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December Newsletters 2007
By
Weekly Newsletter for Weeks
47, 48, 49,50, 51 and 52
PelicanNews - Weeks 47 & 48 - Date sent Dec 7, 2007
My web site for rentals and sales is at www.pelicannews.net
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VERY IMPORTANT - Please contact ISCO at 800-550-7088 if you
did not receive the mailing with the AGM booklet and you
annual maintenance fee bill.
**** IMPORTANT*** Be sure to put pelicansxm@yahoogroups.com
into your safe list to receive the newsletter.
Visited the Resort web site - Pelicanresort.com
In the owners section:
1st 2nd and 3rd Quarter minutes 2007
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The results of 2007 the Election are as follows:
Election
Votes FIP votes
Total
Gene Albrecht 1,380
3,547 4,927
Tom Hoshall 1,011
3,547 4,558
Allan Timko 273
273
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From: "Peter Rostberg"
Subject: Water issues
Date sent: Sun, 2 Dec 2007
Hi Judy,
Me and my wife Arlene are owners at the Pelican, we've communicated
with you before. We are booked for a visit over the Xmas and New Year
holidays. I read an article in the St. Maarten Herald online about big
problems with the water supply on the Dutch side. It said that several
customers were without water for up to 4 days. The Pelican resort was
mentioned but it did not seem clear if the problems there were that
lengthy.
We are wondering if you know more about this, since you are always
very well updated about what's going on at the resort.
Thanks, Sincerely, Peter Rostberg
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Date sent: Sat, 1 Dec 2007
From: arlene sherman
Subject: pelican water situation
Hi Judy, I have been hearing that for the past 4 days Pelican
(as well as other areas on the Dutch side) have had no water.
Finally limited quantities were pumped in from the French side
but people were still flushing toilets using a bucket full at a
time. I am wondering if you have more specific or definative
information about this situation. We are planning a 3 week
stay in about 2 weeks and cannot imagine using the units without
water. As well , this lack of water has created a Dengue Flu Virus
outbreak due to people leaving open containers outside to be filled
with rain water. I am thinking you are in contact with people who
have recently been to Pelican or know people presently living
there and they may shed some light on the situation.
Thank you for your help. Arlene Sherman
Judy's Comment: Yes there have been water shortages on the island.
However, Pelican has it's own water decalination plant so we have been
giving some of our water to those who do not have any.
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From: Gene Albrecht
Date sent: Wed, 28 Nov 2007
Hi Judy,
I realize it may be too late to get this into the newsletter before the annual
meeting but please put it into the next available mailing.
After reading the last couple of newsletters, I have to say I am amazed that you
would publish Jeff Berger’s appeal for proxies. In my opinion, Mr. Berger has
done,
and continues to do, more damage to the resort than any other single individual
outside of the original developer, Mr. Vleitman. His constant negative attacks
both
in this newsletter and on his own St. Martin website have served to perpetuate
the
wide spread belief that the Pelican Resort is a troubled resort and should be
avoided. This harms every Pelican timeshare owner and is reflected in your
bottom-line if you wish to sell or rent your unit. It also convinces owners that
things are not improving and they might as well let their units go into
foreclosure, which harms the resort in a multitude of ways. Mr. Berger’s refusal
to
even acknowledge that the Board may have had valid and pressing financial
reasons
for making its decisions concerning Royal’s votes and the Marina Residences (the
most significant of which would be to keep the resort from going bankrupt)
amounts
in my opinion to dishonesty on his part.
Your most recent newsletter is the first time that I can even remember when Mr.
Berger has admitted the Owners Association inherited facilities with substandard
construction and problematic maintenance costs. What he fails to point out is
that
the Owner’s Association had to pay for the privilege and purchase the resort
from
the bankruptcy court with money that it did not have. It is ironic to me that
Mr.
Berger is so fixated on Royal’s voting rights but fails to acknowledge that the
Pelican is different from almost all other timeshare resorts in that the owners
actually havevoting rights. This was not the case for the original Pelican
owners
(of which, if I am not mistaken, Mr. Berger was one) and is not the case at
other
timeshare resorts.
