The US vacation ownership industry generates over $20 billion annually (ARDA 2025), with 9.9 million owner households. Yet the resale market operates without basic infrastructure: no MLS, no universal identifier, no centralized price discovery, and no AI accessibility.
Timeshare Rootz Global is the first AI-native timeshare intelligence platform — a live, working service that aggregates resale inventory, computes rental economics for every listing, cross-references government data and consumer complaints, and makes everything queryable by any AI agent. We are not a listing site. We are the structured intelligence layer that makes AI buyer advocacy possible.
Every listing includes: Rental viability grade (A/B/C/D), estimated rental income, fee coverage ratio, 10-year true cost projection, and a plain-English price explanation. This transforms raw listings into investment intelligence.
Most timeshares resell at 20-80% below retail. Many sell for $1. The largest listing site (SMTN) charges sellers $399-$6,500+ upfront and makes money whether or not the property sells. BBB rating: D.
AI-queryable database of timeshare inventory with rental economics, government data, and consumer complaints.
Timeshare Identification Number — the VIN for vacation ownership. Enables data wallets, price history, cross-platform de-duplication.
Transparent, AI-accessible marketplace with full provenance. Requires critical mass of indexed, identified inventory.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Total listings (98% enriched) | 7,497 |
| Unique resorts | 967 |
| US states + Caribbean | 39 |
| Rental viability scored | 100% (A: 385, B: 1,353, C: 2,986, D: 2,773) |
| With maintenance fee data | 91% |
| With photos | 98% |
| With descriptions | 98% |
| FL DBPR registered projects | 781 (5 years payment history) |
| CFPB consumer complaints | 1,424 |
| API endpoints | 12 |
| MCP tools | 12 |
| Custom GPT | Live |
| Bridge pages | Live (dynamic + AI-created) |
| Infrastructure cost | < $100/month |
Every listing is scored on rental viability — the metric that explains market behavior:
| Grade | Count | Meaning | Fee Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 385 | Likely cashflow positive | > 1.5x |
| B | 1,353 | Fee coverage probable | 0.8x - 1.5x |
| C | 2,986 | Lifestyle asset only | 0.4x - 0.8x |
| D | 2,773 | Economically weak | < 0.4x |
The fee coverage ratio is the killer metric: "Estimated rental covers 1.8x annual fees" instantly explains why some $1 listings are traps and others are opportunities.
| Brand | Listings | Avg Price | Min Price | Resorts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wyndham | 825 | $20,480 | $1 | 99 |
| Marriott | 466 | $23,925 | $1 | 58 |
| Bluegreen | 367 | $20,078 | $1 | 36 |
| Vistana/Marriott | 293 | $15,386 | $1 | 33 |
| Westgate | 254 | $19,962 | $1 | 26 |
| Hilton | 213 | $28,703 | $1 | 27 |
| Disney | 38 | $35,352 | $13,897 | 8 |
| Ritz-Carlton | 12 | $84,729 | $14,750 | 3 |
The price floor tells the story. Disney's minimum is $13,897 — no $1 listings exist. Wyndham starts at $1. This price dispersion is itself intelligence that no other service surfaces.
$25-$50 per listing per year. "Your listing is visible to every AI assistant." Compare: SMTN charges $399-$6,500+ upfront.
No upfront fees. 2% only when a transaction closes through a bridge page. Average fee: $310/sale, $30/rental. This alone differentiates us from 90% of the resale industry.
$25 property reports, $49 estoppel tracking, $99-$499 closing workflows. At 80 monthly transactions: $24K-$40K/month on top of listing and success fees.
| Stage | Listings | Listing Rev | Monthly Txns | Success Fees | Total/Month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 3,000 | $6K-$12K | 10 | $3,100 | $9K-$15K |
| Launch | 5,000 | $10K-$20K | 20 | $6,200 | $16K-$26K |
| Growth | 25,000 | $50K-$100K | 100 | $31,000 | $81K-$131K |
| Scale | 100,000 | $200K-$400K | 500 | $155,000 | $355K-$555K |
The seller's AI says: "This is a beautiful resort with world-class amenities."
The buyer's AI says: "This resort has 47 CFPB complaints, maintenance fees have risen 38% in 5 years, and comparable units sold for 40% less than asking."
Both are useful. Only one protects the buyer.
Today, maybe 2-5% of timeshare buyers use AI. Within 2-3 years, most will. The AI agent that can answer "What's a fair price for a 2BR Marriott in Hawaii?" wins the buyer. The index that feeds that AI controls the market.
No existing listing site is AI-usable. SMTN and RedWeek built llms.txt files (press releases for AI), but neither has an API, MCP endpoint, or structured search. They tell AI about themselves — we let AI search their inventory.
A Bridge Page is a persistent URL where an AI curates timeshare research for a human buyer. The AI creates it, adds properties with viability scores and analysis notes, and the buyer gets a visual page they can bookmark, share, and return to.
Live example: Hawaii Marriott under $20K
Dynamic page generator: /b/search?city=Daytona&price_max=10000&bedrooms=2 auto-creates a curated research page.
Bridge pages enable progressive identity (anonymous → passcode → email → wallet), multi-agent collaboration, and persistent buyer-seller communication.
The Timeshare Identification Number creates a permanent identity for every interval. The data wallet holds: deed, maintenance fee history, rental revenue, exchange records, price history, ownership chain. This is title insurance for fractional real estate.
The foundation also enables future tokenization — fractionalization, secondary trading, collateralization — though the market isn't ready today.
"TurboTax for Timeshare Transfers" — five modules that carry buyers from discovery through closing:
Pricing: $25 property report, $49 estoppel, $99-$499 closing workflow. Document preparation, not legal advice.
| Capability | SMTN | RedWeek | TUG | Timeshare Rootz |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Listings | 75K+ | Large | Medium | 7,500+ |
| AI searchable (API/MCP) | No | No | No | Yes — 12 tools |
| Rental economics | No | No | No | Yes — every listing |
| Government data | No | No | No | Yes — DBPR + CFPB |
| Bridge pages | No | No | No | Yes |
| Transfer workflows | No | No | No | Planned |
| Seller listing fee | $399-$6,500+ | $60-$125 | $0 | $25-$50/yr |
| Success fee | None (FSBO) | 3% or $899 | $0 | 2% |
| BBB rating | D | A+ | N/A | N/A |
We are not competing with listing sites. We are building the infrastructure layer underneath them.
Listings change daily. We need automated daily refresh pipelines and eventual direct data feeds from listing partners.
Source sites can change structure or block crawlers. Strategic partnerships with SMTN/RedWeek reduce this risk — they already want AI distribution.
Timeshare resale brokerage requires real estate licenses in many states. A licensed partner addresses this.
Most buyers still browse manually. AI adoption in real estate is early but accelerating rapidly.
Rental projections are estimates based on brand, location, season, and comparable data — not guaranteed income. Clear framing as "estimated market rent" not "expected profit."
| Phase | Timeline | Key Deliverables |
|---|---|---|
| 1: Foundation | COMPLETE | 7,497 listings, rental economics, DBPR, CFPB, 12 MCP tools, GPT, bridge pages |
| 2: Growth | 60 days | 25K+ listings, rental inventory, owner self-listing, TIN prototype, daily refresh |
| 3: Revenue | 60-120 days | Listing fees, 2% success fee, due diligence reports, estoppel workflow |
| 4: Platform | 6-12 months | TIN rollout, data wallets, closing workflow, scam prevention, exchange features |
During development, we asked AI agents (GPT, Grok, Claude) to evaluate the service. Results:
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