I was pretty much all over the place the last entry - my mind was swirling around in circles trying to take in all of this nonsense.  

To recap: Fidelity was almost 7 grand, Starlink was just short of 3 grand and most cell companies didn't have service to my property.  One that did, you had to jump through hoops to get a router and get it to actually work. I spent a lot of time today researching all of this stuff, before I eventually left the house, got in the car and drove to Verizon.  

Contrary to what the person on the online chat told me and what the person on the phone told me, I did not have to pay out $500 today nor did I have to give unlimited information to get a router that receives cell phone signal and converts it into internet and then sends out a wifi signal. 

I didn't have to pay for the router at all.  I also can order a booster - which I am doing right away  - for free. Whatever magic that lady had at the Verizon store? She did quite well.  Now, I am not saying this internet is going to work fabulously, I have really no idea.  I just know I will have something out there to use for wifi.  I was charged $33 today.  I still have to go online and fill out a bunch of stuff - I have been very busy today and none of that business included a single trip to the property. 

I am just relieved that I do have something to claim as wifi, I can only hope that it works decently.  It is not unlimited - that is a bit scary, I'll be keeping track of it.  I have the router, I need to finish all of this.

On to my online reservation system. A person in the Facebook group for RV investors/owners said they tried to book a site online and got back a "no sites available" message today. What? None of the lots on there are booked, not a single one.  I thought about it and got onto my site and tried to book a site. It came back with all 14 lots available.  

But I know what's happening.  There is a field you have to answer that indicates the type of rig you have. If you don't change the field, it is set at tent site. All of them show "tent" first. Well, obviously, tent sites aren't 78 foot long, graveled tent camping sites. I removed all tent sites from the site and then checked it. It still showed tent site first, even tho I had removed it out of the software.  I don't know if I needed to reset/refresh or whatever, but I wasn't waiting around.

I immediately contacted the developer and asked him to please fix it. He did, doing a test reservation which went through. Well of course it went through, he knows to change the thing from tent to something else.  Whatever, he left me to delete the reservation and that was that.  

Anyway, it's now fixed and I already received my first reservation through that system.  Like, how many reservations have I missed because of this situation?  Have I missed any reservations? A dozen? A hundred? I have no clue.  But it is telling I got the first one shortly after that thing was deleted out of there.  

Anyway, I'm moving forward and I'm hoping that now, I might get some reservations going now and throughout the summer?  See? I'm glad someone tried it and pointed it out to me.  The designer is the one who actually put that tent thing in there, he didn't catch that it was showing as default for type of rig and he also apparently hasn't considered that that field should probably either be eliminated or enhanced to stick out. Tents are gone, yes, but not permanently.  

Anyway, I am a bit relieved now that I understand that I have probably been losing business and now, perhaps, I will start getting some reservations.  

Tomorrow I will be working on trying to get the router going and pumping wifi out to the park. They said just plug it in, look for the name of it on your phone, enter the security key and walaah, you sould have wifi.  Yes, we will find out if the walaah actually happens. I just know that I have 3 bars of signal strength out of 4 for Verizon out there, that is sufficient to pump wifi into the park.  

There is still a lot to do and I am just doing one thing at a time and getting it done. I took campsite 1 out of the reservation system. These people are apparently staying for awhile and I don't need people booking it. I really think I want them to move to another lot tho, that is more of a "premiere" lot. At the moment, I am charging the same for everything but that will change.  If I start getting bookings all over the place, I may raise the rate up $5.  Still less than competitors but gives me a bit more profit.