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I'm sticking this here rather than on the Mexican Board, because it is more about folks not being familiar with what they own than it is about Mexican timeshares, although the latter is also true.
Let me first say that I am not an ex-spurt on Mexican timeshares.
As I've mentioned elsewhere, Jenny and I have been looking after an 86-year-old neighbor who lives on his own and who has no close relatives. Earlier this year he asked me to look into his timeshare, because he knows I practically live on the Internet talking and learning about them.
Although our neighbor sold timeshares here in Branson, his knowledge is restricted to that very narrow tunnel associated with developer sales. He does not know what he owns.
It was not easy trying to determine that with folks at his resort, people who did not share a common language with me and who did not care to be bothered about it. But I was able to determine that he owns two floating RTUs expiring in 2016. I set him up online with RCI and we could see that he had four weeks Spacebanked and by the occupation numbers we could determine what size units he owns (his units are called Senior Clubs, which does not tell you anything about them).
We determined that his annual fees are somewhere around $600 per week and that he had paid for 2006, late like in 2005, with a penalty, but he had paid. Now that I think about it, he called me in January, 2006, and I had to figure out how to get his fees paid.
We determined what weeks he could ask for, all but Easter, Holy Week, Christmas, and New Years.
But, until this morning, that all was relatively good news.
He has taken a turn for the worse and his ex life-partner has come back to try to put all the loose ends together.
This morning I logged onto his account on RCI, to prepare a report for her. The new RCI.com has information I did not have available the last time I did this. Now I can see that the resort is a mandatory all-inclusive. Of course, neither of them will understand what that means, but it means that in addition to the annual fee, anyone actually using the weeks would also have to pay a daily fee to stay there.
In off-season it is $51 per person per day and in peak-season it is $82 per person per day. At maximum occupancy (6) that means that, including the annual fee, it would cost a minimum of $1300 and a maximum of $4200, per week, to use their weeks.
And I am to be the messenger of that good news!
Let me first say that I am not an ex-spurt on Mexican timeshares.
As I've mentioned elsewhere, Jenny and I have been looking after an 86-year-old neighbor who lives on his own and who has no close relatives. Earlier this year he asked me to look into his timeshare, because he knows I practically live on the Internet talking and learning about them.
Although our neighbor sold timeshares here in Branson, his knowledge is restricted to that very narrow tunnel associated with developer sales. He does not know what he owns.
It was not easy trying to determine that with folks at his resort, people who did not share a common language with me and who did not care to be bothered about it. But I was able to determine that he owns two floating RTUs expiring in 2016. I set him up online with RCI and we could see that he had four weeks Spacebanked and by the occupation numbers we could determine what size units he owns (his units are called Senior Clubs, which does not tell you anything about them).
We determined that his annual fees are somewhere around $600 per week and that he had paid for 2006, late like in 2005, with a penalty, but he had paid. Now that I think about it, he called me in January, 2006, and I had to figure out how to get his fees paid.
We determined what weeks he could ask for, all but Easter, Holy Week, Christmas, and New Years.
But, until this morning, that all was relatively good news.
He has taken a turn for the worse and his ex life-partner has come back to try to put all the loose ends together.
This morning I logged onto his account on RCI, to prepare a report for her. The new RCI.com has information I did not have available the last time I did this. Now I can see that the resort is a mandatory all-inclusive. Of course, neither of them will understand what that means, but it means that in addition to the annual fee, anyone actually using the weeks would also have to pay a daily fee to stay there.
In off-season it is $51 per person per day and in peak-season it is $82 per person per day. At maximum occupancy (6) that means that, including the annual fee, it would cost a minimum of $1300 and a maximum of $4200, per week, to use their weeks.
And I am to be the messenger of that good news!
My blue week ought to get us a decent two bedroom in January. I really want to try this one out. 
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