Unless you are a member and have the points in your account, you can't actually use points at all. Non-members may only rent reservations made using points by the member who controls those points.
A member may have points transferred into his/her account by another member and will then have the use of the points.
Reservations may be made 11 months in advance at the home resort for those points by a member. Non-members would need to find a member who owns at a specific resort to have a reservation made 11 months in advance my the member. The reservation can be made in the name of the non-member.
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