Any concerns about buying more 2br platinum weeks at WKV (Kierland)?

[tourproto]

So getting closer to retirement and looking at adding more weeks at WKV. We have 2 platinum weeks with 148,100 points now. Never converted to Abound (it made no sense to me).

My current plan/strategy has been to book back-to-back weeks with 1bd premium (81,000 x2), and then at 8 months out either book a 3rd week at WKV or a week at Princeville (also a 1br premium). And with the points left over, book some getaways at the Westin Desert Willows. Has worked out great for a decade, and if we can't go, we just list the weeks on Redbook, and I almost always get 2x the value of the MFs. Really hasn't been a problem to book the weeks I want. I have loved the flexibility of my WKV timeshares.

Gonna pull the trigger on retirement this year or next, and looking to buy more to actually use them and snowbird from the PNW. I don't have time (yet) to keep up on all the shenanigans that Marriott is constantly doing with Vistana, so my question is pretty simple. If I just want add more 148,100 platinum weeks, like the ones I already own, is there any reason not to do so?

Just checking to see if Marriott has put some stupid "speed bumps" to make this less desirable for those of us buying on the secondary market. I may need to rent some weeks for another year, and I just don't want to get hosed by some new "rules" that Marriott has put into place.

I never use Interval. I either use the week or rent it out.

TIA!

 

[tomvc]

There were some discussions about the need to pay a separate Vistana club fee (in addition to Abound club fee) since new mandatory resale weeks are eligible for StarOptions, but are not enrolled in Abound.

Can anyone who recently purchase mandatory Vistana confirm that your weeks are held in a separate Vistana account and you have to pay the old Vistana club fees.

 

[tourproto]

So Vistana is dicking with me (for the last several years) and my 2 timeshares are indeed in 2 separate accounts, BUT I only pay one club dues ("executive dues" on my statements). So I use that data point that I will have yet a 3rd account for my 3rd timeshare but still only pay one Club Dues.

 

[Hindsite]

As you pay for an II account already, you could use the pre retirement time to start watching getaway inventory and see if any of that is of interest.
You can set getaway alerts on the II app for locations and dates that are of interest. You can do upto 14 separate alerts so grouping them by date range and location can be useful. You can set alerts for any 90 day window.

Assume that your new Kierland purchase would need to pay the VSN dues as it's mandatory but not eligible for Abound.