So my wife and I have always loved WDW. We actually got engaged and married at WDW. But our whole family loves WDW as well. My parents have an rci timeshare and we've gone most our life every few years all together. We are all at the age now where we are having kids. My wife is currently pregnant due in April, my sister has a 2yr old and a newborn and my brother also has. 2yr old and an infant. My wife and I want/wanted to buy a DVC once she got pregnant. We wanted a resale at Beach club for around 250pts/yr. I was planning on getting this early next year perhaps. But the this happened....
So my sister in law (my brothers wife's) family comes from Texas oil money. She last year came into millions of dollars from her trust fund. This last year they've gone on a spending spree. To name a few things, they've bought 3 new 40k+ vehicles. Did a 200k reconstruction on the exterior of there already nice house, bought 20 acres near Yosemite and bought a lake house an hour away from where we all live. We are a very close family so a big reason for the Yosemite land and the lake house was as my brother said an investment for our family. Places we can go to for little to no price and as a family. Fast forward to last weekend and my brother called me and asked me to help him plan a trip to WDW for just him and his 2yr old to go on in December (pretty last minute). We went last December as a family and he was blown away by my planning skills at WDW. So I told him what was a good plan and to call and check for availability at the beach club the 4 days he wanted to go. Since we normally stay at my parents timeshare, he was very surprised at the price to stay onsite for just 4 days mixed with tickets and flights. Not that it was too much money for him, just that he was surprised. He pies to not book. Reason being the wheels started turning on him buying a DVC. So of course he called me again this last week and asked me info on DVC. He looks at it as an investment for the family much like a lake house. A guaranteed vacation to our favorite place atleast once a year. Bc my brother is a go big or go home type person he of course wants like 500pts. Bc he has the finanacial back he would pay cash not finanace it. But since he wants us to all go we need a place that can hold the most amount of pwooow pretty much. We're 8 adults and soon to be 5 kids. Obviously those kids will grow so we will need space for all. Or we might just have to do 2 separate reservations at the same time. 500pts should cover that. He hasn't purchased it yet and wants to sometime in the next couple months. So this looks like a real thing he might do.
So part of me wanted this for me and my family and for it to be ours. But if I can save that 25k and additional 1.5k in maintenance fees I won't complain.
So my sister in law (my brothers wife's) family comes from Texas oil money. She last year came into millions of dollars from her trust fund. This last year they've gone on a spending spree. To name a few things, they've bought 3 new 40k+ vehicles. Did a 200k reconstruction on the exterior of there already nice house, bought 20 acres near Yosemite and bought a lake house an hour away from where we all live. We are a very close family so a big reason for the Yosemite land and the lake house was as my brother said an investment for our family. Places we can go to for little to no price and as a family. Fast forward to last weekend and my brother called me and asked me to help him plan a trip to WDW for just him and his 2yr old to go on in December (pretty last minute). We went last December as a family and he was blown away by my planning skills at WDW. So I told him what was a good plan and to call and check for availability at the beach club the 4 days he wanted to go. Since we normally stay at my parents timeshare, he was very surprised at the price to stay onsite for just 4 days mixed with tickets and flights. Not that it was too much money for him, just that he was surprised. He pies to not book. Reason being the wheels started turning on him buying a DVC. So of course he called me again this last week and asked me info on DVC. He looks at it as an investment for the family much like a lake house. A guaranteed vacation to our favorite place atleast once a year. Bc my brother is a go big or go home type person he of course wants like 500pts. Bc he has the finanacial back he would pay cash not finanace it. But since he wants us to all go we need a place that can hold the most amount of pwooow pretty much. We're 8 adults and soon to be 5 kids. Obviously those kids will grow so we will need space for all. Or we might just have to do 2 separate reservations at the same time. 500pts should cover that. He hasn't purchased it yet and wants to sometime in the next couple months. So this looks like a real thing he might do.
So part of me wanted this for me and my family and for it to be ours. But if I can save that 25k and additional 1.5k in maintenance fees I won't complain.