delilah
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AND a guest who might then want to buy into DVC.
"Breakage" is the term used. They don't mean a broken glass; they could mean a broken door or a room so full of mildew that they have to close it to being used and clean it completely.
How do you know why they took it?
Exactly.
Agreed.
They ONLY place they ask when making a reservation is in the part where you're listing people. Check if they are owners or not. Well, you know what? I'm an associate. I'm not the owner. But I MAKE the reservations, and you can bet your bippy that I put that I'm an owner. And I indicate that for my son, too.
Exactly.
As for who causes damage, damage is noticed as it is noticed. Sometimes it's not noticed, or the person that notices it doesn't have time or feel like they have time to report it.
I had a Kidani one bedroom in, hmm, well a couple years ago, and it had the hot water issue in the washer. It had been *years* since that was first noticed! And they were fixing it *as it was reported*.
Problem was, they fixed it WRONG the first time through. They thought it was mixed up hoses. But as I found out when I reported it (because I was ALL of my clothing in cold and hang it to dry, so it's important to me), it was a computer chip problem. All the switching of hoses they did was useless. So, again, as people noticed it and reported it, they sent someone up to replace the chip.
It had, again, been years since this first was noticed. And I still had to report it. Why? Maybe no one had tried to do a cold wash. Maybe they had but they never felt the water. Maybe they had felt it but didn't care. Maybe they didn't have time. Maybe they didn't care. Maybe no one had used the washer in all those years? Who knows?
But...doesn't much matter that I own at DVC (er, my husband does). I put the same care into my RENTED condo. When the dryer started to die, I reported it. We now have a cruddy dryer that the landlady swears will be replaced. I care about my living space.
Others don't. People are people. Surely we've all seen OWNED houses go to pieces because their owners just don't care?
I think we possibly stayed in the same 1BR in Kidani with the washer with the hot water problem. I did report the problem at the time. Like you, I wash the clothes on vacation in cold water to avoid damage, and I opened the washer, and the water was hotter than I expected. Also, in that particular room, the safe didn't close securely--if it was locked and you gave it a tug to test it, it would open right up. I probably took a more passive-aggressive approach to the problems, since I didn't want to draw attention to the fact that the safe didn't lock securely, and didn't want to spend all day in the room waiting for someone to repair the washer. So, I used the community laundry room. Like the person who installed the locks on our doors at home explained, a lock will only keep prevent crimes of opportunity. A person might look and see that the safe was locked, and not try the door. If it was setting open, with things inside, they might take them. But, I did report the problems once I left, in writing, from home.
