Originally Posted by
cj_rumley
That's pretty much the rationale of clubs that I belong to. Existing members have a considerable investment in improvements like providing for a paved runway, and initiation fees are seen as new members contributing some partial measure of their fair share in the investment. .
That's the rationale for our initiation fee, which is $55. It has been that amount since before I joined in '98. It's seen as a combination of the assessments on the memberships over the past 35+ years, one of which was when our bridge washed away during a flood and we paid to have it replaced.