If, for some reason, you're not going to use your timeshare, you can, in most cases, rent it out and recover your annual cost, plus a profit. Your home resort gets rental requests all the time and is likely to arrange the rental for you. Residual Value There may come a time your life when resort vacations no longer suit your lifestyle. Timeshare ownership provides you with a salable asset that will likely return most, if not all, of your original investment. You may also will it to your heirs, give it away, or do anything else with it that you can do with something you own.
Hotels provide no residual value.
Bottom Line Timeshare ownership provides annual accommodation savings, all the benefits of a condo versus just a hotel room, meal savings, free day use, inexpensive bonus time opportunities, rental income opportunity, and residual value. All rights reserved.