It is also ironic to me that Mr. Berger is so concerned about the view for the
owners in the C & D buildings. It does not appear that he is concerned for the
ten
to twelve thousand other owners who will lose their views and their units if the
Pelican is not able to resolve its financial problems; problems for which the
resort has had very limited options and Mr. Berger has offered no viable
solutions.
It is particularly significant to me that Mr. Berger misses no opportunity to
slam
a struggling membership organization run by volunteers, but a developer such as
the
one for the Westin, which virtually destroyed one of the most beautiful beaches
in
St. Martin, gets bad press for a short time and then ads turn up on Mr. Berger’s
website for their $99/night specials.
Mr. Berger enjoys playing Monday morning quarterback, so lets’ do it with him:
1. Mr. Berger was not there for us when the original developer, Vleitman, was
promising everyone a five star resort while stealing our maintenance fees and
delivering a shoddy product.
2. Mr. Berger was not there for us when the next crook, Mr. Gronsky,
attempted to purchase the resort by special assessing the Pelican timeshare
owners.
3. Mr. Berger was not there for us in bankruptcy court when a few of the
owners formed the Pelican Timeshare Association and purchased the resort for the
other timeshare owners.
4. Mr. Berger was not there for us after the Owners Association took over
operations at the Resort when they had no cash, massive foreclosed timeshare
inventory, 9 million dollars of debt, a computer system that could not even
identify the timeshare owners, and no resort experience or expertise.
5. Now that the timeshare owners actually own the resort and the Board has to
make some very painful and possibly unpopular decisions to try and get the
Resort
back on its feet however, Mr. Berger is right there to question and second-guess
every decision. No solutions, just relentless negative press without any attempt
to
provide a full disclosure of the complete circumstances.
Personally, I am tired of people claiming to represent me when they do not seem
to
have a clue. I do not know Joe Costa and he might actually be a great guy, but a
Jeff Berger recommendation and a platform of trying to counter the votes of
Royal
Resorts would not appear to be a platform worthy of an owner’s proxy. Joe, if
you
want to represent the timeshare owners, and I believe I am typical, here is what
I
want:
1. A safe, clean, well-run and well-maintained resort where I can spend my
vacation.
2. The lowest possible maintenance fees.
3. No special assessments
4. Units that are rehabilitated and repaired when needed and
5. Frankly, I really don’t care who controls the resort as long as my
vacation isn’t impacted and you abide by items 1-4. If your agenda is different
please do not bother.
Respectfully submitted, Gene Albrecht
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From: Charles Ticho
Date sent: Mon, 19 Nov 2007
Subject: A question
Judy -- could you please post the following letter on your news blog:
Does anyone know whether there is a squash court on St. Martin island?
Please write to chticho@aol.com Thank you. Charles Ticho
Subject: Pelican newsletter
Date sent: Thu, 22 Nov 2007
From: bsewjean@aol.com
My name is Jean Mahaffey. My parents have owned at Pelican since it opened. My
dad Dick Mahaffey recently passed away. Is it possible to put a notice on your
newsletter to notify people as he had so many friends during his many years of
going there. My mom Betty has Alzheimer's and I'm sure many will remember him. I
would like to also let people know that his units are for sale as we can't keep
them. (see below)
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From: Dolores Kramer
Date sent: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 1
Once again, Jeff is complaining about THE ROYALS running Pelican.
My family comes every year to Pelican for three weeks and we are
delighted with it. The rooms are spotless, plenty of towels,
lovely landscaping, clean beach, and very polite and helpful
staff. What's to complain about?? My one question is "If THE
ROYALS leave us, who is going to run this large resort?"
I have a vacation home in south Jersey and it is quite a job to
keep that in shape. Pelican is a gigantic enterprise. I am tired of the
complaining. Dolores Kramer
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Date sent: Sun, 25 Nov 2007
From: Jeff Berger
Subject: Alan Stuparitz
I am in St. Maarten and just received this from a third party. I did
not see it from Alan Stuparitz. My responses are interspersed.
