Timeshares For Sale

The Association of Timeshare Sales Professionals International (ATSPI) is founded and created by Sales Professionals, for Sales Professionals. Throughout their experience in the Timeshare industry, they have quickly realized that there is a need for an association to deal with all the issues involving employers, employees and consumers. The idea of ATSPI came to life in an attempt to eliminate the industry's negative image and to enhance the positive one.

There are many different types of ownership when dealing with timeshares. Ownership is often sold as weeks, the use of these weeks can be fixed, floating or rotating weeks. The most basic timeshare unit is a fixed week; the resort will have a calendar enumerating the weeks roughly starting with the first calendar week of the year. As an owner you may own a deed to use a unit for a single specified week. For example week 26 normally includes the Fourth of July Holiday. If you owned Week 26 at a resort you could use your week every year.

Sometimes a timeshare sale is for floating weeks. The ownership will be specific on how many weeks you own and from which weeks you may select for your stay. An example of this, a timeshare sale may be a floating summer week where the owner may request any week during the summer season generally weeks 22 through 36. In this example there would be competition for prime holidays such as the weeks of Memorial Day, Fourth of July and Labor Day. The weeks when schools may still be in session would not be so high in demand. Some floating contracts exclude major holidays so they may be sold as fixed weeks.

Some timeshare is sold as rotating weeks. In an attempt to give all owners a chance for the best weeks; the weeks are rotated forward or backward through the calendar so one year the owner may have use of week 25, then week 26 the next year and then week 27 the year after that. This method does give each owner a fair opportunity for prime weeks but it is not flexible.