Ready to Buy, Need Opinions
Background: We are GF fans who would love GFV to be our home resort. We won't be financing. GFV doesn't seem to be the most cost effective decision when buying points and we won't be disappointed if we buy at BLT or AKL and end up staying there now and then. We plan to use our points to stay at Disney resorts, mostly at WDW.
Questions:
Buying Direct vs Buying Resale. It seems like getting more points for the money in buying a resale makes more sense, even if we change our home resort to one with a better per point value than GFV. What is the main benefit to buying direct from Disney? Will we be missing out on much if we go with a resale?
Has anyone had much trouble booking GFV at the 7 month mark for March, April or October (the months we travel most)?
Use year: Is it important to buy resales in the same use year? If we combine resale offers from the same resort to get the amount of points we need, does it all combine into one account for reservations/banking/borrowing, or is it like dealing with two or three separate accounts? Am I making sense? Like, if we buy two resales for AKL at 200 points each, does it work like having 400 points? Or do I have to treat them as separate reservations?
Thanks for any guidance, DVC friends.