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Best Disney and New England Skiing Timeshare to buy into???

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If you want a DVC Wilderness Lodge 1 bedroom every other year, you don’t need to buy 200 points. You can bank and borrow with DVC. DVC also allows members to rent up to 24 points a year from them at the 7 month window if you are short a few. You could buy 120 to 130 DVC resale points at Saratoga for around $100 a point. Don’t count on exchanging in to DVC through RCI. Disney has switched exchange companies in the past and they could do it again.
 

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If you want a DVC Wilderness Lodge 1 bedroom every other year, you don’t need to buy 200 points. You can bank and borrow with DVC. DVC also allows members to rent up to 24 points a year from them at the 7 month window if you are short a few. You could buy 120 to 130 DVC resale points at Saratoga for around $100 a point. Don’t count on exchanging in to DVC through RCI. Disney has switched exchange companies in the past and they could do it again.

thx!

one of my concerns with buying into RCI is that Disney could pull out of them.

Now if I have 120 DVC points, but only want to go to Disney say every 3 years... How much value could I get for them the other 2 years?

Could I flip them into something like RCI and get a bunch of weekend ski trips???

or would it be better to rent them?
 

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thx!

one of my concerns with buying into RCI is that Disney could pull out of them.

Now if I have 120 DVC points, but only want to go to Disney say every 3 years... How much value could I get for them the other 2 years?

Could I flip them into something like RCI and get a bunch of weekend ski trips???

or would it be better to rent them?
If you buy DVC and they pull out of RCI (I don’t think they will) then you won’t get attitash something to think about. Buy in the system you’re gonna use most. The other is gravy.

most DVC members don’t exchange in RCI so it doesn’t really matter for DVCbeing in RCI. Their owners use the points to go to a DVC.
 

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thx!

one of my concerns with buying into RCI is that Disney could pull out of them.

Now if I have 120 DVC points, but only want to go to Disney say every 3 years... How much value could I get for them the other 2 years?

Could I flip them into something like RCI and get a bunch of weekend ski trips???

or would it be better to rent them?
I would rent them before I would trade them in RCI. We have owned DVC for 18 years and I have never traded our DVC points in RCI. (We use our points and always seem to be in borrowing mode - LOL).

If you only want to go to Disney every 3 years, I probably would not buy DVC. David’s Vacation Club Rentals (a DVC rental service) gives DVC members around $14.50 to $15.50 a point to rent their points. They charge the DVC renter around $19.00 a point.
 
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If you buy DVC and they pull out of RCI (I don’t think they will) then you won’t get attitash something to think about. Buy in the system you’re gonna use most. The other is gravy.

most DVC members don’t exchange in RCI so it doesn’t really matter for DVCbeing in RCI. Their owners use the points to go to a DVC.
Just thinking in terms of least bad investment, big picture I should always be able to unload the DVC. Buying into RCI is prob quite a bit riskier.
 

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Just thinking in terms of least bad investment, big picture I should always be able to unload the DVC. Buying into RCI is prob quite a bit riskier.
Most of these ownerships are “risky” but living near NH ski you’ll use that more often than you think.
 
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