Exchange Tip #2, like the first tip, is one you may have heard before but read it carefully. In it I reveal a strategy and technique
that few timeshare owners know or use. Used correctly, it will give you an unfair advantage over millions of timeshare owners when exchanging.
TIP #2 REQUEST EARLY
O.K. I know you’re probably rolling your eyes at this one because it’s so obvious. But keep reading to learn some Insider’s Secrets few timeshare owners know of or use.
Requesting early, in either RCI or Interval International, especially combined with banking early, will really increase your exchange power. But again, many timeshare owners don’t put in their requests until they know exactly where and when they want to go. It’s natural.
So what do you do?
INSIDER’S SECRET
Put in a request for a resort that you have little if any chance of getting, to timestamp your request date as early as possible.
In the timeshare world, if I request a resort today and you request the exact same thing tomorrow, and everything else between us is
equal, I’ll get confirmed before you because I requested one measly day before you did.
When do you think the bulk of millions of timeshare owners put in their exchange requests in RCI and Interval International? If you guessed the first quarter of the year you’d be right. That’s because the holidays are over, people are looking forward to a fresh start on the year AND they’ve just received and paid their HOA’s.
This serves to remind them to start planning for their vacation. You want to be ahead of the multitudes of exchangers and get your
request in before the first quarter of the year.
This means you had better get a request for next year in this year.
I request from RCI, Borgo di Vagli in Tuscany, Italy in the summertime at the same time I bank my week just to get my request
time stamped early. And later, when I know where I really want to go, I call back simply change my request.
I use the same technique with Interval International requesting the Franz Klammer Lodge, a Fairmont Hotels and Resorts property, for Christmas and New Years and Ocho Cascadas in February.
Interval International once told me that they only get 30 exchanges a year from Ocho Cascadas and I’d venture a guess that
none of them are February weeks.
If you want to read about how you can learn many more ways to supercharge your exchange power, and exponentially increase your chances of exchanging into the best resorts in the world, go to
www.TheTimeshareExpert.com/rcisecrets.html
That’s it for now. Look for Tip #3 to tie it all together.
