Apex Professionals LLC Timeshare Blog

10 Ways to Save BIG on Your Next Vacation

Here are some traveling secrets from Apex Professionals to help you save BIG on the next vacation you take!
10) Eat with the locals. Instead of heading to the nearest fancy touristy restaurant, go where the locals go to eat. You are likely to get more authentic food that is less expensive.
9) Start planning your vacation [...]

Fractional Ownership Offers a Wise Alternative to Timeshares

With the current economic crisis, most people across the country do not have their sights set on vacations. In fact, as many people are finding ways to reduce costs in their lives, the travel industry has suffered greatly, with people foregoing vacations and trying to sell their costly vacation homes. However, for budget conscious consumers [...]

10 Things They Don’t Want You To Know

If you’ve ever been sold a timeshare, it probably sounded pretty good on the outset: your very own slice of paradise, for a fraction of the cost of owning an actual vacation property. You likely envisioned flying out for relaxing holidays at your timeshare property, basking in the glow of all that saved money. However, [...]

RCI Points Demystified

Resort Condominiums International (RCI) runs a timeshare points travel exchange program called RCI Points, which allows members to take vacations in more than 3,700 resorts in more than 100 countries, around the world. Founded in 1974, RCI has more than three million members.

RCI Points are accrued through timeshare ownership of an RCI-affiliated resort. This system has attempted to increase flexibility for timeshare owners for their vacations with this in-network currency. It is a great idea to fill unused capacity by linking the entire RCI network together [...]

Timeshare Alternatives

(Apex Professionals LLC) April 3, 2009 –The whole idea of timesharing resort properties purportedly arose at a ski resort in the French Alps. A clever property owner conceived the idea and promoted it with the phrase, “Why rent a room when you can buy the hotel?” The concept seems simple and rather attractive at first [...]

Time Share Investing Debunked

(Apex Professionals LLC) April 2, 2009 — For years the words timeshare and investment were spoken in the same sentence, along with fun, relaxation and vacation. Today a timeshare is considered a long term usage product, which over the course of 12 to 15 years might breakeven, if it’s used every year. The words that [...]

The Truth About Timeshares

Timeshare real estate investments are quite different than almost all other property investments. Very desirable property is leased or sold to many buyers who must all share the dwelling. A common theme is that each timeshare owner may use their property for only one or two weeks out of the year. For vacation hot-spot areas, ownership prices can vary on the same piece of property so that desirable times of the year are priced higher.

Timeshares, Like Diamonds, Really are Forever

If you are a timeshare owner, you have probably already learned a painful lesson: forever is a long, long time. But forever is exactly what you agree to when you sign a timeshare contract that includes a perpetuity clause. The confusing language of these bulky contracts (that few people ever take the time to read) literally traps you and your children into the responsibility for these maintenance fees for the rest of your lives.

ABC Timeshare Pitfalls & Woes

Apex Professionals, LLC, has been trying for a very long time to generate news-service interest in the rapidly decaying timeshare industry and marketplace. Recently, due in part to global [...]

Psychology of a Timeshare Sale

Timeshare industry received wide growth and popularity up until just a year or two ago. Unfortunately, as people have begun to discovered, all that hype was created only to lure people into what in reality is not much more than a scam. Many good people have found themselves trapped into owning timeshare property they either [...]