My thoughts exactly. Prices quoted from a year, two or more ago are completely irrelevant now. You may still find some bargains, but the picking are slim.
sounds like it! I paid 700 with closing for an EOYO so figure 300-350 purchase price. I’m seeing annuals at 1,400 plus closing.
Annuals are more expensive in part because you save on closing costs compared to 2X EOY. But I also think Vistana should add some flexibilty and allow people to use the EOY staroptions for any year usage even if they can only be acquired the year of the contract (odd or even). We avoided buying EOY for that reason. Especially when it comes to banking, 4 years is a very long period of time, even for a timeshare.
Yes, today’s rates have steadily increased in the last 6mo. Still not as high as MVC however still a significant increase. Even SDO has increased.(Was looking to p/u annual to release our EOY
Lol I bid as well. It would have paired perfectly with my EOYO. But my max bid of. 500 was surpassed. Lol. Such is life.
I incorrectly stated it was an annual, but it actually was EOY-Even. Selling for $921 would set the annual price at about $1850.
Yeah which is why I thought 921 was way too high. I’m seeing some of the annuals start to come down in price from their already inflated asking.
We payed 14,500 for ours and have no regrets. You may be able to find one at 12,500. 10 seems low but you never know. Good luck
Not surprised. You have too many people who would snap one up at 10k for an annual, myself included and I already own here. I think 12k might be a more reasonable offer where you might get someone to bite.
Interesting, I was just informed by my closing agent that Starwood/Vistana, now Marriott, just exercised their ROFR on our Ebay purchase of a Gold Season 2brm WKV for $500.00. When I questioned the agent about whether the WKV was even subject to a ROFR she stated that she had seen Starwood/Vistana exercise its ROFR on many WKV resale purchases even prior to the Marriott acquisition. I have asked her to request documentation from Starwood/Vistana/Marriott evidencing their ROFR with respect to resales, and although she said she would request the documentation, she said she didn't think they would provide any documentation.
This must be new, and a Marriott practice. I’ve never heard vistana doing it often, maybe because the resale values were always higher. Not surprised. And honestly you’re probably lucky. 1700 maint fee for 81K star options isn’t worth it. There is a reason why plat 2 bedrooms go for 15-17K buy in vs 500.
I suspect it’s just Marriott doing whatever the heck they want.
If the Departments were merged, I wouldn’t be shocked. It’s easy for mistakes to happen w/ mergers.
