The term "buy" is not appropriate for timeshare. You don't really own anything apart a right to stay and a duty to pay open ended maintenance fees.

Just do the maths. A condo under timeshare will "sell" 52 times for say 10'000.- USD. That amounts to 520'000.- for a condo that is probably only worth 300'000.- USD.

Great profit for the developer.

Now for the Jackpot. The developer pockets maintenance fees and does absolute minumum maintenance. Because he/she built it using cheap materials, after a while it needs some major refreshing. Up go the maintenace fees and so on.

On the Island, if you want to find out about timeshare go and see the Sapphire Beach Club in Cupecoy.

Compare your Timeshare to the endless list of issues there. There is no better acid test.

At the Sapphire, maintenance fees now exceed a week's rent in a much better place... That is what you are exposing yourself to.

Buy, rent but no, don't get into that timeshare trap.

Finally, have you not seen the so called Off Premises Sales Consultants stopping cars and tricking people into think that they have won a great gift if they visit a timeshare project.

If timeshare was such a good idea, people would be flocking to it and they would not need to harass them on the roads.