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Re: Manhattan Club Lawsuit (by Cookie L.):

I agree, we are lucky that we purchased a set 3 nights and automatically get those every year and have just tacked on the days prior. We have not try to split our other 4 days so that might be an issue. I also agree our contract does allow for that and certainly should be able to do that. The maintanance fees are outrageous. We live in a luxury building in the Washington DC area and don't pay anywhere close to that for a full month. Our building offers much more than the MC with the exception of daily cleaning service. We are paying over $8000 a month for maintenance as a group. Insane...We are hoping AG of New York will be successful in at a minimum getting our fees reduced and forcing the owner to reimburse us for some amount. I don't believe it's a good idea just not to pay.

laurah136 wrote:

I was able. a while back, to recoup my maintenance fees by renting it out. (2) I can no longer do that. No one will pay the exorbitant fees. There is no longer any benefit to this ownership, just a burden. Usually, a timeshare developer will turn over the project to the owners, when he has sold out. This developer has continued to buy units from the hotel next door to develop. After 20 years he still treats it as his own little pot of gold. Owners are not even represented on the Board except for the hand picked ones that he has chosen. He has written in his own management company to be there forever. In California a majority corporate owner must look out for the minority owners under corporate law. He not only does not do this, he ignores them altogether. He needs to be out of there completely. TMC owners have been his ticket to a very lucrative business for him.

Has there been yet another postponement for the justice hearing? Is all this not damage to the owners? I continue to pay these fees and use it, though I have given up trying to get the split weeks I am entitled to in my contract. I bought this property specifically to break up the trips abroad that we might make. It seems that TMC prefers you take full weeks, which is not in the contract! This is already a breach of contract for me, as far as I'm concerned. I'm a California resident and I've been told I have to hire a NY attorney. We are in our eighties now and just can't afford this nightmare!