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My wife and I are in our mid-60's, retired, live by ourselves in the Dallas area, and are in good active health. We've been to many TS presentations over the years and never purchased due to restrictions from family and work - no longer! Three days ago, we purchased the Westin Flex plan - 243,000 StarOptions while visiting the Scottsdale Kierland Villas which we really enjoyed. Paid $78k with first two years maintenance fees waived - about a $10k value so our net cost is $68k. Vistana agreed to load 486,000 SO's (first two years worth) as soon as we are set up in their system. Westin Flex included Vistana properties in Scottsdale (1), Palm Springs (2), Hawaii (4), and Colorado (1) - all places we've visited before many times and would visit readily again - our daughter lives in Phoenix. We paid cash for the SO's.
We liked the idea of trading to other VSE properties and to trade to other Marriott Vacation Club properties on an equivalent value basis. 243,000 SO's should get us into a one bedroom premium villa at high season anywhere in their system. Rep said that sometime in next year or so Marriott and Vistana systems will be merged due to common ownership and exchanges will be treated as internal without having to go through Interval International.
What am I missing? Thanks.
We liked the idea of trading to other VSE properties and to trade to other Marriott Vacation Club properties on an equivalent value basis. 243,000 SO's should get us into a one bedroom premium villa at high season anywhere in their system. Rep said that sometime in next year or so Marriott and Vistana systems will be merged due to common ownership and exchanges will be treated as internal without having to go through Interval International.
What am I missing? Thanks.