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 represents 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 intends that Windjammer Landing's management team should 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 resort's management team is fully aware of WPRA and often refers new owners to the assocation's web site. To be as transparent as possible, WPRA encourages members of Windjammer Landing's management team, and members of the Ellis Don parent company's management team, to join WPRA so that they can interact fully with their WJL 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 while simultaneously providing those some owners with an alternate way to communicate with WJL management. Per the above, the WJL management team, and the parent Ellis Don company, are both encouraged 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 large green "Join WPRA" button on the site's main page and fill in the presented form. You will be asked to provide your name, email address, villa numbers/types and week numbers/seasons. 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.

Upon receipt of your submission, WPRA will add you to the organization's member list and send you a confirmation email containing the user ID you selected on the signup form and an initial password generated by the site. Please change this password to something more meaningful to you personally via the "My Account" page and then be sure to save it in a readily accessible place.

I Forgot My UserID and/or Password. What Do I Do?
Losing/forgetting your login ID and/or password is a very common occurrence. In the event that this happens to you, click the main page Login link. On the page, immediately under the large green Login button, you will see a "Forgot Userid/password" link. Click that and fill in the presented form. WPRA will email your new credentials to you, typically within minutes.

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. 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 email webmaster@wjlpra.com to arrange 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 by 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 webmaster@wjlpra.com and at michael@campbell-tx.net.