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Re: Diamond Resorts enormously increases the cost of Maintenance/Reserves on their resorts.

The existing deeded week owners need to band together and wrest control of the HOA from DRI. The HOA sets the annual fees, and contracts with a management company. This must be done sooner, rather than later, as every week DRI buys back gives them a larger share of the membership of those HOAs, and thus a larger share of the vote. If they own enough, they can control the elections. I also don't know if those multiple phases in some of their resorts have multiple HOAs, or if each resort only has one. If they have multiple HOAs, it might be easier to gain control of some of the older ones, as DRI would be less likely to control as many votes. But if that is the case, you must also consider which HOA (or who, if not an HOA - possibly DRI) owns which resort amenities, and whether that owner can restrict usage by the others. If a clubhouse is owned by one of the HOAs, that HOA could restrict its usage by all other owners, or could charge the others for its use. If owned by DRI, they could use it as a bargaining chip to convince the HOAs to retain them as management.