1) Why is there limited maid service if you are a DVC member? Seems like it should be the other way around - DVC full service, vacationers a few times a week
DVC is a timeshare. we are owners who share in the cost of upkeep and maintenance. most timeshares don't have any maid service at all (like all of the marriotts i have stayed at except for one in the caribbean which had a midweek tidy).
if you prefer, you can pay extra to get daily housekeeping if it's worth it to you (but most of the rest of us like not having strangers in the room while we are gone).
this issue of ownership also shows up when DVC resorts are not refurbed as often as the wdw hotels - again, we pay the cost, so the terms and expectations are different.
it's a home-away-from-home concept - not a hotel equivalent. if you prefer deluxe hotels, you might not particularly enjoy the trade-offs that come from timeshare ownership.
2) If you are 11 months from the time you want to schedule your next vacation at your home resort, but your "new" points don't start for a few more months, can you schedule or do you have to wait for the "new" points?
let's say i bought a resale with an oct UY and the pts are "stripped" such that the first year i get pts is in the oct 2015 UY.
pts can only be banked or borrowed to move them up or back one use year, so the earliest i could use these pts would be if i borrowed them into my oct 2014 UY for a stay that begins on oct 1, 2014.
i can book that oct 1, 2014 stay at 11 months out based on home resort - nothing at all do with use year - so the earliest i could book anything with that contract would be nov 1, 2013. so i could call on nov 1, 2013 to book a stay for oct 1, 2014 even though my pts don't technically "start" until oct 1, 2015.
alternatively, if i bought a contract that was "loaded" and had all 2014 and 2015 UY pts, i could book a stay that takes place in my 2015 UY (which runs from oct 1, 2015 to sept 30, 2016) and use banked 2014 UY pts + current 2015 UY pts + borrowed 2016 UY pts (up to 3 years worth of pts) to stay longer or in larger accommodations. and again, i could use all of those pts based on the dates of the stay - i can still call in at 11 months out for my home resort with access to all 3 years of pts.