lodge
DIS Veteran
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- Dec 8, 2012
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You are buying the opportunity to stay at a Disney resort for X amount of time per year. If you decide to sell later on and you 'make' money, consider yourself lucky but you better add up all the money you spent on vacations while using your points. If you 'lose' money, well, weren't you going on vacation anyway so did you lose anything? If you rent your points, you will get your maintenance fees paid for that year and some more but I know for a fact that my house rental is bringing more money in a year than any DVC contract can. So again, probably not a 'good' investment and I use that word loosely.
We bought our contract knowing we wanted to go back year after year to Disney. We bought it knowing that because we had it we would spend more money at Disney (tickets, food, traveling costs, etc....). All we assumed was that it would guarantee us a vacation at a place we love at a level of resort we wouldn't normally splurge on.
I don't intend to sell and I don't intend to rent (if I ever do this it will be solely that we have fallen on 'bad times' and need to cover the maintenance fees and can't afford a vacation and its additional costs.) If we fall on 'good times' again, we will definitely buy more points; probably resale. I love my contract and appreciate the vacations we have been on because we have it.
It's not a 'deal'; it's a vacation. If you figure out a way to 'feel good about the money you spent'; good for you but please don't twist it to be an investment.
Exactly our view of our DVC timeshare.