Thanksgiving is over and we’re headed into the Christmas holiday season. If you’re like most people, thinking about exchanging your timeshare is not high on your priority list. But you should let the beginning of the holiday season be a trigger to remind you to deposit your next year’s timeshare weeks with RCI or Interval International.
Ideally, you should have already done this by now in order to maximize your exchange power, but it’s not too late. Many timeshare exchangers make the mistake of waiting until they know where they want to go on vacation before depositing their weeks which usually results in decreased trading power. Keep in mind that you do not need to know this to bank or deposit you week with either exchange company. You just need to be fairly certain that you’re not going to want to stay at your home resort next year.
The reason that waiting until you know where you want to exchange to before depositing your week hurts your exchange power is because both exchange companies give you more exchange power the farther in advance you give up your week to them. So if I give up my week today and you give up your week tomorrow, and everything else between us is equal, I have more exchange power than you.
Another tip you should know is that both RCI and Interval International receive a large amount of timeshare deposits in the first 3 months of each year. The reasons for this are, as I previously mentioned, most timeshare owners aren’t concentrating on next year’s vacation now. They’ve typically just taken a summer vacation, then had to get the kids back to school, prepare for Thanksgiving and are now preparing for Christmas and New Year’s.
But after getting through the holidays and New Year, many timeshare owners start thinking about their upcoming vacation and deposit their timeshare weeks into RCI and Interval International’s exchange pool. To add fuel to the fire, many owners receive their annual maintenance fees in January as well reminding them to do something with their week.
What you want to remember is that even though RCI and II get a lot of deposits in the first quarter of each year, the best weeks are immediately taken back out by owners that are privy to this knowledge and are already on the waiting list leaving less for you.
In conclusion, not only should the start of the holiday season remind you to deposit your next year’s week, but when possible, you should place your exchange request as well. Taking advantage of these 2 simple timeshare exchange tips will help you to get better exchanges and enjoy your timeshare more.
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Jeff Pierce, The Timeshare Expert, has taught thousands of timeshare owners the secrets to getting the best exchanges with both RCI and Interval International for over 21 years.
His two books, The Timeshare Exchange Bible – RCI Weeks Edition, and The Timeshare Exchange Bible – Interval International, are the only books of their kind in the timeshare industry and designed to help you master at the very complicated art of getting good exchanges.
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