What's in a BLT? - Or, Configuration of the Tower *UPDATED 11/23*

[wdrl]

In December 2011, BLT recorded 27,499 points sold, an improvement over the previous month when only 21,977 points were sold. These sales numbers are well below BLT's historical average of over 140,000 points a month, which indicates that DVD is no longer actively marketing BLT to prospective buyers.

DVD has sold about 93.9% of the maximum number of points it can sell at BLT. This reflects 58,139 BLT points that DVD has reacquired through foreclosure proceedings, exercising its Right of First Refusal, and other buyback reasons.

100% of BLT has been declared for the DVC inventory, which means that all 281 of BLT's Vacation Homes can be booked by Vacation Club members using points.

February is the most common Use Year at BLT, while October is the least common Use Year. As of the end of 2011, DVD only had about 11,278 October UY points and 14,870 September UY points remaining in its inventory of unsold points. However, DVD has yet to use points from five BLT Units (01B, 01C, 20B, 90B, and 91A) to support sales. These five Units, which account for 133,175 points, have not yet been assigned to a specific Use Year. Unless DVD assigns one or more of these Units to the October or September UYs, prospective buyers wanting those UYs may experience difficulty obtaining those UYs in the near future.


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[work2play]

In December 2011, BLT recorded 27,499 points sold, an improvement over the previous month when only 21,977 points were sold. These sales numbers are well below BLT's historical average of over 140,000 points a month, which indicates that DVD is no longer actively marketing BLT to prospective buyers.

DVD has sold about 93.9% of the maximum number of points it can sell at BLT. This reflects 58,139 BLT points that DVD has reacquired through foreclosure proceedings, exercising its Right of First Refusal, and other buyback reasons.

100% of BLT has been declared for the DVC inventory, which means that all 281 of BLT's Vacation Homes can be booked by Vacation Club members using points.

February is the most common Use Year at BLT, while October is the least common Use Year. As of the end of 2011, DVD only had about 11,278 October UY points and 14,870 September UY points remaining in its inventory of unsold points. However, DVD has yet to use points from five BLT Units (01B, 01C, 20B, 90B, and 91A) to support sales. These five Units, which account for 133,175 points, have not yet been assigned to a specific Use Year. Unless DVD assigns one or more of these Units to the October or September UYs, prospective buyers wanting those UYs may experience difficulty obtaining those UYs in the near future.

Yes, I have been concerned about that too as a September use year owner. I stocked up right before the resale change to make sure that I would not be caught with none available later. Maybe with the new Grand Floridian units, some BLT owners will shift over to the GF...

[wdrl]

In January 2012, BLT recorded 33,349 points sold, the most number of points sold since August 2011, when 40,872 points were sold.

BLT has not been the focal point of Disney Vacation Development's marketing effects for about six months. Now, reports are surfacing that DVD is beginning to experience shortages in the number of points available for sale for some of the Use Years at BLT, as well as SSR. On another thread, Tjkraz reported that Guides have to check if there is enough points in DVD's inventory at both BLT and SSR before they can commit to a direct sale.

I have modified the chart on BLT sales to show the number of unsold points available for each UY. As of January 31, 2012, DVD had 426,653 points unsold at BLT. However, since DVD cannot sell more than 98% of BLT's points to the general public, it actually only has a maximum of 311,982 points it can sell to the public. This reflects 61,389 BLT points that DVD has reacquired through foreclosure proceedings, exercising its Right of First Refusal on resale transactions, and other buyback reasons.

DVD has four Units (01B, 01C, 90B, and 91A) containing 113,535 points that it has not yet used to support sales. Until DVD begins using a Unit to support sales, it is unknown which Use Year the points will be assigned. Currently, the October UY, which is the least common UY at BLT, also has the fewest number of points - 10,368 - still unsold. The February UY, which is also the most common UY at BLT, has the most number of points unsold.

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[luckyman_apd]

What exactly do all these numbers mean? I understand the chart and all, and what is left to be sold, but does this affect us in someway? And where do you get all this information from?

[wdrl]

What exactly do all these numbers mean? I understand the chart and all, and what is left to be sold, but does this affect us in someway? And where do you get all this information from?

The data is collected from real estate deeds filed and recorded with the Orange County Comptroller. Since the deeds are public records, they can be viewed on OCC's website at https://officialrecords.occompt.com/recorder/eagleweb/docSearch.jsp.

With much of BLT sold, the data may be helpful if anyone is thinking of buying points at BLT. There are still points available in all UYs at BLT, but the supply is obviously declining.

At AKV, only 66.66% of its points have been sold. At its current rate of sales, the date indicates that AKV is many, many months away from being sold out. More importantly, the data shows that almost 75% of AKV has been declared for the DVC inventory. This means that on any given Use Day, only 75% of AKV is available for members to book using points. The rest belongs to DVD for its use.

[wdrl]

In February 2012, DVD sold 31,501 points for BLT, which is about 5.5% less than in January 2012.

BLT has not been the focal point of Disney Vacation Development's marketing efforts since about June 2011. For the first six months of 2011, BLT averaged 132,711 points sold a month. Since then, BLT has sold an average of 30,963 points a month.

As of February 29, 2012, DVD has sold 5,337,088 of BLT's 5,733,530 total points. Since DVD cannot sell more than 98% of BLT's total points, it has a maximum of 281,771 that it still sell to the general public. This number reflects 62,679 points that DVD has reacquired from owners through foreclosure proceedings, exercising its right of first refusal on resale transactions, and other buyback reasons. Keep in mind that DVD may decide to keep more than 2% of BLT's points for itself. Thus, the actual number of points it is willing to sell to the public may be much less than 281,771.

BLT still has three Units that DVD has not used to support sales: 01B, 01C, and 91A. Thus, the Use Years for those three Units, which account for 78,560 points, is unknown. As the chart below shows, February is the most common UY at BLT, while October is the least common UY. The chart below also shows the number of points by UY that DVD has in its inventory.

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