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Re: Diamond Resorts raises maintenance fees again! (by David K.):
Charles minimizes the problem. MF's at Los Abrigados went up by a lot more than 1% for deeded owners. Since DRI took over they've gone through the roof. We pay more in MF's for a one-week TS than it would cost to stay at a hotel where you would get a free breakfast and your sheets changed every night.
Lori is a bit naive about the issue of a class action lawsuit. This was done against ILX over the issue of non-availability. Owners ended up getting something like $30 or $40 in "credit" that you had to spend there within a specific period of time. The lawyers for both sides got hundreds of thousands. If we wanted to take on DRI first we would have to find out who the deeded owners are and their contact info. Then for every one without an email address we would have to mail out some sort of info sheet. To follow up there would have to be a lot of phone calling. Who is going to bear the cost or time of doing this?
Just face it. We are all screwed. Your friendly Republican legislators have fixed the laws in the states where DRI does business to make consumer redress against the kind of larceny the Timeshare INdustry perpetrates all but impossible.