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question about borrowing staroptions?

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Looking to take an aditional vacation in 2018. We have already used both of our 81000 staroptions from SVV for 2018. If I want to book another week, tomorrow, can I call in and pay my 2019 fees, then make a SO reservation?

What would happen to the Staroptions if I then cancelled the reservation. I am guessing that they revert back to 2019 useage minus home resort priority
 
Looking to take an aditional vacation in 2018. We have already used both of our 81000 staroptions from SVV for 2018. If I want to book another week, tomorrow, can I call in and pay my 2019 fees, then make a SO reservation?

What would happen to the Staroptions if I then cancelled the reservation. I am guessing that they revert back to 2019 useage minus home resort priority

You could only make a reservation that would be within the next 8 months as a star option reservation (you don’t get home resort priority for the 8-12 month period). You will have to first pay your fees for 2019, then call in to make your reservation by borrowing the 2019 options. It’s an easy process.

If the reservation were cancelled I don’t know if it would go back as 2018 or 2019 usage. Someone else might know about this.


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How do I pay my 2019 fees? I just paid my 2018 fees which are due Jan 5th
 
You can pay them when you call to make the reservation. If it is a prime reservation you want to reserve, it will take additional time to pay the MFs for the 2019 ownership which could cause you to lose out on that prime ressie. This is why it is best to pay online a few days in advance if you can.

If you cancel the reservation, the StarOptions go back to the use year that they were borrowed from. You can then of course use them again to borrow and make another 2018 reservation since the MFs are prepaid. Y
 
You can pay them when you call to make the reservation. If it is a prime reservation you want to reserve, it will take additional time to pay the MFs for the 2019 ownership which could cause you to lose out on that prime ressie. This is why it is best to pay online a few days in advance if you can.

If you cancel the reservation, the StarOptions go back to the use year that they were borrowed from. You can then of course use them again to borrow and make another 2018 reservation since the MFs are prepaid. Y
thanks, I don't see an option online to pay 2019 fees, so I will call
 
When you go in to Owner Association -->> View Statement & Make a Payment and Click the Pay Now button, there will be a line for "Projected Fees for Next Year". If you currently have a $0 balance and pay that amount, they will consider them prepaid for 2019. I wouldn't pay them now though, I would just pay them as you call. I have seen it mentioned that they may not see those online payments right away if you call too soon to make the reservation. Best to do it a few days in advance. If you can't, just do it when you call.
 
When you go in to Owner Association -->> View Statement & Make a Payment and Click the Pay Now button, there will be a line for "Projected Fees for Next Year". If you currently have a $0 balance and pay that amount, they will consider them prepaid for 2019. I wouldn't pay them now though, I would just pay them as you call. I have seen it mentioned that they may not see those online payments right away if you call too soon to make the reservation. Best to do it a few days in advance. If you can't, just do it when you call.
got it, thanks
 
This is our first year owning and we already borrowed from 2019 for a family Hawaii trip.. The only draw back is you can't make reservations online if you are borrowing . You can only make them by calling in.
If you are trying for the 8 month out it places you at a slight disadvantage as you have to wait til the morning to call. We were lucky and still got what we needed.
 
Newbie here. Just to be 100% sure, once I pay MFs for the next year i can use the borrowed SOs the same way I would use the ones of the current year, right? If i understand correctly, 8-0 months you are able to book 1 week or more (say 9 days), not necessarily multiples of 7 days.
I am thinking, because VSN charges a banking fee, it may be a better strategy to always use SOs from the next year and not run into the situation where you may have 5-15,000 SO's left a the end of the year that are (more or less) not worth banking. What do you guys think? We are in the process of getting our first SVV Bella, 81k SOs, usage 2019.
 
Newbie here. Just to be 100% sure, once I pay MFs for the next year i can use the borrowed SOs the same way I would use the ones of the current year, right? If i understand correctly, 8-0 months you are able to book 1 week or more (say 9 days), not necessarily multiples of 7 days.
I am thinking, because VSN charges a banking fee, it may be a better strategy to always use SOs from the next year and not run into the situation where you may have 5-15,000 SO's left a the end of the year that are (more or less) not worth banking. What do you guys think? We are in the process of getting our first SVV Bella, 81k SOs, usage 2019.
Very close. You can use them in almost the same way as current year SOs. You have to call to use borrowed StarOptions, you can't make the reservation online like you can with current year. You are also able to make 1+ night reservations with any SOs. You aren't limited to 7+.
 
Very close. You can use them in almost the same way as current year SOs. You have to call to use borrowed StarOptions, you can't make the reservation online like you can with current year. You are also able to make 1+ night reservations with any SOs. You aren't limited to 7+.
I was under the impression that you could only do 1+night reservations 3-0 months in advance
 
I was under the impression that you could only do 1+night reservations 3-0 months in advance
No. That is an old rule that no longer exists.
 
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I have a question. If I have SO's that expire this year can I add other SO's that expire next year to it? EX: I have 44k SO for this year and 88k for next year and combine them for a reservation in 2018. If for some reason I have to cancel what happens to the SO's that I have combined?
 
Yes, you can borrow points from next year by prepaying the 2019 MFs. You only borrow what you need for the reservation and you have to call to make the reservation. If you cancel, the 2019 borrowed SOs go back to 2019 but the 2018 SOs that will expire are lost. You could bank the 2018 SOs, unless they were 2016 SOs that you banked?
 
Yes, you can borrow points from next year by prepaying the 2019 MFs. You only borrow what you need for the reservation and you have to call to make the reservation. If you cancel, the 2019 borrowed SOs go back to 2019 but the 2018 SOs that will expire are lost. You could bank the 2018 SOs, unless they were 2016 SOs that you banked?

These are my 2016 and 2017 banked SOs. I haven't been able to use them because of family health issues and am trying to figure out how not to lose them this year.
 
You have 2 years to use banked Staroptions, so your 2016 Staroptions have to be used by the end of 2018, and your 2017 Staroptions have to be used by the end of 2019.

How to use them is simple - either go online, or call owner services and make some reservations. I would do this ASAP, because the most popular resorts are just about booked solid for 2018 at this point, so you don't want to wait an longer. I would focus on using the reservations that expire in 2018, first.
 
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