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An Introduction to Timeshares

By: Hispanic Though you wish you could go on vacation, taking the time off and heading to another country or city would be too expensive for you considering all the hotel accommodations you have to pay, the food you have to stock and the miscellaneous expenses in between. The rates of the best hotels and resorts aren't exactly in the low or middle budget area, so that's quite the wall you have to scale. Fortunately, there's a solution: Timeshares.

One of the best things that you can do if you want to take a vacation on a budget is to use timeshares. Timeshares are a method of owning vacation property. What sets them apart from regular ownership, though, is that you share ownership of a particular property with a lot of different owners. It is similar to a corporation, where individuals have shares of stock in the company.

How exactly do timeshares work? Just like stock in a corporation, you can buy a specified amount of timeshares. Depending on how much of a share of the property you own, you get a specific "share" of time to use the property every month or year. For example, you may have bought a timeshare that lets you use a cottage in the mountains for two weeks every year. You can enjoy your two weeks in the cottage, or you can rent or sell it off to somebody else.

You can save a lot of money by using timeshares. The cost of having the property-maintenance and taxes included-are distributed between the many owners. Also, it's better than having your vacation in a hotel, where you shoulder all the expenses, the repair, the taxes and all those other collateral costs. It's like having a vacation in your very own home for a month, except it has a better view. Vacation properties at high-profile places can be very expensive, so timeshare allows you to experience vacation-quality property at a fraction of the cost. Merely sharing the burden of responsibility and enjoying the full reward afterwards is a reward in and of itself; a gift that keeps on giving, if you will.