You’re already way ahead of most people. It can be overwhelming. Value (sometimes called Quiet) season is the least busy times. Less demand. So the 10 month window will be more then enough to book value season. If you wanted Daytona Bike week, or Bonnet Creek in a four bedroom presidential over Christmas, if say get deeded points, or CWA if it’s a CWA resort and book 13 months out. You don’t need that with Value season.
Canterbury, Bali Hai (UDI only), Steamboat springs, Panama City and National Harbor are the lowest. National Harbor is getting an 8.57% maintenance fee increase next year thanks to some tax hikes that they are currently fighting. It’s at $4.60 per 1,000 starting in 2020. I cannot speak for the others. Have not gotten anything from Bali Hai yet. Bali Hai is an odd ball resort in that it has both UDI and converted fixed week contracts. So the maintenance fees there vary. The converted fixed weeks are higher but they are still considered low maintenance fee. There is a sticky thread for 2017 maintenance fees that has a spreadsheet that lists the maintenance fees for a lot of resorts. From there, you can deduce which are the lowest. Then look at the 2018 or 2019 thread to see if there are updated numbers.
"Value (sometimes called Quiet) season": So, the seasons in my book are Prime, High, Value, and Quiet. Quiet is all in Dec or January for most places, so I think Value is where I'll be searching to make vacations work.
"National Harbor is getting an 8.57% maintenance fee increase next year thanks to some tax hikes that they are currently fighting. It’s at $4.60 per 1,000 starting in 2020.": That explains why I've been seeing so many National Harbors being unloaded on eBay lol. Thank you for educating me on that!
"There is a sticky thread for 2017 maintenance fees that has a spreadsheet that lists the maintenance fees for a lot of resorts. From there, you can deduce which are the lowest. Then look at the 2018 or 2019 thread to see if there are updated numbers.": I have a 2019 thread from 2019 with the current rates, I got it from TUG somewhere and saved it in my multiple databases.
Thank you very much for your insight, we are very excited to start this journey. It is so hard to hold out knowing that I will find a better deal than what I'm seeing because we want to buy now knowing that the points won't be available to us until next Spring when all is said and done on transferring the deed; and it's also hard passing good deals in the $5 MF range, but I know better deals will come along less than $5 if I'm patient. Seeing as this is a very long commitment that we want to make with our investment, I'm holding out to find the best that I know I can in time. We're just so ready to start.
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