Original Message:
Re: Harborside at Atlantis Phase1 Owners Facebook Group (by Bruce Z.):
A little late in this discussion by a few months... but should add the owner rental program at Starwood's Sheraton Vistana Resort was also shut down. Just as well. They were keeping 50% of the owner rental and they seemed more motivated to bypass the owner and rent direct. We tried it once. At the last minute they contacted us to say they were unable to rent our week and we needed to bank it with RCI, which apparently killed the "trading power" of our deposit when we tried to use it. We were also hit with a major refurb assessment a few years back and a lot of owners walked away. They make the remaining owners pitch-in to cover their losses. We used to rent our Star Options through other Starwood resorts on our own. (Their rep's. even suggested it) but now it appears they prohibit us from renting our ownership outside of our home resort and assigned week.