Holiday Island Commissioners Discuss Charging Amenity Fees to Table Rock Landing

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Carroll County News: Local News: HI board of commissioners discuss amenity fee increases (08/26/11)

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I am very familiar with Holiday Island/Table Rock Landing, and the amenities arrangement, which has always been very advantageous for the timeshare owners. In fact, we had some folks from there at my golf course this morning.

I considered owning there for year-round amenities rights/golf, before I played the course and decided to do the same thing at another development/timeshare/golf course.

The blanket statement of allowing amenities only during the owned week is in direct contrast to the way it has always been, timeshare owners being allowed year-round amenities the same as property owners, including "junk lot" property owners who own lots that cannot be built upon in order to "get golf". There has always been a trail fee/cart fee so it is not that golf has been "free" for those in good standing.

The listing of various cards and fees in the article does little other than to confuse the issue(s).

Wading through it, though, it appears that the intention is to replace the trail fee, with a higher activity fee. The apparent price for that is not out-of-line. At the better championship courses in the nearby Branson area, annual memberships are in the $2500 range. They are talking about $850/year in this article, and it appears they have lost members in recent years even at lower prices.

It says the timeshare owners pay ten times as much POA fee as property owners. We where own we pay 1/12 as much as a property owner, but it winds up that each timeshare unit pays 5 times as much as each other type of property owner.

What I'm trying to say is that it would take a little sorting out to figure out what is really going on. These figures get confusing really quick.

Almost everyone/thing is in a financial bind right now, and looking for ways to resolve that, and sometimes it means having others carrying more of the burden than they have in the past. If you read the article, that's what this is all about, less revenue in recent years, depleted reserves, and trying to up with more $$$ somewhere.

It also mention that taking their course private hurt them, and ours found that out, too, and is now semi-private again, and doing better. I know the pro quoted in the article.

Let me know if this is anything you need to know more about.

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Looks like a vote was pushed through on this by the commissioners.. Final results are contained in the article.

Carroll County News: Local News: HISID revises time share amenity use policy (09/02/11)

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Looks like a vote was pushed through on this by the commissioners.. Final results are contained in the article.

Carroll County News: Local News: HISID revises time share amenity use policy (09/02/11)

Since no one seems to care, I did not read it.

But thanks.

If someone needs to know more, I'll read it and sort it out.



I will add that in these developments where there are multiple interests . . . a developer, a POA, condos and COA, Timeshare and HOA, businesses and residents . . . there almost always seems to be little conflicts.