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It's your right to choose to withhold maintenance fees. But it impacts all involved, the least hurt is Eichner. The Eichner enterprise just passes the 'bad debt' costs onto the remaining 'owners' in good standing. The most hurt are the tens of thousands that don't even know what is going on, only that their maintenance costs are increasing annually. If it makes you feel better to think you're hurting Eichner ok, but it's not true. [Q=vanessa175] The only way to hit Eichner and the operation of TMC is by NOT paying maintenance fees. Your suggestion about an escrow account is a good one. However, the fees that we are being charged are outrageous! He has been doing this for year's to the Owners and not having available for Owners who did pay their maintenance fees. I am just one of many of those owners. We hesitated to not pay the maintenance fees after losing nights with lack of room space being available. Before we stopped paying our maintenance fees we hired an attorney in DC to represent us (she represented another TMC Owner)previously. that Owner basically gave it back for $100. That was the deal they were offering to any body. That was back in 2010. We hired her in hopes of selling back ours back at $100 price because we were so fed up with how the property was being managed and how we were being threatened by them. We paid almost $25,000 cash. We paid our fees for years on time and were not able to use our seven nights (flex-plan). We lost 3,4, and 2 nights for the three years we did not trade into RCI. TMC required us to pay maintenance fees five months in advance! we said "no way", we are not paying them one more cent. They have nerve and more!!! If everybody stopped paying the maintenance fees during this investigation results may be different in the outcome. We are paying to keep them up and running. On top of that they have been renting out our units to make more money! The credit bureaus can be written and have letters of explanation with this fraud! maybe the best thing would[/Q]