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Summer Bay Desert Club Deeds?

UWSurfer said:
Here's a link to photo's I took of Summer Bay Desert Club, Las Vegas...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31832757@N06/?saved=1
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Thanks again for all the updates and the photos! I'll be out there next week and will try to continue to gather info and add to your posts.
I'm assuming the photos you took were of the model unit? if so they have changed a lot of the furnishings, fixtures and appliances! the unit has a darker look to it? may just be the lighting. but the dining set, the headboards and the range are all different from the original model unit I saw, and was in all the pictures they produced ??? RT
 
Yes this is the two bedroom model unit. Lots of rosewood, dark.

Pic's were taken with my Treo cellphone and was done on the fly...as you can see the blur. I was trying to get as many as I could without being obvious.
 
From the account information given in the MF letter, it seems that the new deeds are for specific weeks rather than seasons. Has anyone else noticed this?
 
spatenfloot said:
From the account information given in the MF letter, it seems that the new deeds are for specific weeks rather than seasons. Has anyone else noticed this?
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Yup, see my post #16 in this thread. there has never been any discussion of the target seasons going away, So I have to assume this is just for deeding purposes,and they appear to be assigned at random. but can't know 100% for sure. the old account/contract numbers could be decoded to show the season,the size and layout of the unit, the building group (and thus the check in day) and the interval # I'm not sure what if anything the new account numbers reveal about the interval. RT
 
roadtriper said:
Yup, see my post #16 in this thread. there has never been any discussion of the target seasons going away, So I have to assume this is just for deeding purposes,and they appear to be assigned at random. but can't know 100% for sure. the old account/contract numbers could be decoded to show the season,the size and layout of the unit, the building group (and thus the check in day) and the interval # I'm not sure what if anything the new account numbers reveal about the interval. RT
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I clicked on the make reservation link in the new website. It then asks you to make 3 choices of a week for the reservation, so apparently it is still floating.
 
anne1125 said:
Has anyone here been able to sign in with the access number and password number? Mine doesn't work.

Anne
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I tried mine this morning and it let me in just fine. the other day it wasn't working for me either! Keep trying RT
 
Our deed was registered yesterday.

I thought it was interesting that the value was listed at $1500 ( we only paid $500 on ebay)

Might print that out and take it with me to the next owner update where they try to sell you another one for over $20K :eek:

Thanks for all the info, this site is the only way I ever know whats going on!
 
Clarification on "Rental Grade Units"

In an earlier post I made mention of "Rental Grade" units at Summer Bay's Las Vegas Desert Club. as I understand it... This was/is a temporary situation The original plan when the dust settled in the negotiations with Harrahs was to continue full operations at the old resort while the Desert Club was being fully refurbished ,and then just hand over the keys to the old resort ,and move into the completed Desert Club in full. sometime around the end of 2008

THEN... Harrah's Entertainment was sold. the new owners agreed to honor the agreement between Harrah's, Summer Bay and the LV HOA. EXCEPT...
they wanted the time line moved up to have the old resort turned over by Oct 31 2008. and I believe they put some $$$ on the table to the Resort if that date was met. in order to meet that deadline the resort had to start taking buildings "Offline" and tearing them down, thus reducing the avail inventory they had for owners and exchanges etc.

The new timeline didn't allow enough time to get the Refurbished "Gold Crown" units opened up to keep up with demand. Thus... the first units opened up in the new Desert Club a couple months ago were just refreshed and furnished with the best stuff removed from Summer Bay and they were refered to as "Rental Grade" to distinguish them from the New Totaly refurbished "Gold Crown" Quality units

THIS WAS/IS A TEMPORARY STOP GAP MEASURE TO HAVE SOME INVENTORY DURRING A VERY COMPLEX MOVE/TRANSITION

As the new totaly refurbished units come online any owners, exchangers,renters etc. will get the new units. and the "Rental Grade" units will disappear if they haven't already
I don't know what the exact timeline will be, but the Desert Club will have totaly refurbished units equal to the number of units at the old resort 489 +/- probably by the end of 08'
and the remaining inventory of the new resort will be refurbished to keep up with new sales of the remaining inventory. RT
 
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RCI Gold Crown?

I just noticed that the online RCI resort directory now shows the resort as:

Summer Bay Resorts Las Vegas Desert Club (#0110)

It shows some pictures of the old resort, but there are already some reviews of the new resort.

But I can not see anything like "Gold Crown" on the RCI website. It only is marked as "RCI points" resort.

Does anybody know when it will show Gold Crown?
 
Our cousin bought 2 SBDC units on eBay and has a reservation for 11-30-08. She expects to get a refurbished unit at Desert Club. Now we're curious to see what happens! :eek:
 
We've relocated, so I've been away from this board for a little while. Did everyone get the new points in their RCI accounts? Mine has been increased for 2009. This is great.
 
I know there is nothing I can do about it now but doesn't it seem strange how they upgraded the units.

