I have a Wyndham Mauna Loa property that has raised the maintenance fees by 50% for the coming year...is this legal? I've never seen more than perhaps 10% at a time. Any ideas? Can something be done?
thanks.
Slames
Wyndham must be on a roll. My Patriot's Place, Williamsburg went up 25%. It's now $772 for a 2 bdr white week. Ridiculous!! Anyone want it?
I have a Wyndham Mauna Loa property that has raised the maintenance fees by 50% for the coming year...is this legal? I've never seen more than perhaps 10% at a time. Any ideas? Can something be done?
thanks.
Slames
Just received my 09 Kingsgate for our fixed week 3BR lockoff. MF's went up $112 from $655 to $767. If this was in points, it would be worth 203k in FSP.
Question for Timeshare Von, Since you own a 3BD lockout at Kingsgate...I am currently looking at a 3BD lockout week at Kingsgate (Summer Week). You say it trades fairly well? Is that through RCI or the Wyndham Points? If it's with Wyndham Points, did you convert it yourself or purchased that way? If you converted, how much did it cost to convert? Thanks in advance for your help.
Wow. How do they assign the maintenance fees on the fixed weeks? We did not see an increase like that on our FSP UDI fee for 2009 based at Kingsgate.
My 3BR l/o at Kingsgate is week 18 (first week of May). It is still a fixed week and we use it and trade it as two separate weeks . . . the 1BR and the 2BR sides. When trading, it is part of RCI and as a fixed week trades in weeks not RCI points.
We are not interested in converting this week of ownership into FSP points and have fought them at every turn of the way
If we were to convert, the 3BR lockoff unit is worth 203k points and would cost us $2,395 if done alone and $199 if done with the purchase of another FSP points contract. Neither of these are likely to happen in our lifetime.
Hope this helps - - feel free to write me personally if you have other questions and would like to take them off list.
Von
p.s. I forgot to answer the question about how these two weeks trade. Yes, they trade very well and they are able to obtain the identically same trades using either the 1BR or the 2BR unit. One nice thing is that they do obtain the "internal exchange" preference with other Wyndham resorts which is nice too.
Not to mention, my MF's on those 203k points would be $892 vs the fixed week rate of $764, so why would I want to pay that extra money just for the opportunity to use the ownership in points rather than two fixed weeks?