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Re: Maintenance Fees Out-Of-Sight (by Mary D.):

phill12 wrote:
I think most resorts charge different fee for different size and weeks rating that you bought! I would think owner of two bedroom red week would have higher fee than one bedroom in blue/white times!
As for owners that buy more than one unit at the resort it doesn't seem to get you a price break!
We were looking at buying a second unit at our Lake Tahoe Resort and asked this question on Tug. I was told no you wouldn't get a break because the fee was based on units owned then divided by total units!
This makes since but then I see no plus to owning another unit except I get to pay another $766 a year to the resort for the right to pick my weeks 24 months early instead of 23 months!
I called the resort that I have been a owner at for about 10 out of last 17 years. They agreed with what owners on Tug had told me.
Belonging to the Tug site and knowing they are the best timeshare site on line I figured they were right but just wanted to check.
We can go to our resort most anytime of year with big discounts on bonus time so unless one month earlier to pick my weeks are that important then why buy!
My wife told me we love our resort so maybe we should just buy in Maui and have both favorite places to vacation without trading.

Phil---

Do you get a price break on Maintenance Fees if you own more at one resort? Sometimes YES.

We used to own at four different Fairfield resorts but were told that rolling them all into a single contract at one resort would reduce the MF per thousand points owned. "Single contract" seems to be the magic phrase. Multiple contracts at the same resort may not help. Unfortunately, we rolled ours all into a Florida property. Bad idea. Later we moved our points into a new contract in Las Vegas. Even though we had to buy additional NEW points to do this, the total MF is still less than before. Did something similar with Bluegreen.

How this works will vary among resort groups and the rules change from time to time. To make our Fairfield rollover would probably require a lot more new points today than it did a year ago. I think we dodged the bullet!