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HGVC: Flamingo & Anderson Ocean Club
Vacation Village: Woodstone at Massanutten and Grandview (RCI Points) & the Colonies
Hi how is your experience as a resale owner so far i am trying to decide if i buy a 4 bedroom 4 bath but would like to trade thru rci most years do you have any experience with that ?
I am very pleased. A Gold Card (mostly a 20% discount within many places at the resort) would be nice to have, but certainly is not worth the costs of buying directly from the developer. Short of not having the Gold Card, I know of no disadvantage to buying resale. My four bedroom Woodstone is about the best RCIPoints trader as I have heard of. I pay $855 in annual MFs and get 137,000 points. The challenging thing will probably be finding one on the resale market that is enrolled in RCI points (you can get units for near fee that are not enrolled in RCI points and it is expensive to enroll them). You 100% want to get a red week. I bought mine on eBay last November and have not seen a similar one sell since. Another one sold about six months precious to when I purchased mine.
Another alternative for you is just to buy a good value on RCI points somewhere else and trade into Massanutten when you want to go. Massanutten Resorts have a 1 in 3 restriction, but it is easy to get one almost any time of the year on sale through RCI Last Call or an Extra Vacation on the cheap. I like owning there since I live two hours away, go at least for weekends a few times a year, and it is a good points value. I have no experience with owning anything in RCI Weeks at Massanutten.