Russell Smith Got Our Disney Property Sold

My family had been Disney Vacation Club members for fourteen years. We had wonderful vacations and I am genuinely glad we had those experiences. But our kids are grown now, our family travel patterns have completely changed, and the annual dues had become a line item in our budget that we questioned every single year. DVC has a resale market — that much we knew — but navigating it effectively is a different matter entirely. We had tried listing on a DVC resale site and had interest but no closed deals over eight months. The interested parties either could not get financing, changed their minds, or vanished. It was exhausting and we were running out of patience. Russell Smith at JP Mutual Management was recommended to us by someone in our neighborhood who had sold their DVC points through him specifically. She was emphatic that he was the right person for DVC resales and that he had connections we would not find anywhere else. She was right about all of it. Russell understood DVC ownership at a level that was immediately apparent. He knew the specific contract we held, understood the point value, the home resort, the use year, and exactly what category of buyer would be interested. He was not starting from scratch with us — he already knew this market. He was also clear about what to expect: DVC resales can move quickly when the right buyer appears, but it depends heavily on matching the specific contract to the right person. He had several buyers in his network who were specifically looking for contracts like ours. One of them closed the deal three months later. The sale price was $43,500, which was in the upper range of what Russell had quoted as realistic. The closing was handled by a title company Russell's team recommended, and every document was in order. Fourteen years of DVC membership ended cleanly and profitably. Russell Smith made that possible. If you have DVC points to sell, call him first and save yourself the months of frustration we went through before we found him.