Sunday late morning.
As has been the case since I acquired whatever this illness is, I have had trouble getting out of bed in the morning every single day. It takes a while, too, to get going and feel like I have any energy. I can't possibly believe this is just bronchitis. Whatever the case, it certainly isn't an easy recovery and there is one aspect of bronchitis that it does have: takes a long time to recover from it
Whatever the case, after taking a shower to try and wake up, I did end up driving up to those properties. The railraod tracks instantly nixed the idea of using any of those properties. It's a steep angle and probably most RV'ers aren't going to want to pull/drive 100k plus units over that, taking the potential risk of bottoming out the landing gear and destroying it.
I can tell you I wouldn't want to pull a semi trailer over it. It's too bad because 2 of the properties are perfect. And another that isn't listed - 850 acres that they "will subdivide", owned by the city even tho this area is well outside of city limits. Why they own that property is a mystery. Yes I did check the properties out anyway, but I think it would be a poor business decision to potentially alienate a swath of your potential customers because they don't think it's accessible.
Keep looking. There were 2 RV parks along the highway there. Junky affairs, the only appeal would be trees. I'm wanting to start out small, yes, because that's what the budget will afford. But down the road, I would want to add a clubhouse, a facility room and an indoor swimming pool. Lofty goals, perhaps, but the only way to outdo everyone else is offer things that everyone else isn't offering and also be able to jack up the rental price. I could see a park where the short termers reside in one area of the park and the longer term people actually living in their trailers on another side, preferably out of sight since that usually means older trailers/RV's that aren't the new looking things that full time RV'ers are dragging all over the country.
I've been reading intently the desires of these people and have a better compass of what I would eventually need to do. This isn't some fleeting idea, I'm quite serious about all of this.
The minimum goal is to have one of those sheds that look like small houses for washer and dryer set up, large lots for every trailer, pull throughs available (people that don't like to back their rigs into spots or perhaps if they're towing a car), a couple of BBQ areas, eventually giving every lot one, 30 and 50 amp hookups, sewer and water connections. Actually, to start the office could be big enough to have a laundry room in it.
Well, today is the day. The rest of the stuff is to be moved out of our bedrooms. At the moment, James is busy in his bedroom. My giant, extra heavy dresser is ready to be moved and I can't really do anything else besides tear down my computer desk - which is exactly what I'm going to work on right now. I have my laptop out of the truck with me : )
Later.
