WPRA Purpose and Goals
When was the Windjammer Landing Private Residents Assocation formed?
WPRA was was founded in 2009.
What is the purpose of WPRA?
WPRA exists for the purpose of encouraging and facilitating communication between timeshare and
other owners at the Windjammer Landing Villa Beach Resort, and facilitating communication between
association members and the resort's management team. The Windjammer Landing Villa Beach Resort
is located on the beautiful Caribbean island of St. Lucia.
WPRA is a cooperative organization, not a combative one. WPRA will represent itself to the resort's
management team as an organization that shares the same goals, namely the ongoing
financial success of the resort. The resort's financial success is identically the owner's financial success as
well. A successful resort directly translates into ongoing appreciation in each owner's investment.
WPRA hopes that Windjammer Landing's management team will come to view it as an ally: a quick sounding
board for new ideas, a real time quality control feedback mechanism and many other presently unforseen uses.
Is WPRA formally affiliated with Windjammer Landing?
No. WPRA is a wholly independent organization, composed solely of Windjammer Landing Villa Beach Resort owners.
While not formally associated with Windjammer Landing, the presence of WPRA and the assocation's web site
will be communicated to Windjammer Landing's management team, and to its parent corporation, Ellis Don.
Resort management and Ellis Don will be provided with regular updates on the operations of the assocation
and the association's participation rate. To be as transparent as possible, members of Windjammer Landing's
management team and members of Ellis Don will be encouraged to join the WPRA on line forums so that they may
interact fully with their owners.
What are the goals of WPRA?
The following are the major goals of WPRA:
- Provide a web community for association members to facilitate the free flow of communication between
association members and between the resorts management team and assocation members. This communication
might include both resort related information (such as future build plans at WJL, current list pricing
of new villa units, positive or negative critiques of individual staff members, favorite Windjammer
Landing photos and so on) and St. Lucia related information (such as restaurant reviews, tour reviews,
other resort reviews and so on).
- Provide a web capability to facilitate the buying, selling, upgrading and downgrading of villas
both between members of the association and between members and non members.
- Achieve a high level of participation by WJL owners. A goal of >80% is targeted. Participation
is defined as voluntary registration by an owner with the association's web site.
- Provide an alternate vehicle for resort management to communicate with its villa timeshare owners.
Per the above, the WJL management team, and the parent Ellis Don company will be both be invited to join
the WPRA online forums and interact fully with the owners.
- If desired by WPRA membership, represent high runner owner compliments, suggestions and
concerns to resort management. Such representations will only be made after a >50% participation
rate is achieved. Please note however that it is an expressed goal of WPRA to be a cooperative
organization, not a combative one. WPRA and WJL have shared and common goals and are natural allies.
It is not the purpose nor the intent of WPRA to become a "complaint board" except where owners
feel strongly that their financial investment in WJL is being devalued by policies that the
resort's management team is adopting.
- Operate with no fees imposed on the members. With the exception of physical materials such
as business cards, all work and time is provided on a strictly volunteer basis.
WPRA Membership
Who is eligible to become a member of WPRA?
WPRA membership is open to all current timeshare or freehold owners at the Windjammer Landing
Villa Beach Resort on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia.
Please note however that WPRA reserves the right to deny membership to, or revoke the membership
of, any person who might otherwise be eligible for membership in WPRA, at WPRA's sole discretion.
How do I join WPRA?
Joining is easy. Just click on the the Contact Us
page and select "Join WPRA". Please provide us with your name, email address, villa number
and week numbers. Upon receipt of your contact, we will add you to the organization's member
list and send you a confirmation email providing you with a user ID and password
to the WPRA website. We would also appreciate receiving your your surface mail address if at all
possible. This will allow WPRA to stay in touch with you as need be.
What does it cost to join WPRA and are there annual dues?
WPRA membership is free to all timeshare and freehold owners at Windjammer Landing. In addition,
there are no annual dues.
The association does have expenses however, primarily related to the ongoing operation of
the WPRA website, and members are encouarged to contribute any amount that they may feel is
appropriate to offset those expenses. Please follow the "Support WPRA" link on the main page
of the web site to make a Paypal contribution to WPRA.
WPRA also provides an online store that sells WPRA branded merchandise. Profits realized from sales
of this merchandies will also be used to support the ongoing operation of the WPRA website. Members
are encourage to visit the store often! Follow the "WPRA Store" links on the main page of the
web site.
Will my privacy be protected if I join WPRA?
Yes. WPRA is solely an owner's association, by the owners, for the owners. WPRA does not engage
in marketing of member information and will not provide that information to ANY other organizations.
The one exception to this general rule is the publication of information that owners chose
to make publicly available regarding villas that they may have for sale or rent. This information
will be posted to publicly accessible sections of the WPRA website if and only if the member
wishing to sell or rent their villa marks their posting as "Public".
WPRA Web Site
What facilities does the WPRA web site provide to members?
The Windjammer Landing Private Residents Association web site provides members
with a complete list of all other members of the organization, a set of forums
which allow members to interact with each other, a member-to-member private messaging
service, and finally a facility that allows owners to list their villas for sale or
rent, and which also allows both members and non members to view the lists of available
villas.
WPRA Organizational Structure
What is the organizational structure of WPRA? I see Officers listed on the "About" page - how are
these positions filled?
WPRA does not presently have an organizational structure. It is a member created and member
operated assocation. At present, WPRA has been created and is being run by Michael Campbell, a
current WJL owner and the author/maintainer of the WPRA web site. Michael can be reached at:
michael@campbell-tx.net
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