Discover independence with vacation ownership in Hilton Head Island, SC

Learn why vacation ownership with Hilton Head is a great value

Timeshare or vacation ownership is a business model whereby people purchase time slices of property, usually in increments of weeks.

Timeshare owners can:

• Use their time period
• Rent it out
• Give it as a gift
• Exchange to thousands of resorts worldwide through Resort Condominiums International or Interval International
• Exchange internally within the same resort or resort group to another time period
• Sell it

Once a resort is sold out, a resort property management company is hired to carry on daily operations including front desk, reservations, accounting, maintenance.  The owners' association then hires a resale company to sell weeks for property owners who no longer have use for them.  Hilton Head timeshare resales feature the same amenities and benefits for up to 70% less than the original sales price in new developments. There are fee simple and right to use models and, generally, an annual maintenance fee for general upkeep.

Recently, through various point systems, owners may have added the flexibility of:

• Assigning their usage time to the point system to be exchanged for airline tickets, hotels, travel packages, cruises and amusement park tickets
• Taking a partial week vacation and using the rest of the points at a later date
• Borrowing points from a future year to get a larger unit,  more vacation time or a better location
• Saving or moving points from one year to another

One of the biggest benefits of timeshare is the ability of owners to exchange their week via exchange agencies, such as RCI, to stay at one of the over 7,000 resorts worldwide. The time period and location in which you own (known as your home week and resort) determine your "trading power" within this exchange system.