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Re: Marriott Vacation Club New Policy - Can’t Do Rentals? No long can change the primary guest name for Ownership Week Reservation? (by Deseree A.):
Hi all - I’ve rented a week in Park City and a week in Myrtle Beach thru redweek so far this year. The Park City week took a while for us to have our name listed (we were listed as “additional guests” in addition to the owner). The owner had to fill out a form and send it in before the change was reflected. This was moderately unsettling to us until the resort showed us in the system. The owners kept us in the loop during this process. For the Myrtle Beach week, we were shown as the primary guests almost immediately (could see the reservation in the Bonvoy app). I’m not sure if there’s a difference in changing the guest name depending on your original timeshare status (deeded week or points). The Park City owners have a deeded week and have owned for a long time. I’m not sure about the Myrtle beach owner.
We went to the sales presentation at MB and the sales manager made a point to say that Marriott is sending cease and desist letters to owners who they deem to be “profiting as a business” from renting their timeshares. Seems to me this is BS. A cease and desist letter isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on without a solid legal foundation. How do they define profit? Commercial? Basically this whole thing amounts to a Redweek harassment program because they cannot justify their sales pitch if you simply show them the redweek resale page. They would rather harass current owners than exercise every ROFR. It’s a simple math equation to them. I love the MVC product and the MB property is super convenient to us living in SC but this whole tactic is distatsteful.