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Re: Diamond Resorts raises maintenance fees again! (by Joan S.):
Michael, You said you walked away from your time share that was sold to you. How did you get out of it? DRI won't buy it back. We want to get out of being an owner all together. We can't afford the maintenance fees. They went up a 100% from $921 to $1995. Does anyone have any advise? Signing up for DRI is probably one of the worst decisions we have ever made. It makes me sick to think that we will be stuck with this for the rest of our lives. And that our children are bound to be stuck with it if something happens to us. Please help if anyone has some good advise.
michaeld414 wrote:The Points System is like selling air, there are no limits to the number of memberships they can sell... So when they acquire a junk resort and add it to any collection its just another patch of air to to add to the selling myth of future vacations... The sales rhetoric can paint a glorious picture, but the debt will increase many folds over a short period... We walked away from a 57,000 $$ investment, sold to us on lies and misrepresentations... Its an economic yoke around your neck and will get much heavier in the years to come...