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Hi Scott

Hi Scott,
I've been following the discussions about resale value of points at HICV. Two years ago I bought 166K points on a biannual basis for $17500. We have a fixed one week at one of the villas at the Orange Lake Resorts. We still owe $9500 with an interest rate of 14.25% and we pay about $875 in property taxes and MF every other year.
After an intensive sales pitch 2 days ago and before I upgraded to 166K points every year I realized I needed more information about TS resale market. HICV offer me 166K points per year which it doubles the original TS we have at an additional $13k.

Since the following of this discussion I would like to rescind my current TS contract and get one on the resale market. After reaching out to a time share resales company they indicated to me that HICV does not allow owners to resales their TS directly, that anyone trying to resale their time share was obligated to go through HICV.

Can you please advise as to what my options are?

I appreciate your help in advanced.

Hello everyone!

Hello everyone! I was in the middle of an awesome purchase that is ready to go and by far an awesome deal. Unfortunately I am in Louisiana and my home has flooded I do not have flood insurance and my home is a total loss. If you are looking for 300,000 HICV points at South Beach with a MF of 1500 a year reach out to me and I will give you the details.

Hey all, does anyone own at Williamsburg?

Hey all, does anyone own at Williamsburg? It's their one location that trades through Interval instead of RCI. I haven't traded through Interval before and I can't figure out how to do it. The references make it sound like I have to call an HICV support person, but was hoping to find some way to book on my own.

I bought last year and stayed at the Scottsdale resort just last week. I really enjoyed it! I've got too many points and some are about to expire soon. What's the best thing to do with points about to expire? I was thinking about taking a cruise (I know the convert rate will suck, but it's better than just losing them). Anyone done this before?

Does anyone here know the conversion rate for HICV points to IHG??

Hey guys

Hey guys,

Thanks for all this great info! I went to one of the timeshare presentations and liked the perks but wasn't about to drop the money they were asking. After seeing this info and starting to understand the program it is crazy how inaccurate the info my sales agent gave. I have a few questions about the process.

If I purchase multiple points resorts deeds at different resorts do I have to pay the $129 membership fee for each of them or just pay it once yearly to get my points?

Assuming I decide to buy and want to accumulate more points by purchasing non points resort deeds in the future and convert them to points by purchasing a new package from hicv do they need to be deeds that are not currently in the hicv program or does it matter?

In order to get the best points value from converting these deeds over do I need to try and get diamond or platinum weeks or does it make much difference?

What is the general success rate of this method? Am I likely getting stuck with them?

If hicv does convert them for me does the mf associated with them go away or will I have to continue paying it?

Anyone on here who has had success with this process do you have any recommendations of which resort to purchase non point value deeds and which resort is best to purchase the hicv package from?

Thanks in advance!

Hi forum members

Hi forum members,

A member of my family has purchased a Holiday Inn Vacation Club Membership. They would like to cancel their contract the form receipt after going over they only discuss cancellation to be sent to the address of the company and once the email is sent it is considered cancelled, but that is all that is stated. I want to make sure everything is properly followed with the rescission so they can't refute the claim. If anyone could give any insight on the process or if they have gone through it themselves I would great appreciate the help.

Thanks

Hi

Hi,

My parents just upgraded to 1,000,000 points at Holiday Hills in Branson. Was that a good move? They went from 3 deeded weeks to the point system.

Has anyone noticed after the Silver Leaf acquisition that availability has gone way down and it is very difficult to...

Has anyone noticed after the Silver Leaf acquisition that availability has gone way down and it is very difficult to book next years weeks at Orange Lake.

I tried to pre-book a few River Island weeks for spring break and there was almost no availability. I booked those same units only 4 months ahead of time last year with no problems.

The Silver leave properties seam to be over valued in points compared to the quality level at Orange Lake. I am wondering if they will have to either raise the points value at the quality resorts or lower the points value at the less desirable properties. If not will they end up with an imbalance where some properties are impossible to get and others will end up unused.

I realize that HIVC has stated they will be upgrading the acquired properties but I am not sure if that will be enough to justify the points values at those resorts.

I added a link to HICV points for sale - currently this is only my units, but I will add other people's units who...

I added a link to HICV points for sale - currently this is only my units, but I will add other people's units who post. I will also include non-points resorts if you currently get points and are willing to transfer via a pair of quit claim deeds (one to add buyer, one to remove seller).

If someone else wants to maintain lists of non-points units for sale or for any kind of rentals, they are welcome to do so - just let me know.

-Scott

If we wanted to upgrade our timeshare does anyone know how that works?

If we wanted to upgrade our timeshare does anyone know how that works? We own in Florida even years but would like to simply upgrade to get more points.

Is anyone aware of any HICV resorts with fixed week deeds that allow float bookings directly with resort (not...

Is anyone aware of any HICV resorts with fixed week deeds that allow float bookings directly with resort (not through HICV points)? I own at Desert Club, and it is that way - I think Williamsburg and Silverleaf are that way, but can't say for sure. I'm not aware of any others. Anybody else have any experience with these two resorts or any others?

Lake Geneva and South Beach deeds have no week listed on the deed - my Smoky Mountain unit has a week and a season.

If anyone has a fixed week at any resort that was purchased through resale and only allows a fixed week booking, please let us know. I can confirm that Galveston fixed weeks do not float, and I assume Panama City (not Bay Point) is the same since it also came from Escapes.

-Scott