From: "alan stuparitz"
Subject: Please Use The Facts!
Date sent: Fri, 09 Nov 2007
Jeff,
I read with disappointment your latest Pelican Forum piece.
If you are going to use and/or associate my name with your
writings, I would appreciate you sticking to the facts,
not embellishings half-truths or myths, to make your point.
JB===We publish incoming letters verbatim unless they are unduly long
(very rare) or we feel they border on libel, in which case we don't
publish them or edit them slightly (if possible) to make them
reasonable to publish. That policy has never changed and isn't about
to.
1) I did not forward your story to Richard Corso, I sent an
email to Judy Young and copied both you and Richard Corso.
I had questioned how it could be possible for so many owners
to not be mailed an AGM Packet.
JB===I don't know which issue of the newsletter this refers to but if
we inferred from your letter something incorrect, we apologize and
stand corrected.
2) I also offered a solution(make proxy form downloadable)
to correct the problem for those owners affected.
3) Richard Corso and his Staff at RRG took immediate action
to determine the problem and correct it.
JB===They certainly did and we recognized that in our newsletter and in
emails to Richard Corso. The action was fast , efficient, and
positive.
4) During the four weeks of non-receipt, how many times did
YOU call or write to ISCO or TAPRC to find out where your packet
was? Why didn't you offer the same solution I offered? I submit
that it did not fit your agenda to take that course of action.
JB===I publish an independent St. Maarten Timeshare Owners Email
Newsletter involving all resorts, a St. Maarten weekly newsletter,
and I run three companies. Sorry, Alan, but I don't have time to
waste chasing ISCO. I'm grateful to you and to all other Pelican
owners who pushed for action on this. Your/their work obviously
succeeded. That helped us all. Do I have an agenda? Absolutely: I
want timeshare owner consumer protection legislation on SXM. Right
now it doesn't exist and timeshare owners on SXM are not protected as
they are in the US.
5) Your conclusion of only roughly half of the Pelican owners
got their packets, is pure BULL, and makes no sense whatsoever.
You have implied a number of about 5000.
JB===I have no idea how many Pelican timeshare owners read my timeshare
forum; its total readership is now about 6,000, spread among several
resorts. Weeks ago I asked how many Pelican owners had received their
packets. The response was about evenly divided between those who
received it and those who didn't. It was totally unscientific. All
it did was indicate there was a problem, and there was....the problem
to which both you and Richard Corso responded. My timesharing
newsletter of 11/26 (now being mailed) pointed out that some people
still have received nothing. As one writer / timeshare owner says in
that issue, "I also did not get my bill and own 4 weeks. Maybe they
were too busy making the name change to send out the proxies and
bills. Don't you remember the same thing happening a couple of years
ago? Why should I have to call and say 'Send me the bill'?"
Alan - You had mentioned in past weeks that you would be handing out
"kudos" to Resorts who do good things. Maybe the first Kudo should
go to the Pelican for the quick action taken by TAPRC, RRG and ISCO,
to correct an issue that has apparently been blown way out of
proportion! Alan D. Stuparitz Pelican & FIP Owner
JB===The kudos will concern the condition of resorts and they won't
happen until Spring, after folks see the resorts during high season.
It will be interesting to see what marks Pelican timeshare owners
give the resort. I'm already receiving positive reports on Marina
Residences. As for this being "blown out of proportion," Alan, the
fact is apparently nobody knows how many proxies never made it to
timeshare owners. Proxies enable owners to influence the direction of
the resort. Fewer proxies to timeshare owners weaken the ability of
owners to act. I don't think it's even possible to "blow out of
proportion" how significant that is.
Lastly, today I drove up Billy Folly road between Marina Residences
and the C & D buildings. The construction makes it impossible for
people to walk up or down the hill safely...if you plan to walk there
in the next several weeks, you need a better alternative. It's a
tight squeeze near the top of the hill just for two small rental cars.
