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To: SleepySimon

What is timeshare activity like in Britain? A house unused 11 months a year isn’t reaping any benefit to the owner either during those 11 months. It would seem that rentals to vacation tenants, students, etc. could be more profitable.


72 posted on 05/08/2016 4:46:29 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I can’t speak to that. I’ve visited a few communities that we’re having problems with exploding numbers of holiday homes back in the 90’s and it seemed that time sharing was not going on. I tried to rent a home to prolong my visit to the Isle of Wight and the holiday home owners uniformly acted as if I were gibbering at them in a diaper. They couldn’t understand why I thought they would trust a stranger in their homes. That combined with the fact that they don’t take a vacation there so much as use it on random weekends gives me the impression that it’s a tiny market.

Dawn French did a comedy set in Cornwall that had a running theme of feuds between holiday home owners and locals. That was back in 95 or so. These aren’t new problems. The longer problems go on without a solution the better a drastic solution like banning holiday homes seems.


74 posted on 05/08/2016 4:57:04 PM PDT by SleepySimon
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