Wyndham Deeded Points versus Access Points

I am new to timeshare ownership. I currently have odd years points through Wyndham. Could someone explain what would happen if I purchased additional yearly Access points. Would they convert to odd years as well? Is their a benefit to having points with no specific home resort? Thanks for your help.

They won't change to different use years - they stay as is.

Access (CWA) points are like a mutual fund of points...you own a tiny piece of a trust of points, made up of points contracts from many different wyndham resorts.

The advantage is you have fees that are stable-ish and not really affected by special assessments..you also have ARP privileges for all of the resorts where the CWA trust owns contracts. (The ARP is limited by the amount of points that the trust owns, so the ARP privelege for a particular resort isn't quite as good as owning at that particular resort).

I don't own CWA, but if I were buying now, I would strongly consider buying (resale).

If you really want ARP at a particular resort, many times it is better to buy a UDI contract deeded at that particular resort. But, there are cases where CWA will get you ARP at a particular resort for lower maintenance fees than if you actually owned a dedicated contract at that resort.

Not all Wyndham resorts are in CWA. But if you own CWA, you can book all other resorts Club Wyndham at ten months.

CWA maintenace fees are average to maybe a little below average for Wyndham ownerships. So, you can get lower maint fees by shopping specifically for those resorts that are really low.

I own multiple CWP contracts - most for the ARP booking window. I own Fixed Weeks Wyndham (some converted to points).

When you are trying to figure out WHAT you want to buy, you have to know HOW you are going to use it. And where. And a bit of the history of those resorts.

Then start looking at MFs.

CWA only has ARP in some resorts based on the underlying deeds in the trust .. you get the benefit of using points to book, but you truly do NOT KNOW what the resort has that YOU can book inside the ARP window.

Can be frustrating ... as I found one poor woman standing outside a building, looking up the 10 floors and puzzled as to WHY that ONE unit was the only thing she could book using CWA ARP ... I explained to her, that building was sold a FIXED WEEKS and 'some' owners converted to UDI points and ONLY any foreclosed week on would make its way to CWP ... as she want the PRIME, PRIME season. I told her FEW (very few actually) would ever be placed into CWA as they had value ... and I told her I owned 5 or 6 of exactly what she was looking for .... but I rented them each year. For a profit.