Sorry to ask this ... but what part of the linked ad is "valuable information" wrt to RCI->DVC Exchanges? All I see is an ad for booking rental week from RCI. (Which, understandably, may be a handy tool for your in-laws if they can't pull the exchange.) Please point out why this info is valuable to you ... I'm missing it. (Sorry, this reads more snarky than intended ... I don't mean it that way ... just don't understand the link.)
You have to have a really good trader to get in. At Dean's suggestion on TUG, I'm going to try depositing it earlier this year and see if that helps.
I'm going to make some big assumptions, that your parents can't see DVC weeks that might be there, that you are judging when DVC weeks are for rent that this is inappropriate and that your IL are RCI weeks members and not RCI points members. RCI (like II before) works on a comparable trade assumptions, not first come first served. This means that they take your deposit and decide what your trade power is then only show you weeks that you qualify for. Many with RCI do not have the trade power to see DVC weeks and thus they will not show them to you even if they are there. Also there are two ways for RCI to get weeks to rent appropriately. One is for DVC to give them in some way specifically to rent and the other is to take RCI points that have been trade by members and reserve DVC exchange weeks. This is much like DVC works with their cash equivalent exchanges. The only way through the trade power issue is to have a unit that has sufficient trade power, no way to do that once a deposit has been made. The best ways to increase trade power are to deposit as early as possible and where possible, deposit the best week, resort and unit size that you can get.
I'm not the foxrun expert but what I've heard suggests that most won't see DVC and that it trades better in II than RCI. I have had some private conversations that confirm this situation. I'd think you'd need a week 26 or 27 1 BR or larger deposited at least 10 months out to have any chance, even then it's iffy. One thing that might apply is that RCI tends to set you trade power on deposit so if there are a more deposits that are similar when you deposit, you may do worse than someone who deposits 2 weeks earlier or later might actually do better just because of what's around when they deposit. RCI won't admit this so it's hard to be sure. One thing is for certain, as Brian tends to point out, that RCI can be very quirky on trade power, often inexplicably so.
Not I. That's a good question for TUG or one of the similar BBS. My guess is very high for summer and poor for the rest of the time. I'd suspect anytime in June through August would be very good. I'd also expect one would do better in II than RCI for this area if the resort were dually affiliated.Can anyone tell me the trade power of a summer week in Ogunquit.
DVC ?
I don't think you'll find too much benefit for a week 37, pretty much a shoulder week. The benefit in II was that DVC wasn't rated that highly because it was Orlando.
