TIMESHARES ON HILTON HEAD

Would you like to have outstanding Hilton Head accommodations at guaranteed attractive prices for many years into the future? Would you like to be able to trade your Hilton Head place to stay for upscale accommodations around the country or around the world, including Hawaii, the Caribbean and Europe? If so, please read on!

You can obtain these benefits by purchasing the right "shared ownership" property on Hilton Head, one of the world's most famous upscale resorts. If you buy with the right objectives, we think that shared ownership property can be a truly outstanding opportunity.

Some local companies marketing new and/or resale timeshare and other shared ownership properties are:

MARRIOTT SURFWATCH
 
ISLAND CLUB RESALES

THE ORIGINAL TIMESHARE RESALES

THE RESALE COMPANY

RESORT SOURCE TIMESHARE RESALES

VACATION TIMESHARE RESALES


The following material furnishes more information.

Guarantee Future Vacations at Today's Prices

There is no doubt about it...upscale vacation accommodations are expensive, and getting more expensive each year. However, to go first class, vacationers must accept annual increases in prices unless they can afford to own a vacation place of their own. If you buy shared ownership property, you effectively join with other like-minded people to purchase accommodations that would not be practical for you to buy on your own. Both use of the property and expenses associated with its construction and management are shared.

One of the most attractive benefits of shared OWNERSHIP is that the "real" cost of your vacation accommodations should never increase, or at least increase very little. The expense of your share of taxes and fees, of course, will go up over time. However, the value of included amenities, for which you otherwise would pay cash, such as golf, tennis, beach access, etc., probably will increase at about the same rate.


Amenities Are Outstanding

The most important reason most people would purchase a vacation in the first place is their own pleasure and that of their families! One of the best aspects of most shared ownership properties is that they genuinely are upscale, with all of the comforts of home...and then some. Many boast such "bells and whistles" as VCRs, multiple TVs, stereos, wet bars, jacuzzis, hot tubs, etc.

Most also boast outstanding "amenities" packages, which may include free or reduced rate golf and tennis, use of boats, use of bicycles, use of private plantation facilities, etc. The value of these amenities often is much greater than people suspect (often in the hundreds of dollars a week), and should increase every year.


You Can Trade For Vacations Elsewhere

One of the most exciting aspects of shared ownership projects is the ability to trade for accommodations elsewhere. Hilton Head is a wonderful place to visit, but occasionally you may want a change of pace. Alternatively, you may prefer to spend some time here each year and some time at other vacation spots.

Most Hilton Head shared ownership properties are associated with RCI (Resort Condominiums International) or II (Interval International), or have a comparable arrangement with another group. Association with RCI or II permits Hilton Head owners to trade their vacation weeks on Hilton Head for vacation weeks in resorts around the world for a modest fee.

Both RCI and II have standards that must be met before properties are accepted, so you may be confident that the property that you trade for will be attractive. If you want to be especially sure that you are going to be in a quality property, be sure that you are trading for an RCI Gold Crown or Interval International five star property.

There is a "downside" to trading for properties elsewhere. Not every location will be available exactly when you want it, and some are available for trade only occasionally. However, we understand that truly desirable properties usually are available most of the time. And if you wish to trade for accommodations at a particular resort in Hawaii or the Carribbean and you cannot arrange it when you wish, having your time on Hilton Head is not a bad consolation!

We can report that trading really does work based on experience of friends and personal experience.

For example, two of our good friends own five weeks of timeshare property on Hilton Head. Their first three weeks were purchased over 25 years ago.

Our friends enjoyed Hilton Head vacations in their timeshares until they moved to Hilton Head in 1987. Then they began trading for vacations in other places, including Vail (Colorado), Austria, London (England), the Caribbean (numerous times), Cancun (Mexico) and many other destinations.

They found trading worked so well that they purchased a fourth Hilton Head timeshare and a fifth in 1994...in order to have more weeks to trade for accommodations elsewhere. They have observed that Hilton Head property is an especially good buy for them, even though they live here, because there is great demand for it from other people wanting to trade.
Our friends are very enthusiastic about their ability to trade. However, they do caution that one must be willing to plan ahead - not all non-Hilton Head Island properties are available all the time.

We (your publisher and family) also have benefitted from the trading of timeshare accommodations. St. John's, St. Maartin (both in the Caribbean), London (England), Bermuda and Williamsburg, Virginia have been among our destinations. Most were RCI Gold Crown Resorts. All were very attractive and, in general, worked out extremely well.


You Often Can Rent Your Property

One of the major changes on Hilton Head over the last decade is the improvement in opportunities to rent vacation weeks to people who wish to vacation on Hilton Head. Most major timeshare marketers have rental divisions. There also are several independent firms that specialize in rental of shared ownership properties. Of course, it also is possible to rent through your local newspaper or a notice on the bulletin board of a club at home.

As a general rule, however, using or trading your shared ownership property usually is more appealing, since you must pay a commission to the rental firm you use. Furthermore, it is not always possible to find a renter at the exact time you want one.


There Are Many Types of Properties and Forms of Ownership.

Hilton Head boasts several kinds of shared ownership property. There are traditional one week "timeshares," tenth-shares (five weeks a year) and other multiple week arrangements. Most new shared ownership property is of the "floating week" variety, where an owner can vary the week or weeks selected (within a season).


More About Financial Consequences

For the sake of simplicity, let's assume that you buy one week of shared ownership vacation time for $12,000. Let's also assume that you pay $300.00 a year in taxes and fees, and that the value of the golf, tennis and other savings you experience as part of your property rights also are worth $300.00...effectively cancelling out your taxes and fees. The dollar amounts of both presumably will increase at similar rates, probably closely related to inflation, in the future.

If your week of vacation in a really nice two or three bedroom Hilton Head villa would cost you about $900.00 (very conservatively) the first year, and you could have earned about the same by investing your $12,000.00 in a Certificate of Deposit (which might be difficult just now), you would break even in that first year. In effect, the interest on your $12,000.00 purchase price would buy you a comparable vacation that first year. Unfortunately, each subsequent year your week of quality vacation presumably would cost a bit more...and probably would double in price in ten or fifteen years.

By OWNING a week of vacation, you should be able to enjoy it every year for the same basic price as today...the "interest" on your $12,000.00 initial investment. Note that your $12,000.00 investment in a CD would NOT be growing to generate the required additional income to pay for each year's higher prices of accommodations that you have to rent.

Note, too, that you almost certainly would have to pay INCOME TAX on your income from a CD or comparable investment, so you probably would have to invest more than $12,000.00 to generate the $900.00 in after-tax funds needed to rent your upscale Hilton Head villa. There are no taxes payable on the "pleasure income" you receive from your shared ownership property!

Finally, if you, your children or your grandchildren should sell your vacation property in 15 or 20 years, it seems reasonable to assume that it will sell for more than the $12,000.00 or so you paid for it today. However, it probably will not sell at a gain in the near future.


Visit At Least One Shared Ownership Property!!

On Hilton Head, and in many other places as well, the quality of the substantial majority of shared ownership property is high.

We recommend that you seriously consider visiting at least one shared ownership property to learn more about the opportunities that are available. If wonderful vacation accommodations and exciting vacations for yourself and your family are your objective, you may be very glad you took the time to investigate! In any event, you will have learned more about a vacation accommodations alternative that has been selected by millions of Americans!