One of the reasons I'm noticing the GPR weeks in with WM is the proposition GPR is making to the Southern California Beach Club Board. They are "working on negotiating a bulk purchase from a club" to sell off a glut of foreclosure weeks.
Owners at the meeting scoffed at this and asked why these weeks aren't being offered to current owners at reduced rates. There was a lot of politicizing and double speak in the answers, but ultimately they were clinging to this concept of a bulk sale to "a club."
That begs the question.... what club, and to what end?
What club would purchase a glut of off-season weeks? And, for what purpose? To the best of my knowledge, AARP doesn't do club timesharing, so there must be a way to make those weeks appealing to average timesharers. But how?
If GPR could take this glut of 30 February and January weeks and magically turn them into 7 or 8 weeks in all 4 seasons, these weeks would be valuable to a club... like WM. But how could GPR do this? And, how would it benefit them? In terms of how they could do this, there are owner deposits in RCI every year for all seasons. Summer is the hardest to get on a trade. WM works integrally with RCI, and they could potentially work out a deal where they get a good representation of weeks to offer their owners as WM inventory.
The advantage to the HOA would be that maintenance fees get paid. What's the advantage to GPR? Aside from getting the sale and commissions, there would have to be some sort of lasting benefit.
The disadvantage to Grand Pacific Resort owners is the depletion of inventory. It's already difficult to trade into the Southern California Beach Club in the summer.