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Old Jan 17, 2010, 8:45 am
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Originally Posted by samuel99
The maintenance fees are currently $2700 according to the *wood pitch, APR through *wood is 12.9% (you can do much better with your own financing or pay cash to save a fair amount).
As to financing, unless you are going after a home equity loan or line of credit, then you will find it difficult to get much better than the SVO mortgage rate. There are only a handful of companies that write mortgages on timeshare units and the bottom rate appears to be around 12%.

One benefit if you should finance with SVO and have the SPG Amex: mortgage payments charged to your card earn you two SPG points for each $.

Also, a down payment or complete purchase may be made with your CC including receiving two points for each $ if it is a SPG Amex.
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