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Re: Maintenance Fees (by Carrie S.):

loug11 wrote:

Hi I just found the site and am very interested. When I bought my first unit in Orlando area my maint fees were near $200. Now I am paying $1000 for that and a second unit I bought in 1998.

I think that owners should have the right, through internet to know exactly what is going on at board meetings. This way we can through internet, voice our specific opinions on specific issues. Additionally, we need more protections under the law. Management companies are in business to make money. They make money by getting it from fees on owners. Not from promotional stays. We are subsidizing the management companies promoting themselves and trying to sell units. we collectively need a real management company which has people take inventory of all items in the unit and defects. If when they are checking out there are damages or degredation of the unit, the party staying in the unit will be charged on their credit card for the damages.

Find out who in Congress is looking out for us, or lets get someone to represent our cause. Lets change the timeshare ownership contract.

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Is the legal issue a state's issue or a federal one? In CA, there is the Brown Act, which prohibits private meetings about public affairs. Perhaps it can apply to the community of timeshares and their self-elected boards. Well, lawyers? How about it?

It seems to me the board OKs the maintainance fees, based on the spending requirements. However, I have seem the turnoil and graft that can follow when a board canned a management company because they thought the fees were too high. It never got back to the quality it originally had. There were lawsuits over grossly misappropriated funds. Are we having fun yet?