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Re: Maintenance fees - paying owners take up the slack for nonpaying owners (by KC):
Re: >> The only thing management can do is hand the maintenance fee bill over to a collection agency. << ======================================
No --- that's not accurate. An aggressive and attentive management company / POA can simply foreclose upon non-paying owners and just "take back" ownership of the week(s). I personally know of one resort where they do so promptly (and routinely) on any and all delinquent owner accounts.
However, while this foreclosure approach is certainly always available, it is admittedly only smart or effective to pursue this at a resort where the "recaptured" week can then actually be resold. For timeshare weeks which are essentially worthless in the current marketplace and unlikely to be resold at ANY price if taken back (and there are LOTS of such weeks around), the foreclosure approach would not be in the resorts' best interest and would actually only serve to assist the delinquent owner in shedding his/her financial responsibility (.....which is exactly what the delinquent owner wants anyhow).
In short summary, there most certainly are other options to deal with delinquent owners besides collection agencies, but the wisdom in exercising other such options depends upon the individual facility.