• Welcome to the FREE TUGBBS forums! The absolute best place for owners to get help and advice about their timeshares for more than 32 years!

    Join Tens of Thousands of other owners just like you here to get any and all Timeshare questions answered 24 hours a day!
  • TUG started 32 years ago in October 1993 as a group of regular Timeshare owners just like you!

    Read about our 32nd anniversary: Happy 32nd Birthday TUG!
  • TUG has a YouTube Channel to produce weekly short informative videos on popular Timeshare topics!

    All subscribers auto-entered to win all free TUG membership giveaways!

    Visit TUG on Youtube!
  • TUG has now saved timeshare owners more than $24,000,000 dollars just by finding us in time to rescind a new Timeshare purchase! A truly incredible milestone!

    Read more here: TUG saves owners more than $24 Million dollars
  • Sign up to get the TUG Newsletter for free!

    Tens of thousands of subscribing owners! A weekly recap of the best Timeshare resort reviews and the most popular topics discussed by owners!
  • Our official "end my sales presentation early" T-shirts are available again! Also come with the option for a free membership extension with purchase to offset the cost!

    All T-shirt options here!
  • A few of the most common links here on the forums for newbies and guests!

Grand Crowne Special Assessment for Deeded Owners

dandjn

TUG Member
Joined
Jan 22, 2023
Messages
1
Reaction score
0
We are deeded owners with Grand Crowne and just attended a presentation with Capital Vacations. Of course, they want us to convert our deed into their Club points. And to do that we must buy points to convert it. Surprise! We were told that since Surrey did such a poor job managing the resort that when Capital bought it they set up a special assessment for all deeded owners to pay for half the $50 million the resort needed to correct the mismanagement. To recover that $25MM they are able to increase deeded owners maintenance fees by up to 15% each year until they recover the $25MM. We have indeed seen the 15% increase on this year's maintenance fee so are thinking there may be some truth to what we were told. This means our annual maintenance fee will more than double in the next five years and in 20 years will be over $25,000! Has anyone else heard of this and does anyone know if there is a way to verify this information?

After presenting that he asked if we had any questions. So we asked, how do we sell our deed to get out of this all together. He said we can't and we need to understand we do not have an asset, we have a liability. He said there is a lien on our deed and anyone who buys our property will be required to pay the increased maintenance fees. Any thoughts and help on this is much appreciated.
 
Interesting - I think it's unusual for them to tell you the MF increasing, though I kinda doubt it'd be 15% for 20 years straight. Buying points isn't going to help, and I don't think anyone on TUG likes CV points system.

You might be able to give your deed away if there's no loan on it - see the TUG free timeshares forum. You probably will have to cover the transfer cost too.

In the long run, each year you have to look at the current MF and if it's worth it for you. If not, start listing for free places to give it away (assuming it's paid off). Plan to list for up to a year though. If after a reasonable time trying to give away, you then have to decide if you want to risk a minor credit hit by just walking away and defaulting. Most of the records we have had shared with us on TUG show that for paid off TS - defaulting on just the MF ranges from minor to no credit hit and is the only guaranteed way out.
 
Top