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Re: Why have maintenance fees gone up so much for 2012 ? (by Andy M.):
The Divi, next door to the Belair, has a professional sales staff and charges $25,000 for a week 2 - 16, a Belair 2 bedroom goes for $1,200. The resort itself is good. The beneficiaries are new owners, the victims are old owners.
in answer to the original question, why have maintenance fees gone up. I suspect that a lot of owners of sub-prime weeks have walked (abandoned their units) leaving a lower number of tenants to pay the bills. made worse because the senior managers will not take a pay cut from what is likely $200,000/yr each.