dbs1228
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In your example (I am presuming a 220 base but I am unclear from your wording...could be 225), your profit is $1,135 on what I presume is a contract in the $17,380-$17,775 range. So you have mitigated the closing fees plus about 3.5% of the overall investment. If you rent the other 220 points as well, those are pure profit at $2,420 since the maintenance fees were already counterbalanced. You have now paid 20.5% of your overall investment without a penny out of pocket yet. That is *exactly* the sort of deal I have been targeting.
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It is a 225 point contract but they borrowed 5 points from 2013 (probably banked 2012 points and decided to travel with 2011 banked points) I bought BLT a few years back at 108.00PP direct because that is the only resort we wanted to stay at (location). I thought 108.00 was crazy high but my guide did tell the truth (and I doubted him) that the prices will only go up! We added on SSR and after staying at THV my DD's do not love them (I do!) but we decided to sell 1 SSR resale and get points at a location we love BWV. When we sold SSR we actually made money from the purchase! Of course we were about 3 weeks late in the buying aspect since our 1st contract taken was 55.00PP 3 weeks before a contract for 50.00PP passed

This is our 4th try at it but the one thing I am sooooo happy with is that it is our UY and it has made me realize when I add on I need to just wait for the right contract at a cost I can afford to pay out of pocket and my UY.
btw I walked away from a contract that was a different UY but came with 650 points (350 point contract) listed for 60.00PP offered full asking sellers then upped the price to 70.00PP - It was more points then we had considered adding but at 60.00PP I was willing to do it not at 70.00 and then the maintenance fees on top of that for the extra 125 points.
Good luck in your search and believe me I considered VGF especially the fixed week aspect until I looked at point cost for stays - BLT is high but but VGF is even higher!!!