czar
TUG Member
Hello,
I own in BV and find the HOA and the ever truthful sales office enjoy the game of finger pointing in their efforts to avoid answering questions. I am hoping this user thread might have some insight to share.
I am curious if anyone knows how much of BV has been sold? I understand once a certain threshold is surpassed the SVO Board of Directors can be taken over by...ummmm....actual owners with vested interest.
I am also interested in knowing if anyone remembers the option of the "ultra" ownership when you originally purchased- prior to 2011???? My sense is they introduced this option after the fact(~2011) as a means to increase sales as they were incredibly slow. The 'Ultra' is essentially a locked week/unit without calling it locked. Like everything out of that sales office it is a scam and has resulted in those with float weeks having a harder time getting their requests.
Thanks for any help you can give!
Kathy
Kathy,
When I bought a week this summer, I recall the option to fix an "Ultra" week. Doesn't help answer the question about whether that was pre- or post-2011, but there were a few specfic weeks you could do this with (I tried searching for a copy on my laptop, but I'll check my desk at work on Monday). There was a fairly significant price increase to take advantage of that option.
It's great to see all that the Board is doing in VG - I'm hopeful that BV can leverage some of those same strategies as I worry about the MF spiraling out of control. I own a 3br and seeing the MF at $2400 is high enough already! Certainly seems like the energy costs play a large part, and it sounds like VG is investigating some options that BV might be able to use, too.
Anyway, my assumption from seeing the Ultra weeks avaiable is that it should be an issie only for a few of the weeks in a year. Of course, if that wasnt an option when you originally bought, that doesn't make things better, but if you were sold a week with a window of specfic time, I cant see how they could take any of that window away from you.
FWIW, I booked our first use for this summer, but since our contract closed after the 12-month mark, we could not get the week we wanted in August (and this was BEFORE the timeframe when people could trade-in with SO). I was really suprised.