By Kerry Bailey

If you are a timeshare owner you will almost certainly have had a call from someone who tells you they can sell your timeshare. Or even better they have someone who wants to buy your timeshare. All you have to do in order to make the sale is to pay them a one off fee of some description and you will receive a cheque for thousands.

You don't need to pay a timeshare postcard company $3,500 to take your timeshare. You can sell it yourself online or in your local paper. As long as your understand what your timeshare is really worth and have a little patience, selling it yourself won't be a problem.  One of the biggest problems that timeshare owners have is that often they don't understand what their timeshare is really worth. You may have paid a lot of money when you bought it from the developer, but once they sell out a property, the floor for prices drops out. This can leave you with a timeshare that is worth pennies on the dollar compared to what you paid for it.