Is there value in memberships?

GMandJM wrote:


Wow - you're exactly who I'm looking for! I have been looking at resales and they are really all over the place price-wise. Maybe you (or someone) can explain a few of the terms and stuff?

1) First off, it seems that some people want cash in addition to the transfer fee. I was thinking these were more of a "take over my payments sort of deal" so please clear that up if you can?4

Different terms..depends on the 'resale'
Some can be take over payments.....avoid as they will be higher priced
Some can be transfer fee plus cash....OK but depends on actual Cash and costs of transfer(s)
All in one price...transfer fee/home park initiation fee/1st year dues...this is best value cause all costs are identified and paid up front

2) Is there any advantage to one home park over another? Does it actually need to be near your home/physical address? You mentioned that your one has "frozen" yearly dues which I presume is a good thing? Are home parks allowed to make "special assessments" that you are obligated to pay since the dues are frozen?
'Home Park' is required in order to purchase 'affiliate' memberships (C2C, RPI, AOR etc) can't get those without a home park membership.

'Home Park' can be one close by or 1000's of miles away..depends on whether going to it (or not) is an issue.
We chose our home park due to lower fee and frozen yearly dues. Can't raise our due structure until we give up home park membership....no 'special assessments'
We also chose this home park due to it being a 'deluxe/premiere' cg. IF your home park of choice is just a 'classic' then you can only get basic C2C, RPI, AOR etc affiliate memberships

Deluxe/Premiere allows you to stay up to 14 nights per visit vs only 7 nights. It has our benefits such as how far in advance you can make reservations, cruise ship deals, condo time share deals etc. But we were more interested in the 14 nights aspect.

3) What is deluxe/premiere for "affiliates mean"? Sounds important, does it mean anything other than being able to stay for 14 nights instead of just 7?

4) You said that your $950 initial investment included memberships (plural) in C2C, RPI and AOR. Could you have purchased those individually to begin with? (You mentioned a bit of overlap in member cg's so I will pay more attention to that when researching.)
The $950 buy in/purchase cost included our 'home park' membership joining fee and 1st year dues, our 1st year membership dues for C2C, RPI and AOR (deluxe/premiere) and the transfer fees

It was a package deal---all inclusive.
Our packages were available for resale that had home park, C2C (or RPI etc.)
We took the all package cause it was cheaper than to add our affiliates later on.


5) Do you have to keep paying for it until you sell it?
NOPE..........

Other than the yearly dues no other payments after initial buy in of $950
Yearly dues were $59/home park
$129/RPI, $139/C2C and $99/AOR

After 1st year we dropped RPI & AOR.
Overlapping with C2C
AOR had to be done via phone (that may have changed...but it was via phone when we had it)

C2C website very user friendly, easy to check/make reservations, ongoing accounting of 'points' (1000 points equals $10)
Buy XX number of points gets bonus points
Confirmation of reservations so no "We don't have that res"

Thanks in advance to Dear Biscuit (I dislike using the word "old") or anyone else who can share their knowledge.