I do share Dean Marino’s sentiments on 11 month availability at your home resort. LynJ asked about studio availability the 1st week in December. I see in Skier Pete’s wonderful availability chart that studios are “spotty” at 11 months for that week. I’m only purchasing enough points at VWL (already paid for, just waiting to close in October) to reserve a studio that week. I’m aware there’s a good possibility I’ll have to wait and go every 2 years and combine points for a 1 bdr. I don’t have a problem with that plan. But if I really wanted a studio and couldn’t get one at 11 months, I would definitely consider dumping my points.
I enjoy staying at different resorts and we generally stay in studios. So to me, the ability to book at other resorts at 7 months is a plus. I don’t think I’d want to stay exclusively at AKV (my original home resort). In fact I’m sure I don’t! Fortunately for me, my preferred Disney stay is the 1st 2 weeks of February ( I love using my HHI points to stay at Poly) and my 2nd favorite resort after VWL is OKW, so I don’t anticipate any difficulty in the near future using my points where and how I want. If that ever changes....... I wouldn’t hesitate to sell my points.
Oh and speaking of availability at 7 months- Boardwalk Preferred/Pool view studio was unavailable at 7 months in March, but Boardwalk view was surprisingly available, so I snatched that up for 4 nights.