Everybody who purchases expects that they will still have their contract, or pass it down, when the contract expires - be it 27 or 50 years from now. Although some people may have their contracts until the expiration date, the reality is that many, if not most, of DVC owners will be members for around 10 years. When you average in all the thousands - and thousands! - of contracts that have changed hands on the resale market, you will see that many people will sell long before that expiration date for a myriad of reasons. Just going by the numbers, 27 years is still a long, long lifetime in DVC member years. What I certainly would NOT do is buy those older resorts as direct purchases from Disney rather than by resale.