Gratuitous family transfer - will reservations be cancelled?

[TheHolleys87]

My dad owns 2 deeded weeks at Kona Coast II and one deeded week at Kauai Beach Villas, bought from Pahio in 1994 and 2002, respectively, and now part of the Wyndham system. He wants to transfer ownership to my siblings and me. He has instructions from Wyndham re what to do on their end, and we're going to contact LT Transfers to handle the title work, so we're set there.

However, he has reservations at Kona Coast for weeks 51 and 52 in 2018 and 2019, made two years in advance per his routine, and we have family members planning to use those weeks. If he transfers ownership to us and doesn't retain any part of the ownership, will Wyndham cancel those reservations? I know we can ask Wyndham, but they took a long time to respond to his initial inquiry about how to do the transfer, so I want to have an idea what to tell him and my siblings, who are less familiar with timeshares than I am.

TIA!

 

[Jan M.]

Why not leave your father on and just add you and your siblings? This is what most people do. It should be right of survivorship so there would be no problem. It is always better to have more owners on an account than fewer in case you are making reservations for the same or overlapping dates. That way you don't have to pay for $99 guest fees to hold a reservation.

From what I understand just adding you and your siblings is something Wyndham can do, it would save you money and there would be no worries about losing reservations which could happen unfortunately. You could remove your father at a later date if there is some compelling reason to do so. I know people who haven't removed dead spouses or parents.

Because your father owns Pahio you might be losing some advantages by removing him.

 

[DeniseM]

If he transfers ownership to us and doesn't retain any part of the ownership, will Wyndham cancel those reservations? I know we can ask Wyndham, but they took a long time to respond to his initial inquiry about how to do the transfer,

You should discuss this with LT Transfers - they handle this situation all the time and will know what to do.

 

[DaveNV]

My dad owns ... one deeded week at Kauai Beach Villas, ... now part of the Wyndham system.

FYI: Kauai Beach Villas is now managed by Grand Pacific Resorts. You may be looking at a separate transfer process, since Wyndham is out of the picture.

Dave

 

[DeniseM]

What Dave said - unless your Dad converted his week to Wyndham points.

 

[TheHolleys87]

Why not leave your father on and just add you and your siblings? This is what most people do. It should be right of survivorship so there would be no problem. It is always better to have more owners on an account than fewer in case you are making reservations for the same or overlapping dates. That way you don't have to pay for $99 guest fees to hold a reservation.

From what I understand just adding you and your siblings is something Wyndham can do, it would save you money and there would be no worries about losing reservations which could happen unfortunately. You could remove your father at a later date if there is some compelling reason to do so. I know people who haven't removed dead spouses or parents.

Because your father owns Pahio you might be losing some advantages by removing him.

Thanks - I think we've pretty much decided to leave him on the deeds and just add us. No worries that way!

What Pahio advantages would we lose by removing him? I hadn't been aware of any Pahio advantages, so I appreciate the heads-up, Jan!

 

[TheHolleys87]

FYI: Kauai Beach Villas is now managed by Grand Pacific Resorts. You may be looking at a separate transfer process, since Wyndham is out of the picture.

Dave

What Dave said - unless your Dad converted his week to Wyndham points.

Received more information from my brother today and apparently that's exactly what he did. Several years ago while on a trip with them, Daddy converted his KBV week to a Wyndham points membership and added my brother & sister-in-law to the Wyndham account. The title wasn't changed, to my brother's knowledge. So it seems like we might not need to do anything to the KBV week, since Daddy's intention is for my brother to have that one and my sister and I to have the two Kona Coast weeks.

Thank you, Dave and Denise! Very helpful!

 

[Worker]

If I add myself to my parents Wyndham Timeshare (Leaving them on), would I also be able to add anyone else or do they need to be family as well (Wyndham requires proof)?

 

[Braindead]

If I add myself to my parents Wyndham Timeshare (Leaving them on), would I also be able to add anyone else or do they need to be family as well (Wyndham requires proof)?

Yes you could add others to the account. You don’t have to be a family member to be on an account.

 

[flindberg]

If I add myself to my parents Wyndham Timeshare (Leaving them on), would I also be able to add anyone else or do they need to be family as well (Wyndham requires proof)?

Did Wyndham allow this? How does one 'add themselves' to someone else's timeshare? Just curious how to do it...
Thx

 

[55plus]

The owner needs to prepare a quit claim deed adding you and then have Wyndham add you. You will be unable to do it without the owner being involved in the process.

 

[TheHolleys87]

Did Wyndham allow this? How does one 'add themselves' to someone else's timeshare? Just curious how to do it...
Thx

We used LT Transfers to add my sister and me to my Dad’s deed for Kona Coast. The new deed was recorded and has now been sent to Wyndham for them to add us as owners (the three of us now own it jointly with right of survivorship). After Wyndham records the change, we’ll find out how to add us as owners to the RCI weeks account that he uses to exchange those weeks.

Next will be the process of adding my brother and sister in law to my Dad’s Kauai Beach Villas ownership. He converted that one to Wyndham points a few years ago and believed that he added them as owners at that time, but my brother has to pay for guest certificates whenever he uses the points, so apparently not!