Bank them if you can or lose them if you can’t, and if you still want to go - stay on cash.
My guess is you could still put them into RCI?
It would be a mistake to wait until 7 months when direct owners could trade into Riviera. Going to need to book at 11 for popular. No one is going to get a Riviera studio that isn’t a direct owner unless someone drops it and someone else happens to be looking within minutes. Basically like hitting the lottery
This is the thought that admittedly does keep me up at night about my DVC purchase.
Yes, the dues go on and on and on. Maybe we should refer to it as "partially prepaid"? But that is part of the beauty of the resale and rental market. Even if resale pricing takes a big hit at some point, you should still be able to easly get out from under those fees. Unlike every other TS.
Let’s put this in perspective, I would never buy Riviera but you bought the best Timeshare in the world and even Riviera will be in high demand for decades.
Thank you for the reassurance ☺
the reason that sealed the deal for us to take the tour was the fact that it ends in 50 years. even if it was a disaster, we could tread water renting points to cover the annual dues and be no worse for the wear. now, we so wish that a dvc purchase was forever! haha.Agreed, you can (and we did) take what I called "bonus" into account when deciding to buy but, as they say with all investments, past performance is no guarantee of future results. The only guarantee with DVC is that you have 50 years of villas paid for. We truly consider it a prepaid vacation and, as long as we get about 10 years out of it, we will be ahead no matter what happens in the after-market.
We too know people who literately had to pay to get out from under a TS and knowing that DVC should be easy to get out of down the road (if needed) was one of the reasons we even bothered to take a tour...and the rest is history...and a much lighter check book.
i like a good robust back and forth. my best friend and i disagree on a lot of politics (and most of the important stuff), and it helps us each un-narrow our viewpoints on stuff. i have plenty to learn about dvc, which is why i read way more than i post usually. i have certainly learned way more than i have contributed! thanks all! cheers to all of us!I think you missed my point, and perhaps it was the way I colored my post; I agree there was an obvious "tone".
I actually did feel grateful, in that airplane analogy, when I was upgraded. But when having the shoe on the other foot, when we paid for Business Class on a vacation to Hawaii, and there was a passenger that was given a complementary upgrade to business from coach, and I know this because we chatted across the aisle to one another, I did not begrudge his ability to partake in all of the benefits that business class afforded him. That's what wrinkled my brow, when first reading your post. I had a DVC owner that bought their Aulani points direct from Disney, and when I used my SSR points (My Direct SSR points-FYI) to grab a January reservation there, she was not happy about it. She didn't think that anyone who paid considerably less per point than she did should be able to use those points for the "higher priced" resort. That attitude is mystifying to me. Do I feel grateful when I can get a BWV studio in January at 78 points, with the SSR points I bought resale? Grateful - Yes! Lucky - No ! Luck has nothing to do with it. If I plan ahead and am diligent, I'm getting a better bang for my DVC buck, and that shouldn't "chap" anyone. That's just leveraging my resources. I think the feeling that someone else should not enjoy that same airplane seat as you, because they didn't "deserve it", they're the ones with a false feeling of entitlement.
Regardless, I appreciate your sharing your views on this and, if we're ever DVC neighbors on vacation, I'll buy you a coffee and we can chat until we find some more common interests, beyond our Disney habit.
