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Re: Successful Resales & Rental Feedback Wanted (by Beck):

A very good point, but my View specific comments are directed towards resorts such as Kaanapali Beach Club for example where 1BR owners always have a specific view type reservation (There are also 16 2BR units where you might not know your view until checkin and two 2BR Presidentials where the units are ocean front). Granted, a points owner could place an ad for a date range and in their ad say they offer SV, OV, DOV.

So in this example I looked thru the DRI KBC listings and most of the View Varries listings have additional text clarifying they have flexibility in the view type reservation, plus ads from T Scheller are reservations made outside II and RCI but are not owner reservations. One of her ads is R425004 where you see a $99 adder fee to the listing price. I've worked with her before. I don't know how she gets her units, maybe thru CARE. Ad R448653 and R440899 could be owners who don't understand their ownership but given that weeks owners always get their deeded view and points owners always get the view they reserve, these ads are either an owner who doesn't want to admit they are SV or they made the reservation thru exchange. So if I was looking for their specific dates, I would ask them if they are direct owners with a direct reservation and what the view category is, or if they reserved thru exchange.

Granted DRI KBC listings are not where I've had my largest experience with exchange reservations. It is at the Westin Kaanapali (Original and North phases). I didn't use these listings as my example because regardless of the view type owned, when the owner makes a reservation less than 8 months in advance they do not have a guaranteed view. But in my experience I have found a good representative number of listings where the "owner" is offering a unit secured via exchange.

adahiscout makes a very good point about internal exchange. Some owners don't understand the difference between an internal reservation and one thru an exchange compny, especially if they called their resort company to make the reservation and the resort company then secures a unit via exchange. To be sure, the owner was told during the conversation the reservation will be via exchange, but then the owner forgets how the reservation was secured, or it's perhaps not a detail which is important to them.