Part of owning a timeshare is that expenses are shared too. They have the maintenance fee as a way of collecting for the maintaining of the condition of your timeshare. Without that fee the timeshare would not be as nice and maintained as you'd expect it to be when you went to use it. Sure the fees were a lot less back in the day of nickle beer but materials and construction labor have increased since those years. Appliances that have to be replaced cost more than they did when it was first built along with insurance premiums that need to be in place for protection. Maybe instead of blaming Fiesta on not doing due diligence put some of the blame on your self for not going into buying a timeshare without your eyes wide open.