Somehow I missed this thread but I have some to contribute
1. I don't think this is a surprise to anybody who's read my posts but I hate Old Key West. Which is kind of sad because it was the first
DVC resort I ever stayed at. My partner and I call it Old Key poopoo whenever we drive by it now that we're locals. Made us question if we had made a bad decision buying DVC. Too spread out, poor location (at least to us), rooms are dated. We will always pick SSR over OKW because we'd rather walk to Disney Springs.
2. This one I'm kind of ashamed of but we bought DVC before we purchased a house. We own a ton of points and still have not purchased a house. The reasoning is because we're doing a Disney wedding and knew we were going to host our families here. Over the span of 5 days were spending over 900 points to host everyone we need. The cost of the rooms for cash would've been over 30,000 dollars. Through my spreadsheet calculations we spent about 13k for the rooms. Didn't purchase a house yet because we're not planning to stay in Orlando long term. Eventually going to move back home to CA after a few years maximum here and purchase a home there. Just figured it's now or never because once we have kids I'm not going to uproot them from their school and away from family.
3. Grand Floridians lobby and restaurants are nice but was not a fan of the rooms. Felt old/stuffy in the rooms. For the
point charts we'd rather stay at BLT. Not to mention GF has probably the worst location on the monorail loop. It's the last to get picked up going to MK and takes the longest to get to TTC if you're trying to monorail there. Crowds during the holidays are also terrible.
4. We bought Riviera sight unseen. Originally was planning to purchase VGF just because of no resale restrictions. But something in me told me to buy an Epcot resort. I'll admit the Riviera lobby leaves a LOT to be desired. If you look at hotel Negresco that RIV was based on, that lobby is freaking amazing. RIVs is nowhere close. But we LOVE the rooms and love the skyliner. We lucked out way into it and are so glad we did because we added on a little over a year after our first purchase.
5. I haven't had to but I'd have no problem walking a difficult to obtain reservation for a prolonged period.
6. I do occasionally question if we've bought too many points but what can I say, we love it and don't have any intentions on stopping soon. Worse comes to worst I start booking 1BRs to start burning through points faster but as things stand we're still borrowing points ATM. That might change soon though since we just blew through a bunch of points for the wedding and might have excess points soon, especially with me wanting to buy Poly for the tower.
7. The new resorts at Universal actually look pretty great. If my partner cared for Universal as much as Disney I'd probably consider holding back on buying more DVC.
8. Stormalong Bay was whatever. Still loved Beach Club because of the proximity to Epcot but the lazy river was too deep for my partner who isn't the greatest swimmer and too fast. It's also a tiny lazy river. I know it's not Aulani and they don't have the space for one that size but it just feels like it's in there to say it has a lazy river.
9. My family doesn't know we own DVC even though they're staying on our points for the wedding. They're under the impression that we're renting the points.
10. I hate it when DVC resorts feel deluxe adjacent. An example of this is Boulder Ridge not being in the main building of Wilderness Lodge. GF having it's separate building and likewise with Beach Club. I know I should be grateful they're separated from nonmembers but at the same time idk I get this feeling that the product is less premium when that's not actually the case. I don't like seeing the grand lobby at GF and then being like welp I'm not staying here, time to exit the building and head to where our room actually is which I think is a big reason we prefer tower resorts.
). At first, he was shocked that I would even consider such a big purchase without discussing it first (every other contract we own is in the 200 pt range)… but once I finished explaining the whole thing (inc the # of points & how the payments would’ve been small & spread out)… he chuckled & said, “You’re right. I never would’ve even noticed.” 
… Nope!! (I do all the planning and booking, he doesn’t even log into his account)
