If you buy resale HGVC specific built anywhere else you get all the privileges, by paying a tranfer fee of $250.
The affiliates may have to start membership over and have to pay the first year initiation fee that is higher than the member transfer fee at $399, but the end result is that the new owner can have HGVC participation.
Perhaps that is what they are saying when they talk about losing HGVC points you can't transfer the points with a transfer membership fee. However, a new owner should just have to pay the initiation fee again to join HGVC.
Does anyone understand the situation different than myself?
From what I understand, you will not be able to join HGVC at all if you buy resale. I'd have to guess, you could buy resale and then buy a developer unit, they will upgrade the resale unit. Similar to Starwood.
I met with the GPR management when they first started selling and was surprised when he told me about it. They are trying to keep most resales in house.
I'm guessing once they sell out.. you'll be able to sell through there resale department and the new owner will have the HGVC privilege.
I think some of there reasoning is, if you go through Marbrisa to resale your unit, it will keep prices up, instead of a bunch of cheap ebay resales.
I suggested instead they implement ROFR, we talked about it a bit, but he didn't seem too interested. It may have been too late at that point.