It’s Vacation time! Yep, winter is here and it’s time to find that perfect resort, timeshare, vacation home, hotel, tent, or RV. There’s lots of ways to get out of town and experience someplace different. And that’s the point I want to make; about someplace different. Shouldn’t we all have a chance to experience other countries and see what adventures these far aff places have for us? Shouldn’t we all get to have a variety in the places we choose to vacation?

In exploring the possibility of buying into a resort in another country, I was considering buying into a friend’s beach home community in another country. I am friends with the owner and I had been hearing about this incredible opportunity for years. I was fascinated by the possibility of owning a place in another country. I was actually considering it very much. I had been speaking with other people I know who had bought property in that country and was very encouraged by them and I had no reservations right away about buying the property except for a few things that crept up later and were now on my mind. For one, it was a lot of money to invest in this new community. I secondly thought about having to maintain this property on top of already maintaining two of my properties right here in my town, and that was enough already. There were going to be expenses that were not yet evident, but likey! I also thought of the possibility of hurricanes and other disasters occurring to this country, as it is in “hurricane alley”. There were definite considerations with owning a property in another country such as this.

I explored another option and leaned toward something I thought was a bit more safe, a timeshare? I looked into it and found that timeshares at the resorts that were close to where I was considering buying, were approximately $3-$7,000 and much more for others. This was much less than buying an actual property in another country. But I had some reservations with the timeshares as well. My main one was what I mentioned earlier, experiencing someplace different was my main reason to get away in the first place. With a timeshare, I was limited to my one timeshare and seeing the same place over and over again for as long as I was in posession of it. I would have had some ability to swap. But this swapping is not often easy or able to be done when and where you want it to happen. Plus, the timeshares came with yearly maintenance fees.

It was during this time when I searched and found out about a timeshare alternative. It is based around a network of 5000 4 and 5 star resorts located around the world in 60 countries, with high end equipment like a stereo cabinet in the living room. The concept is different in these ways, there is no owning of any particular unit, all resorts in the network are available to the member, thier family and guests, all resorts are available during any time of year. The ability to travel to 60 countries and be a member of 5000 resorts, is a new option and alternative to vacationing.

Between the time I was considering this property and now, that country I was considering buying property in was directly hit by a massive hurricane! I was very glad I had no property down there to worry about.

There are often alternatives to any one way of doing things if we just look for them. Don’t think you are stuck with the norm. Today, there are more choices and higher quality ones too. If you are looking into vacation options, find out all you can before buying into just one place! See something different ever time!

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Eric Latocki
Internet Business Owner
http://www.5000bestresorts.com

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