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My latest Williamsburg Plantation purchase has $17.5/TPU. Don’t know if it comes with extra certificate. If it does, then it will be $13/TPU. @Eric B thats about your values. I can’t bring myself to buy anything Massanutten.

If they don’t set it up with the extra vacation certificate, you can call the VV RCI 800 number and ask them to. You might need the offer number from someone else or off the certificate that the seller got when they bought.

As far as $/TPU goes, I’m quite happy with how it works for me with Massanutten - I get an extra 21-22 TPU boost generally good for 18 months or so for paying my Woodstone MF early, plus the extra vacation certificate that is good for a 180 day reservation, then I use the week itself to get 254K points in Wyndham for another $89 fee. I can make 7 upgrade-deposits into RCI of 35K each to get 63K Wyndham-RCI points, for a total of 450K - that will book a lot of weeks given the Wyndham-RCI exchange grid. It’s a form of TS-arbitrage, if you will, figuring out how to use the different “exchange rates” for a week in the various systems. My understanding is that once my WorldMark resale contract closes, I’ll be able to deposit the week there as two separate red 2 BR weeks for 16K WM credits and 2 housekeeping tokens, which I can then use there or deposit into II as good trading blue 2 BR weeks with 4K WM credits leftover, making my 4 BR LO Woodstone week useable for reserving Marriotts or back down into GL NV Punta. Flexibility has value to me beyond just the $/TPU, but Massanutten does quite well there, too.
 

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I got curious. Using some of the models presented in this thread - my cost/TPU in my timeshare portfolio is $2.58/TPU WITHOUT bringing in my Wyndham points and converting them into a whole bunch of weeks. I can rent 6 of my weeks for more than my maintenance fees, thus getting me a GREAT TPU cost.

If someone asks me “what is a good TPU cost” - I am going to give them my best SINGLE week value without the rest of the portfolio. Someone looking to acquire a week for TPU value is not interested in my whole portfolio.
 

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I got curious. Using some of the models presented in this thread - my cost/TPU in my timeshare portfolio is $2.58/TPU WITHOUT bringing in my Wyndham points and converting them into a whole bunch of weeks. I can rent 6 of my weeks for more than my maintenance fees, thus getting me a GREAT TPU cost.

If someone asks me “what is a good TPU cost” - I am going to give them my best SINGLE week value without the rest of the portfolio. Someone looking to acquire a week for TPU value is not interested in my whole portfolio.
$2.58 per tpu? So you can get 200 tpu's for $516.00 in MF's?
 

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$2.58 per tpu? So you can get 200 tpu's for $516.00 in MF's?

I read that as a portfolio rate, taking into account renting 6 weeks for more than their MFs to result in a reduced overall cost. Kind of wonder what the best SINGLE week is; my comments were meant to be on overall utility being something to take into account as well as $/TPU.
 

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I read that as a portfolio rate, taking into account renting 6 weeks for more than their MFs to result in a reduced overall cost. Kind of wonder what the best SINGLE week is; my comments were meant to be on overall utility being something to take into account as well as $/TPU.
ok. Sometimes I rent all my Massanutten weeks for around MF's and then use just the boosts. So I get 65-100 tpu's for just the cost of the combine fee.
 

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I read that as a portfolio rate, taking into account renting 6 weeks for more than their MFs to result in a reduced overall cost. Kind of wonder what the best SINGLE week is; my comments were meant to be on overall utility being something to take into account as well as $/TPU.

That is exactly my point

I think the OP wanted to know about acquiring a SINGLE week, and what is a good TPU cost. Answers included under $10, with later explanations about "certificates" and "renting". My best weeks, by themselves are $14-$18 per TPU. Using some of the methods presented of including "certificates" and rental offsets, my timeshare PORTFOLIO is $2.58/TPU, and yields 200 TPUs. If I did NOT rent anything out and deposited them all, I would get 330 TPUs and it would be closer to $23/TPU on average for the whole portfolio. (If you do the math, you see why I would rent the 6 weeks if I did not use them, rental far better than the TPUs they yield. Plus I don't need more TPU, I need to start divesting some of these.

(And I deposit at least a year in advance as well, no loss of power.)
 
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Wyndham is a whole different game. As Eric B said - timeshare arbitrage with the systems. I can get TS A in "Wyndham/RCI" for 105k ($600 for me), or I can get it for 55 TPUs in RCI - Using $17/TPU (the week used value) - Its $880. On the other hand, I can get TS B for 20 TPUs ($340), and thru "wyn/rci" (2 bed, high), its over 200k ($1,200).

Fascinating game we play.....
 

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Wyndham is a whole different game. As Eric B said - timeshare arbitrage with the systems. I can get TS A in "Wyndham/RCI" for 105k ($600 for me), or I can get it for 55 TPUs in RCI - Using $17/TPU (the week used value) - Its $880. On the other hand, I can get TS B for 20 TPUs ($340), and thru "wyn/rci" (2 bed, high), its over 200k ($1,200).

Fascinating game we play.....

That has been my philosophy in this, though it means I probably have to many TS for now. I like staying in a great place for <$80/ night. I’ll probably have to start renting out my excess.
 
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