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Re: the manhattan club (by Colleen K.):

richard484 wrote:

howardb21 wrote:

There is nothing short of aclass action lawsuit, the sponsor control the board , he appoints 3 board members, and himself president, owners only get to vote for two board members, so no matter the good intentions of the 2 board members,the sponsor vote and his appointement's and himself , is 4 votes to 2 for owners, sponsor state to me that new york timeshare law is that once sponser own one unit he control the board and he will always own couple units, we need all owners that is tick off to rite to the atty. General Andrew Cuomo,if he gets enough letters I am shore he will look into it, then file a class action suit Howard

I also own a junior suite and a one bedroom unit at the Manhattan Club. When we bought several years ago, we were told that the maintenance fee would always be low because the Manhattan Club did not have any of the expensive facilities such as a golf course, banquet rooms or swimming pool. Now they try to justify the extradinarily high fee by comparing the cost to similar room rentals in NYC. They tend to forget that we paid $20,000 to 35,000 to own the property, not rent it. A significant contributor to the maintenance fee is the Management fee. This fee is 20% of our Timeshare charges. Thus, as our maintenance fee goes up, so does the Management charge.

Our Maintenance fees our completely out of line and I also encourage all owners to write to the attorney general for some guideance in this matter.

Rich

I emailed several of the people with the Owner's Group in NY state. Two people responded and said we should get the owner list from the MFC board of directors.I really doubt we could get that from them) They indicated that they know owners of the MC who are very disatisfied with the situation. I had gotten their e addresses from Timesharing Today. One said that we could contact the head of Timesharing Today because he is also an attorney and has helped owners in similar situations. She said that writing letters to government officials only helps if you have a great number of people doing so. She said they get away with this because there's usually not enough owners that will be actively involved. Please respond ------thank you Colleen