shifty1981
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Hello,
We sat through a developer presentation this week to consider converting our RCI points 2 weeks of ts to wyndham points, attaining gold status (would have to purchase 142,000 more points to do, not just convert).
The main draws to convert were to get more weeks by using the discount and unit upgrade at my resort (book a 35% discount 2 bedroom and upgrade to 3 bedroom later). This would give us more vacation time but more strategically allow us points to try and rent units to offset our annual fees (and even cost to upgrade).
I looked and I could buy points via ebay on the cheap, but I'd be stuck paying even higher MFs plus have my original units MFs and those resale points don't count towards VIP levels.
Renting my weeks has become near impossible at my resort because they now require paying renters to buy the resort's activities packages ($1000-$4000 per week) or else they don't get access to all the pools, etc. It's so messed up don't get me started, but it's their way to trying to combat the rental competition. RCI points reserved units are not allowed to be rented technically. So the thought was to try and convert.
I can call Wyndham direct and convert I think for roughly $2400 per week (I have 2 bundled together), but I'd still be well short of the # needed to get VIP gold status. And I couldn't buy more resale to get higher. Has to be direct from developer.
Am I missing something?
our sales rep showed us his customer list and 2016 receipts of units he's rented for them to help them offset their MFs. I realize if I go through extra vacations they get 40% and aren't obligated to rent more than 1 night so I could lose $. But I could always rent myself through airbnb, ebay, vrbo, craigslist, etc.
Thoughts? I'm not excited about dolling out thousands to convert but if I can recoup that in a couple of years and then eat away at MF going forward it might be worthy investment, no?
We sat through a developer presentation this week to consider converting our RCI points 2 weeks of ts to wyndham points, attaining gold status (would have to purchase 142,000 more points to do, not just convert).
The main draws to convert were to get more weeks by using the discount and unit upgrade at my resort (book a 35% discount 2 bedroom and upgrade to 3 bedroom later). This would give us more vacation time but more strategically allow us points to try and rent units to offset our annual fees (and even cost to upgrade).
I looked and I could buy points via ebay on the cheap, but I'd be stuck paying even higher MFs plus have my original units MFs and those resale points don't count towards VIP levels.
Renting my weeks has become near impossible at my resort because they now require paying renters to buy the resort's activities packages ($1000-$4000 per week) or else they don't get access to all the pools, etc. It's so messed up don't get me started, but it's their way to trying to combat the rental competition. RCI points reserved units are not allowed to be rented technically. So the thought was to try and convert.
I can call Wyndham direct and convert I think for roughly $2400 per week (I have 2 bundled together), but I'd still be well short of the # needed to get VIP gold status. And I couldn't buy more resale to get higher. Has to be direct from developer.
Am I missing something?
our sales rep showed us his customer list and 2016 receipts of units he's rented for them to help them offset their MFs. I realize if I go through extra vacations they get 40% and aren't obligated to rent more than 1 night so I could lose $. But I could always rent myself through airbnb, ebay, vrbo, craigslist, etc.
Thoughts? I'm not excited about dolling out thousands to convert but if I can recoup that in a couple of years and then eat away at MF going forward it might be worthy investment, no?