Some advice from my DVC peeps would be appreciated

[airjay75]

A week at Blt tpv, vgf resort view and akv savannah. They are all one bedrooms tho which im assuming might be harder to sell, but im thinking monorail resort during easter season would be a hot ticket. I would be totally fine with the 20-22 range for 1 bedroom and the hassle of doing it myself otherwise I might as well take the 18 from the rental sites.

Sorry if not allowed to post all that, I will delete, they are not for sale and hopefully won't be i will only do it if its last resort because I REALLY want to go. Do you think because theyre one bedroom at high cost resorts, some expensive views, high cost season i should do it sooner if the need arises?

Site sponsor lets you request as much as $20/point. Might as well try and if it doesn’t rent, then you just cancel. I’ve heard there is another broker that lets you set your own price even higher, but I’m not sure which one it is (haven’t cared enough to look much beyond the site sponsor or David’s).

 

[MICKIMINI]

I’d consider this path:

Plan to keep the reservation until 10 weeks out from check-in.

If you get the letter and an appointment date before your trip - solved!

If you do not, then this is a healthy window to sell a confirmed reservation for April. At 10 weeks out for a spring date, there will be very slim availability for DVC/onsite, which is going to help sell your reservation. If it doesn’t sell by 7 weeks out, lower the price. It should sell at a decent price and likely won’t come to this, but as a back-up for worst case scenario have a ‘lowest’ price you will price it at 5 weeks out.

Great idea! You might want to book the first several nights and then the second several nights separately so they might rent more easily (nights 1-3 and then 4-7 or however it works out). Just ask MS to put a note in your file, so if you end up staying for both reservations, you won't have to move. We often do this just because we use points from different contracts.

 

[PoppyJ]

I rented a confirmed reservation once through a third party website. It was a November studio. Realized we couldn't go in July. It was rented in August, so about a month. It seems to me that people looking at confirmed reservations are looking last minute (by DVC standards).

Not to worry you more, but also take into consideration the swearing in ceremony. Some people get the date of the ceremony at the interview and some don't. In my friend's case, he was told the date would be mailed. It took two months to receive the date in the mail and the ceremony was in two weeks from when he received the letter.

 

[Girlstar30]

Site sponsor lets you request as much as $20/point. Might as well try and if it doesn’t rent, then you just cancel. I’ve heard there is another broker that lets you set your own price even higher, but I’m not sure which one it is (haven’t cared enough to look much beyond the site sponsor or David’s).

I didnt know you could request higher for confirmed resys, thanks!

 

[Genie+]

A week at Blt tpv, vgf resort view and akv savannah. They are all one bedrooms tho which im assuming might be harder to sell, but im thinking monorail resort during easter season would be a hot ticket. I would be totally fine with the 20-22 range for 1 bedroom and the hassle of doing it myself otherwise I might as well take the 18 from the rental sites.

Yeah this is a little trickier. The highest price and easiest to unload is generally studio, standard view, in lower point seasons. Those go like hotcakes for near park resorts.

For some resaon I thought you had a split stay between 1 studio and a 1BR. Maybe that was your last trip?

The hard part about 1BR is we members pay double the points over a studio, while rack rates are generally only around a 50% increase in cash price and the biggest DVC resorts often have decent discounts on top of that at some point.

VGF is likely to get the highest $pp and sell first. There’s not much inventory and cash discounts are harder to come by. Lower percentage and less frequent. This along with BCV, Poly and are the easier 1BRs to sell off.

While BLT TPV doesn’t have a ton of availability or decent discounts, Lake View does which makes the pricing comparatively harder. AKV Sav is challenging too as one of most frequent/deepest discounted.

Sorry if not allowed to post all that, I will delete, they are not for sale and hopefully won't be i will only do it if its last resort because I REALLY want to go. Do you think because theyre one bedroom at high cost resorts, some expensive views, high cost season i should do it sooner if the need arises?

Hmmm… weighing everything… yes. How set are you on 1BRs?

I know you said you borrowed points, but are some in the current UY?

Because in that case, maybe choose one 1BR to keep, look to replace the other 2 reservations with studios (as long as you’re still able to bank the excess points from the switch).

The studios would be much easier to offload at an acceptable $pp, and then you only have one 1BR to worry about. This way even if the 1BR requires lowering price to sell in timely manner, the 2 studios will help the overall average $pp you received for the 3 reservations combined. Plus you’ll have more points for next UY.

What are the other choices again? Sorry. Don’t worry, give yourself some time to think through all the options.

 

[Girlstar30]

Great idea! You might want to book the first several nights and then the second several nights separately so they might rent more easily (nights 1-3 and then 4-7 or however it works out). Just ask MS to put a note in your file, so if you end up staying for both reservations, you won't have to move. We often do this just because we use points from different contracts.

Thank you They're already booked as 7 nights each so ill keep them like that i think cuz the dates arent available for a lot of days and I dont wanna lose some days Plus i still want to go Except for akv I have some flexibility with that because its pretty open!

 

[Girlstar30]

I rented a confirmed reservation once through a third party website. It was a November studio. Realized we couldn't go in July. It was rented in August, so about a month. It seems to me that people looking at confirmed reservations are looking last minute (by DVC standards).

Not to worry you more, but also take into consideration the swearing in ceremony. Some people get the date of the ceremony at the interview and some don't. In my friend's case, he was told the date would be mailed. It took two months to receive the date in the mail and the ceremony was in two weeks from when he received the letter.

Ugh i know its just too much stress and disappointment, hoping something comes and worrying if it doesnt. And then im tied to these southwest gift cards that now have short expiration dates because I bought them before the changes. If we dont get the interview notification before 10-12 weeks im just going to sell and book swan. I will still be happy with that

 

[PolyRob]

If it were me, I would keep the trip. If you find out the naturalization interview conflicts with the April dates cancel 31+ days in advance and start piecing together a summer/early fall trip before the points expire.

The trip could come and go before you even hear back.

 

[PoppyJ]

Ugh i know its just too much stress and disappointment, hoping something comes and worrying if it doesnt. And then im tied to these southwest gift cards that now have short expiration dates because I bought them before the changes. If we dont get the interview notification before 10-12 weeks im just going to sell and book swan. I will still be happy with that

It will all be worth it!