I stayed up way too late last night. Like, why did I even do that? Oh, because I got in so late. Well, I have a lead on a motorcoach - older one - they had listed at $4,500 I offered $2,800 and they are debating it. I'm sure they want to wait to see if anyone else contacts them with a higher offer.
They are only 20 miles away if that. He said he'd ask his wife. There's one other one in there that a guy did about a 75% rebuild of the inside of the trailer. It's not bad looking. It needs more stuff in it but for the price, it might be worth it. He want's $1,500 and he's had it up for quite a while. I asked him if that was his bottom dollar? Maybe, do you want to come look at it? Sure.
That one is in Shreveport, a bit further away but not ridiculous like yesterday. I texted those people yesterday telling them they should be more honest about their ad. They had told me it was in great condition and was worth more than they were asking for it. In a pig's eye. That thing is worthless. They texted me back in the middle of the night telling me to F off and other niceties. These people are you classic example of trailer trash. I didn't call them that in the text.
It's not that they live in a trailer that makes them trailer trash. It's the whole mentality. Junk laying everywhere around both properties. Their mobiles falling apart. Even if they are poor, they could reattach skirting and possibly find a can of paint somewhere and fix the roof instead of draping a tarp over it. AS soon as I saw the house and then the trailer, I knew I had driven up there in vain. Well, live and learn.
If a trailer or coach is close enough by, I don't need a lot of pictures, I do want some. The rest can just be inspected in person. I'm good at saying no thank you, turning around, getting into my vehicle and leaving.
Well we agreed on a price so now I just wait until he gets home from work. The tent camper just went into the shed yet again. I feel for them, it's hot outside. I would think living in such conditions would motivate a person to do whatever it takes to get out of that predicament. It would me, I'd gladly drive a truck all over the place than be without a place to live - or living in a tent. But I still don't want her in there all day long. Her presence drives away people wanting to use the machines and I can't have that. There are plenty of places she can go to in town to cool off that don't cost anything and she does have a car.
Got sidetracked. I have notifications on whenever someone is driving by or is in the shed. I want to see who it is and what they are doing in there. We still have tools in there that I think I may just move to the small shed outside and put a lock on it.
Anyway, this guy went into detail about the coach. Said he was on the roof cleaning it up and using a hose and that noting leaked inside of it. He also said the floors do not have any soft spots. In fact, he just said the only real things wrong with it are that some of the clearance light don'ts work and the generator apparently doesn't work. I don't care about either of those issues. It doesn't need a generator and lights can be fixed. But driving it back to the park in daylight I don't need lights either.
He said he wanted to be upfront about the things wrong with it. Finally, at least in appearance, an honest person. Again, the little town it's located in is only 17 miles away after looking on GPS. I hate to sit here and say that I'm just going to buy it after all of what has happened at previous places, so I won't lmao. But if it is in as good condition that this dude is saying it is in, I'm driving it home today. It has some sort of floor covering that previous owners put down in it, he said.
Yes, you could see it in the pic. Looks kind of weird. Maybe just install some carpeting.
Well I don't want to get too involved with talking about that until after I go see it and potentially drive it home. Well, not home but over to the RV park.
Okay, she's taking a shower. I know that because there is a microphone on the camera and you can hear it. I'm not a peeping Tom, but I can see taking a nice, cool shower. It's going to be a very hot day again today and all the rest of this week and - summer. I need to get over there today and discuss the work situation with her brother. She dumped it off on me to go find him. This is just one thing that irritates me. I shouldn't have to go chasing these people down, they should be contacting me up front.
Whatever. If she's still in there when I get over there I'm going to gently remind her that I said at the beginning of this that I didn't want y'all camping out in there. At least she is keeping the dog out of there now. Apparently she's putting him in the doggy park and yes, there are some trees for shade. She spent 5 hours in there yesterday but it was doing laundry. I think she just dragged it out so she wouldn't have to leave. She did not bring her batteries in so I am assuming she is going to drag it out even further for even more hours to do that. People not doing what they agreed to do and me having to foce the issue.
It's aggravating and I probably should have thought this out better. Like, don't do this again. If someone is coming in to tent camp for a few days, great. There is a family that is coming to our town for 4 days that wants to tent camp next month. Crazy. It's so hot. I can deal with 4 days and just monitor the situation.
As it stands, I've got yet another guest leaving. He was told they are sending him somewhere else in the next few weeks but they won't give him an exact date. My park is slowly emptying out and I don't have anyone coming to take up another space. It's frustrating. I don't know what else I can do beyond what I've already done to get more people in there. I put up another Facebook post and took down 2 others with different wording. I think I'll put up another Facebook post with a different picture and remove that one as well.
And update the Google business statement. But beyond that, I have no clue. There aren't any other amenities in the foreseeable future without the finances to be able to do it. I really wish I could get a pool loan. No guarantees, but putting that up as an amenity in the park would very likely fill the park up. And at slightly higher rates to cover the cost of maintaining it. I don't know, I haven't tried to get any loans in a while because I have too much debt and it counts against me. It counts against me too much. America has a debt crisis with credit cards going right now, lenders probably are looking at any given individual's credit report and seeing how much is on there. I am not late on any payments, but it's pretty high amount. That is the biggest thing that would help me right now, if I could get a debt consolidation loan, put all of it on there and have a lower monthly payment than what I am paying now for all of it.
I might try again.
As for now? I need to eat something and then get over to the property.
G'day
