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Maintenance fees are up 9% again in 2013, again the resort is again blaming high electricity cost and is apparently trying to reduce cost by improving both the AC and reducing electricity waste. I did some quick calculations which show that the budget does balance ($1017*72*52= $3,807,648) approximately equals the 2013 expense projection $3,859,600, hence it appears to be allocated to all rooms over 52 weeks, so if there are defaults or unowned rooms the maintenance fees are picked up by the resort as operating costs and expensed against rental income I assume. But we don't have the income side of the budget; such as rental revenue from unowned weeks, the restaurant, car rental and other on site businesses. We could use an owners association to forward our concerns to management. Talk it up amongst ourselves while vacationing this year.