europe.

Claims Directive and its sponsor believe that this new ruling gives power back to the timeshare owner, and because this ruling can be back dated on claims to 1996, it will give timeshare compensation to owners who never before had a chance of taking on large corporate brand developers.

If you have paid a timeshare deposit on or during the cooling off period after 1996, in Spain or its islands, you are now entitled to reclaim double your deposit, even if the company you purchased from is no longer trading, as long as the timeshare development still exists.

“We are beginning to see pent-up demand play out, and while we are seeing the Hawaii market come back, Starwood has invested more than $1 billion in renovations in Hawaii,” said Van Paasschen, who was visiting the newly renovated Sheraton Waikiki this week.

“If 2009 was the year of the staycation, the next few years will be an exercise in pent-up demand,” Van Paasschen said, adding, “Hawaii is delivering newly renovated properties at just the right time.”

Starwood manages or owns 11 properties in Hawaii. Recent and future investments include the completed $187 million renovation of the Sheraton Waikiki, the planned $700 million redevelopment of the Sheraton Princess Kaiulani and Moana Surfrider’s Diamond Head Tower in 2012 by Kyo-ya Hotels & Resorts, and the planned $500 million renovation and redevelopment of the Sheraton Maui Resort & Spa in 2012.

Starwood’s overall occupancy in Hawaii averaged 71.7 percent year to date, and revenue per available room or RevPAR, considered by many to be the best measure of hotel performance, rose to $186.59.

At some properties, such as the Sheraton Waikiki, occupancies have climbed to 89 percent, said Keith Vieira, senior vice president and director of operations for Starwood Hotels & Resorts in Hawaii and French Polynesia.

The improvement signals a positive trend for the remainder of the year, Vieira said. Leisure travel, a key driver of recovery, is up 40 percent, and group room nights are up 201 percent with 48,083 more room nights on the books this year than last year. Incentive business travel is also up 540 percent from 2009, and many companies that canceled this year and last year are rebooking through 2013.

Hawaii will continue to be a key focus for Starwood across all brands, including the Luxury Collection, St. Regis, Sheraton and Westin. The company recently finalized a contract extension with Kyo-ya Hotels & Resorts – owners of the Sheraton Waikiki, Royal Hawaiian, Moana Surfrider, Sheraton Princess Kaiulani and Sheraton Maui Resort & Spa – that will take the relationship to 2021. Sheraton has been managing Kyo-ya properties since the 1960s.

“This 60-year agreement signifies the longest-running hotel management contract in the islands,” Van Paasschen said.

The Westin Maui, the Westin Kaanapali, the Sheraton Kauai and the Westin Princeville could see renovation and redevelopment, Vieira said. The company might bring another W to Waikiki Beach, and its Four Points brand to secondary markets like Lihue and Kahului, he said. Starwood also has discussed introducing the Aloft brand hotel to the islands, Van Paasschen said.

In addition to growing and refining its local brands, the chain is eyeing the Asian Pacific, with an emphasis on China, as a key to Hawaii growth. Starwood plans to double its China presence to 100 hotels by 2012, “meaning Starwood will influence the hotel purchasing decisions of even more outbound Chinese travelers, many of them making trips to Hawaii,” Van Paasschen said. Chinese travel to Hawaii could benefit as the Chinese become more familiar with the Sheraton brand and hooked on its loyalty program.

Van Paasschen was at the Sheraton Waikiki for an event with 150 of Starwood’s top customers and travel agents from North America and Asia.

“Hosting this important relationship-building meeting in Hawaii underscores the importance of this region to Starwood overall and is a great opportunity to reintroduce Hawaii as a primary destination for leisure and business travel,” Van Paasschen said.

By Allison Schaefers

“You were supposed to win airline tickets, but in the very detailed fine print, there were all kind of exceptions to that,” said Attorney General Tom Corbett. “You had to stay overnight for eight days at a Bluegreen property. It was clearly misleading and false advertising.”

