Yeah I had read on TUG one good review, one so-so review on time to deliver and one review like yours. I almost considered canceling over the weekend and holding out buying something from another seller. I've been searching for a couple weeks now since I found out about the wedding and unfortunately lost two auctions in the last week in the final seconds before just grabbing this one. I was holding out hoping to see something else drop on Ebay for LV Blvd 8000 Gold points, but unfortunately nothing else has. Anything else that could possibly work is on a 30 day auction ending schedule. So I figured if I kept holding out waiting for another LV to drop I'd be in the same boat even if another seller could do it a little faster.
I searched atimeshare.com, Redweek.com, sellingtimeshares.com, scoured the HGVC resales FB group page, and all the other broker listings and even in Marketplace on here. I only wanted an EOY Even deed as I didn't want the maintenance fee every year and an Odd year wouldn't have worked for what we needed it for. Going through Judi or Diane would be $800-$1000 more at a minimum as their closing cost is higher than $199 and they want more for the actual contract for their commission, plus reimbursement of maintenance fees.
Savannah that is handling the sale said she was submitting for ROFR tomorrow and their contract says they use LT Transfers for the process. All I can do is cross my fingers. There is no where else that is nice enough in Waikiki for my family of six to stay. For the five nights we would need, on the Hilton site the only room they have available is a Tapa Family Room City View with 3 double beds, for $3347.63. No kitchen, living room, nothing. Just a boring, small hotel room with three beds crammed in it.
I even looked into the Wyndham Oahu properties, but honestly, I didn't like the pools or location of either of them. And then I thought a Marriott Ko'Olina rental would work but as of right now, the dates we need aren't on Redweek, we'd have to rent for a minimum of 7 days and they are asking $600-$715/night. I don't know what else to do at this point. My back up plan is to reserve the Embassy Suites by Hilton Waikiki Beach Walk in their 2 Queen partial oceanview 1 bedroom suite for $2643.29 in 3 months if we still don't have HGVC access and then cancel if we're able to find something through HGVC later. Otherwise, we'd just use the points to go to Marbrisa hopefully.