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Re: Manhattan Club Lawsuit (by Chris V.):

pauld623 wrote:

I also received a call from Sal. We discussed the same issues. I questioned him not only on the high maintenance fees but also the fact that the board is stacked in the owner's favor. Sal acknowledged that Eichner appoints 4 of the 7 members and he did not know when or whether Eichner would ever relinquish control of the board. Nevertheless, he assured me that he (Sal) is working for all the owners and that I should call him directly if I ever have a concern. As I told him, my main concern is being able to get rid of the week I own so that I am not further encumbered with increasingly high maintenance fees. (I tried to do so last year but I couldn't even give it away when the other person found out about the litigation.) Anyhow, Sal promised to send me a letter about our conversation. I received what was clearly a form letter from him a week later. Anyone else who speaks to him will probably get the same letter. I suspect he is going down the list, talking to as many owners as he can, disgruntled or otherwise, and trying to pacify us.

paul, salvatore reale has a way of circumventing the truth, a euphamism i admit. he's a company man who's out for himself and others within the upper eschelon of THE MANHANHATTAN CLUB ORGANIZATION, and he works only for IAN BRUCE EICHNER, HIS BOSS, AND THE MAIN PERSON IN THE NEW YORK STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S LAWSUIT. if salvatore reale "is working for owners" why are the maintenance fees so over- inflated? (he'll tell you about labor union contracts and refurbishing sections of the MANHATTAN CLUB building as high expense items; ask him about his salary and the salaries of other executives in THE MANHATTAN CLUB. he told me, in effect, that upper management personnel salaries constitute an insignificant effect on the maintenance fee increases............over 200% within 10 short years.....LUDICROUS, OUTRAGEOUS AND EXORBITANT.) ask salvatore about the difficulty facing owners getting reasonably desired reservation time, while strangers get almost immediate reservations from websites like booking.com, etc. he told me that offering accommodations online to strangers (the monies derived therefrom) help to keep owners' maintenance fees down. HEY FOLKS, WHO'S KIDDING WHO? COME ON SALVATORE, BE HONEST AND REAL. THE PRINCIPALS OF THE MANHATTAN CLUB ARE USING OUR TIME AND MONEY TO DOUBLE DIP..............LETTING STRANGERS GET ACCOMMODATIONS AND COLLECTING THE RENTALS FEES, IN EFFECT, TWICE...................FOR THE RENTAL AND IN THE FORM OF OUR EXORBITANT MAINTENANCE FEES. sal couldn't care less if you can't dump your MANHATTAN CLUB TIMESHARE, even by donating it for nothing. he's interested only in collecting your maintenance money since that's where his over-inflated salary comes from. by the way, he also begged the question when i brought up the scam/fraud and lies at the initial sales presentation, offering the prospective buyers the world and giving them next-to-nothing in return for outrageously escalating maintenance fees. as prospective purchasers at the sales presentation, we were never made aware that maintenance fees would rise more than 200% with no future cap.

keep calling salvatore reale. make him give you realistic and truthful answers to your legitimate complaints especially about the outrageously high maintenance fees and the difficulties getting reasonably desirable reservation time (and any other issues you may have concerning THE MANHATTAN SCAM/CLUB.)