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[Q=dan825] [Q=joyceb120] I just looked at my statement from Diamond Resorts and I am not a happy camper at this point. The fees increased $42 from 2012 to 2013.. that isn't so bad. But today the fee is $1975.44 for 2014, an increase of $117 on 11,000 points. This is bad, very bad. They didn't warn me of this huge spike in fees when I was listening to the "Owner Update" in April. The salesperson asked us how we liked our timeshare. We said we loved it, and that we were very happy with the Club. I told her I could rent a week to someone else and have points left over to reserve our own vacation. She was not happy about that at all!! She gave me a remark of "oh, so you're a little travel agent at your kitchen table", etc. Then she basically threatened us, and said renting to others was against the rules, and that we could be kicked out of the Club and Diamond Resorts if we continue to rent out our timeshare weeks. (Yeah, we could be so lucky). And now our fees have increased.. I guess they want to be sure to get part of the rent money I'm raking in.. RedWeek.. did you know it's against Diamond Resorts rules to rent out our timeshare on your website? What a load of horse hockey.[/Q] Indeed that is the case. You can only rent to friends and family. The Club rules don't state how close the friends have to be but it does say friends. Dan Bowman[/Q] I was just told by a DRI rep that the rooms rented out as hotel rooms on Hotels.com and every other on-line travel site were being given over by OWNERS, not put on travel sites by DRI !!! Update: now told by a person in DRI's exchange department that DRI owns a block of points/weeks/whatever and can rent them out any way they want to. Obviously they choose to turn the "owners only" resort into a hotel. Are our fees covering the wear and tear from hotel guests? Duh...