Updated 4/3/08 - Other Opinion
and Rating Organizations
K Listings*
Kahana Falls Timeshare - This is a good example as to why you should not purchase a Timeshare. 1) Our salesmen misrepresented 2 bedroom lock-off aspects. Kahana Falls doesn't really have 2 bedroom lock-offs (unless you pay extra as a member of RCI). Lock-offs usually mean you can use a room one week in one place and then another room for another week someplace else. 2) The Board dictates rules that change your ability to use your property without your direct consent. 3) The Board recently made it so that if you let them assign your timeshare, you also may not use lock off privileges even if you have RCI. 4) The board and management is unresponsive to us as Timeshare owners. Our letter regarding our concerns was never addressed 5) Kahana Falls was at risk of losing its five star RCI status (Gee, I wonder why???), unbeknownst to us as buyers (should have been disclosed if it were a normal real estate deal). 6) Board only meets once a year? Even a homeowner association with far fewer owners meets monthly. No wonder we can't get responses or action as homeowners. 7) Let's see how they rent units and what generates the profits and to whom? 8) They can get rid of your unit for you on a nightly rental basis which is the scam of the whole industry because you make very little money, not even enough to pay for your maintenance costs.
Kahana
Falls is exactly what gives the whole industry a bad name.
It doesn't seem to give a damn about its Timeshare members. There are
just too many greedy folks and distant boards writing rules
on
behalf
of
people
they
have
never
even met. As homeowners, we are really in the dark until
its too late and the fiduciary responsibility of the board
is really a joke when it comes to Timeshare. I have to wonder
if the Kahana Falls
Board
and the Management have a conflict of interest. We homeowners
certainly don't seem to be represented. While we lose
our time or money, I'm sure management is still making money.
Sounds like a win/lose situation. I have yet to hear from
Kahana
Falls. I don't plan to ever buy another Timeshare and
really
feel for those poor suckers that paid full retail for
their Kahana Falls Timeshare. I'm this mad and only paid
half
on the secondary market. Most people are afraid to tell
the truth about their property for fear that they won't
be able to sell it and get any money for it. That's why
most people keep quiet. However, with me, its the principle
and lack of integrity in the whole business. Gee. I wonder
why Kahana Falls depreciated so drastically?? Think I'm
alone? Check out this address and others on the web.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g60634-d260244-Reviews-Kahana_Falls-Lahaina_Maui_Hawaii.html KAHANA
FALLS has since lost its Gold Crown Status with RCI and
its Property Manager has left with yearly fees and taxes
the highest in Hawaii at over 1,200 per year. Resale
values have plummetted to under $5,000. from an initial
retail price of $25,000 before 1990. BEWARE OF ALL RCI,
INTERVAL INTERNATIONAL AND TIMESHARE PRACTICES. STATE
ATTORNEY GENERALS HAVE NOT DONE MUCH ABOUT THIS TO DATE
6/28/07
Howard Kaloogian
KB
Toys - Certain Companies have earned their bankruptcy
through poor corporate level management. This is one of those
companies.1) Poor
tracking of market pricing. 2) Poor
system for taking tax exempt purchases. 3) .99 cent
pricing. 4) Won't honor discount programs. i.e.
KB ran a promotion that if you bought things on 4 different
occasions,
you would get a card stamped 4 times giving you 25% off
the next purchase. When they randomly ended the promotion,
they
would not honor the fully stamped cards even though nobody
knew when the promotion would end. Very tricky, but stupid.
I and others now shop at Toys R US more. (as of 1/15/04)
Michael P. Murphy
DBA The Small Businessman - www.smallbusinessman.com
Technical Site Coordinator and Registrant
K Listings (Cont.)
Howard
KALOOGIAN, (Move
America Forward Melanie
Morgan) - 1) Unremovable
spam 2) Constant solicitation for money. As far as I'm
concerned, if you support this group, you are supporting a criminal
Republican
organization. FBI IS DOING NOTHING. 2006
John
Kerry - 1) Got Democratic Nomination, then exposes plan
to increase most aspects of the military in preparation to deal
with Iran and other possible threats in America's role of world
ruler and protector. Most Democrats must be feeling they elected
a lemon that's looking more
and more
like
his fellow
Skull and Bonesman George Bush every day. Look at it this way,
he's just doing what Congress and the Senate did when they gave
Bush authority to go into Iraq in the first place. If you think
you have a two party system, look again. There is a hidden meaning
behind the word "bipartisan." It simply means one party.
Bankruptcy and War is not my idea of a fun future. Speaking of
which, 2) Kerry
plans to spend 30 billion on Tech R&D and Broadband with no explanation
as to
where
its going
to come from other than through lowering corporate taxes which
makes Kerry a great "trickle down" Republican. He gives a new meaning
to "Voodoo" economics too. Oh yeah, he'll sell us back
our bandwidth to fill any void. In reality,
we have
to
ask
if
he's going to print it? Is he going to tax us for it? Is he going
to
sell
bonds
that
our
children
have
to
pay
back? The missing tax revenue has to come from somewhere. With
Bush being a big spender and lying about the size of the national
debt campaigning on 7 trillion when the debt is actually well over
100 trillion. I'd
put my money on the only fiscally responsible candidate, Michael
Badnarik
of
the
Libertarian
Party.
Kohl's -
1) Junk Mail 2) Paper waste (envelope sent contains one
card that could have been sent alone). - 4/3/08
