- Joined
- Mar 10, 2007
- Messages
- 6,804
- Reaction score
- 327
- Location
- 'burbs of Cincinnati, OH
- Resorts Owned
- Used to own: WKORV-N; SVV - Bella
Greetings to all Tuggers, esp those who were around when I ventured into TSing and TUG back in 2006! I missed you!
Background: I ventured upon TUG before we decided to make Maui our annual Mecca, and purchased an OF 2 bdrm lock off at WKORV-N on the resale market, sight unseen. I paid a whopping $50,000 to some poor soul who’d paid $125,000 from the developer just a few months prior. We happily used our home resort and the SVO network extensively over the next 8 years.
A decade later when the kids started college, we happily sold WKORV-N for $25,000 so we could expand our horizons beyond SVO.
We spent the next decade traveling extensively to Europe, Costa Rica, etc. and enjoying the heck out of exploring other places.
What is luring us back into TSing is that we are near 60 and considering our retirement strategy. While we want to continue to explore the world, snowbirding for a month somewhere is appealing.
We’ve looked into buying a Maui condo and, even though prices are softening, it’s hard to sink that kind of money into a place unless we wanted to live there year round. We still have a lovely life (inc grandkids) in Ohio, and leaving our home for greener pastures and bluer waters is not in the cards.
Sooo, actually buying WKORV-N again might be the best option for achieving our goal of having the best of all worlds.
But much has changed, so please indulge me while I ask some questions to acquaint myself with the changes that happened in the meantime, namely the Marriott acquisition.
Background: I ventured upon TUG before we decided to make Maui our annual Mecca, and purchased an OF 2 bdrm lock off at WKORV-N on the resale market, sight unseen. I paid a whopping $50,000 to some poor soul who’d paid $125,000 from the developer just a few months prior. We happily used our home resort and the SVO network extensively over the next 8 years.
A decade later when the kids started college, we happily sold WKORV-N for $25,000 so we could expand our horizons beyond SVO.
We spent the next decade traveling extensively to Europe, Costa Rica, etc. and enjoying the heck out of exploring other places.
What is luring us back into TSing is that we are near 60 and considering our retirement strategy. While we want to continue to explore the world, snowbirding for a month somewhere is appealing.
We’ve looked into buying a Maui condo and, even though prices are softening, it’s hard to sink that kind of money into a place unless we wanted to live there year round. We still have a lovely life (inc grandkids) in Ohio, and leaving our home for greener pastures and bluer waters is not in the cards.
Sooo, actually buying WKORV-N again might be the best option for achieving our goal of having the best of all worlds.
But much has changed, so please indulge me while I ask some questions to acquaint myself with the changes that happened in the meantime, namely the Marriott acquisition.