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Re: Timeshare advice requested

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From: John Newman
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 07:44
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>Subject: Re: Timeshare advice requested
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>Your right that you can win with a TS if you use it but generally means using
>it every single year. It is very hard for most people to commit to something
>like that. Suppose you want to stay home some year and paint the house?
>You have still paid for the TS. How many people who have been laid off from
>corporate downsizings own TS's?
>Times change and tastes change. 
>John Eaton

If you can't use a timeshare in a particular year, have it rented out
for real $, or "spacebank", i..e. save it up for the next year and
have a longer holiday. If you own "red" time you can usually swap
it for any other time of the year.


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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 07:44:26 GMT