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What's a little interesting to think about (theoretically) is what happens to the Original 14 when they start running out of contract. If you buy a resale contract afater Jan 19, in 2042 when BCV, OKW, BWV, WL-VBR etc all end their contracts and they "reboot" these resorts, what happens with my AKV contract - now I can't stay at those resorts since they will start those with a new contract. I mean - no one thinks this far ahead, but it's a valid question when buying this. At least maybe just me, but I'm always thinking about 2042.
I'm right there with you. I have been pointing that out for the last few days on a couple of different threads and keep getting poo-poo'd. DH and I are interested in Riviera direct for a few reasons. In the first place, we will be ready to buy in the next year or two and my guess is there won't be many resale contracts at steep discounts at that point. Another reason for Riviera is because......so many of the legacy resorts expire in 2042......right about when we start thinking about taking grandkids to WDW (hopefully of course) so that makes most of the legacy resorts not a good deal for us.
Yes, the next restriction on Riviera resale gives us more to think about but I'm not so sure it will be a make or break thing for us. We need to wait to hear more details about point charts, room configurations, etc. before we make a final decision.
$190 per point for 50 years at Riviera sounds a lot better to me than $130 for less than half that amount of time at BCV. Will this restriction hurt Riviera resales? Of course it will. But how much? Because in a few years, say 10, people are going to be looking at resale contracts that are only good at Riviera but are good for 40 years while BCV contracts are good at 14 resorts but only for 12 years. That sounds like a bad deal to me but I realize I'm in the minority here.