Who would take it for no cost with a nearly $5000 Maintenance Fee?
Yes...its for 3-bedroom phase 2 lock-off.
One way or another it will have to take it back, just need to get all my options.
It looks like you are including the Club Dues in the 2024 total where you didn't in 2023. So it isn't up as much, only $734.38. Still bad and up 18%.
Your options are to try and give it away. List it now, it might take a while. Or default and then they can foreclose on the unpaid maintenance fees. Sadly, since MVW doesn't take these weeks back, unpaid fees just get added to everyone else's fees.
Club dues was not add last year. I am not even sure why that is included.
That would be unfortunate. Why would they want to incur extra costs? And I certainly don't want to be part of the problem for everyone else.
I think it is because HRA wasn't part of Abound when billed last year. Do you own other Vistana VOIs?
At $5000, I no longer see a value. Three bedroom rentals are nearly the same price on Redweek without the exposure and commitment to go every year.
We own three weeks at St John too.
Our unit is a float week. We usually rent the unit every other year, including 2024. We are not losing money, but at the rate these increases are coming, next year we will be looking at another 15% increase?
If you own St John also, then make sure to reach out to the customer service department and request that they remove the Club Dues bill of $280 from your Harborside account, unless you weren't billed that $280 already or with your St John MFs. You do not need to pay duplicate Abound dues, unless the ownership is titled differently.
I am curious with multiple mandatory VOIs, how does MVC/Vistana determine which one to attach the Club Dues to?
I don't know the metric. For the 2023 dues, as far as I saw, there was a stand alone dues bill that wasn't attached to any of the VOIs on the VSN side. Like how MVC does it for those who only own enrolled weeks. I have noticed that anyone who owns Harborside, that they each seemed to be billed dues within the MF bill for Harborside. IDK if that was done because Harborside is new to Abound for 2024, or if it was some glitch. But from various posts I've read, it seems each Harborside owner got the dues bill even when they own other VSN VOIs or MVC properties.
Our 2023 Club Dues was attached to our mandatory Sheraton Vistana Villages VOI. Voluntary only VOI owners had separate Club Dues billing. I don't know what specific phases at WSJ the OP owns, but if they are all voluntary, then they would have been billed the 2023 Club Dues separately and now this year with HRA being in Abound and mandatory, their Club Dues got attached to that VOI maintenance fee. If the OP owns a mandatory VOI at WSJ, then the question would be, why was the Club Dues moved over from one of those WSJ VOIs to the HRA VOI.
For ours, the Club Dues are attached to the mandatory VOI that was first transferred into my name and the account established with Vistana. I think it works that way as I’m the primary owner on all. When it was VSN fees, that same VOI had the primary VSN fee attached to it and the second mandatory VOI transferred to me and added to the account got the additional VSN fees for multiple VOI ownership.