We are very frustrated with this "Special Assessment".
This is totally out of line. They have not fulfilled the promises of the past few years. We have been club members since 1997 and have not seen any changes since we bought. We have had a lot of promises, but nothing but new bedspreads and curtains and a flat screen TV, in 12 years. Our maintenence has goone up and we are now paying $1681.
Our 'Special Assessment was also $1681...to be paid by the 15th of July.
They may be hurting from a bad economy, and the fact that absolutely no one was there during the "flu" scare, but to my knowledge the CLUB faired quite well during that time. They were functioning at around 50% and the last week in May at 70%.
We were there from May 16th thru May 30th and I had talks with many there, even the General Manager, and there was never a mention of a special assessment. I know for a fact that they are proposing to put in a new tennis court and fitness center above all the units for Club members only and also that the old El Set will be a Grill.
They have broken off with the Westin (or vise versa) and eventually would like to buy the hotel and have everything be Raintree. Maybe that is why they want to acess us to make their purchasing power a bit stronger.
they have plans to put bathrooms down by the pool bar and refurbish the pool and put in a "catch all " for the pool above.
Nonetheless, I feel that the monies we pay for the maintenence is to cover all of this. I am not in favor of paying for any additional properties, and feel there is mismanagement of our monies and ask for an accounting of all monies.
I also know that they are sold out at Los Cabos and the new buyers home resort is being diverted to other properties, right now it is Puerto Vallarta. You will know that your home resort is Los Cabos by the 5 in front of your membership number.
I FEEL A CLASS ACTION SUIT OR SOMETHING IS IN ORDER.
I have a list of other members names and I'm sur all of you have people that you have met there and are in contact with, we can all put our resources together and get the word out and follow through with this.
Bob and Moe you seem to have some other address that we can all use and we should ALL make these contacts and let them know wer are "FED UP AND NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE"
We need to stick together and fight this.
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Raintree has mismanaged their funds and is now attempting to "extort" money from their members under the mask of a "special assessment" They are going to have a fight on their hands and will not get any "extra" money from me!

I rec'd a bill for $820.00 and they call it a 2009 speical assessment fee. I can not afford this ridiculos fee. I will refuse to pay it. This country is suffering a recession & they come out with this bull. Who has this kind of money at this time?

My wife and I purchased a vacation club membership with RCI/Raintree and have never been able to use it. We've called about 10 times to plan a vacation and every single time, I get the same response "We're sold out and have no space available". These were all different dates and locations. We got scammed out of a large sum of money. I am looking to file a class action lawsuit as many others have had the same experience. I just need to get a large enough group to fight these thieves!

Whatever you do, DO NOT BUY anything from RCI or Raintree or their affiliates.