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From: Stevee and Debbie Sylvestro
Date sent: Fri, 23 Nov 2007
Hello Judy,
Just returned week 45, We had a blast, great weather, great
friends,what more can you ask for. It was nice finally meeting you,
its nice to put a face to a name as they say. The Bars on at the
resort are really coming together for a change, Dan and Kat are
doing a great job, Monte is back and the new kid Junior is great.
Its nice to see the beach bar packed again, it was like a morgue
the last 2 years. Check in was easy with the new on line check in.
Giovanni at the front desk is great. We spent a day at mullet bay
beach, the water and the sand are unbelievable. I heard through
the grapevine that Royal is giving Mark at the spa a hard time
about renewing his lease, if that's true its a crime the guys
been there almost from the beginning enduring hard times, hurricanes,
bankruptcies etc. Why mess with success? looking foreward to
coming back in February, god willing. Stevee and Debbie Sylvestro
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PelicanNews - Weeks 49 & 50 - Date sent Dec 20, 2007
My web site for rentals and sales is at www.pelicannews.net
email judy@navnet.net
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**** IMPORTANT*** Be sure to put pelicansxm@yahoogroups.com
into your safe list to receive the newsletter.
Visited the Resort web site - Pelicanresort.com
In the owners section:
1st 2nd and 3rd Quarter minutes 2007
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Date sent: Fri, 30 Nov 2007
From: Ron Champagne
Subject: online check in
Judy,
I think it is great to check in prior to arriving and it seems (according to
the board notes) not to many people are doing it, but I am sure this will
grow in the future. I have 2 suggestions that might help improve the system.
1. Have a line at check in that is for people that have pre registered.
If people saw preferential treatment, they would want to get on the band wagon.
If the person had no one in line for pre registered they could handle other
check ins.
2. You should have a place for credit card information on the pre-register
form. This still takes time at check in and people that use the internet
use their credit cards for everything else. If they don't want to put
in on the internet, they could do it at check in. The lines (at least
when I have checked in) have been reduced over the past 2 years and
I hope it continues. I remember standing outside in line to check in.
Thanks, Ron
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Owner Looking For Owner
Looking for owners of D13 - 44 or D12 wk 43
Date sent: Sun, 2 Dec 2007
From: "Bracker, Carl" <Carl.Bracker@CBWS.com>
Hi Judy
Please put this message in your web site. We are trying to locate the
owners of either D13 week 44 or D12 week 43. While we were there in
October we talked to the sale force to see what they could do, they
said they would contact the owners and let us know if the had any
interest in trading units .after many trips to the sales office they
didn't have any info, we still haven't heard from them.
For many years we were able to either stay in the units and not
move if the owners weren't coming in, this changed this year even
though the owners didn't come in. Were not sure about this but we
told the transfer has to be booked thru ISCO and a transfer fee paid.
What a bummer. Now you can see why we are trying to contact owner
of these units so we won't have to move. Thanks Carl Bracker
Cell 513-673-5475 E-Mail carl.bracker@cbws.com
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From: Gerrie and John Weglarz
Date sent: Mon, 3 Dec 2007
Subject: So Many Forced Resales?
Hi Judy, this is Gerrie Weglarz. I own in the Alamanda building, but
have been banking for the past 5 years or so. I noticed from the
report that there are over 1200 forced resale units at Pelican.
Isn't that a very high number? It also seems to be going up.
Would love your comments on that issue in your next bulletin
if you have time. Thanks Gerrie and John Weglarz.
Judy's Comment: That many resales is not great, some of it
was caused by the increase in them amf. However it should give
owners who want to pick up an extra week more chance to do so.
There will be a listing of all resales on the
pelicanresort.com web site soon.
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Date sent: Fri, 07 Dec 2007
From: Jeff Berger
Judy, this responds, briefly, to Gene Albrecht's
tirade against me in your December 7 issue.
1. The focus here should be on Pelican, not on
other resorts or on other people.
2. As I've said repeatedly, Royal Resorts has
done a great job at Pelican under extremely
adverse circumstances. All the email (or
virtually all) I'm receiving so far regarding
Pelican for the Spring "Kudos" I plan has been
positive regarding the condition of the resort.
