Panicking over Stormy Point purchase

[tonyg]

Panic is normal when a good size chunk of money is involved in a purchase one is unsure of. It inspires one to find out all they can about that purchase. You came to the right place and got great advice. Obviously you found interest in the timeshare concept, so stick around and learn more--then you can pick up a resale for a bargain price and right now prices are as much as half off what they were a couple of years ago on the resale market.

[JLB]

Nantucket appeared more recently, long after the Festiva/Summerwinds brouhaha, after the Summerwinds Sales Center opened in Branson Meadows. Nantucket bought the building that was previously a gas station/convenience store/BBQ.

The Summerwinds Sales Center is distant from Stormy Point, and prospects get bussed to Stormy Point. Maybe a trick they learned from Orange Lake, since that makes the peeps captive . . . they cannot leave when they want.

They do not appear to be the same place. If that is the case, how quirky is that, that there would be two New Englan-themed developments on the same road in the Missouri Ozarks?! I'll wander on over there and take a look.

I can also ask on the Branson forum since a Stormy Point person has been on it. . . . & I just emailed the question to Stormy Point Village.


Branson Nantucket:

Branson's Nantucket Blogspot

Branson's Nantucket :: Branson, MO vacation resort community

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Branso...4471621?v=info


Stormy Point Village:

Stormy Point Village - Branson, Missouri

[Beaglemom3]

Make sure you copy the Missouri Attorney General's office (consumer affairs - look it up on the web) on your every correspondance and make it known by a cc: to the developer each and every time.
Read your contract and if you have to send 2-3 letters to different developer departments, do it Spend the 2 hours (including post office time) that this will take - you won't be sorry. Tme well spent.



Beags, J.D.

[ace2000]

JLB - that's interesting... I had not heard of Nantucket until now.

Could these be set up like The Lodges at Fox Hollow Lake - Stonebridge, on a fractional basis?

[hoofbeats95]

He got the cancellation number. No hassle and mailed the letter certified. Apparently it was no big deal. Fingers crossed! Thanks for the advice. I am kind of sad because I really LOVED those cottages. I was very excited. So I'd like to learn all that I can on getting a resale.

[dougp26364]

Originally Posted by hoofbeats95

He got the cancellation number. No hassle and mailed the letter certified. Apparently it was no big deal. Fingers crossed! Thanks for the advice. I am kind of sad because I really LOVED those cottages. I was very excited. So I'd like to learn all that I can on getting a resale.

Branson area timeshare resorts can be purchased very cheaply on E-bay right now. A few years ago we purchased a 1 bedroom unit at Grand Regency in Branson for $285, which by today's sale prices would be $284 to high. The thing is, if I deposit that one bedroom week I often see units at Stormy Point Village offered in exchange.

I use to watch Branson resales quite a bit but have not been watching recently. Stormy Point Village came up reasonably frequently and always sold for less than $1,000, often between $250 and $500. It would not surpise me to see weeks sell for much less than $250 in this economy as many people are trying to shed the expense of yearly maintenance fee's. So with a little patience you should be able to buy a week at one of those little cottages, save yourself thousands of dollars AND get to use it for one week EVERY year instead of every-other-year.

[hoofbeats95]

I actually like the every other year. That means MFs only every other year.

If I buy at Stormy Point I want it to be through summerwind though - not festiva. Summerwind offers cruise exchanges for no fee since they own land to port or whatever that company is called.

[JLB]

Originally Posted by ace2000

JLB - that's interesting... I had not heard of Nantucket until now.

Could these be set up like The Lodges at Fox Hollow Lake - Stonebridge, on a fractional basis?

Yes.

Around here, now, folks are doing whatever they have to do to make a sale.

Not that many sales were made at Fox Hollow. That developer, MPI, a longtime Branson developer and involved in past unsavory activities, is now Estacado.


Hmmmmmm!

[JLB]

We have been timesharing for 20 years. The six weeks we now own are all resales, mostly freebies, but the $2700/year is $2700/year.

If we had to do it now, we would not. No way, no how.

Inexpensive rentals, with no investment and no ongoing obligation, are plentiful, and the Internet puts them at our fingertips.

Last week I posted that the resort we used to trade into Weeks 1 & 2, which we can no longer get, is for rent for $500. Today I posted that the Branson weeks have $600 MF in and are for rent by RCI for $329. Kinda hard for us to get them rented, huh?

Everyone in the industry is after whatever buck they can get their hands on and they don't give a rip about the owners.

There is very little reason in very few places to own, and Branson is not one of those places.

[hoofbeats95]

What are good sites to find rentals?

What about international rentals?

The biggest reasons we bought into it was for exchange - internationally and also because of the resort summerwinds has in Gatlinburg.

The other was the free cruise exchange.

(Besides the math seemed to work out. We are in our 30's and it seemed like we'd save money on vacations in the long run )