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Tom Kelly
Tom Kelly
The Real Estate Adviser
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July 3, 2003

Timeshares may offer bonus time and day use

By TOM KELLY
The Real Estate Advisor

Ray Gritton, 59, knows all about bonuses. The Skagit County automobile salesmen worked day and night to win his dealership’s sales contest and the bonus package that came with it – the use of the boss’s Lake Tahoe timeshare for one week.

“I thought timeshares were only about using and trading,’’ said Gritton, who hopes to retire in the next 18 months and then sell his handmade birdhouses at weekend craft shows. “But while I was at the unit, I learned about bonus time and day use. I must say, it helps the idea of timeshares make a lot more sense.’’


 
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