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I’ll bet I had the highest MVCI maintenance fees for 2019..any takers?

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I added up what I paid on Friday to MVCI and it’s astounding.

I own 1500 DC points and 10 weeks...

My maintenance fees were $17,186.33
 

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holy moly
 

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Wow! Just Wow!
 

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I added up what I paid on Friday to MVCI and it’s astounding.

I own 1500 DC points and 10 weeks...

My maintenance fees were $17,186.33

You have me beat! I own 4 weeks and 4,750 DC points. I paid $9,000 total for ‘18 and haven’t added up my ‘19 yet but estimate it will be about $9,500.

I don’t rent anything out but use all our weeks and points. Although paying these fees during this 2 month period hurts a little it feels great when I’m booking my trips and not paying for lodging (and /or tour or cruise fees) with my credit card.

Happy Holidays to all!



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Wow. Relatively speaking for timeshares that's a lot.

However if you owned a nice vacation home you would pay about that much per year plus the headaches of repair
 

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A much better question is what multiple of value do you derive from your annual maintenance fees? We get typically 5x value for our $9000 annual maintenance fees... We can deal with that...
 

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I am over $20K for just the Marriotts, and then I have all the other stuff...I am at $30K for all of them (but I rent what I don’t use and I actually come out ahead).

Timeshares rock.....

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My maintenance fees for all our timeshares is somewhere between $16,000 and $17,000 per year. Marriott and Vistana are the biggest bulk of this. It is more than I thought. I guess I need to quit buying timeshares until I unload some things. At some point, I may need to rent some out too. I am happy with what we own because we get a lot of value. I used to spend about double this amount on vacations to stay in hotel rooms.We still do spend some out of pocket money on non-timeshare vacations too.
 

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Not a Marriott owner but own many timeshares and the mfs add up. I have owned vacation homes in the past and still own a studio coop in Brooklyn where my mom still lives.

Paying the timeshare mfs are much cheaper then owning and maintaining an additional vacation home where I would want to. With timeshares I am paying for what I use, its not sitting empty most of the time, I do not have to worry about what’s happening when I am not there such as theft or hurricances, the management company takes care of it all.

If you can afford it and use them and enjoy them and don’t want the headaches of a second home, the accumulative mfs are not too high
 

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Ours are now over $10k, which I never would have imagined. However, we love everything in our portfolio and like others get way more value from using them. I think I am now a full time vacation planner and doer! Love it!

Best regards.

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Happy paying $15,029 in 2019 for 11 weeks, 1 EOY, 3000 Asia Pacific Points and 1,000 Trust Points. Well worth it vs. owning a vacation home!
 

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I added up what I paid on Friday to MVCI and it’s astounding.

I own 1500 DC points and 10 weeks...

My maintenance fees were $17,186.33
I didn’t include my Disney Vacation Club maintenance fees ($5200, but I always rent them out for 3X myfees) or my incredibly reasonable Grandview ($845)
I also rent out my Marriott weeks but my DVC points are so much easier to rent that there’s no comparison.
 

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Just let me add, we lose the fact that desirable vacation areas can be very expensive to rent hotel rooms. I have friends and family who have paid off season over $3000 for one week in a hotel room. If they go prime time to the same location it is more then double. Room rate, taxes, resort fees add up. And they think I’m nuts owning timeshares.:ponder: I can vacation many weeks in a timeshare for what one week of hotel rooms will cost.

Just as an example Marco Island, FL. Check out the rates. It makes timesharing mfs seem cheap.
 

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We pay 3,000 for 5 timeshares total.
 

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No pain this month when I use our Hilton and Marriott cards to pay for our HGVC and MVC maintenance fees. I just use the discover card for our DVC dues for the 1.5% back.

The pain comes in January when I have to write checks to pay those charges :) ! When I use my weeks and points, it is nice not having a bill at the end. Except in Hawaii where you have to pay the TAT. Have to admit, timeshares have allowed me to stay at places I would have never dreamed of staying at.

We are now starting to rent our DVC points as my son has grown tired of Aulani and Disney in general. He did like the 14 nights in the Polynesian bungalows and Copper Creek cabins this past July. Also starting to cruise a lot more so we have excess weeks and points now. Will have to rent our Hawaii HGVC weeks now as there are not enough weeks in the year to use all our timeshares.

I will pay MVC over $30k for my Marriott weeks. Then add in the DVC and HGVC mf.

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I am not going to do that math. I really don't want to know. It's not nearly as much as you guys, we can easily afford it, and I know that on a per night basis it's a deal, but I still don't want to admit the amount to my husband, lol.
 
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What is the average weekly cost and what is average nightly cost per vacation for 2018.

When we started over twenty-five (25) years ago. The average daily nightly cost was between $39.00 to $49.00.

Maintenance Fees, were under $400.00 per year.

There were no point clubs. Every timeshare vacation was a fixed week ownership.
You could only exchange thru RCI and II.
 
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