Hello All! Now that my deal is all final and points have been loaded I wanted to quickly check back in, say my thank you’s and give a fun update on our purchase.
First off, thank you all for the information posted in these ROFR threads. Understanding what contracts were selling for was immensely helpful with giving us the confidence to make an offer that we thought was fair. We were quite lucky in that our one and only offer was accepted by the seller, so I suppose they too found it to be reasonable.
I also loved learning about the different brokers; the one we chose required a little bit more ‘follow-up’ from us, but going in knowing we’d be saving a ton of money by doing this little bit of ‘nudging along’ made this relatively painless for us.
Lastly, we purchased a 200 point contract (0 2022 points listed). When the points were loaded we found an additional 400 points in 2022. Apparently the previous owner had banked 2021 points into 2022, and then not used any of those 2022 points. While we were past our banking deadline for 2023, Disney did allow a one time exception, so 200 of those points have moved into 2023, and the remaining 2022 points will be used for a nice ‘bonus’ vacation!
We definitely plan to put this contact to good use and thank the previous owner for the bonus points!