Sheraton Desert Oasis Purchase - II late 2019 deposit?

[Ski-Dad]

I am seriously looking at an annual SDO 2 bedroom lock-off Gold Sesaon Plus (floats 1-52) on a resale. It includes the 2019 week for 1/2 the MF.

I am looking at it primarily as a good II trader for its alleged trading power and reasonable MF.

If I pull the trigger now, it will likely be September at the earliest before transfer is complete.

Is it too late to deposit the 2019 week into II? Does it receive a late deposit discount?

Trying to determine whether to take this or wait and take a unit that starts in 2020.

Essentially- is the 2019 week worth 1/2 the MF if deposited late?

 

[klpca]

I'm pretty sure that you can still get a week to deposit in to II - right up to the end of the year. (I hope that someone will confirm). You can lock it off and get two one bedroom deposits. It would be worth it to me, but ymmv.

 

[sjsharkie]

You have until December 31 to deposit so no issues there. One of the pluses of not being able to deposit a specific week with Vistana floating weeks.

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[DeniseM]

A little more info:

-A Dec. 31st deposit will not be a late deposit.

-If you are completely flexible about when you go, you can even get Hawaii exchanges with SDO (I've gotten Princeville twice) so I think it's a good value, if you can utilize the resulting exchange(s) - especially for just half the deposit.

 

[bizaro86]

I deposited an SDO week on ~Dec 29th where SVO acknowledged my ownership ~Dec 27th (both of 2018). I was sweating when Christmas past and it wasn't done. No late deposit penalty was applied, and both are good until Dec 31, 2020.

If you have another sdo week already, II can do the deposit as a supplemental week which bypasses the need for verification that you own the unit, saving a few days.

While I wouldn't recommend waiting that long, it worked out ok for me.

 

[Ski-Dad]

Very helpful information. Appreciate the intel. I will proceed to acquire my II trader. Just getting into this game. Reading for the past month to plan my best options.

Bought a 49 K Point Grandview last week to trade in RCI. Picked up 126K accrued RCI points in the process that the seller had not used.

Now moving on the SDO 2 Br Lock-off for II trading.

That should set me up well. Could never have figured this out without TUG and all the great threads.

Go Tuggers

 

[echino]

While you can certainly exchange into Hawaii, it's very rare to get 2br. Vistana only deposits studios and some 1br. Same for Lagunamar and other high demand locations.

 

[bizaro86]

While you can certainly exchange into Hawaii, it's very rare to get 2br. Vistana only deposits studios and some 1br. Same for Lagunamar and other high demand locations.

That's the same for all Vistana locations that have lockouts. Even low demand locations (SDO in the summer) they split the lockoffs into two deposits.

 

[Ski-Dad]

The ability to trade into Hawaii is not an issue for us. We live on the east coast of Canada. The cost and time to fly to Hawaii just doesn't make sense from here.

We are more likely to trade into South Eastern US or Western ski areas at non-holiday periods.

 

[Ken555]

While you can certainly exchange into Hawaii, it's very rare to get 2br. Vistana only deposits studios and some 1br. Same for Lagunamar and other high demand locations.

That used to be true, but with Nanea they deposit 2bed units since they don’t lock off.


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