In addition to deceptive contests, Corbett says Bluegreen violated the “Do Not Call” list by calling people on the list, and it pressured consumers into signing expensive timeshare contracts.

After receiving more than 100 consumer complaints, the attorney general sued Bluegreen, and now there’s a settlement. People who were promised prizes and didn’t get them will get the cash value of the prize. Those who were called on the “Do Not Call” list will receive $100. And there’s a big break for consumers who were pressured into signing timeshare contracts, in some cases worth $20,000 to $40,000.

“The people who actually signed the contract, if they have not used the timeshare more than three times and filed a complaint with us, they can get out of the agreement and get any money they paid returned to them,” Corbett said.

Consumers have until June 24 to file a complaint with the attorney general’s office. You can file a complaint by calling 1-800-441-2555, or file online at www.attorneygeneral.gov. Corbett expects to return about $1 million to consumers in Pennsylvania.

Source: WHTM News

VALENCIA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Timeshare Juice (www.timesharejuice.com), the world’s first fully-automated real-time exchange service for timeshares, launched its site to the public today. Timeshare owners from around the world can now join the site and exchange timeshares for free at any resort worldwide. Timeshare owners save hundreds of dollars in timeshare exchange fees each year using TimeshareJuice.com.

“This is a great concept and it will be good for the timeshare industry. It’s exactly the boost resorts need right now.”

According to ARDA, there are over 6,500,000 timeshares and 5,000 timeshare resorts worldwide. The timeshare concept has attracted many resort developers and prominent hoteliers, such as Marriott (MAR), Starwood (HOT), Wyndham (WYN), Accor (AC), Hyatt (H), Hilton (HLNQ), and Disney (DIS).

Timeshare exchange is a multi-billion dollar business for Resort Condominiums International (RCI) a division of Wyndham Worldwide and Interval International an operating segment of Interval Leisure Group (IILG) with the majority of fees generated through membership.

“Actually, I created Timeshare Juice to save my family and friends money and then it just got carried away. I got fed-up with the high fees and poor service of my exchange company. I knew there had to be a better way. Owners save over $250 per vacation. That’s a lot of money. We’re in the midst of a tough economic time. People are looking for ways to cut costs. Timeshare owners don’t want to cut out their vacations. People need more vacations, not less,” said Erick Arndt, founder of Timeshare Juice.

“A million timeshare units went unused last year. What a shame. That’s a lot of wasted vacations not to mention a billion dollars in lost revenue for resorts. We want to change that and get more people on vacation,” said Erick Arndt.

“This is a great concept and it will be good for the timeshare industry. It’s exactly the boost resorts need right now.” – Site member, MarriottTS

About Timeshare Juice

Timeshare Juice (TimeshareJuice.com) is a website to exchange timeshares for free. It’s the first fully-automated real-time exchange system for timeshares. Timeshare Juice was founded in Valencia, CA in 2009.

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The final phase opening of Marriott’s OceanWatch Villas at Grande Dunes, in Myrtle Beach, SC, was announced today by Marriott – Marriott is apparently starting to build again!  We’ve been to OceanWatch many times over the past 4 years and just love the place.

75 2-bedroom timeshare villas will now be added to the existing 286 2-bedroom villas resulting in a final resort of 361 2-bedroom lock-off villas of about 1,100 sq ft each.

Michael Reilly, general manager of Marriott’s OceanWatch Villas at Grande Dunes says, “We are excited to open the final phase of villas at this fabulous resort, offering more luxurious accommodations for more families to enjoy in beautiful Myrtle Beach.”

The resort offers three outdoor pools, a slide pool, four whirlpool spas, and a children’s pool. Timeshare owners can also enjoy both a children’s and an adult’s indoor pool; the MarketPlace convenience store and grille; resort activities; and, of course, the beautiful, large, private beachfront.

Part of the resort is a Marriott hotel with their Hibiscus Spa.  This gives owners the flexibility to invite friends and family who can stay at the hotel which is beautifully incorporated with the timeshares at the resort.