The typical DVC buyer wouldn't seem to me to also be a typical marathon runner.
Mainly because the typical person is not a marathon runner, why would the typical DVC owner be one.
I am just so intensely bothered by this assumption I can't really think of much else.
What is a "marathon runner" to you? Meb and Mo? Heck, they might own DVC and they certainly would have an entourage with them. But that's not reality. 20 elites in a race are 20 people. The other 20K participants are all sorts of people.
And as Deb said later on, there are kid's races of all kinds on all the days of the weekend, there's the 5K (open to kids 5, I think, and up), there's the 10K, there's a Half, and then the Full. You have to get into town early enough to hit the expo to get your packet and shirt, so it's not just a one-day thing.
It's not technically allowable, but it's overlooked.
I'm glad you now know that this isn't true at all.
(Being paid for *transfers* is not allowed (transfers are allowed, but not receiving payment), but there's no way for them to police that.)
Could you please point out where in Disney's marketing it advertises DVC as a rental income property and not a personal timeshare?
Have you seen their ads? Have you been on a cruise and seen the ads with all the stories of the extended family and friend groups who come in, etc etc. Do you think that ALL family units just give those away? We don't ask for payment when we invite family to stay with us, but many people do. That's renting, even if it's family. You're seeing what you want to see.
I was able to book a studio @ SSR over the wine & dine race approx a month ago btw, at less than 3 months out.
Ooh lucky! I couldn't even change to OKW for W&D. Luckily our 1 bedroom at SSR sufficed, LOL. Booked 7 months out and was never able to find availability at any other place I wanted from that point on...
If you can't tell the difference between the main usage as presented in the ads and some fine print in the contract that is meant as an occasional alternative, again, I can't force common sense. I think I'm starting to deal with trolls here, so I will depart.
Trolls, LOL.
Marketing doesn't tell us how they "expect" us to use it. Marketing makes us want to BUY it. Period. I see the videos of families crying about their wonderful trips, I see these warm moments...I want to buy. They don't show the extended family getting all passive aggressive as one group wants to go on Space Mtn and the other wants to do something else and no one is willing to split up (even though they agreed to split up as needed)...marketing doesn't show the differences in disciplining children and how that causes stress as you watch something that's not done in your family etc etc...marketing doesn't show those things because that doesn't make you want to have an extended family trip! Doesn't mean we're going to say "oh the video doesn't show this, Disney doesn't want us arguing, so let's stop now".
my point in this post was to start discussion on would a point renting crackdown help availability, seems to be a very polarizing subject.
Your thread started with thinking that DVC owners aren't participating in running events (and you've forgotten that one doesn't even have to RUN to participate in an event like that...a 16 minute mile isn't sprinting) and therefore owners MUST be renting to those runners. It's just flawed.
Rundisney events are ridiculously expensive (199 pre-added-fees for a HALF marathon...a normal half marathon is about $50), and are marketed to Disney fans. Disney fans tend to buy DVC. Non Disney fans aren't going to rundisney events unless dragged there by family/friends. They can run 4 Half marathons or 2 or 3 full marathons at home for the cost, without having to get to Disney to do it.
The debate mostly is to what extent Nd does it significantly impact availability.
There is utterly, absolutely, and totally NO way for us to know.
I know that January 2014 we stayed at two DVC properties for marathon weekend, as we participated in the 5K and I participated in the Half. I would have stayed DVC for this year's January race weekend except that we were out of points and didn't want to stay at WDW that trip. We were up at Universal except the night before my Half, when we rented a Little Mermaid room at AOA so I could take the bus to the start.
For Wine&Dine last year my best friend and I used my points at SSR. Finally booked at 11 months out (first time since our 2009 purchase!) at our home resort (first time!) to participate in Princess Half Marathon weekend and I am by NO means alonE on the Princess thread.
etc.
If you were to look at the various rundisney event threads in the Events/Competitions forum here you would see that MANY of us are using our owned points to stay at DVC at a variety of Disney races.