famy27
TUG Member
I currently have 2 OGS. One June 2017 through march 2018. Trying to hit either a week in June or a week in feb or march of 2018 And one for a specific week oct of 2018 at any Dvc resort.
Are you very specific with your June dates? How long has your search been running? I'm surprised you haven't received a match yet, because even my newer search hit pretty quickly. I am actually going to be cancelling a June match, so maybe it will match your OGS.
The key with the OGS requests for DVC is to put them in well in advance and to be flexible with date and resort. The fact that you have your Feb/March search running already is great. You will be very well-positioned to get a match to that, unless you only have excluded OKW and SSR from your search.
I also own resale Wyndham points and have had very good luck with getting DVC matches, even in the past two years since the deposit pattern changed. Here are the matches I've made fairly recently:
November 21, 2015 SSR 1 bedroom with 77,000 Wyndham points
March 4, 2016 SSR 1 bedroom with 105,000 Wyndham points
January 14, 2017 AKV 1 bedroom savanna view with 105,000 Wyndham points
March 3, 2017 OKW 1 bedroom with 105,000 Wyndham points
May 28, 2017 SSR 1 bedroom with 105,000 Wyndham points
June 3, 2017 SSR 1 bedroom with 105,000 Wyndham points (will be cancelling soon)
However, there were other DVC properties we wanted to try, so we finally caved and bought DVC points. Our goal was to use half and rent the other half to cover our MF. But this year, we went a bit overboard, so we didn't have quite as many points to rent. We still were able to cover most of our MF, but we had to chip in a little OOP. Still a great value for us. We bought resale points at BLT shortly before they changed the rules for resale buyers. We really love the combo of Wyndham points and DVC, but I have had my eye on an II week as well. Our Wyndham points originally traded in II, so I got used to the great inventory they had, and I miss it. I was most interested in Starwood originally, but now I'm not sure. I think we'll probably just keep what we have for now.