amanven
TUG Member
We have had our Sheraton Vistana Resort since 2008. We bought it on the resale market for next to nothing. I have gotten almost every trade trough II that I ever wanted with it and we have stayed at the resort multiple times during the tenure of our ownership. We just returned from a weeks stay there (catching up on all the backed up usage we couldn't use during Covid). We had a good time while there but Orlando has become so very congested in the Lake Buena Vista area, the weather can be very iffy in December, January or February and just in general we found a bit of a decline in the quality of the resort (some of that may be as a result of the downturn in travel during Covid). Our kids are grown, we don't as yet have grandchildren so Disney is not a reason for us to go anymore. For the first time since acquiring our ownership, I find myself having less desire to go to Orlando anymore.
Now for the question. Do we have any option to deed back our ownership to Marriott or do we have to sell it or give it away to be out of it. That ownership doesn't owe me anything so a deed back or give away is of no concern to me and seems to be a safer option to offering it for sale. We have considered giving it to our daughter because she absolutely loves it there but I doubt she would want to go there every year and I don't want to saddle her with the maintenance fee expense if she wouldn't. Is Marriott willingly taking weeks back right now? I have already exchanged our 2022 usage so not sure whether Marriott would be willing to take it back without the 2022 usage. Likewise that lack of 2022 usage would make selling it a bit more difficult.
Now for the question. Do we have any option to deed back our ownership to Marriott or do we have to sell it or give it away to be out of it. That ownership doesn't owe me anything so a deed back or give away is of no concern to me and seems to be a safer option to offering it for sale. We have considered giving it to our daughter because she absolutely loves it there but I doubt she would want to go there every year and I don't want to saddle her with the maintenance fee expense if she wouldn't. Is Marriott willingly taking weeks back right now? I have already exchanged our 2022 usage so not sure whether Marriott would be willing to take it back without the 2022 usage. Likewise that lack of 2022 usage would make selling it a bit more difficult.
