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Re: Manhattan Club Lawsuit (by Robert S.):

Just a random thought over my morning coffee. And a follow up to the thread on inheriting a timeshare. Stick with me for a few moments. I'm doubting that many of us that have purchased timeshares over the past 30 or more years considered the death event consequences of the purchase. Especially under the high pressure sales tactics used by many in the industry. The Manhattan Club (IMO) is the poster child for what is wrong with the industry as a whole. Granted there are good, well intentioned developers in the industry. But I'm guessing most of us active on this forum would agree the owners, developers and managers of TMC aren't high on that list. Maybe we owners of the intangible 'time' need to lobby the industry with tangible results... What if we were to collectively build boilerplate language for inclusion in our individual wills? What if we built a database of our least favorite developers, lawmakers, industry lobbyist, etc. Then provide the boilerplate language to everyone to insert into their will. Willing the timeshare to your least favorite industry representative.

About 10 years or more from now when developer 'A' ends up with inheriting maintenance bills due to developer 'B' - or better yet politician 'A' owes developer 'B'.... I'm guessing we'd see laws enacted to allow the maintenance obligation to die with us.

Let's stop spewing 354 pages of complaints about how we were wronged and let's use social media to our benefit to enact change in the system. I'm confident there are smart legal minds in our collective that'll find gapping holes in my concept - but I'm thinking there might be value in some discourse to study it. I know TMC monitors this list. I'm happy to have them participate in an honest discussion on potential ways to modify industry contracts to be mutually acceptable.

I'm going back to my coffee.