Let's say I buy a timeshare that is part of rci points and the contract says that for three years I am obligated to keep the unit in rci points paying an annual membership fee. The first year was covered as part of the sale. On years two and three I receive and pay the bill. On the 4th year the same thing happens. Maybe I forgot that I was obligated to remain in points only for the first 3 years. Maybe I knew but liked the benefits I received for membership. I paid and I received a benefit whether I had to or not. What is the criminal aspect of it? After re-uping and using my RCI benefits for another 5 years, would I be suing myself for mismanaging my funds for belonging to a group that I wasn't contractually obligated to belong to or would I be suing RCI for sending me an annual bill to belong to something I was not contractually obligated to belong to but chose to and benefited from.
The timeshare HOA's paid the dues to belong to the property owners HOA (full time owners) and received benefits- access, trash removal, snow removal, road upkeep etc. If you want to sue the timeshare HOA's for choosing to belong to the property owners HOA when they didn't have to, I don't see you getting very far and if you do win, they will recover the fees you win by raising the fees for the timeshares to cover the liability for the timeshare HOA members.
Massanutten is trying to make the MF's as low as possible for owners who don't use their ownership to stay at Massanutten and funnelling those charges to both owners and non owners who actually stay on a per usage basis. This makes it cost more to stay at Massanutten then it did previously. I would rather pay these fees as a part of my MF's because I like going to Massanutten, rather than paying MF's and another $56 for mandatory resort fees per lock off side and then now potentially another $1 or 2 everytime I go up the mountain to the pool, or ski or to a restaurant or to the recreation center or if I am staying on one of the mountain properties to access my unit.