Timeshare Resort Success Stories // Garden City, South Carolina
When the building closed, we didn’t.
A March 2024 structural emergency closed the beloved 43-unit Garden City beachfront property for nearly a year. Through engineering reviews, county code navigation, and a year of continuous owner communications, the resort came back — open, occupied, and thriving today.
12 months
From closure to reopening
Restored
A property facing demolition is open, occupied, and thriving today
Continuous
Owner communications
running every step
ABOUT THE PROPERTY
A high-rise beachfront property at the heart of Garden City.
Kingfisher Inn is a 43-unit beachfront high-rise condominium resort in Garden City, South Carolina — built in 1960, anchored beside the community’s iconic fishing pier, and beloved by multiple generations of South Carolina coastal vacationers.
In March 2024, the property faced its most serious test in six decades. A structural engineer raised concerns about the building’s integrity, and Horry County issued an evacuation order. The property would remain closed for nearly a year.
A year of crisis. Owners informed every step.
From the moment the engineering opinion came down on March 28, 2024, RMCG was on the phone to owners — those in-house, those with reservations, those whose investment in the property suddenly had no clear return for the foreseeable future. The Post and Courier named us in coverage of the closure: “Resort Management and Consulting Group immediately began contacting owners and guests that were in-house and scheduled to arrive during this timeframe.”
What followed was a year of work most management contracts aren’t built to handle. Engineering disputes. County code enforcement. A board navigating governing-document interpretation on the threshold for demolition. A class-action lawsuit against the original engineer. And through it all, the steady, continuous flow of owner communications — email, Facebook, owner portal — that kept owners close to a place they couldn’t visit.
Immediate, multi-channel communications
Email, Facebook, owner portal updates running continuously from the day of the evacuation to the day of the reopening — keeping owners informed when nothing about the property’s future was certain.
Engineering and county code navigation
Working alongside the board to interpret three competing engineering opinions, manage Horry County code enforcement requirements, and navigate the path from condemnation threat to repair authorization.
Governing-document interpretation
Strategic support on the property’s bylaws — specifically the two-thirds-of-value demolition threshold that determined the property’s fate — bringing the board the analysis it needed for a high-stakes decision.
The property opened
Repairs coordinated, the property reopened, owners back in residence. A resort that came within an engineering opinion of being demolished is open, occupied, and thriving.
“Resort Management and Consulting Group immediately began contacting owners and
guests that were in-house and scheduled to arrive during this timeframe.”
– Post & Courier
