We love the Contemporary and so we have been waiting for BLT for a long while - we love the decor and the location is perfect for our little family. We honestly thought that BLT would come to fruition a few years from now, and we had planned to buy in, but since it sprang up so fast, we were thrown for a loop. We had a nice long talk with our guide today, and then spent 1 hour discussing it amongst ourselves (it's our 10 year anniversary, so it would have been a lovely gift!), and realized that at this time, it's not financially feasible for us to purchase. We are are still paying off our AKV add-on (almost done), have 14 more payments left on our van, and 2 kids in private school, so it is just not in the cards for us at this time. He gave us information about selling our SSR contract to help finance this one, but that would actually cost us a lot money (way higher exchange rate, a bit of interest, commission/fees and would probably sell for less than we bought), and so that didn't make sense to us either.
We were sad at first when we called him back, but then we realized that we are lucky and grateful to be able to travel to WDW, for this we need to be thankful, especially considering the dire economy in your country right now. Our extra money will go to paying down our house faster, as well as paying off our AKV add-on. My hubby is a banker and so we get a very cheap rate, but we feel it's more important for us to continue to be financially responsible than to buy more points we don't really need.
Our guide said that they are almost at the limit for the founding members tiles - he said they sold 400 contracts just on the Member's Cruise this past week! He figures that it will be nearly impossible to get BLT at the 7 month mark based on this initial frenzy, but, he can't predict the future, so he says you never know what surprises might be in store for us.
We will definitely consider an add-on or resale in a few years (if any are available) once our other stuff is paid off - sometimes it's hard to be so practical and responsible!
To all those who have purchased - Congratulations! Here's hoping that we get to stay at BLT sometime in the next few years.
Tiger
We were sad at first when we called him back, but then we realized that we are lucky and grateful to be able to travel to WDW, for this we need to be thankful, especially considering the dire economy in your country right now. Our extra money will go to paying down our house faster, as well as paying off our AKV add-on. My hubby is a banker and so we get a very cheap rate, but we feel it's more important for us to continue to be financially responsible than to buy more points we don't really need.
Our guide said that they are almost at the limit for the founding members tiles - he said they sold 400 contracts just on the Member's Cruise this past week! He figures that it will be nearly impossible to get BLT at the 7 month mark based on this initial frenzy, but, he can't predict the future, so he says you never know what surprises might be in store for us.
We will definitely consider an add-on or resale in a few years (if any are available) once our other stuff is paid off - sometimes it's hard to be so practical and responsible!
To all those who have purchased - Congratulations! Here's hoping that we get to stay at BLT sometime in the next few years.
Tiger
