Is This The End Of DVC Rentals?

[DanceDisney23]

I just saw this article:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/trav...-club-changes-commercial-renters/84372282007/

It’s not super clear to me how this will affect people who rent through David’s or DVC Rental Store because the wording was confusing. Also not clear whether Disney will now cancel rented stays willy nilly.

We have rented in the past and had good experiences with it, though I noticed the price has gone up quite a bit.

 

[eticketplease]

Short answer is No.

Disney is attempting to crack down on those that are commercially renting out their points on a normal basis vs actually using them for themselves to vacation with. There are groups out there that own thousands of points and just use them to rent to others.

DVC members are still allowed to rent out points. David’s and DVCrentalstore will continue to be good choices as they rent people’s points who are not able to go on a trip during a year and aren’t renting the same person’s entire point balance on a yearly basis.

I agree the price of renting has gone up.
However the cost of Disney rooms also has increased.
DVC annual dues/maintenance fees have also increased.
DVC members renting want to at least make enough to cover these dues which must be paid whether points are used or not.
With that in mind the rental stores have to increase their prices a little to pay the DVC members willing to rent their points

 

[Best Aunt]

There's a big thread on this over on the DVC Mouscellaneous Board:

Thread 'DVC T &C Personal Use - Only Thread to Discuss.'

Jun 2, 2025

There is a post out there that has an updated document about DVCs Terms and Conditins regarding bookings. It’s at the end of the booking.

It says effective June 1st. I’m still trying to find the document to post but the essence appears to have some updated language and clarification about personal use.

There also is a check box that you attest it’s personal use,,

I checked the website and don’t see it there yet. Once I can get the offical language …or if anyone else can find it…post.

Since this appears to be an update regarding rentals, this thread will the the one and only to...

• Sandisw
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[CarolynFH]

There's a big thread on this over on the DVC Mouscellaneous Board:

Thread 'DVC T &C Personal Use - Only Thread to Discuss.'

Jun 2, 2025

There is a post out there that has an updated document about DVCs Terms and Conditins regarding bookings. It’s at the end of the booking.

It says effective June 1st. I’m still trying to find the document to post but the essence appears to have some updated language and clarification about personal use.

There also is a check box that you attest it’s personal use,,

I checked the website and don’t see it there yet. Once I can get the offical language …or if anyone else can find it…post.

Since this appears to be an update regarding rentals, this thread will the the one and only to...

• Sandisw
• Replies: 3,182
• Forum: DVC Mousecellaneous

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"Big" being an understatement....

 

[VGCgroupie]

Interesting that this caught the attention of national news.

It may make getting pre booked confirmed DVC rentals harder but its not the end of DVC rentals.

 

[Genie+]

I think we’re going to see some changes.

Renting DVC points exists because the contract allows that activity. The big caveat is the points must be owned for personal use. Commercial use is prohibited. So if points have been purchased to repeatedly rent them out… that is the area where DVC can intervene.

 

[Best Aunt]

"Big" being an understatement....

Big. Huge!

 

[barkley]

David’s and DVCrentalstore will continue to be good choices as they rent people’s points who are not able to go on a trip during a year

so are owners no longer able to bank points? when we owned this was entirely how we operated our usage. in addition to a couple of multi week trips to wdw we did 2 trips combo'd with disney cruises and 1 (non disney) alaskan cruise by banking a year's worth of points and then using the points in another (and at least once borrowing a handful of points from the following year).

 

[VGCgroupie]

so are owners no longer able to bank points? when we owned this was entirely how we operated our usage. in addition to a couple of multi week trips to wdw we did 2 trips combo'd with disney cruises and 1 (non disney) alaskan cruise by banking a year's worth of points and then using the points in another (and at least once borrowing a handful of points from the following year).

Yes you can still bank your points

 

[eticketplease]

so are owners no longer able to bank points? when we owned this was entirely how we operated our usage. in addition to a couple of multi week trips to wdw we did 2 trips combo'd with disney cruises and 1 (non disney) alaskan cruise by banking a year's worth of points and then using the points in another (and at least once borrowing a handful of points from the following year).

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The section you quoted was just me giving a basic example of why some owners rent their points.

Yes people are able to bank points into the next year but those points can not be banked again

So if the owner banked the points from last year but then this year they can not travel those points are then going to be forfeited if not used. Certain owners can attempt to exchange them into a Cruise, ABD or the Disney collection. All owners can exchange them into II to book something non Disney or they can rent out the points. Renting the points is certainly the easiest and usually the best value for their points.