My original thought on the water install was 4 to 5 grand. This guy originally said $1,100, but that was a much small diameter installation.  So, I can't say I'm unhappy that the thing is going to cost me $3,200.  I figured between $2,500 and $3,000, but inflation is pushing the cost of everything up, it's actually a bad time to be thinking about building much of anything.

Never-the-less, he is also interested in clearing my lots for me. He has no idea what I'm doing with the property, I only clued him in on the fact that it was going to be for a business venture, but I never said what. Let me go get the water turned on through the city and give them their $600 fee and then I'll feel more comfortable.  

I dunno, but I'm meeting with him today to pay him the tab and discuss him doing more work out there.  I didn't really give him any thought about it, he has a mini-hoe, I don't know if he has other machinery.  But it would take forever for a mini-hoe to do that work.  Even just 10-12 spaces would take quite a bit of time.  I dunno, but he told me that while his worker had to get some part somewhere, he was just sitting there an decided to start moving things around.  We're talking about all the timber and the giant piles of torn down trees I have sitting in the front.  I dunno if he dug out some of the stumps or exactly what he did, but I'm heading over there soon.

I dunno why, but my employer gave me 3 days off.  I didn't ask for it but I won't turn it down. I have chest congestion that started on the first night of the last brownsville trip. The dispatchers knew I had this going because I was coughing on the phone last time I talked with them and indicated I wasn't feeling all the great on the way back.  Perhaps they gave me the time off to recover.  

I am actually going to - well potentially anyway - take the boys over there today as well, they want to go hiking and the 4 year old will like it much better with some trails to walk on instead of attempting to fight his way through those nasty, thorn covered vines.  Last time on the property, well back in there and off the trails, I also encounter some sort of wicked, evil tree whose trunk was also covered with sharp thorns  Eventually ALL of that stuff is coming out of there. I don't know how long it will take, maybe years of just working at cutting it down and digging it out, but I don't want any of that stuff on my property! 

It's okay, whenever I can get a pond installed, they will dig a ton of that stuff up with machinery and get it burned and gone.  I'll ask this guy about digging out a pond as well.  I doubt I'll have him do it tho. He doesn't like credit cards and by the time I get to the pond portion of it, that's all going to be on credit.  And he would need a much larger trackhoe and a bulldozer or possibly a front end loader as well.  I think the other company I had out would be a better choice for that.  

Im getting a little more motivated about getting this small version. done  I should have the money to do it, if not I"ll be close enough that I can figure out something. Either credit cards or another personal loan.  I really would like to get this done quickly and get the operation up and running soon - like within the next 6 months at most and start getting some people to stay in there and start getting some money extracted back out of what I am putting into it.  

There's a lot to get done.  And I'm afraid that the electrical portion of the deal is going to cost more than anticipated what with inflation pushing everything up.  I'll blame Joe Biden and his version of a White House for that.  Y'all blamed Trump for LITERALLY everything that happened in life, not even just connected to politics, but claims that our society is breaking down because of "Trumpisim" and the "Cult of Trump", I can legitimately blame Biden for his lack of any common sense, he's a Communist at heart, he wants all of these illegals in here and he wants to keep spending money like it grows on trees for a purpose.  

All I can say is, I feel the need to get whatever I can get done, done as fast as possible before it even becomes impossible because of economic or even government conditions to do so.  The idea of civil war has resurfaced and I really, really want no part of that tbh.  I've seen enough death and destruction world wide in my lifetime, I don't need or want to see my fellow countrymen dying at each other's hands.  We still have the Constitution and we still have a Supreme Court that can shut down a lot of this nonsense, hopefully, especially vaccine mandates. Screw that and frankly, screw anyone whether it be government official or average every day citizen who backs such garbage.  I'll make my own decisions about what goes into my body, whatever that may be and whatever form it comes in.  You can keep your vaccine.

