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.
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.
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.
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.
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