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> After I read your post I did some checking out on this resort myself. I found that there is a whole web page with listings of timeshares available in South Africa and it had several units from this particular resort. Some appeared to real bargains at today's exchange rates. The only caveat about buying into South Africa at the moment is that their currency is very unstable. My concern would be to get the initial purchase at a bargain price today and then have the currency go the other way and be stuck with expensive maintenance fees in the future. What are the maintenance fees at the moment stated in Rand?
> Linda
Maint fees on this are $108. per year. Wow, Tom, that's even less then your Ocean Landing's. Lisa(M)
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> > Well Tuggers, where do I begin. I will never forget the phone conversation I had with a RCI Vacation Counselor today. Let me explain.
> > On Tuesday of this week, I received confirmation that my RCI account was established and I was ready to go. You see, I had recently decided to purchase a 1br unit, floating red time at what I now consider to be the absolute best bargain, hidden jewel of a timeshare. You want low maint/tax fees, you got it. You want incredible trading power, you got it. You want low purchase price, you got it. After receiving my membership number, on Tuesday evening I decided to play with RCI on-line (for those having trouble accessing/using this site, download/use Netscape Navigator 3.01 Gold with Windows 95). Keep in mind that with my new purchase came 2 weeks: one 98 use week and one 99 use week. At this time, only the 98 use week is in the bank. The check-in date of this banked week is week 32 (Aug 7th). Now, based on my perusing these boards daily and reading how extremely important it is to bank early with RCI, I was not expecting to get anything at all. I mean the use week is about 2 weeks away. Now, the seller of this week has been adamant about the trading power of this resort. He even c
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