Letter to the Editor, Assessment, Manhattan Club "furious"

Once more TimeSharing Today carries helpful information for unit week owners.

In their Sept/Oct 2009 issue is the following letter to the editor.

I will also include a clipping from an article on page 38 about problems at the Manhattan Club. Tell me if something is familiar!

You can leave a comment for me here on this blog, it's easy, and it is seen by me only. I can then connect you, if you are a Sandcastle unit week owner, to a group of concerned owners who are working on issues on behalf of all owners at the resort.

Here's the letter to the editor:

Provincetown problems.

I am an owner at Sandcastles in
Provincetown MA, where Festiva is trying
to get folks to exchange their deeded
units and buy points. The new manager is
a trustee and an owner with three of his
business associates. Maintenance fees are
increasing 26% and there is a special assessment
of $700 -1500 per week without
any clear intent of what is to be done with
this assessment. Also, there is no reserve
fund from the monies we have been paying
yearly. We are contacting the Attorney
General in MA, but management says we
cannot get a list of owners. Some owners
are canvassing during their weeks.
How do I get this information into
TimeSharing Today with a link to http://
sandcastleowners.blogspot.com/
Thanks for any help you can give.
Also do you have a list of timeshare
attorneys?

E.W.

Editor’s reply: You’ve gotten the
information into TimeSharing Today and
we have included your email address so
that attorneys interested in this matter can
contact you.
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For the time being I have edited out the email address of the author in case he does not want to be contacted from here.

The assessment at Sandcastle has come out since the writing of this and is $883.94 per unit week, no matter how big the room, or where it is located, and we expect that not all owners are being billed. More on this later.

Now for the clipping from the article in the magazine by manhattanclubowners@yahoogroups.com

from: Manhattan Club Owners “furious”

"....The high maintenance
fees and the economy have made a sale
of their timeshare impossible. The only
way out is foreclosure. Of course, if they
are foreclosed on management will get
the timeshare back for free.

Management has refused to give a
list of current Manhattan Club timeshare
owners. The timeshare owners are trying
to get organized and urge all owners to
join other timeshare owners at their site:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/manhattanclubowners/

If the owners get united, they can
make the Manhattan Club shine again.

Under the current structure the
owners have little say about how the
timeshare is run. The seven member
board consists of the owner and three of
has appointees. The other three are timeshare
owners. Obviously the owner has
total control of the board of directors."

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The road may be long, take a deep breath and place one foot after the other.

We'll get there.