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Re: Maintenance Fees (by Jeff R.):

Jay Jay,

It is no different in ownership of houses or cars. Things go wrong, and yes, it sometimes gets expensive.

What makes the difference is how you deal with it. The easiest thing in the world is to turn totally negative on the situation. Thats bad enough by itself but then people go about spreading this negative mentality to others.

Nobody sees there own responsibility in the situation. Instead its someone elses fault,and then someone else, and then someone else. Never me!

The real reason that prices have been driven so low in the resale market is that many have adopted this mentality by way of listening to it night and day. people have devalued their TSs in their own mind.

I still like and value my TSs for the same reason when I first bought. I'm not selling mine for dirt cheap. Its like people on wall street racing to sell because everyone is.

That is their perogative but when I come on sites like this to learn and all I hear is negative all the time, it gets old. There comes a time to either speak up or Join them and thats not going to happen.

Now to turn this thing positive again, just like there are things to do to maximize trading power and the like, there are things to learn to keep from losing out all together when these fees go up.

recently, I did an equity trade into a brand new resort to dodge the special assessments. This also reduced fees because most of my points are now in one resort instead of several. also I got into a tower because I realized how much roofing has gone up and if there are only three units under a roof then when it comes time to reroof only three units are going to pay for it.

Now a person can think constructively and come up with these answers for themselves or they can spend all their time thinking about sueing somebody.

People chose to be a part of the solution or part of the problem. Personally I get tired of listening to the belly aching all the time. Its not that I am completely satisfied with my TSs. I just chose to sound that way to offset all the bad I hear.

Jeff