And after seeing what my mother has been going through since February, no thanks.  She didn't just get that second shot with ensuing side effects.  it was 8 months ago she got that shot and let me tell you, when that stuff hits her she is down for the count.  I'm not going to go into the lengthy list of things that happen, she's a pretty private person and I'm not going to let that out on the internet.  I'm just going to tell you it is very unpleasant stuff. Fortunately for her it's not a daily event, it comes and goes. I consider that vaccine a form of evil in itself, being used by a bullying government to force everyone into submission. Just on that principle alone I oppose getting it. Couple that with my mother's severe reaction to it and my reaction to other vaccines earlier in life and my reactions to other types of medications such as Penicillin? Yeah, I think it would be a death sentence for me.  A dose of Penicillin right now would likely kill me.  It's why I got pissed when I was sick, down in Brownsville and this idiot doctor tried to give me ampicillin, a derivative of penicillin.  

ANY doctor knows that if you can't take penicillin you can't take any of it's derivatives.  I saw that prescription and looked at this lady that gave it to me. "Did you check the form I filled out before you wrote up this prescription?".  She looked at me funny.  Go get that form and look at the part about medications and if there are any I can't take.....

When the hospital called me to ask about my experience there, I laid into them.  What kind of moronic idiots are you employing there that would do this to a person?  I informed them that I had left a nasty review online and that there would be more coming and if they wanted to do something about it, BRING IT.  That stuff literally could have killed me and if I hadn't checked it, I would probably be dead right now. That's what the doctor told me after I got penicillin the first time and had an extreme, weeks-long-lasting reaction to it.  "Don't ever get a shot of that again". I was 10 years old when this doctor was talking to me about death and severe reactions and I still remember the severity of his tone to this day.  He was making it quite clear that another exposure to penicillin would likely end my life.

I'm supposed to be wearing a bracelet or a wrist band or at least have the info in my wallet.  I forgot about having that kind of ID on me long ago. 

Well, enough soap box ranting, that vaccine subject gets me riled up.  After thinking about all of this park stuff, I really only need 50 spots at most in that park for the finished product. If I could fill up 50 spots every night during peak season that's 45k per month.  Figure half of that for expenses, or even just leaving 1/3rd after everything paid out every month and that's still 15k profit.  

I'm proceeding - cautiously - with the hope that a septic system for 10 or more sites is going to cost less than 15k.  Preferably more like 10k, but I'll prepare myself in my thinking for a higher price tag in case that's what it turns out to be.  It's time to get the lots built and to that end I'll be talking with that guy today and if he's too high priced I'll talk to more people.  Until I either find someone with a price to my liking or I just have to eat it and say, ok, it's going to cost that much, let's get it done.  

50 lots, 2 rows is only 750 feet of linear space needed.  I could actually go 40 feet wide lots and still only have 1,000 feet used up leaving a couple of hundred feet in the rear for a turn around.  And the facilities that may eventually be put onto the premises could either go in the front or along the east side, already existing driveway.  And my calculation for monthly gross income is based on only charging $30 per night. I could get more if I eventually can get a swimming pool installed and other nicer amenities. 

You're jumping ahead of yourself again. No, I have to think of the future with upgrades and where I will be able to put them and also building pathways between a few lots for guests to be able to walk over to them without intruding upon someone's else's rented lot versus having to walk all the way down to the end and come back. That would annoy me as a guest having to do that, this is why I try to think of everything I eventually want to have in there. Accessibility is key.  3 or 4 pathways in between a couple of lots will have to be installed.  I won't need that to begin with, those amenities won't exist and all of the lots are going to be on the east side to start with.  

The other thought is to have a pool and laundry room in the middle of the property.  Meaning put in say, 12 lots (when I get that far of course) and then leave open around 100 feet and then put the rest of the lots in the other side.  

Lots of thinking to do on that subject, but no rush.  Not with only starting out with 10 or 12 lots.  I'll put in, initially, as many as whatever sized septic system will allow.  It best be at least 10 and that better not be so high priced that I am still reeling from the price tag.....

I am heading over to the property now, dogs in tow and going to see what the guy did out there and possibly start measuring out the lots.  I'll have to do that before anyone can start clearing anything in there.  I have it all laid out - in my mind lol.