Point rental/transfer timing?

[udflyer00]

I posted this in another thread, but I think it is going to get overlooked so I thought I might post it hear as well to see if anyone might be able to help...

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I have a real quick question along this same line... My wife and I are looking to do a cruise either in 2006 or 2007, and I know from browsing through some of the threads that it is more cost effective to rent or transfer our points rather than use them for the cruise. So my question is how early do you start to list your points for rent or transfer? If we were to go in 2007 would we have to wait until our Aug use year rolls around to list our points? Or would we just rent out those points, and just borrow them now to use for someone? If anyone could help elaborate on sort of the process that would be great because I think this is really an option we really want to pursue.

Thanks,
Mark
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[RobDoc]

You can begin now by responding to requests to rent (or have points tranferred) during the time your points may be used for such transactions. (If you are talking about renting or transferring 2007 Use Year points- there aren't many uses at this time, but some requests for next summer could be met if you were willing to borrow points ahead.)

Transfers from your next Use Year may already be possible if they will go into the same timeframe of the receiving member. (If your UY is February- you can transfer your 2006 points into another member's 2006 Use Year, even if their month is not February.)

You can offer your points as far ahead as you'd like- it appears recently that there are many seeking to have points transferred and also many looking to rent reservations at DVC resorts.