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Newbie fixed week deposit - help?

Rascalsmom

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My account shows:

"Unit: 2 Bed - Week 54 - Oct 20 2011 - Oct 27 2011"

Oct 20-27 is week 42, so I assume the "week 54" is their internal designation for a floating week?
(Floating, bah!)
 

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My account shows:

"Unit: 2 Bed - Week 54 - Oct 20 2011 - Oct 27 2011"

Oct 20-27 is week 42, so I assume the "week 54" is their internal designation for a floating week?
(Floating, bah!)

No - floating week deposits are not designated by a week- they are designated by a code.

This is how my floating SDO week is designated:
Sheraton Desert Oasis - Gold Plus/Red
SI2


You need to get some answers about this week:
Is Starwood treating it like a floating week or a fixed week?
If you had reserved week 52 - would they have deposited it?

Very, very odd!
 

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Thank you for your input and your patience in helping me with my screwy week. Just went back to mystarcentral and it shows under my ownership:

Week52 Unit xxxxx
Home season: Prime
Type of ownership: Odd year fixed

Everything relating to my account and in their materials says this week is fixed! I may have made a mistake depositing into II; on the stickies I think it says they have the right to choose the week, but for next time I need to know. I will start with the phone calling tomorrow. Thanks again.
 

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No - Since the rules changed in 2009, no one chooses the week to be deposited.

Either:

1) It's a floating week and you use the average value of the season - a code - not a week.

or

2) It's a fixed week and they deposit the actual deeded week.

You will not find the trade value code at My Star Central - the code is listed on II, when you click on the Exchange tab, and then, "My units." Your unit and code should be listed if it is a floating week.

Floating week looks like this in II:
Sheraton Desert Oasis - Gold Plus/Red
SI2
= the code

True Fixed week looks like this in II:
Sheraton Vistana Resort
VIO
Usage: Apr 21 2013 - Apr 28 2013 = shows week instead
Week 16
 
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Good grief, another set of rules for SVR properties... :p

The key word in your post is "properties." Each phase of the SVR properties is governed by a separate declaration. Each declaration can (and apparently does) say separate things about how a true fixed or fixed float week is treated for reservation purposes.

Vistana created this problem when SVR was created. The provisions of the separate declarations are now as binding on Starwood as they are on the owners of the weeks at the various resorts. The provisions can only be changed now by the requisite vote of the owners, not by the boards of the various associations. And, certainly not by Starwood.

So, everyone is stuck with a crazy-quilt mess of what can and cannot be done under the provisions of the various declarations.

I do not own at any phase of SVR. So, I do not know what the declaration of any phase says about reserving fixed or fixed float weeks. And, I cannot say with certainty what the declarations of condominium provide for any phase of SVR. However, extrapolating how things are done at Lakes from how they are done at other phases/associations is folly - unless the provisions of the associations are identical. I seems they may not be identical. ... eom
 
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