Although Tony Parisi in 1995 or 1996 promised
renovations to all units "in a year," those
renovations continue 10+ years later as I
understand it. I don't hold that against Tony; I
think it was just wishful thinking. In any case,
the resort today is in much better shape than it
has been and for that Pelican timeshare owners
can thank both the Board and Royal. You will see
more about that in future issues of my Timesharing
Email Forum.
3. I received hundreds of complaints from Pelican
C & D owners about views being blocked by Marina
Residences. They feel betrayed. I still am
receiving them. I agree with them that more could
have been done to create a project that did not
body slam the values of units in C and D. Did I
have proposals? No; that's RRG's and the Board's
function, not mine. I did suggest the building be
lower, as did many others.
4. My single major complaint against the Board,
as long-time readers know, is that it "gave"
control of the resort to Royal, which is wrong. I
also disagree with FIP (Royal-controlled Friendly
Island Properties) having thousands of votes in
any election, effectively moving those elections
in favor of Royal. The fact that so few owners
bother to vote, for whatever reason, makes it
almost impossible for owners to fight Royal's
wishes. TAPRC should be in total control, not
RRG. RRG is supposed to be a contractor operating
the resort, not its "owner."
5. Many of Mr. Albrecht's other comments are
totally false. Re: Westin, we have always
(repeatedly) criticized its outward appearance
(looks like a prison) and the fact that its
developer destroyed a mangrove to build it. The
same thing is happening at Barbaron, now being
built at Bel Air, and we've been complaining
about that. We've also complained about Shore
Pointe at Cupecoy screwing up that beach. Our
campaign there resulted in the development being
moved back from the beach. We have never accepted
any advertising from Westin (they never asked us)
and in fact I don't believe they have ever
offered a $99 rate. Our "St. Maarten Weekly News"
publishes accommodations news every week and that
news included their $139 summer rate. We receive
little news from Pelican...mostly regarding "The
Red Piano" and have often published news about
who is appearing there. We welcome more
submissions from all St. Maarten resorts.
6. Lastly, the "adverse circumstances" at Pelican
in the mid-1990s made the resort virtually
decrepit. Members of the Board of the
just-forming TAPRC approached me because of my
marketing communications / PR background. Jim
Paterson asked me to help draft a letter to
timeshare owners to raise the funds necessary to
"buy" the resort ("get the keys" in Jim's words)
from Vleitman, which I did. So I was involved
early-on in helping TAPRC get control, contrary
to Mr. Albrecht's comments.
My comments about Pelican's condition have grown
steadily more positive over the last couple of
years. The negativity regards control of the
resort, not its condition. And the use of the
term "long suffering Pelican timeshare owners"
refers to the long-haul of membership. Many
owners, me included, suffered through the
Vleitman years, the bankruptcy, Gonczy (who I
think is still i jail), etc. I agree with Mr.
Albrecht and many others that it's remarkable the
resort has been able to survive all this... and
the TAPRC Board deserves credit on that from all
of us. (I said that before, too....)
Jeff Berger
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From: Mary Jane & Joseph Brakl
Date sent: Fri, 7 Dec 2007
Dear Judy:
We are one of the many Pelican owners who hesitate to get
involved in decisions concerning our time share at Pelican
because we don't fully understand the issues, which date
back to many years of poor management. However, we applause
the recent letter from Gene Albrecht concerning Mr. Berger's
self-serving negativism. Please convey our thanks to Mr.
Albrecht and thank you Judy for all of your hard work.
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From: JFlynn280@aol.com
Date sent: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 0
Judy: Sorry we are not with you this year at Pelican but our
thoughts are there. In reading the info on the 3rd quarterly
meeting I have a suggestion regarding item #11 shown below.
Maybe you could suggest this on my behalf. How about setting
up some sort of arrangement for owners to purchase these promotional
items online? I am sure that many folks would be happy to purchase
some of these items and maybe more could be added as time goes on.
