I started out in the internet marketing business by accident. I was actually searching for a decent place to take my mother and dad. A decent place, not an outrageous 4 or 5 star resort. We even looked into timeshares as an option. But they were way out of my price range and I didn’t like the thought of being tied to something.
It was during that search that I found what I think of as my Timeshare Alternative. To understand what I mean, here’s briefly how a timeshare works; One buys a certain amount of time at a given resort , or free standing timeshare unit that is shared with other timeshare owners. The timeshare comes with a cost for owning this piece of time at this single unit. On top of the timeshare cost itself, there is are maintenance fees that you must pay every month or every year. Once you are in a timeshare, you are in a way, stuck with it unless you can sell it. You are able to enjoy this one place, once a year probably, at only one certain time of year. If something comes up, you often cannot very easily trade your time for another person’s time quickly. I read this was called the “Timeshare Trap”.
I discovered a...