Original Message:
Just Heard Of Manhattan Club's Change Of Ownership Last Night (by Chris V.):
hello joanney28,
glad you enjoy the manhattan club (TMC) timeshare, many owners do as well. keep in mind that the enjoyment is from the physical stay at this timeshare. that enjoyment does not come from, perhaps unknown to you, the fraud, lies and misconceptions that thousands of other shareowners of TMC have experienced at and since their initial purchase. TMC has been taken to court by the former new york state attorney general, eric schneiderman for the above-cited activities: sales fraud, lies and misconceptions. just one of these fraudulent sales activities was to tell prospective purchasers that maintenance fees would increase only slightly from time-to-time. to date, the maintenance fee increases are approaching 500% since around 2000....averaging, i would say, at least $3,000 (way above the average fees of similar timeshares) per owned week. part of the court settlement gleaned by eric schneiderman included the prohibition of TMC developer, ian bruce eichner, from doing further business in the timeshare industry. the finality of schneiderman's court SETTLEMENT against ian bruce eichner in no way helped many of the 14,000++ financially distressed owners. very many TMC owners still cannot get desirable reservation time due to other illegal activities by ian bruce eichner: overselling of TMC shares and advertising TMC accommodations on travel websites, e. g., hotels.com and booking.com.
unfortunately, this is probably not good news for you. since the ian bruce eichner regime is being phased out, the BLUEGREEN company is taking over the management of TMC and its board of directors will prevail as the executive body of TMC. owners have little or no knowledge of how BLUEGREEN is expected to proceed.
many owners have contracted with an attorney to fight the many injustices committed by ian bruce eichner and his former TMC board of directors (even after the unsatisfactory conclusion of eric schneiderman's court litigaion). the attorney is awaiting a court hearing in mid-december to determine if he will be allowed access to contact information of ALL TMC owners to create communications among all owners. currently, TMC HAS REFUSED ACCESS TO THE LIST OF TMC OWNERS.
i strongly urge you to check the following forum:.............redweek.com....................the manhattan club lawsuit. there you will find over 240 pages of complaints/unpleasant comments against TMC. don't be fooled and misled any further. among other injustices, you are paying exorbitant maintenance fees to TMC, well-above the average fees for similar timeshares'
JOIN IN ON THE .........................redweek.com..................................the manhattan club timeshare.................forum. you will be quite enlightened!
keep in touch.
chris
joanney28 wrote:Hi Everybody,I just joined in as a brand new guest 5 minutes ago. I have owned a time share at Manhattan Club in New York for more than 20 years. Besides Manhattan Club, I own an unit at Pam Beach Shores, Florida and an unit at Tioman Island Berjaya Vacational Club, Malaysia. I live in New York State and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In the past several years, I always used my time share at Manhatan Club and had totally enjoyed the time there. Only a day ago or last night that I found out that Manhattan Club has a new owner which is Blue Green.
Would someone out there advise me what to do now ? How would the new owner treat us the old existing time share owners?? I admit that I am kind of slow as I live very far away. I normally live in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia although I go back to the upstate New York to visit my daughters every year.
Please anyone help and advise me out there. I was panicky last night after reading some comments regarding this issue. Thank you very much.