Hi all - we will be heading down to STJ in August and we are considering purchasing a studio from Westin directly. If we do that, can they roll our resale purchase into the studio? We are thinking if we do this, there is more benefits to it or is that just silly thinking and we should look again on the resale market? We learned a lot on our last purchase (many thanks to all of you) and are trying to see the pros/cons of this approach
My understanding is that if you make a developer purchase of at least $10,000, they will requalify one resale week as if you’d purchased it from the developer. I think it’s basically one week requalified for each $10K spent. I haven’t done it personally and I’m sure somebody will correct me if I’m wrong.
Personally, I think there is value in having fully qualified ownerships, and so I think the strategy of buying resale and then making a small additional developer purchase to get the resale week qualified is a good one. But if you like to just stay in the resort you own every year and not use your ownership elsewhere, then the benefits of requalifying your resale week are smaller.
if it were me, I’d agree on a price and benefits (“free” Bonvoy points, etc., that they throw in with the deal) and then bring up the resale week and tell them you want that requalified as part of the deal. Maybe they’ll see it in your ownership and bring it up themselves. I’m just worried that you’ll get a worse deal if they know you’re eager to requalify the resale week. Let them be desperate to sell to you, don’t be desperate to buy.