John Flynn
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From: joan kittman
Date sent: Fri, 7 Dec 2007
judy, has the board ever considered how much money it's wasting,
particularly this year with all the confusion over the delivery/non-delivery
of the proxies, by going through this farce called an "election"?
again royal, showing its arrogance and utter contempt for the timeshare
owners, doesn't even try to hide it's all-for-one-votes, and, as you see,
because of the apathy of the timeshare owners, royal is totally in control
of any "election". so why bother? why waste the resort's money? the whole
thing is a joke.
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From: joan kittman
Date sent: Wed, 12 Dec 2007
Subject: Re: From JMB: Timesharing In St. Maarten_St. Martin Email Forum,
Monday, Dece...
To: jmbweb@jmbcommunications.com
Copies to: judy@navnet.net
In a message dated 12/10/07 12:22:14 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jmbweb@jmbcommunications.com writes:
> 4. My single major complaint against the Board, as long-time readers know,
is
> that it "gave" control of the resort to Royal, which is wrong. I also
> disagree with FIP (Royal-controlled Friendly Island Properties) having
> thousands of votes in any election, effectively moving those elections in
> favor of Royal. The fact that so few owners bother to vote, for whatever
> reason, makes it almost impossible for owners to fight Royal's wishes.
TAPRC
> should be in total control, not RRG. RRG is supposed to be a contractor
> operating the resort, not its "owner."
jeff, you've hit the nail on the head. this issue is the crux of the problems
with royal and the pelican.
as long-time owners know, the na court turned the pelican resort over to the
timeshare owners, represented by the taprc, in late 1996. the board, after one
failed attempt to hire a competant resort manager, hired a well-known and
successful resort manager, royal resort of cancun.
later the controversy with royal began. a taprc board, through a murky
agreement, the details of which have never seen the light of day, turned over
more
than 4000 unit-weeks to royal. to sell or what? that might have been ok, but
royal, presumably with the board's approval, decided to keep the voting rights
that went with those 4000-plus unit-weeks.
The practical result of that arrangement is that royal has effectly taken
over control of the pelican, and the taprc board, as evidenced by the vote count
of the recent "election", without paying one red cent to the owners of the
resort.
gene albrecht continues to make the same tired, sick supposition that a hugh
debt existed and royal had to bail out the pelican. but he, like his
predecessors on the board, offer no firm, verifiable proof of such a debt. that
"proof"
has also never seen the light of day, but that supposed debt is continually
thrown out as an excuse by each board, year after year, in an attempt to
justify their actions.
everytime royal flaunts their control of the pelican, such as electing who it
wants to the taprc board, it's a slap in the face of all the long-time owners
of the pelican. but obviously most of the owners really don't care. look at
the vote. you tried, along with joe costa, to get the owners to vote, and the
dismal results show that most can't be bothered. and royal continues to take
advantage of that fact, and does what it wants, as witness the marina
residences. joan kittman
Judy's Comment: I am sure you like your own version of what happend with
Pelican.
However, if you look at the history we had 4000 weeks we could not sell and
Royal bought and sold them. We continue to need money and no bank in the world
is going
to lend money to an old resort that needs millions in upgrades. Richard Sutton
and his group have lent us money for years. They are the "banker", the
collateral, if you will, are the votes. When you can find us a bank that will
lend us $30,000,000 please let us know. For those who are interested you can
find a lot of the financial information on the Pelicanresort.com web site in the
members section. You need your contract number and unit number.
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From: Henry F. Donald
Date sent: Fri, 7 Dec 2007
Subject: Pelican trip comments and more
Dear Judy,
My wife and I recently returned from 2 weeks (45 & 46) at Pelican. As usual we
had a great time. Upon arrival we noticed that the "want this view?" sign had
been removed from the wall of the "old" marina building. Did you have an
opportunity to see it live (other than in the picture I sent you)? Do you know
when it was taken down?
