Thank you fin for that, saw the comment.
Racking my brains attempting to decide whether I really have to have a design group design the park or just wing it.
This can't possibly be that difficult. Clear out all the front stuff excepting a couple of giant trees, one of them very much dead. It needs to go 10 feet beyond the telephone poles near the front. All of that area will just be a parking space for incoming RV's. The land isn't totally wasted and there is nothing I can do about that. So I measure 10 feet in towards the property and then put up ribbone on the trees where you stop taking down trees.
Next. Measure the first 60 foot back in lot. 45 degree angle, 60 degree angle, whatever, get it done. It's just the straight line part that I can't get past. How do I know I'm going in a straight line with all those trees in the way? Sure, a straight line would easily do it, even 800 plus feet long I could run a line, but again, those pesky trees. I don't want to take out any more trees than I have to. Thank you fin for that, saw the comment.
And, should I leave space for an eventual bath house at the front, middle or rear of the property? Where does the dog park go? Where does the septic system go?
I've got a lot of the initial questions I agonized over answered. 70 foot long pull throughs. 60 foot long back in spaces along the western fence line - tho I could legitimately go 65 with all the extra space I have.
There's two lines right there and I figured today I still have 119 feet linear feet towards the east to use up for more spaces. I could make ridiculously long spaces. I could do a row of 60 foot spaces and still have around 59 feet left over.
Alas, I won't have the money to put in a huge number of spaces to begin with, I think my attention appropriately focused on about 20 spaces to start with.
One site says it's approximately 40k to put in a septic system, gag. I hope that's not the case for a smaller setup.
Hmm, if I eventually put in a bath house in the middle of the park, I wonder how that plays out on the sites next to it and people having to here that noise all day long. I'm going to have to take some more looks at other park setups. Seems like the space for that should appropriately be placed at one end or the other.
I think it's time for some tea. Just started drinking it in the last couple months. A little better than coffee, I like to sip on a hot drink, especially while contemplating all of this stuff.
OH, and any opening will still include having the walking trails cleared out and a doggy park at the very least. Perhaps a - crude - 1 room bath house lol. Unisex/family style lol.
The long spaces, the trees, the serenity and the walking trails will bring them in. I can make ample money off of just 20 spaces to begin with.
Even with only 20 spaces, the big expenses: septic, electric and gravel. Water - not quite so much. A bit, but not as much as the other 3. Unless a few hundred grand falling out of the sky/becomes available I think my plan to start with 20 spaces is about the best I can do.
My best guesses: 20k for septic, 25k for gravel - that's just the gravel, not having it spread around, water, maybe 3k to have a tap into the main line then a couple thousand worth of pipe and fittings, possibly more but not terrible if 2 inch pipe really works; electrical - lol - no clue. $200 per pedestal, $4 grand right there. No clue how much to have the power company run lines to a pole. I've read anywhere from free to thousands of dollars. Then the underground line, the boxes that underground line feeds into, the line going from the boxes to the pads. These pedestals already come installed with 20, 30 and 50 amp outlets and breakers, it's just a matter of installing them into the ground and hooking up the wiring. I could guess 20k for 20 spots and that could be close. A thousand dollars per pad for the whole set up may be a bit more than it will actually cost.
Beyond that is clearing out the driveways and lots. These days off would have been nicer if it occurred after I had closed and figured all of this out and could just go straight to work. I assume I could have had a lot of it cleared out already.
I still think the best plan beyond approaching the power company and asking them what I need to do to get power run to the property - not just through the property - and having septic pros come out and tell me where the best location is and how much it's going to cost - is to get all of that cleared up out front, measure out the first back in lot, which would show me where the first driveway will need to be - and run with it.
The power lines are at least 20 feet above the ground, so that won't be an issue. I have a friend - James close friend actually - that works in the volunteer fire department that serves the county. So, if I have any issues I can probably get some favor going there, he's studying to become some sort of assistant to the fire marshall.
Anyway, I find out today that I am expected to go back to work on Sunday instead of Wednesday. I have his texts, he specifically stated 14 days, now he's changed it to 12. I thought I'd have a holiday off, I thought wrong. Labor Day is coming up, I'll apparently be out on the road.
I'm glad I found that out today while it's still several days away It's Wednesday evening, that gives me 3 full days to prepare for the inevitable eventuality of having to go back to that job. I realized today that it wouldn't matter if I were doing a local job, I'd still hate trucking equally as much, I'd just be home every night.
Anyway, I'm getting off of here.
