The couple went on a planned trip to Kissimmee, Fla., where they have a time-share condominium.
But in the last few years, 1,600 companies or individuals have bought "fractional shares" in business jets, an ownership arrangement akin to buying a week at a time-share condominium.
In fact, regulation has become confused because of the growth in "fractional ownership," in which people or companies share ownership of a plane as if it were a time-share condominium; such planes operate under looser rules intended for privately owned planes.
Former lovers live together as hostile roommates when both refuse to move out of their shared condominium.
What cheap housing does exist is being replaced by time-share condominiums that cater to the affluent.
Foxhollow closed in the mid-seventies, and the property was bought by Donald Altshuler, a developer, with the intention of transforming it into a conference center with time-share condominiums.
The number of corporate jet flights is on the rise as the economy rebounds, in planes owned by major corporations or shared through fractional ownership, sold somewhat like time-share condominiums.
Hardest hit by the rivers of mud that came cascading down Mount Avila, which separates this capital of six million people from coastal resort towns, were dozens of hotels and time-share condominiums that had sprung up along the shore.
In recent years, one of the hottest trends among luxury resorts has been to develop some kind of ownership program, offering high-end "fractionals" (fancy time-shares), condominiums or even houses.
The commission has a tentative agreement with EnCap Golf of Tampa, Fla., to lease the land for 99 years for the golf development in the Meadowlands, which may also include a hotel, time-share condominiums and other development.
Heart Check's owner, David W. Haddad, was sued by the Indiana Attorney General's Office in 2007 over fraudulently selling time-share condominiums, Molly Butters, spokeswoman for the agency, told Reuters.
