Loch Rannoch Highland Club Forums

Agreed! Spend money wisely. Get the club properly incorporated and work out how to close it so that it cannot be made a phoenix revival after the fact with all of us paying again. The 3 previous owners have treated us all as a golden goose collectively. We must ensure that if there is any buyout eac...

If the Club is really on the edge of going under - which is probably the case in the current pandemic recovery, then let's act sensibly to close it down in a controlled way. Pass a motion releasing all owners from the in-perpetuity ownership clauses and replace them with a 1 year only membership. Th...

This is not part of anything I agree to. If the Hotel can't survive on merit attracting my custom then it goes broke. Big deal. I go to Rannoch not to eat in a subsidised canteen or health centre, but to relax. NOT IN MY NAME! Get real and stop soaking us because we can't get out of a usurious contr...

Though Ann Blyth may well have sold some weeks, the AGM clearly resulted in a resolution to allow reversion of weeks. We were told that a register of those who would pay to give up their weeks would be opened and that the cost would be 3 years service charges. If Ann has sold weeks - may we know how...

No problem.

It would be nice if the Club used this website in more useful ways instead of individual emails only. Both seem to have their place, but is it not possible to maintain this website?

Maybe resolution 1 being passed could mean that the Club contracts a much more active Webmaster.

Thanks for tellling us that there is a recording - do you have a link to it?

I am sort of worried that this forum, the official AGM forum doesn't have anything yet.

Thanks for the reply from our committee member, R Benson, and Mr Wiggins. The resolution 7 ideas are good, especially if we see them as a starting position. In conjunction with a concerted effort to raise the value of visits to the Club it can't help but raise the saleability of weeks and that in it...

In the documents sent out I refer to item 3 "Resolutions" with its contents. Resolution 1 proposes that an independent IT company is contracted to make both on-site connectivity improvements and to build a more workable site for external users. Is this still the correct picture? Are there still prob...

The pack was in the club email and looks complete as well as having all working links. Was there a reason the pack was not put in the AGM documents areas of this forum? It is not a problem, but that would have been my expected place to find it. It would have had the added advantage of introducing al...

I think we all feel that the new committee is working hard and it would be good to think that the problem of the in-perpetuity section of the Holiday Certificates can be removed. As we approach the AGM could I ask that a few clues as to the proposed strategy are put out to allow a feel for them to b...

I understand why you say that it has to work for the Club, but the constitution and sales model used to sell to most owners is now illegal in most of the world. If the product and management is good enough there is nothing to fear by letting us exit with a short notice period. The "ultimate sanction...

Hi Ronnie, What I think I have seen is a programming error in the website pages which allow replies to posts. It may be that the person who made the new site has used a set of templates from Wordpress, the program which built the new website, without totally removing or altering all the unused piece...

I think that a Wordpress/Jetpack expert is the person we need. All I have done is diagnose the problem. Is the "code" option just above the reply window in the border the initial problem? I am pressing it now and will type a line: <code>Is this red?</code> If it is red then removing the code button ...

I looked at the inserted area again and I think this is a piece of legacy Wordpress Code: "#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content code, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content pre, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content code, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content pre" which forces the use of a different...

In my previous reply I have typed the characters < c o d e > without spaces, and < / c o d e > also without spaces and you can see I have made the exact error which Ronnie sees. That piece of text is the problem. Here is another demo line: <code> This is a red line inserted by using the code text </...

Hi Ron, I looked at the source code of Ronnie's posts and there is an XML mark up "<code>" and "</code>" surrounding the areas of his messages which are red. This is usually hard to insert without using an editor or deliberately typing the mark up but I have seen it when a browser opens XML or XAML ...

No - not a thing. On the other forum someone said they had been told it was a mistake, but I have had nothing at all in reply to my registered letter and email.

It is beyond annoying and I expect that any amount of money will be spent to take me to court after the 5 years elapse and I stop paying.

The "for sale" page is a good one, but to be used to its best will really need a Sales and Marketing effort from the Club. Individual owners may well be open to the unscrupulous so if this section is managed properly it would not only protect us but also increase the chances of losing the millstone ...

It is a condition specified in the Holiday Certificates we own that there is an AGM each year because the Constitution says so. It is not an optional requirement and as our own maintenance fees are also part of the constitution and are faithfully hounded out of us each year, there is a disconnect. T...

Absolutely. Your figures sound right and to be clear this is exactly the wonder of timeshare and why it is now reviled almost worldwide. It was, in the words of Lord Thomson, a licence to print money. He saw the bottom drop out of independent TV and now it is time to shut the taps on this stream too...

I think there is strong agreement that exiting is growing in importance. It is clear that nobody can sell a week in Rannoch and whatever the reason, this either has to be remedied within the next year or so, or the 5 year conversion to a specified time of liability needs to be made a formal way out....

As we have read, a former Chairman has resigned, we have had no accounts published and there has been no AGM this year. Each of these things has been bad news, but the loss of our magnificent maintenance teams probably crowns these items as some of the worst news we could have had. The very fabric o...

Thanks for the reply Cliff. I was so worried that I wrote to the Club about this too. My concern is being hassled by another round of sales-sharks and that despite the new website and recent newsletter it is so hard to tell what is happening. Are there enough people with commercial experience at the...

Is it because of the reported data breach? It is reported that almost all of the members' contact information was on a non-secure page until recently. See: lochrannochhighlandclub.net where a post gives details.

I just read a really worrying report that a page of the website containing a huge number of member names, addresses and phone numbers was easily visible to anyone adding "/members" to the site name until recently. The report also says that this has been remedied and that is good. I hope this is not ...

In the newsletter sent to us in August 2020 there is a seemingly categorical answer to this question showing these options: >>>> These are to: - i) assign your Lodge to a relative, or friend ii) sell your lodge through the Club, or independently iii) apply for Voluntary Surrender in the Club Ballot ...