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When I priced out places at Big White with my wife a few years back if you managed to have it rented out full time you *might* break even. The fees can be insane and they're year round even though your rental season is ~4 months.

In the end we decided we're far better off to just rent places when we want to stay at the hill. Then you're not tied to 1 mountain and for the same money we could rent places that were nicer than what we would own. If you're just looking at it for personal use and not to rent you need to be up there a lot to make it worthwhile. Just the $14k/yr in fees gets you a loooot of nice rentals.

If nothing else I'd suggest renting a couple places at various hills you're considering before you buy anything. Terrain, conditions and accessibility can vary wildly from place to place. When I went to Revelstoke over a decade ago it wasn't really a family/beginner friendly hill. Fernie was fun to try once but with the layout of the mountain I'd never go there again. Silver Star has a cute village and it's a breeze to zip into town if you need anything. Big White has a lot of central condos but a lot of stuff that's *technically* ski in ski out, imo, isn't because it just dumps you to a gondola that hauls you back to the village so actually getting back to skiing takes forever.