Dues are for operations and maintenance of your home resort for the calendar year and have nothing to do with UY. That’s why you are paying a prorated share of CY 2023 dues - you have to support your home resort whether you stay there or not during that CY, because now you’re an owner there.
and timing of incentives. Today someone looking to buy Feb UY might want to pay the extra months of dues to get Summer Incentives deal and start looking for a trip in April tomorrow after the points load.
This is exactly the reason why I'm waiting on buying more RIV. I have an April UY and don't need the points immediately. Am I taking a risk missing out on this current set of incentives? Yes. But it's a risk I'm willing to take. If I buy 3 months later in December it saves 300 dollars in dues, if I decide to lock in between winter and spring and the spring incentives are even better, I'll cancel the winter contract and wait 3 months and have saved 3 months worth of dues and receive the prior UY of points for free.^ I didn’t make that clear in my last post. Dues are tied to the calendar regardless of point status.
With direct there can be advantage - the closer you buy to end of your UY the less months of dues you’ll pay during that first year of points. If we bought our Sept UY in March instead of June, we’d owe 3 more months worth of dues. If I waited 2 more months until August it would saved us ~$200 more in dues (VGF 150pts). How much this advantage is worth depends on how soon you want to start booking trips with your points!
Yes it’s extremely great! But only for a few more days
Define few more days?
September 12th is when the incentives end.
Need to have a contract written by 9/11. On 9/12 price goes up from $217 to $230 and current incentives end (magical beginnings, future stay, developer points credit).
You can get VGF down from $217 per point to $161 per point direct. This is on par with some resale VGF contracts and not much higher than other MK resorts resale. It could also be the last chance to purchase unrestricted direct points actively on sale with incentives from DVD.
I get that. But why are they offering such a sweet deal on a premium resort.
Oh sorry I misread that. Sales had been slow for VGF and many have speculated that DVD wants the current MK resort "sold out" before Poly Tower goes on sale for less competition. VGF is also 100% declared unlike Riviera which Disney has no trouble renting out for cash. DVC was also called out on an investors call for a slump in sales so this really helped things pick up. It may have honestly sold a little too well which is why it's going up $13 on 9/12 while other resorts are remaining the same price.
Yes I’d be finding that $25k.
No it’s not official anywhere, just from what I’ve read from others. When I told QA I for sure wasn’t signing until at least 9/11 she said no problem, and if I needed more time that was fine as well. However the down payment is fully refundable in either scenario. If you don’t sign it’s automatic (in docs). If you sign but rescind within 10 days also refundable (in docs). 30 days to sign is variable but many have reported 30 daysWhen I asked guide, they said yeah you can not sign for a couple of weeks no problem, but never committed to a number of days. Is that 30 days mentioned somewhere when the draft is made? I can't seem to find it. Not sure it spells out that downpayment is refundable before signing either.
Kind of getting nervous! Not feeling great, but honestly I never feel great about any purchase initially
Negotiate direct prices & terms?
Has this been confirmed? I know the regular incentives end. I thought MB was open ended. Not sure about welcome home.
