Kimberling Inn

I know there's a discussion somewhere about the high Special Assessment charged by those who have taken control of the Kimberling Inn, or Table Rock Resorts, or The Shores of TRL at Kimberling Inn, or whatever name you are familiar with, a resort we have been familiar with for 30 years, but, I just booked a 2-bedroom in one of the "new"-ish lakefront 2-bedroom units for a guest, for $435 total, all fees included.

How does that compare to the fees owners pay?

Just curious.

Did you also know the history of the older part, the part that resembles a "motor court" from the 50's or 60's? That's because that's what it is, an original site-built Holiday Inn, owned by John Q. Hammons, who developed a lot of Kimberling City.

Not that anyone here seems to care, but just in case someone stumbles onto this, the local developer who took over, and rebranded, the Kimberling Inn, Jay Steed, died of COVID October 10, 2021.

COVID is not taken seriously in the Branson/Kimberling City area.

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We have been timesharing since 1989, and "The Kimberling Inn" was one of our first exchanges, in 1990, and a few times more since.

That was in one of the "new" units at that time, typical Ozarks cheap construction.

The oldest part of this resort was originally one of the first Holiday Inn motor courts, built by John Q Hammons in the 50's.

A few years ago, a local Kimberling City businessman/developer, Jay Steed, gained control of it, and rebranded it. He tried to upgrade it with hefty special assessments, which was received poorly by the owners of the timeshare units.

Jay died of COVID in August, 2021.

There is very little concern for or precautions taken for COVID in the Branson area.

Do you still have a time share there we do Dave

Again, not that it matters, but a local developer has managed to wrestle away the approximately 4800 timeshare interests in "The Kimberly Inn", and it is now 92 wholly-owned vacation rental condos. All/most have been sold to investors, with no apparent full-time residents.

That same developer has scraped bare a prominent hill just to the south of the Kimberling City bridge on Table Rock lake, and has built/sold approximately 75 high-dollar "Luxury" Vacations Rentals, Wilderness Mountain.

There is another new luxury Vacation Rental development on the hill directly across 13 HWY, Serenity Shores.

Also on the east side of 13 HWY, the same thing is going on at Ozark Mountain Resort, a Silverleaf Resort that became HICV in 2016.

Within 2 miles of the Kimberling City bridge there will now be more than 700 vacation rental properties.

There is no evidence that any of the timeshare owners received anything for these dissolutions, with millions of dollars generated from the sales.

Generally speaking, locals are not happy with any of this.

I was a timeshare owner at Kimberling Inn for over 20 years. I was contacted a couple years back and convinced that my best interest was to release the deed back to the company in return for a vacation membership. Which we did only because the maintenance fees were increasing drastically every year along with a special assessment. The selling point was that further on you would only be responsible for a membership fee. Which would be far less than your annual maintenance fee. Plus, no worries about special assessments. Obviously they planned this just to steal all the deeds so that they could sell the property out right. We did get an annual points allocation in RCI. So, it wasn’t a total loss. The resort never did fully recuperate from the tornado. That was its financial downfall and I believe why it was subsequently sold, I believe twice.