Save Thousands on Taxes

Save Thousands on Taxes


One of the many advantages of owning one of our RV Timeshares is all of the money you will save on taxes. All of our vehicles are registered in a sales tax free state. Once you are paired with co-owners in your area, we handle incorporating and registering your vehicle. Your RV will be registered to a holding company, owned by you and your co-owners. Registering your RV to a holding company is an easy, legal way to save thousands on sales tax and registration fees.

Trading Weeks

Trading


Travel plans sometimes have to change. That’s why any time division plan will have to include provisions for trading. What if a work obligation arose that causes you to cancel your travel plans? Or what if you are invited to an out of town wedding and would like to take advantage of your mobile home. Life happens and we have to roll with it. In this case we propose that you offer up your week in exchange for one of your co-owners’. As part of the administration of a timeshare RV, we would maintain the records and facilitate trades. If a straight up trade arrangement can not be made, there is always the possible of trading for a future pick  Once a group of owners is matched, time division, trading and a host of other particulars will be formalized in a written agreement.

Sharing Time

Sharing Time


One of the first considerations in RV Timesharing is how to divide the time. There are many different methods. I will discuss some of these methods below. I would love hear what others think.

• Random Selection

Assuming that the owners have similar week requests, the random selection method could be used. First we would divide the year into 4 groups – winter, spring, summer and fall. Then those groups would be divided into Saturday to Saturday weeks. We would randomly pick weeks out of a hat from each group for each owner. This will ensure that no one gets stuck with all winter weeks or all summer weeks.

• Point System

I have a Disney timeshare that works on this system. With the point system, the year is grouped into point values. A holiday week would have a high value and a winter week would have a low value. Each owner would have the same allotment of points and would choose how to spend them. For example, the July 4th week would cost 50 points and the 2nd week of January would cost 25 points. So you can have two weeks for the cost of one in the low season.

• Draft Method

My husband recently explained how this works and it may be my favorite. Each owner would randomly be assigned a number – 1, 2, 3, 4 etc. The first owner would get their first round choice for their week. The second owner would then pick their week, then the third owner and the fourth. The second round would start with the fourth owner picking first, then the third second, and first. This would continue until all of the available weeks were claimed. (Several weeks will be held open for scheduled maintenance). I think this makes the most sense because you would be picking the actual weeks you want and less trading would be required. I will discuss trading in another post.

RV Timeshare

RVing

If you're like me, you love a good road trip. My husband and I used to pick up and go when ever and where ever. It was great. Then the kids came along and while we instilled in them that same sense of adventure and spontaneity, long car rides left them restless and bored. For years I played around with the idea of RV ownership but always came to the same conclusion - it was too expensive. When you add the price of an RV, insurance and storage, then divide it by the number of weeks you would actually use it, it just didn't make economical sense. I did a lot of research on buying used RVs at a fraction of the cost of new, but any really affordable model I looked at was too shabby to enjoy riding in. I even looked into RV rentals and found that option prohibitively expensive too. An average RV vacation rental would cost nearly $2000. But somehow I keep coming back to the idea of a motorhome for family vacations. I have visions of cross county road trips to the Grand Canyon, beach getaways, tailgating and Bonaroo. We all hate to fly, especially nowadays; and we hate to pack - picking and choosing every little thing you will need for your whole family for a whole week and then cramming it all into as few suitcases as possible. We love the idea of traveling with everything we need, including a refrigerator and cold beverages for the kids. We would love to be able to go whenever we like, stop whenever we like and never wait in security lines. But unless I hit the lottery sometime soon, it isn’t happening.


Fractional Ownership

Then I got my inspiration while opening the mail. I was reading a letter from my Disney timeshare when it occurred to me that you should be able to have an RV timeshare too. A quick Google search did not turn up much except one company selling weeks in very high-end RVs Again, no bargains here. You can get a very nice 2008 or 2009 Class C RV for about $60,000. Splitting that cost along with maintenance, between 4 or even 8 families would make owning an RV affordable for most vacation budgets.

Contact Me

Of course, there are details that would have to be worked out. I will address logistics in future posts, but for now I am trying to determine if there is enough interest out there. It you think an RV timeshare could be right for you, email me at RVTimeshare@gmail.com with the information listed below.


Your location: Provide your city or zip code to be matched with other families in your area.


Amount of time you are interested in owning: 6 months (split with one co-owner); 3 months (split with 3 co-owners); 6 weeks (split with 7 co-owners); 3 weeks (split with 15 co-owners)


Do you have a time of year preference for vacation? There are many methods of splitting time. One would be to group people by the time of year they want to vacation.


Do you have pets that would vacation with you? Families with pets could be grouped together.


Do you smoke? Smokers could also be grouped.


Do you anticipate taking all long distance trips or mostly local? Owners could also be grouped by their usage habits to even out mileage.