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Re: Searching with RCI Points (by KC):

ken1193 adahiscout asks, quoted only in directly pertinent part:

>> Or are you saying that someone who does buy into an RCI Points resort but also owns at a non-RCI Points resort can somehow be granted the right to convert that other property to RCI Points?? << ======================================

No, that's not what I'm saying. BOTH the "weeks" resort and the "points" resort must be RCI affiliated in the RCI points / weeks equation. I said nothing at all (and I know absolutely rnothing at all) about non-RCI points resorts' policies, rules, or practices. I speak ONLY of RCI affiliated points resorts and RCI affiliated "weeks" resorts --- nothing else.

In order to be able to work with RCI points at all, one must first have ownership at a RCI "points" resort. Then (and ONLY then), if one also owns "weeks" at an RCI affiliated "weeks" resort, then one can opt (purely voluntarily) to deposit that RCI affiliated resort "week" as "RCI points for deposit", in essence converting that particular RCI affiliated "week" over to "RCI points" (not permanently, but on a year by year, case by case basis). And, of course, RCI charges a fee for each such "conversion". Currently that fee is $29 per "conversion" of a week to "RCI points for deposit", but as in all matters RCI, that fee is subject to be increased at any time, with little or no advance notice.

Personally, I got into RCI points ownership at all only to be able to make better use of certain RCI-affiliated weeks ("weak weeks") which I already own, since in recent years the ability to make decent quality "week for week" exchanges through RCI Spacebanking has declined very obviously and very sharply. Being able to convert RCI affiliated weeks to RCI points just opens up a few more options, including (but not limited to) being able to utilize less than full 7 day week stays at "RCI points" resorts.

The key to implementing this particular strategy in a manner which is even distantly resembling "cost effective", is of course to first find a low purchase cost, low annual maintenance fee RCI "points" resort, even if you never intend to actually set foot on that particular property, but only want an avenue by which to use points and/or convert exisiting weeks to points. Good deals are out there, but it takes some homework to find them.

P.S. My apologies if my habit (which I don't plan to abandon) of capitalizing some words is incorrectly interpreted to be "shouting". That's not my intent. My objective is simply to emphasize certain key points which I believe to be particularly important simply by capitalizing key words. No more and no less.