Thursday - morning.  

I was going to have one of the boys - the older one - out to help clean up today, but I was admittedly feeling lazy and canceled  At least for this morning. If he wants to come late morning, then fine.  I have a long line of debris along the driveway that needs to be hauled to the burn piles.  

I am wondering if the power company is actually going to show this week.  2 more days left and then? I will start ramping up the heat on this engineer.  You promised me after all the other statements that they would definitely be coming out THIS WEEK.  

Anyway, I don't want to dwell on that too much, it is a source of irritation and I just put it out of my mind as much as possible. I suppose it would be a good day to go get the machine to drill out the holes - I still haven't done that yet, I keep getting caught up in other stuff.  

Apparently the insurance agency hasn't completely given up on me - yet.  They texted yesterday asking me about what, if any, breed restrictions would I have?  I knew instantly they want to hear the "right" answer.  "Aggressive dogs (regardless of breed) will be asked to leave along with their owners. Rottweilers, Pitbulls and Dobermans will not be allowed. I think there's a couple of other breeds as well that just aren't coming to mind right now". 

A giant check mark was received back as a reply to that answer.  The reason any kind of business that otherwise allows dogs on their premises don't want those breeds there is because of insurance companies either saying no or jacking the price WAY up to allow it.  My encounters with Dobermans have always been nasty. The first one was when a man down the street sicked his 2 Dobies on my Great Dane (I was in my teens at the time).  My Great Dane was a total bad-@$$. The Dobies were running down the street at him, snarling and growling, obviously ready to pounce on him.

When my Dane saw these 2, he squared right up to them and was more than ready to take them both on.  I had no worries and I laughed when the 2 Dobies got close to my Dane, turned around, tucked tail and ran back home, lmao.  The man came running down the street, accusing ME of sicking MY dog on HIS. What an idiot!  I laughed at him as well and told him that if his dogs had attacked my dog, I would have let my dog off the leash and he would have mess both of your dogs up.

Not what he wanted to hear, he tried to get his dogs to attack mine again - to no avail.  They wanted nothing to do with him. 

On another Dane adventure at a doggy park, some dude with a Dobie came into the park, let the dog go and it immediately went straight for my black Dane.  His name was Prince and he was minding his own business, sniffing around. At the time, I had 3 Danes.  The dog attacked Prince blind side, Prince whirled around while my other dogs came to his rescue. There's a reason they call them packs.  

I've also seen very vicious Rottweilers and everyone has read in the news endless stories about Pitbulls attacking and even killing people, including young children.  I'd have to look up the other breeds, I think there are 2 more insurance companies don't like.  Yes, Pirhanese (spelling) are one of them.  My only encounter with a dog of that breed was when a tenant who claimed the dog was "very friendly" (I had never heard of the breed before so I had no idea) and it turned out to be very hateful towards everyone but her. That dog tried to bite me on several occasions before I informed her that the dog was going or they were both going, but I wasn't going to tolerate it. That was after the dog tried to bite ONE OF HER OWN FAMILY MEMBERS that were visiting her.  

I think there are legitimate reasons to not allow certain breeds, if people don't like it, that's not my problem. Those are breeds I will never own or want anything to do with just because of their reputation. I DO think Dobermans are very cool looking dogs, but good grief, it's not worth the risk.  

It's highly likely, at least from my thinking about this, at this point that the park will be a mix of long term and short term stays.  It would be awesome if the place would fill up daily with short term stays - I could live off of that without working another job.  Net profit would be in the 6 grand per month range.  My take would be what, $3,500 after paying myself and paying income tax on it?  Trust me, I could survive and then some off of that.  

It IS possible, especially with the help of this web expert ensuring maximum exposure on internet searches for rv parks in my area.  My listing is showing on page 4 of google search for rv parks in my area.  It was at page 6.. and while I was doing that, I saw that a brand new park has opened south of here.

38 spaces, it is actually at a location I was thinking about buying last year.  But I decided it was too far away from anything, out in the middle of nowhere and not useful if people want to live there and commute to work, if it comes down to that.  It was also far from the nearest utilities.  I was shocked to learn the price. Some investor apparently built it to instantly resell it.  They have it completed but haven't opened it up and already it's for sale.  At 1.5 million, I just balk at such things.  There is a building on the property and a fishing pond and that's it.  

What on earth.  I've seen the prices of RV parks going anywhere from 500k up to 8 million. They are hot investments right now, a lot of people want to get into it.  Not unfortunately, I'm not getting into this to resell the thing right away.  I think that would be - ridiculous.  Unless I could get a million dollars out of it lmao.  

Oh myyy. The insurance company just contacted me and told me "it was approved for binding". I assume that means they have okay'ed it and are sending it to me via email.  The price tag is what I'm afraid of. 

Score! Way better than she originally thought the quote would be! $251 per month includes everything! There are a dozen documents they just sent that I will have to look through, there are likely specifics in there on what I can and cannot do. But, I told them 2 tent camping sites to start with, 14 lots, a doggy park and walking trails.