Anyone that has access to my facebook as well as this blog knows something major happened today.

Upon arrival at the property, there were fully 3 Swepco power company trucks, the telephone poles had already been installed and the line was almost finished.  I was - shocked actually.  Yea, I was really quite surprised that they had actually shown up this week.

I drove to where the boy - he's actually a 25 year old but whatever - was working, parked there, went and got the 4 wheeler with the trailer so he could start hauling the stuff to one of the burn piles.  I instructed him on what I wanted done and then walked to the front of the property where the workers were.

One of them introduced himself and we chatted for a while. He actually lives on the street and was talking about the 18 acres he just recently bought replete with a 2,500 square foot house for $189,000.  I'm telling ya, that's a good deal with a house on that land.  

He did let out a piece of information I did not know: The engineer is the one who releases the work to be done on any given week. He said they had just gotten the work order yesterday.  Seriously.  This engineer has been holding me up all of this time?  I was a bit disgusted but I bit my tongue, this dude I was talking with was really cool and laid back. He said they have a shortage of workers after I mentioned how I tell young people to get into the power line for electric business with the local state college.

 They pay them over $30 per hour plus overtime to start right out of this college.  And it's only 2 years.  

Anyway, I just stood there and marveled at the sight of those new power poles and the new line they had already strung. Even after I left them, I just couldn't help myself in looking at everything.  

I texted the electrical contractor - the poles are in, please come and hook up the power.  The power company will not hook up the line from the telephone pole to the meter assembly, that is up to the property owner to do and I already paid for this service.  Once they hook it up, I can call the power company and find out how much deposit money they will require. I can see thousands of dollars after paying the city $1,500 deposit for water.  

I texted the owner of the company that has been doing everything. The electrical contractor actually works for him.  I said I'm ready to get the gravel in as soon as Wesley verifies everything is in working order. He said thank you.  They have slowed down recently and are needing work to keep his crews busy.  He didn't give a date, he does things his own way. He does things right, so I won't question that part excepting it needs done very soon. 

The insurance.  Well, it's 3 grand and change per year.  It's a little over $800 down payment. It covers everything that I wanted - well as far as I'm reading it anyway, I'm going to ask some specific questions about the doggy park and the walking trails.  Is all of this covered? Because it's 2 million aggregate and 1 million each incidence.  Which is fine by me, but I want everything covered.  

I also called T Mobile. No down payment, router given to you upon signature on the line, business account, I didn't get into specifics, just how much does it cost? $55 per month. Mind you, that's a business account, not personal. It's for internet only, but dang that's a good deal.  It may go up when I tell them it's for an rv park and I will probably need some broadcasters to booster signal strength. 

I did not get the sign up today. I was supervising the boy and working as well. He was hauling the very huge pile of debris I had stacked and I was either cutting down more brush/trees along the driveway or pulling weeds on the backside. 

There are going to be weeds to start with, but I don't want them around the park area.  

What else. I need to get that appointment with the accountant, I was going to do it today but I just had so much other stuff going on and seeing the power company out there, well, that kind of sealed the deal.  

Oh, the router setup. There is no justification for running 400 feet of electrical wiring to that building right now.  I will buy some kind of lockable locker and put it right next to the power setup, making it necessary to only run 10 feet or so of electrical wiring and a single circuit breaker on the panel.  
The wiring to the office bldg will cost many hundreds of dollar - just for the wire. No thanks.  Not right now anyway.  

Tomorrow. I need that sign up, dang. Lol. Just keep putting it off for other things. Get the drilling machine, get that done and then call the accountant to make another appointment.  I dunno yet. It seems I can do the books without an accountant, but at the same time, is it wise to do so? I don't think so, but the finance department of my company is telling me that after that gravel is put in, my funds will be getting low.  

Finish the rules eventually - it just isn't there yet but yes, it's close.  Still need to find someone to draw up a contract.  This all costs money, btw, it isn't free.  

The pressure is on. Well, it will be after the gravel and all that money is paid off.  

Nah, the pressure is on, lol, it's been on for a while. There was always a lot to do without the power being hooked up.  I've been working diligently to keep up the pace.  

Yup, I'm going to work on the rules again after this post, lol.

G'day

 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.