As I was evaluating a beach condo for possible earmarking as a fractional, the agent/owner said to me (with a great deal of condescension), "Well, Fractionals are just this year's timeshares." Yes, I was taken aback and even a bit irritated. But then, I realized that her statement was based primarily on incomplete and inaccurate knowledge.

If we had been in Colorado instead of Florida, the conversation would not have occurred because fractionals are so well known in many of the western states which have ski resorts. That's where they were adopted from European versions and "born" in the US. Now they're known as well in some of the northeastern states, the Carolinas, and appear in a total of 34 different states.