New Fee at Lehigh Resort Club

[silentg]

I no longer exchange, but with all due respect, RCI (and / or II and any other exchange company) has not one word of input or influence regarding resort-imposed additional fees. It's a facility / management company decision; they don't particularly care what RCI thinks.

Maintenance fees should cover all costs for owners. Personally, I don't have any problem with an "amenities fee" being charged to renters and exchangers. YMMV.

We pay membership fees and exchange fees and guest certificate fees to RCI also fees to combine TPU, the resorts should just take credit card imprint as most do. No more fees unless there is something you choose to do ie golf, tennis, boating etc. The resorts are probably doing this to exchangers because owners are delinquent on maintence fees.
Silentg

 

[theo]

We pay membership fees and exchange fees and guest certificate fees to RCI also fees to combine TPU, the resorts should just take credit card imprint as most do. No more fees unless there is something you choose to do ie golf, tennis, boating etc. The resorts are probably doing this to exchangers because owners are delinquent on maintence fees.
Silentg

Respectfully, all those exchange company membership costs and fees are a voluntary, personal choice and certainly not the concern of any resort or its' owners.

For the record, a resort decision to charge additional "amenities" fees may well have absolutely nothing to do with owner accounts there. To the best of my knowledge and belief, it's usually the management company (not the HOA) which decides to impose such add-on fees in the first place anyhow. In any event, $25 surcharges imposed upon renters and exchangers certainly wouldn't even begin to touch delinquent owner account shortfalls in any meaningful numerical way at any resort.

I sit on a timeshare HOA/BoD and, to be clear, that particular resort does not impose any additional fees upon anyone --- owners, exchangers or renters. That being said, I frankly would not oppose (and in fact, would surely support) the idea if it ever surfaced for consideration and to be imposed only upon exchangers and renters.

As clearly stated previously, YMMV. Everyone is entitled to harbor and to express widely differing viewpoints from very different perspectives.

P.S. At one place where we owned a week (no longer) they started imposing such fees upon renters and exchangers --- but not upon owners using their owned week(s).
It may have been the same $25 figure currently under discussion here, but I can't recall precisely. That money reportedly went directly toward (long overdue) upgrading of WiFi infrastructure (e.g., routers) and improving bandwidth and connectivity --- benefits subsidized in part by non-owners and then available to (and utilized by) everyone --- without requiring any "boost" in owner maintenance fees for that particular improvement. That logic and that adopted practice both certainly work for me.

 

[silentg]

Respectfully, all those exchange company membership costs and fees are a voluntary, personal choice and certainly not the concern of any resort or its' owners.

For the record, a resort decision to charge additional "amenities" fees may well have absolutely nothing to do with owner accounts there. To the best of my knowledge and belief, it's usually the management company (not the HOA) which decides to impose such add-on fees in the first place anyhow. In any event, $25 surcharges imposed upon renters and exchangers certainly wouldn't even begin to touch delinquent owner account shortfalls in any meaningful numerical way at any resort.

I sit on a timeshare HOA/BoD and, to be clear, that particular resort does not impose any additional fees upon anyone --- owners, exchangers or renters. That being said, I frankly would not oppose (and in fact, would surely support) the idea if it ever surfaced for consideration and to be imposed only upon exchangers and renters.

As clearly stated previously, YMMV. Everyone is entitled to harbor and to express widely differing viewpoints from very different perspectives.

P.S. At one place where we owned a week (no longer) they started imposing such fees upon renters and exchangers --- but not upon owners using their owned week(s).
It may have been the same $25 figure currently under discussion here, but I can't recall precisely. That money reportedly went directly toward (long overdue) upgrading of WiFi infrastructure (e.g., routers) and improving bandwidth and connectivity --- benefits subsidized in part by non-owners and then available to (and utilized by) everyone --- without requiring any "boost" in owner maintenance fees for that particular improvement. That logic and that adopted practice both certainly work for me.

As an exchanger, I take exception to having to pay extra fees. I pay my Maintenence fees for my resorts, most have to be paid before I can exchange. It's not like I am not paying my fees. A renter is different. They don't have fees because they don't own anything. Just have to pay the rent. TIMO
Silentg