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Current Fees - to Renter and Owner
If a resort charges a resort fee, does a renter pay this? Does an owner at Vidanta even pay a resort fee? I ask this because if I were to do an exchange through Interval International, I would pay a resort fee of $900 to Vidanta for the week (just a couple of years ago it was $75!). I was just curious if one benefit of renting through Redweek would be not having to pay the resort fee.
Kristine Y.
If the renter backs out, what happens is based on the terms of the rental agreement and the cancellation policy the owner has selected. The owner chooses one of these three options:
Flexible: 100% refund up to 60 days before check-in
Moderate: 50% refund up to 60 days before check-in
Strict: No refunds
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Last edited by phyl21 on Nov 23, 2022 06:47 PM
Sharon: Your membership fee is annual, not monthly. So you pay $18.99 for a 12-month membership. We do not keep your credit card on file, so if you choose not to renew your membership after one year, your account will simple revert back to a free guest account.
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Since the rental units are no longer listed by date I listed my Marriott Florida time share with verified and protected. When I checked the listing redweek is charging a booking fee plus Florida taxes it adds $500 to the rental price. No-one is going to pay that. Why do they charge the florida tax? If I don't do the verified and protected no one will ever see my listing. Its a loose loose now on this site. Any suggestions?
Caroline L.
Yikes, I was going to become a member to rent properties but decided not to because of the hidden fee confusion. The ads should be straight forward about what fees to expect. IE: A resort fee of x%, a transaction fee of x%, a processing fee of x%, a tax fee of x%. We shouldn't be expected to pay a member fee to contact an owner who may advise that the rate advertised will be several hundred dollars more than the advertised price.
K G.
keng307 wrote:Yikes, I was going to become a member to rent properties but decided not to because of the hidden fee confusion. The ads should be straight forward about what fees to expect. IE: A resort fee of x%, a transaction fee of x%, a processing fee of x%, a tax fee of x%. We shouldn't be expected to pay a member fee to contact an owner who may advise that the rate advertised will be several hundred dollars more than the advertised price.
Bear in mind that any advertising owner can always opt to handle all rental details themselves after paying the basic RedWeek ad fees (and getting RedWeek Verified for an additional $10), in which case most of those other RedWeek fees become non-existent for both the owner and the renter. Taxes and resort fees are not RedWeek charges at all btw — they are a cost associated with ANY rental (although most resorts do not actually charge a “resort fee”).
If an owner wants someone else to do all of the rental work for them, they should expect to pay for those services (in my personal opinion). On those rare occasions when I rent out any of the timeshare weeks that I own, I handle ALL rental details myself and the rental cost is the ONLY cost that the tenant pays. A would-be tenant can always opt to limit their potential rental choices to ONLY owner-direct rentals.
Despite some annoying shortcomings, for a $18.99 annual membership fee RedWeek is still probably the best timeshare rental site in existence anywhere, whether as an owner or as a renter. There is no free lunch. Just sayin’…
KC
Last edited by ken1193 on Dec 24, 2023 05:31 AM