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Re: Redweek T/s Exchange - need to pay MF's in advance? (by Marty F):
peter685 wrote:marty8084 wrote:Thank you for bringing this to our attention about the upfront maintenance fee payment. I've gotten clearer direction now and sometimes it's a resort rule, but it's ALWAYS our rule. We require the maintenance fees to be paid for the year deposited so there's no risk of the owner defaulting later, and us losing the reservation we've made for an exchange guest. So, no, we cannot accept their Orange Lake weeks into our exchange system without paying maintenance fees in advance.Thanks, Marty
Well, Marty, thanks for clarifying that, but quite frankly I'm really not too impressed that it took all this carry on for you to finally come up with Redweek's real position on this matter. I'm not quite as direct on these things as Phill was in his post of Sep 5th, but he perhaps has a point there!
I'm not a particularly experienced timesharer, or exchanger come to that, but, while otherwise I think that Redweek's new exchange system looks really good, I'm just not inclined to give my home resort the benefit of having my fees in the bank anything up to 2 years in advance - that really is not attractive to me.
I know that it's not only Redweek that insists on this, so it looks like if I don't use RCI, I'll be renting out.
Sorry, Redweek - I'm out.
Pete
We're sorry that you feel this way, Pete. With anything new there is a learning curve. We hope you will reconsider in the future.
Marty