Maintenance Fees

Why should I keep paying maint. fees when I don't know when or even if my resort will reopen (Wyndham Bonnet Creek). All my points are expiring and I am getting nothing in return. How does everyone else feel about this?

samb87 wrote:

Why should I keep paying maint. fees when I don't know when or even if my resort will reopen (Wyndham Bonnet Creek). All my points are expiring and I am getting nothing in return. How does everyone else feel about this?

It frankly does not matter one bit how anyone "feels about this". Maintenance fees are a legal obligation associated with any and every timeshare. Unfortunately, that contractual obligation is without any "return" on rare occasions, such as closures due to unexpected hurricane damage --- or closures mandated due to an unprecedented pandemic that has sickened and killed many thousands of people.

Many timeshare owners will sustain some loss as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. We were locked out of a recent fixed week we own due to the mandated closures and also lost the income from the (cancelled) rental of another week there when that same resort closed. That "loss" of TWO maintenance fees does not please me but it is, after all, the temporary loss of use of a luxury. We have our health and food on the table, unlike many less fortunate others.

Look beyond yourself. Be grateful if you're not losing your job or your income or your health or the roof over your head, as some people are. In the big picture, so what if you temporarily lose access to a vacation and still have to pay maintenance fees, required to keep any property and its' systems running and pay its' property taxes? With all due respect, that is a risk you (and I) undertook when buying into the luxury of any timeshare product in the first place. Better times will return.

It sounds like you are so well off that loss of time share rental, etc doesn't bother you much. I am not in that boat. Lucky you.

A lot of us are in the same boat . We will lose our weeks this year unless our home resort makes other arrangements for us to bank your 2020 weeks . This is a once in a lifetime event that no one ever prepared for obviously . There is no one size fits all solution . I'm waiting until late fall to see what happens in our country before making any decisions .

The main thing is we all get through this with our health so we can travel safely once things get back to " normal " .

samb87 wrote:

It sounds like you are so well off that loss of time share rental, etc doesn't bother you much. I am not in that boat. Lucky you.

"Sounds like"??? What on earth does that mean???

Not that it's any of your business at all, but am I certainly not "so well off" that a permanent loss of $1,650+ in pre-paid maintenance fees without benefit of any actual use this year doesn't hurt or bother me --- it does. Also, since our particular timeshare weeks are "fixed" weeks (not "points", not "flexible"), when our week dates passed, any use of those weeks was then gone forever, with no option to "reschedule" or "book a different week" or "bank" anything, despite the resort having been closed. We can't change the facts of the situation, so we have to just accept the harsh and unfortunate reality.

Still, I choose to view the one time loss of our two timeshare weeks this year in perspective, remembering that these two timeshare weeks are a luxury --- not a life necessity. We are grateful to have our health and our family members safe and well, which is certainly much more important to us than a week of timeshare use and / or renting out our other fixed week to help defray our ownership costs.

Apparently you are able to see things only through your ME lens. I suggest that you get a tissue if you are just going to cry "woe is ME". You are not a victim. You share in the bad luck of many others who are unwillingly and negatively (and in many case, much more severely) impacted by this pandemic. It's clearly very difficult for you to do, but try to look at the bigger picture. You are not "special" and you certainly are not owed any form of "compensation" --- so get over yourself and your obvious but sad and misguided notion of personal entitlement.

I was wondering if anyone has heard from their resort about when they may reopen or if there are any plans to compensate us for lost weeks or points.

If a timeshare owner lists their week on redweek and rents out the week, then the resort closes due to the pandemic is it fair that the owner of that week not refund the renter what they paid up front to rent that particular week when it cannot be used by the renter because of the resort being closed? The owner claims that since he still has to pay the maintenance fee, he is passing that on to the people who rented from him even though they were not able to use the week due to the pandemic. What is fair in a situation like that? Thank you.

If the resort is closed, most resorts are providing their owners with a different week. You can ask the owner what accommodations the resort is providing for him. If he is getting a different week, see if you can exchange your current week for his new week. If the resort is not providing any relief for the owner, then many owners have decided to split the difference with the renter, so both share equally in the loss.

The Resorts have huge Reserve funds that could be used. the emergency is now. Bob Shoup