Timeshare Tuesday Recap Live! Week 31, 2026

First topic we got today was an interesting one.

USA Today released a recent story on timeshares.

I mean, there's a fine line between educational journalism and blatant advertising, for lack of a better term.

This one read just more of an ad for the timeshare industry.

Just to show the page here.

Why not? Here we go.

share this tab instead, basically started off, uh, essentially a story about a young couple didn't have any kids.

Uh, and instead of buying a home, the, the, the pitch was that, uh, they invested literally use the word invested in a timeshare.

Uh, and you know, I'm, I'm, I don't, it's difficult for me because I don't want to knock the product because the product there is value there.

They're hundreds of thousands, if not millions of happy times, your owners all over the United States, all over the world, plenty of them on tug.

The issue is, is, is that when it's presented like this as, you know, almost touted as a, a wonderful quote unquote investment that this young couple made, man, there were some, some really, really key points, items mentioned in there that you know everything was just kind of bundled up no mention no mention of the resale market uh which you think that would be kind of a super important item to mention when talking about purchasing something especially for a young newlywed couple no kids you know starting their essential their lifetime together and their first purchases first major purchase as a couple was you know a 30 something thousand dollar timeshare uh yeah that's uh Ed, glad you're helping people learn.

That's what we do.

Tug has existed for 30 some odd years to kind of shed light on the underbelly of this putrid carpet that is the retail timeshare sales versus resale.

And man, this is a hard to read.

It's a very, very hard to read article.

I essentially, you know...

It would just again, it just read more of an ad that everything is great.

You know, these these couple, this is just a wonderful purchase that these people made spending 30 something thousand dollars as a new couple.

Couldn't put a down payment on a house, you know, not a new car, not set yourself up for family, you know, invest in your car.

IRAs, 401k, something like that.

Nope, they bought a timeshare.

And then that was the best thing since sliced bread.

You know, calling a retail investment, calling a timeshare a retail investment is kind of like saying, you know, I ordered DoorDash and made an investment.

It's just not, especially buying retail, it's just really, really a terrible idea.

And I can't think of any reasonable person who would frame it in this fashion to make it seem like that versus anything else.