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Maintenance Fees (by KC):
samb87 wrote:Why should I keep paying maint. fees when I don't know when or even if my resort will reopen (Wyndham Bonnet Creek). All my points are expiring and I am getting nothing in return. How does everyone else feel about this?
It frankly does not matter one bit how anyone "feels about this". Maintenance fees are a legal obligation associated with any and every timeshare. Unfortunately, that contractual obligation is without any "return" on rare occasions, such as closures due to unexpected hurricane damage --- or closures mandated due to an unprecedented pandemic that has sickened and killed many thousands of people.
Many timeshare owners will sustain some loss as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. We were locked out of a recent fixed week we own due to the mandated closures and also lost the income from the (cancelled) rental of another week there when that same resort closed. That "loss" of TWO maintenance fees does not please me but it is, after all, the temporary loss of use of a luxury. We have our health and food on the table, unlike many less fortunate others.
Look beyond yourself. Be grateful if you're not losing your job or your income or your health or the roof over your head, as some people are. In the big picture, so what if you temporarily lose access to a vacation and still have to pay maintenance fees, required to keep any property and its' systems running and pay its' property taxes? With all due respect, that is a risk you (and I) undertook when buying into the luxury of any timeshare product in the first place. Better times will return.