The Ritz-Carlton Club allows buyers to "own" a luxury unit in the mountains for 28 days annually for prices that start at $145,000. By contrast, it would easily cost $1 million or more to buy such a unit, notes Jim Martin, an attorney with the Denver law office of Baker & Hostetler. Martin handled the legal work on the project.

And someone who buys a unit probably won't spend more than 28 days there, anyway, he says.

"I wish I had 28 days of vacation," Martin says.

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