Sunday

Feeling better.  Card night last night, some families showed up for pool time and then card game.  I knew they were coming to swim, I didn't know we were having card night.  Went on until past 11, it had been so long since they've done it that I joined in.  

Kind of woke up late this morning for church, but we went anyway.  I don't know if church is going to be a thing when I get this or some other job.  I have still completely forgotten to ask them about that, they didn't call last week but they did call this week and I was distracted with everything going on.

The new owners of the new RV park have a sign out on the main highway over there, as reported by Maria and she sent me a pic of it.  It's going to be a RV, Cabin and Tiny Home resort.  Resort intones pool, water park, clubhouse, all kind of amenities.  I don't know if I should be relieved or nervous about that prospect.

A resort also intones much higher pricing and affordability out the window for lots of people who are living in these things to save money.  It is more of a niche that is offered to retired folks who have 200k 5th wheels or 500k coaches and have plenty of money.  Also weekend warriors - families going for a weekend just for the amenities. Party stuff if the park allows such types of rentals.  

I cannot compete with that and won't even try.  I barely got to where I'm at now and it's still greatly lacking in the curb appeal department considering the lack of grass.  

However.  Cabins are something that I have on my horizon.  Because people will rent them.  Either for weekends or just long term, it's pretty much guaranteed if you build them, they will rent out.  But, that's money I don't have right now.  I'm not getting into more CC debt for anything beyond absolute necessity and that has dwindled well down to almost nothing.  I would have to buy grass on credit as well.  It's mandatory at some point.  Whenever we get some serious rain in the forecast, there is nothing but very small percentages of chances of rain going on as far as the forecast goes.  

I'm going to focus on the curb appeal and getting the place looking better. That's really all I can do atm.  Competing with a company that just spent a million dollars on a 38 space facility isn't anything I'm going to try to do.  At least, not head to head. I've got location that is far superior to them and all the rest of them actually.  I've got pricing in the very affordable range.  I've got the basic amenities now, nothing fancy but the people that are there are happy with it.  

If I had my way, I'd have the driveway paved with asphalt, install 40 more spaces, put in a pool, a small clubhouse with pool table and kitchen, a gathering area with BBQ pit and a separate bath house from a laundry facility, separated by gender (we're talking male and female here, thanks).  About half a million would cover that..no, probably more than that. 

So, face reality, do what I can and hope that I can at least add 15 spaces sometime in the next year.  Then add a pool.  There's 140k right there.  Maybe more - maybe less, haven't really priced pools, figuring around 50k.  The only way I do that is to get my debt ratio down and credit score back up in the 700 range.  That's basically my goal with getting a job besides covering everything, pay down CC debt.  One card at a time and lose high payments.  4 cards that are pretty well racked with high balances.  I figured out that I have around $1,200 per month CC payments and then on top of the $232 for the shed, $219 for the laundry machines and other payments such as the land payment and a loan payment.  I'm at least done with the car payment, that's a relief.  

That's where I'm at right now. My plans will never become reality without a sizeable loan and that ain't happening until I get rid of a lot of debt load.  Just resolved to get it done.  

Other than that, I've taken it easy today and plan to do some work tomorrow, as much as I can handle.  I'm better - but not that much better.  Just get out there and get more weed eating done. James ended up with an extra battery pack that he gave me today so I can work longer at trimming everything up.  

As quickly as everything filled up is as quickly as some of it is leaving again. I've received calls about long term but nothing converted into a person showing up with a trailer - yet.  It was just amazing how fast things turned around.  I long term out of that influx of people but one of them left today - they paid for a week and still had 4 days left - another is leaving soon - they were the 8 then 13 then 18 day stay.  I think another one going out as well.  

I've listed the option of moving in tiny homes.  Might as well, as long as they are in good condition, I really don't care about it excepting it has to be on wheels.  If it's not on wheels then we are bound under mobile home park rules and I don't want or need that, plus it's taxable.  Just a whole different set of rules that I am not that familiar with for I am not running a mobile home park, but evicting a tenant requires the whole court process, can be expensive and in the end - many old mobile home parks are bought out by RV park investors and transformed into RV parks.  The infrastructure and pads are already there, just need get rid of the mobiles and upgrade landscaping. 

Well enough of this. I don't need to get too far down rabbit holes and into too many tangents.  I do that to get the goals listed in priority in my head and long term goal front and center in my mind. I can go on and on and on. For now, it's enough to get a job, do what I have discussed doing and get the next phase of this rolling along.  Well, more like rolling down the highway.