# Any positive experiences with timeshares?

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**Created:** [December 20, 2019, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-positive-experiences-with-timeshares/845143 "2019-12-20T15:59:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-positive-experiences-with-timeshares/845143/2 "2019-12-20T16:26:38Z")

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From the lost money thread, I’ll re-post my reply:

> [@What's the most money you lost in the dumbest way?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-money-you-lost-in-the-dumbest-way/845030/51):
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> It happens. My gf bought a timeshare in St Martin back when timeshares were a new thing, maybe 30 years ago. I’ve gone there with her the past 13 years, it is our “second home”.
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> Although the various maintenance fees and such mean that it wasn’t the best _financial_ choice, we do not mind putting money into their economy. When the opportunity has arisen to unload the timeshare, she has chosen not to.

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