Well it wasn't shocking that a person called, asking if I have a bath house on the property? What am I going to do, lie? No, the property is still under construction, I'm sorry.
It is still getting set up, tho most of what is left to do is minor stuff. Stuff I can't currently do because of a ligament injury on my right knee. I really want to see if I can level a lot by just moving the gravel around a bit - or get it much closer to level, at least.
But, the lack of a bath house is an issue. Who knows how many potential customers might have looked and said no because there isn't one there? I have no idea. I just know I spent a good deal of time researching this issue and for a good many people, not having one is a deal breaker.
The only thing left to address, really, is how can I get the money to turn the shed into a bath house? Well, just one bathroom with a shower, to be more precise about it. I dunno. I haven't looked for more loans because I don't want another loan. There is no guarantee that if I get one built, I will all of a sudden see bookings flying in.
Ok, the way I will do it is when I get enough long term staying there - or - by some miracle - a bunch of short termers start coming in. I don't know what else to say. If I go back to work, it isn't to start funding the park. It needs to pay for itself, at the very least. I'm not going to beat myself up over this, it just kind of came home to roost after getting that phone call a few minutes ago.
It did, actually, start raining today, even after people began dismissing the forecast. It rained for several hours, actually, but it appears to have stopped. Raining that long? Well I'm not going to have the bush hog guy come out. And on a different note, James supervisor does bush hogging on the side and James says he charges $40 per hour. That's $35 per hour cheaper than the dude I was looking at using. I'll wait to see if this supervisor will come out. He's about 45 miles away, I'd gladly pay a fuel fee for saving that much money per hour. If I were to have the front AND the rear portion done, it would probably take all day long. The weeds are tall and a machine would have to go through them slowly to get them hacked down.
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A man calls, asks about 50 amp hookup - yes. I'm coming for 2 weeks do you have anything available? Yes, we have spots. What do I need to do? I'm not requiring anything at the moment. I need the business, thinking, not telling him, don't want to sound desperate for I'm not. What's the rate? $150 weekly. Ohh, ok! He probably doesn't hear that rate too often. He's coming Monday. Of course, as everything else in life, wait and see, but if he's coming for work, he needs someplace to stay. He would have already seen the 2 biggest competitors in town and for whatever reason, didn't choose them.
I'm okay with that, lol.
The new tenant texted me after I contacted him - well it was hours later. I'm here now. Yes, well we were at a restaurant so I told him we went out to eat, I'll be over there after we are done. A while later, he suggested coming over tomorrow. Yes, indeed, it was getting dark and his rig needs leveled. I don't want to do that in the dark. It's wet, cold, damp, overcast, just a gloomy day.
The man coming for 2 weeks? I'm going to build a leveler block. I'm going to make several of them, actually . this is just a 2X8 structure. You make it long enough for dual axles. It causes the trailer to pull up onto a 2X8, then up on another 2X8, down, back up for both axles to end up resting on the top of each of the platforms. It's near 4 inches off the ground for the wheels on the driver's side to site on. If that's not high enough, I will rebuild them to near 5 inches high. I don't think it needs more than 5 inches.
It's relatively cheap and I want the stuff available, as well as a lot of 2X8 blocks cut maybe 8 inches long for the leveler/stabilizer jacks. If people come and don't have anything, I will supply it for them. Cheap customer enhancement insurance to make them happy. If they can just drive up on the thing to level it, it will make people much happier. This guy has a 42 foot 5th wheel and who knows what kind of truck, but probably either a dually or a rear single axle but still a 1 ton setup.
I am not advertising unlevel lots. No one does. If they ask me, I will tell them, obviously, the lots aren't level side to side and I am supplying blocks to drive up on. If they don't want to deal with it, that's their choice, I won't hold it against them. But at least, for now, I will have something to mitigate the problem. It's a temporary solution, beyond shoveling gravel, I don't want to spend the money on a dozer operator coming out to fix it, far too much money right now. I will start on each lot digging down one side and shoveling over to the other whenever my knee starts to feeling better. That will be a long term project, I can't foresee manually doing that and getting 14 lots done in any short period of time.
Each lot will be shut down for use while doing it. It's not like I have all lots full every night. It's going to be a gradual "twisting" effect to pull up onto the lot, but it will be nothing major, I'm looking at 4 to 5 inches offset to start. If that gets it close, I won't worry about doing any more, all of these trailers have jacks or stabilizers on them to level their rigs. "Well, if that's true, why bother?" Because the wheels come off the ground. If you don't have the wheel or wheels on that side holding pressure on the frame of the rv, the rv will move around every time you take a step in it. You couple the wheels with the stabilizers and the front jack to get it secured.
Anyway, enough. Tomorrow is Sunday, I don't know if I'm going to church and I forgot to ask the guy when he'll be home. Or if he's going anywhere. But I want to get him squared away and get this all over and done with. And build the leveling block assembly - that won't take long, I already have the lumber, it's just a matter of cutting 3 boards and screwing them in place. If takes more than 15 minutes, I would be surprised.
