Because my husband and I have owned a timeshare for the last 9 years Wholesale Kevin Durant Jersey , I am frequently asked by friends and business associates if it makes financial sense for them to buy a timeshare.

Consider this scenario: When you and your family travel, how much do you spend on hotel room in a nice resort? One family suggested that because they have two teenagers, they actually get two rooms, usually averaging about $150 per night, a total of $300 per night. So, a seven day vacation will cost him about $2100 for the week. Accomodations for the $300 per night stay were for a nice standard hotel room, with no kitchen or living room. And because of the limited amenities, a good sum of money is spent on food since they have breakfast, lunch and dinner in restaurants each day.

Consider a timeshare: Most timeshares are condos with bedrooms, living room, kitchen and even a laundry room. You can buy some groceries and it's like living at home but at another exotic location and usually there are numerous planned activities for the whole family.

Here are typical costs associated with owning and trading a timeshare:

Annual membership in exchange company: $ 100 Exchange fee (assuming a trade each year) $ 139
Annual maintenance fee & property tax (depending on location) $ 500
Lost interest on the investment for buying timeshare (@3.25%) $ 400
(based on $11,500 purchase price)
Total annual cost: $1239

I explain to all my friends that I could be bitter about the timeshare thing because when we first bought into our timeshare it was truly considered an asset.

But now the rules for taking a quality vacation have changed, as the internet has made it easy to book nice, comparable properties online. Now no ownership is needed to obtain the same quality stay. As well, there are wholesale vacation clubs that have access to these same unused timeshares which you can access at very low prices.

In our attempts to sell our timeshare (thinking ours was our asset), we haven't found any buyers yet, only listing companies that are happy to charge their upfront listing fee. Recently, it was even explained to me that there generally is an agreement that most timeshare owners sign at their closing which authorizes unpaid timeshare fees to attach to your permanent residence as a lien. So here I have purchased my timeshare thinking this was an asset to pass down to my children, however, what I have left for them is an annual bill to pay, whether they enjoy the vacation exchanges or not. I explain to my friends that if they want an asset which gives them a lifetime of vacations, there are now better alternatives that work for the "new rules". My recommendation is a Coastal Vacations membership which provides a lifetime of vacations at wholesale prices and includes members in the loop of numerous discount memberships.
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WASHINGTON， July 17 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. on Sunday resumed flight operations from a Turkish airbase to launch airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) after Turkey reopened its airspace closed in the wake of a failed coup attempt.

Speaking to reporters aboard his plane after a visit to Afghanistan， Joseph Dunford， chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff， confirmed the reopening of the Incirlik Air Base in southwestern Turkey.

"We resumed flight operations today， and airspace is opened back up -- business as usual，" Dunford told Pentagon reporters， adding there are no plans to change the U.S. force posture in Turkey.

"Our relationship with Turkey as a NATO ally is broad -- politically， economically and from a security perspective，" he said.

In terms of urgency， the United States is most concerned about the counter-IS fight and its partnership with Turkey in the fight， Dunford said.

The border area between Turkey and Syria is critical， as foreign fighters and money flow across the border， the general noted.

"The Turkish-Syrian border is important to isolate the battlefield in Syria，" he said， "and so we're watching that pretty closely， too."

Dunford expressed relief that Turkey "bounced back pretty quickly" in the first 24 hours in terms of facilitating operations in Syria.

Turkey closed the airspace of the Incirlik Air Base and cut commercial power supply to it following Friday's military coup attempt， in which at least 290 people， including 190 civilians， were killed.

The coup attempt appears to have further strained Ankara's ties with Washington， as Turkey accused a U.S.-based cleric， Fethullah Gulen， of plotting the coup， while demanding Gulen's extradition by the U.S. government.

Speaking in Luxembourg Saturday， U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States would consider Turkey's request for Gulen's extradition on condition that Turkey proves the cleric's wrongdoing.

Turkey and the United States are NATO allies in fighting terrorism， but their relations had already become tricky before the coup attempt after Turkey tried to repair its relationship with Russia， by offering an apology to Moscow for shooting down a Russian warplane last year.

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