We purchased our first resale contract in September, our second just closed a couple weeks ago. We got lucky and got the same use year on both. We're currently looking for a 3rd contract (and then we're done, I swear lol), but it seems that August use year contracts are few and far between. Are there really less August contracts? Or does it just seem that way because it's what I'm looking for?
I noticed that too, December is definitely the most common across all sites. We're open to a different use year, just would have been nice to find another August.
Is it a broker you can name and shame on here? If so, I'm sure a few of us pests could give them some tough love with "improved offers".
We purchased our first resale contract in September, our second just closed a couple weeks ago. We got lucky and got the same use year on both. We're currently looking for a 3rd contract (and then we're done, I swear lol), but it seems that August use year contracts are few and far between. Are there really less August contracts? Or does it just seem that way because it's what I'm looking for?
We have 3 contracts at 3 different resorts that are all August UY. I had no idea they were hard to find! We must have seriously lucked out! We did add a Feb UY contract with this last one to spread out points out a bit so I haven’t had my eyes out for August for a bit. Good luck, hope you all find some!
Depends on how much under $100, but in general I'd say yes only because I love BCV and want more points all the time.If you have the opportunity to get a BCV stripped until 2024 for less than $100...do you take it?
Now send some of that good energy to us! We need it! haha
This isn't current (last updated in 2018), but probably still gives a good indication of the spread among UY's:We purchased our first resale contract in September, our second just closed a couple weeks ago. We got lucky and got the same use year on both. We're currently looking for a 3rd contract (and then we're done, I swear lol), but it seems that August use year contracts are few and far between. Are there really less August contracts? Or does it just seem that way because it's what I'm looking for?
I meant to ask if you just looked at one resale company to get the contact through, or did you look at multiple companies to find the contact you wanted?
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Most sales are for substantially more than the lowest prices you see posted here. You can’t expect to get the single greatest deal anyone has gotten or you’ll be disappointed.
Au contraire. If you don't really need the points but there is a price at which you are tempted then you can expect to get the greatest deal but not be disappointed by failure.
On that same coin, sellers may also be in the position of not really needing to sell, and there is a price at which they are not willing to even consider. So for the most part, it's luck that drives these low-ball sales. When a savvy buyer happens to meet with a desperate seller, where you see these really low prices on this board. But for the most part, sales are probably higher than what you see here.
I always found the prices on the boards a lot lower than the average resale prices as a whole. DVC News used to report out on average resale prices and the max ROFR'ed price. Haven't seen an update on it since last year. I always thought that was a great source of information because it wasn't tied to one specific broker (who may or may not have an agenda when publishing these kinds of data).
yes. DVC News is my favorite resource for DVC information. I wish they did those resale reports more often but I understand that it's a whole lot of data for one person to sift through it all and make reports on. Tim K needs more AI!
If there was a way to automate grabbing the text (specifically the number of points on the contract) from the PDFs for each deed, we can automate calculating resale prices using that formula from the deed doc tax (and probably have more granularity in the reports like showing prices differences between 25-100 pt contracts vs 100-200 and 200+). But alas, my C++ skills from high school computer science 20 years ago won't do us much good lol.
You're better off than me! Because I have no idea what you just said.
