I feel your pain. As to your last question it is getting close for us. Due to jobs, ages of our family, desire to try new locations to vacation, issues with maintenance and housekeeping at DVC resorts, we are not going as much as we used to. Our dues are fast approaching being more expensive than a stay at Disney would be for us.
I would say we would sell off some of our contracts, but seems that now is not a good time for that either. For the first time in 10 years, I had to bank points, and if I don't use them by use year will lose them.
Heaven forbid, I might be forced to, you know, that word I can't say, rent
Huh, what is wrong with renting points if you ownership is just not right for you?
...Anyway, it doesn't cost me anything to dial the 407 number so I will continue to do so.
That is part of maintenance and thye reserves and should be built in to the reserves for refurbishment going forward. In short, we've been paying for it already for years and should have already paid for most of any refurbishment that is currently needed. When a resort underestimates these needs, mismanages, makes poor choices or purposefully short changes maint on the short run; that's when special assessments come into play. I'm writing this message pool side from a resort that has an ongoing special assessment spread over this year and next. It's to the turn of $1000 for each studio and each 1 BR and roughly double that for a 2 BR. Interesting I owned fixed weeks here that I converted to Bluegreen a little over 2 years ago. Had I still owned the fixed weeks, the SA and regular Maint fees for the weeks I owned would have been right at $10K total for this year.
That's not really true. While the management is a fixed percentage, it's fixed at a portion of the dues, which is potentially controlable. 12% of a smaller number is still less. Plus I doubt that the phone charges go to management but are likely more directly passed on to members and appropriately so, regardless, it's still possible to have SOME control even over that number.
Nothing assuming one follows the other rules. Frankly, it doesn't matter why you rent otherwise else it becomes a judgement of where you draw the line between good and bad renting where everyone will have a different opinion. I could care less if someone reserve 10 weeks for xmas only to rent them out.
A point I've made many times. Anyone would be a fool to buy points simply to rent them out. Too much risk, too little return. However, sometimes there are other circumstances where one might have more points than they need. Maybe you want home resort priority at multiple resorts and you decide to buy multiple home resorts. You don't need all the points so you rent them out. Maybe your situation has changed, either financially or personally and you don't need all the points. Or maybe you're planning for the future where you believe you'll need more points but you don't currently need them.
.All of those things are going to go up in cost every year. Not much that can be done about it. The good news is that wages (yours and mine) also increase so hopefully the dues will remain about the same portion of our budgets. A job that pays $60,000 today (and probably paid $25K a couple decades ago) will pay $150,000 by 2030. At least we all hope so.
Gotta get the wife to work harder.
Honestly the only portion of our dues I can think of that is really in our control would be maintenance. If members collectively beat the crap out of furniture, appliances, fixtures, put gouges in the walls, crack the bathroom tile, etc.--those are all things that cost money to repair. But I'm not sure that one member can make a difference in that area.
Amen. We can try.
I disagree with those who seem to think the situation is hopeless. Simply being vigilant and maintaining pressure on Disney can make a difference.This might sound silly but is there anything for us (members) to do to keep them from increasing faster? Maybe even stay stagnant every once in a while?
Exactly. You've got to buy more points and get all your family members to buy the max points as well.So if DVC let me stay in my unit all year, your member fees would go down!