I hate to be negative about an otherwise enjoyable trip, I truly do look forward
to our semi-annual
(November & May ) trips to Pelican, but the more things change the more they
stay the same. We preregistered as recommended. A waste of time. Upon arrival we
were sheparded to the only existing line. No one wanted to see our
preregistration papers which were physically swept aside. Forty (40) minutes
later we were confronted with a stare by the person behind the counter who
informed me that I did not own at Pelican. I informed him I was the owner of
b458 preconstruction-1986,week 45 plus 5 other weeks. We were sent to the back
room. There we were greeted by equally bewildered gentlemen who were in constant
telephone communication with Cancun ( who pays this bill? Shouldn't royal out of
it's management fee?). Finally someone realized that b458 was not available due
to work on the walkways and that's why we "didn't own".(you follow the logic)
after much discussion Cancun decided that b418 was available for the night and
we would be moved on Sunday to a more permanent room. This took another forty
(40) minutes. Upon arrival at b418 it had not been cleaned since it's prior use.
Finally, at 9:00 p.m., we had a clean room four hours after arriving -preregistered
. front desk communication and knowledge of what is going on has not improved in
20 years. Micro-management from Cancun only shows a lack of trust and faith in
it's employees by Royal. The employees seemed frustrated and demoralized. One
can only wonder how things will be run at PMR.(we do understand why b458 was not
available).
i just had the opportunity to read the minutes of the 3rd quarterly meeting, I
was shocked and pleased to see that a board member knows the words and meaning
of "conflict of interest". I do not know Mr. Menneti but I admire his decision
and integrity. I only wish he would stay around at least long enough to get a
by-law on the subject passed and to give a lecture to all board members as to
the meaning of "conflict of interest" and "fiduciary responsibility".it's never
too late to shut the barn door. Ya never know.
A comment that may be old but I suddenly realized that the board's decision not
to allow fip to vote those units in default recognizes the fact that fip is in
fact in default .they were in default 12/2006. Where's the $300,000 in 2006
maintenance fees? What about 2007, another $300,000, or more? Royal collects
fees for these uncollected maintenance fees, maybe it can put them toward
payment. Maybe pelican should foreclose and sell them as would be the case of us
other "owners". in 10 or 15 years the real "owners" (non-fip) may regain control
of the resort.
Merry Christmas to you and all. Henry F. Donald
Weeks 51 & 52, 2008
PelicanNews - Weeks 51 & 52 - Date sent Jan 3, 2007
My web site for rentals and sales is at www.pelicannews.net
email judy@navnet.net
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**** IMPORTANT*** Be sure to put pelicansxm@yahoogroups.com
into your safe list to receive the newsletter.
Visited the Resort web site - Pelicanresort.com
In the owners section:
1st 2nd and 3rd Quarter minutes 2007
Remember that the financial information is there as well.
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From: "elaine lefebvre
Subject: Note from Elaine Lefebvre for Newsletter
Date sent: Sat, 29 Dec 2007
Happy New Year, Judy!
Wayne & I are looking forward to going back to Pelican next July with
several couples to celebrate a special anniversary. We've been
fortunate to have traveled to many places in the world (thanks to
timesharing!), but even though St. Maarten has a few "warts", there is
just something about that island that still gets us excited....a feeling
I know many others share! As we didn't go down last summer, we're anxious
to see all the improvements we keep hearing about in your weekly newsletter.
One comment/question I do have: We own 3 units at Pelican and got
2 separate maintenance fee bills and then 3 separate reminders to pay the
bill (it is not due until mid-January as you know). As we need every
dollar toward improving the resort, have to admit I was a little upset
with our $$ being spent on multiple mailings....unless this was a one
time event due to a billing problem. Owners need to be responsible for
paying their bills on time, just as they do with other obligations and,
if they do not, I do agree with the firm penalties that are in place.
Thank you, as always, for providing the owners a forum. Nice to hear
all the positive comments about our "home away from home"! Elaine Lefebvre
Judy's Comment: After emails and phone calls to ISCO they decided that
a notice should be sent to make sure owners were aware of their
bill and the due date of January 15th. One way to save money would be to have
as many owners as possible receive the information by email and the web
site. We could save a lot. Thousands!
Any one have an opinion on sending your bulletin and bill electronically.
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