> My parents have been timeshare owners for years so I'm very familiar with the sales tactics resorts use. Regardless of how they spin it, all you really own is a block of time. With Ancana your purchase is a deeded right to the property.
Most modern “timeshares” (the word remains current in common use though the technicalities have changed and the industry has mostly moved to “vacation ownership”) are deeded straight to the property and use this as a differentiating sales tactic to people's image of timeshares not being that way. I also have been a timeshare owner for years, and that's been the case with each except on in Mexico sold in blocks of weeks per year for a limited term of years because the market was largely international and Mexican law limits foreign ownership of coastal property.
> Resorts force you to sell your time back to them and they dictate the prices
No, they mostly don’t; that what is sold is freely marketable fee simple ownership is a heavily marketed feature of most. There are even real estate brokers that specialize in this market.
Though differentiating on the perception that most other vacation ownership options do this is very common in the industry.