Dear Queenie,
My wife and I have a timeshare in St. Maarten and sometimes we invite a friend or a couple we are friendly with to join us. There are fees involved in a timeshare and it would be nice if once in a while the others would offer to chip in on the expense, but it has never happened.
Queenie, don’t they know how expensive it is, or are they just moochers?—Fed up host
Dear Host,
When you invite someone to visit you in your home back wherever you live, do you expect them to chip in on the cost of the rent or mortgage?
Either you are a host or a hotelier, and your friends are either guests or paying customers – which is it?
If you really expect them to help out with the expense, you should make that clear when you issue the invitation for them to join you and let them decide whether it is worth the cost.
