Things You'll Need:
- Ensure you read your owners manual from cover to cover. The important stuff is always in the back.
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Step 1
Knowledge is power!Ensure that you ask all the possible questions you can think of when you purchase. At the time, you will be limited because you do not know what you do not know. Ensure that you have the sales rep walk you through the resorts owner's manual. You must ensure that they do this. Many sales reps want to wisk you away so they can get to the next sale, but you have just spent your hard earned money and they owe it to you. Mark the pages that you cover and always take your manual with you on vacation.
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Step 2
Read cover to cover!When you get home, do not just put the book in a corner or under the short leg of the table to stop the wobble. Take the time to review what you have done and ensure that you have a complete understanding of what you own. Remember that when you make a major purchase, buyer's remorse sets in and you start to doubt what you have done. The more knowledge and questions you have asked on the front end, will assist in this. Ensure that you read your owner's manual from cover to cover. Don't just look at the beautiful pictures of the resorts, but read the policies and procedures in the back half of the manual. This allows you to match up what you were told by your sales rep and the closing agent.
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Step 3
Get on the internet. Do not be scared!Go to the timeshare company website and review policies and procedures on their site. You are looking at how to make a reservation, how to exchange, how to cancel a reservation, any additional costs or fees required, and how to make a guest confirmation. Additionally, you need to review how to do your taxes before tax time, and what happens to your points, or week if you do not use it that year. I know that most vacationers never think that they will not be taking a vacation that year, but things happen. Medical problems, work issues, financial responsibilities, you name it.
