Purchased WKORV-North

capjak · Jan 27, 2015

Well I sold my island view a few years back and am in closing process for an ocean front. Hope I can close in time to get my Feb 2016 reservation.

DeniseM · Jan 27, 2015

Please tell me this is a resale…..

capjak · Jan 27, 2015

DeniseM said:
Please tell me this is a resale…..

I have 6 Timeshares all resale, I found TUG early. I used Syed, so far so good should have closing done in 10 days or so.

mauitraveler · Jan 27, 2015

capjak said:
Well I sold my island view a few years back and am in closing process for an ocean front. Hope I can close in time to get my Feb 2016 reservation.

Have you considered asking the seller to book a reservation for you, just in case? Even if the sale closes soon, it'll take Starwood at least a week to register you as the owner in their system. Enjoy your ocean front view!!

capjak · Jan 28, 2015

mauitraveler said:
Have you considered asking the seller to book a reservation for you, just in case? Even if the sale closes soon, it'll take Starwood at least a week to register you as the owner in their system. Enjoy your ocean front view!!

Yes that is a good suggestion I jus t thought that it is so close 10 days that I would be ok and wonder if the resservation might get lost in the shuffle

LisaRex · Jan 28, 2015

One of the reasons I sold my WKORV-N OF unit was because I was unable to get the February reservation I wanted at 12 months out. Within 10 minutes, everything was gone.

Not trying to scare you, but realize that competition is fierce for February and multi-week/fixed week owners have a leg up on you. Definitely have a Plan B in place.

Best of luck and congratulations. I hope you enjoy many vacations in paradise.

mauitraveler · Jan 28, 2015

capjak said:
Yes that is a good suggestion I jus t thought that it is so close 10 days that I would be ok and wonder if the resservation might get lost in the shuffle

It won't get lost in the shuffle. You will be on record as the seller's guest, and when your account is updated with Starwood, the reservation will already be in place as yours. Syed contacted the seller and asked him to make a reservation for us, when our recent purchase was close to closing. Even after it closed, Starwood took another ten days to acknowledge the transfer of ownership (the "verification process"), and during that time, I would not have been able to make a reservation. Good luck and I hope everything works out the way you want! CJ

LisaRex · Jan 28, 2015

mauitraveler said:
It won't get lost in the shuffle. You will be on record as the seller's guest, and when your account is updated with Starwood, the reservation will already be in place as yours. Syed contacted the seller and asked him to make a reservation for us, when our recent purchase was close to closing.

Yes, but the OPer is asking for reservations for Feb 2016, so the former owner cannot make reservations yet as it's outside of 12 months.

This is going to be tricky. I'd even advise delaying the closing a few weeks if you can be assured that the seller will do what he/she can to make the reservation at exactly 12 months out. Otherwise, you might find yourself in an awkward period where the prior owner has relinquished control, but it's not in your name yet.

mauitraveler · Jan 28, 2015

LisaRex said:
Yes, but the OPer is asking for reservations for Feb 2016, so the former owner cannot make reservations yet as it's outside of 12 months.

This is going to be tricky. I'd even advise delaying the closing a few weeks if you can be assured that the seller will do what he/she can to make the reservation at exactly 12 months out. Otherwise, you might find yourself in an awkward period where the prior owner has relinquished control, but it's not in your name yet.

Good point, Lisa. I like your idea about trying to delay closing. We were lucky, in that we wanted a ressie that was just 10 months out, so we were still in the home resort preference period. I have a feeling that the OP is looking for President's week? Timing will be everything… CJ

capjak · Jan 28, 2015

mauitraveler said:
Good point, Lisa. I like your idea about trying to delay closing. We were lucky, in that we wanted a ressie that was just 10 months out, so we were still in the home resort preference period. I have a feeling that the OP is looking for President's week? Timing will be everything… CJ

We are looking for any time in Feb 2016 later better than early we are going Feb 21 this year. Will have to see if it makes sense.

Lisa you are scaring me....

gregb · Jan 28, 2015

We have been using our OF at WKRON for the last week of January and first week of February and have not had any trouble getting reservations. Now we avoid the President's day week, so that ios surely a factor.

The resort is "Full" (i.e. all rooms occupied) when we come, but not crowded. We overlapped with Presidents weekend one time and noticed a big difference in crowds at the pools on the weekend. My belief is that during the non-President's day week, the units are rented mostly by retired folks, so there are usually only two people in each unit. During the holiday week, kids are out of school, so most units have more than two occupants. It really makes a difference in the perception of crowding at the resort.

Greg

capjak · Feb 9, 2015

capjak said:
Well I sold my island view a few years back and am in closing process for an ocean front. Hope I can close in time to get my Feb 2016 reservation.

Update: January 01 offer accepted January 13 all paperwork in and ROFR received

Feb 04 Deed Recorded
Feb 09 Deed Received via email
Feb 09 Deed sent to starwood via email by me

Getting Closer

mauitraveler · Feb 9, 2015

capjak said:
Update: January 01 offer accepted January 13 all paperwork in and ROFR received

Feb 04 Deed Recorded
Feb 09 Deed Received via email
Feb 09 Deed sent to starwood via email by me

Getting Closer

capjak,

Well done! If they follow their 10 business day policy, you should be able to get your Feb. 2016 reservation. Congrats! CJ

cubigbird · Feb 10, 2015

mauitraveler said:
capjak,

Well done! If they follow their 10 business day policy, you should be able to get your Feb. 2016 reservation. Congrats! CJ

I was actually told by LT transfers that SVO Title Dept is now running an average of 30 days (1 month) on the turnaround. Used to be 10 business days :annoyed:

Here's hoping for underpromise and over deliver!

capjak · Feb 12, 2015

Talked to Starwood tittle today and they said they are averaging 12 business days, they pulled up my email of the deed I sent while I was on the phone and stated they could not print it out because too dark background and had me send another copy.

bryanphunter · Dec 12, 2015

Did you get your Feb 2016 reservation?

jnsywg · Dec 12, 2015

One of the managers explained to me that the resort is almost always 95%+ occupied and they considered it to be busy during school holidays for the reason you gave below. During holidays the average occupancy does rise from two to four or more.

gregb said:
We have been using our OF at WKRON for the last week of January and first week of February and have not had any trouble getting reservations. Now we avoid the President's day week, so that ios surely a factor.

The resort is "Full" (i.e. all rooms occupied) when we come, but not crowded. We overlapped with Presidents weekend one time and noticed a big difference in crowds at the pools on the weekend. My belief is that during the non-President's day week, the units are rented mostly by retired folks, so there are usually only two people in each unit. During the holiday week, kids are out of school, so most units have more than two occupants. It really makes a difference in the perception of crowding at the resort.

Greg

capjak · Dec 12, 2015

bryanphunter said:
Did you get your Feb 2016 reservation?

Yes will be in OceanFront WKORVNorth Jan30 studio for 7 nights and than a 1 bedroom for 7 nights leaving Feb 13.

The starwood got me on line within, I think 3 days really good service and was able to make the reservation.

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