For instance a Fountains 1B (584 square feet) got upgraded to a 2 BR and a Plaza 1B (532/684 square feet) got upgraded to a 2 BR automatically during the conversion. These 2 BR has 1030 sq ft. The Winnicks 1B/2Ba (615 square feet) also got upgrades to a 2 BR with 1020 sq ft.

However the Towers 1B (700 square feet) ONLY got upgraded to a 1 BR with 745 sq ft.

Does that even make sense? Why would smaller 1 BR units get upgraded to 2 BR units when larger 1BR units barely got an upgrade in size at all.

Did anyone notice this?
 
If I remember correctly they claimed it was something about the original smaller 1 BRs that where upgraded to 2 BR hat two bathrooms or something like that.

If they where not upgraded, owners would have lost a bathroom, which would not have been fair.

As I never have been in these 1 BRs I have no clue if they really had 2 Bathrooms.
 
Update

roadtriper said:
I recieved a couple of my Maint fee statements from Summer Bay in todays mail. Maint fees went up $20:( and it looks like SB is doing their own billing now and not using the HOA-Trak folks. the summer bay website wouldn't let me pull up my account info? probably still working out the bugs!

A few things I notice : our intervals now have a unit# and a week assigned to them i.e. unit 04-102 week 15 and unit 21-303 week 33
I'm guessing... 04-102 would be building 4 unit 102 (first floor?) and
21-303 would be building 21 unit 303 (3rd floor?) I'm assuming/hoping this is just for deeding puposes and we are still assigned a target season!

all the contract numbers etc. are totaly different, I can't tell which statement goes to which unit. i.e. whether it's a 1 bedroom fri/fri or a 2 bedroom Sun/Sun ??? I can assume by the week assigned what season it is. I guess there is going to be a learning curve getting use to the new resort, and the details of how things are done.

there is a brief newsletter that states that Chicago Title is mailing out the deeds to the owners and everyone should have their deeds by early 2009
RT
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Just an update... apearantly there is no way to identify the unit just by the contract# like you could at the old resort, anyone with multiple units need to call customer care and they will give you the corosponding previous contract# that matches up with the new contract#. the nice young lady I spoke with said she's been doing it quite a bit for folks. didn't seem like it was set up well on her end either, she had to go back and forth between screens and search for the match.
I asked about the Week# assigned to the contract? she said to ignore it, it's just a code and the target seasons assigned to the units are still in place. RT
 
Bob, have you been listed on the deed website for your new 2 bedroom yet? I check weekly and we're still just showing the original 1 bedroom purchase.

Anne
 
anne1125 said:
Bob, have you been listed on the deed website for your new 2 bedroom yet? I check weekly and we're still just showing the original 1 bedroom purchase.

Anne
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Hi Anne, one unit that was a lottery winner did post on the Clark Co. site Nov7. but you can't tell from the recorders site which unit it is. there was actually 2 entries. the first was the transfer of my original deed from us to the Corp. listed. and the second entry is the new Desert Club deed being transfered from them to us. I'm sure that when the new deeds are finally sent to us there will also be a new contract that shows the exact unit, size, season, check in etc. hopefully they will come soon, be patient:D Bob
 
We received our deed paperwork yesterday. (I fell and whacked my head, so I didn't open the mail until this morning, but that is a whole other story.)

I am assuming that assigned week # and unit # are for recording purpose only. The deed has our season and size correct, and that is likely what they will continue to go by.

It also lists the sales value of this at $1,500. We own a season 4, 1 BR Deluxe unit.

It also states we have 1/26,520th of a undivided interest. I guess I did not check the number of units, but is that right?
 
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Sandy Lovell said:
It also states we have 1/26,520th of a undivided interest.
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Yes, heaven forbid we were to loose all that clout by dividing our 1/26,520th UNDIVIDED interest! :rolleyes:

I'm glad to hear you got your paperwork...may that means our closing co. will see ours soon!
 
I went back and checked the paperwork. There are 658 units in the New Desert Club location, so why is the UDI only for 26,520 units that would only be about 510 units if you counted every week in a year, or 520 units if you took 1 week a year out for Maitenance.

If there were 658 units, that would be would be 34,216. Why the discrepency?
 
Sandy Lovell said:
We received our deed paperwork yesterday. (I fell and whacked my head, so I didn't open the mail until this morning, but that is a whole other story.)

I am assuming that assigned week # and unit # are for recording purpose only. The deed has our season and size correct, and that is likely what they will continue to go by.

It also lists the sales value of this at $1,500. We own a season 4, 1 BR Deluxe unit.

It also states we have 1/26,520th of a undivided interest. I guess I did not check the number of units, but is that right?
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Hi Sandy, you are correct,I was told the assigned unit and week numbers are for internal purposes only. everyone still has the deeded seasons they had at the old resort.

as for the 1/26,520 thing? I'm not sure what's up with that, I'd like an answer to the numbers as well.

Hope your head feels better! Bob
 
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