Amen...
I can not think of a circumstance where either legitimately requires it.
One possible circumstance would be if you rent an owned unit using the resort rental arm. But I would think they would ask for at that time.
I have never known any closing entity to ever request (or ever claim to require) a
buyer's social security #.
That particular buyer information is plainly neither necessary nor
any of their business in the first place.
I
have however known resort chains (Wyndham comes specifically and immediately to mind) to
attempt to collect social security number information, outside of the in-house rental circumstance basham cites above (...in which case a W-9 and ss# are indeed legitimate requests).
I have always assumed that a resort / resort chain likely
wants that ss# information in order to facilitate any "collections" or "credit reporting" situations which may arise in the future as a result of a delinquent account. When I was a Wyndham
buyer, I overtly declined to ever provide ss# info to Wyndham. I always paid my fees on time and ss# was never mentioned again. When I later
sold (...gave away for free, actually) my Wyndham ownership, social security number was again never mentioned or required...
