Tuesday - 7:15 am
The park is full and there are 2 people wanting in next month. Which works out as one person for sure is only there a month and another, I think, is also leaving next month. Tomorrow is "do or die day" for the workamper. Well, he won't die, I'm not talking about violence (old sayings from the past should probably be put into context nowadays for people who have no clue and think, gee, he's talking about killing someone!). Just they need to pay up or leave. If they can't pay up, they'll sit there and make a bunch of excuses and then they'll try to turn the narrative back on me, Allen and the park.
Nope. They won't get a lot of that type of verbiage out of their mouths before I shut it down. I didn't even reply to her last message she left on my voicemail at 10:30 at night going off on Allen and telling us how respectful they have been and blah, blahhh, blahhhh. HE, her husband, has NOT been respectful but she's never around when all of that nonsense occurs. She hardly ever comes out of that trailer. Actually, I guess I'd have to deal with it after vacation. I don't want to give them a 3 day notice and then have them going wild in the park while I'm gone. Bad idea. I just know they won't have any money, I don't know if they are going to be able to move like they said they were originally before they changed their story and told me how broke they are.
As the saying goes, he's a grown @$$ man, healthy enough to do some kind of work, get off your lazy @$$ and go do something. My sympathy is over for them, they don't deserve it. "The man who doesn't work, doesn't eat" or something like that in the book of Proverbs. I've worked my entire life starting a the age of 10 and was doing chores long before that age. I still wonder what kind of "empire" I could have built up by now if I had started this RV park project say, 10 years ago? 20?
I see people complaining that they can't keep their parks full (in the managers/owners groups) and I wonder why they are so rigid on their view of how to run the place? You have to adapt to a changing market and the market is definitely changing. People are rightfully discussing the fact that the market is becoming oversaturated with RV parks. They keep building them, people that have no clue about rentals, RV parks or what the market is like in the area they are potentially developing one in.
They get into a million, 2 million dollars worth of debt and mortgage payments and are constantly under the pressure of having that payment to make, that huge payment to make every month. They get desperate, make decisions out of that desperation and it doesn't work out. I've read this a lot lately, people buying parks and after a year or 2, throwing in the towel. Or not making any money at all. Or whatever. I get offers to buy my park and I laugh at them. $150k? The land alone is worth more than that. They approach me thinking I am also desperate and they get a no thank you back at them.
The other owners drive through my park at least once a month. Not like I don't occasionally look at theirs. I don't go driving through them, I just stop and look. I haven't done that in a while, tho, I think I will do that maybe next week and see how they're doing. The major competitor flatly told me a month ago they aren't full. They are in desperation mode because their park was built back in the days of small spots and cram them in mentality. The bigger units they are building now can hardly make it into the park, much less find a big enough space to park.
Anyway, I don't have time for that this week. Late day today, as I am not leaving for another 30 minutes, if I get there too early that other driver will just be there, unloading after showing up late. I should be able to show up around 10:45 am at the latest and start offloading. Instead, I'm lucky to get started by 11:30 or even noon. A bit ridiculous, there is nothing I can do about it.
Today I want to finish out cleaning out the vehicle of stuff and then tomorrow take it to the car wash and spend an hour or longer, however long, vacuuming the entire thing out and wiping it all down. Today, however, I intend on getting on the Interstate, driving 10 miles one direction and then 10 miles back and see if the AC in the front will cool the entire interior of it. If it does, I'm not bothering with taking it into the shop. That can wait until I get the truck.
That has been put off until September - at the earliest. That came from mom, not me. Apparently her diagnosis is severe, but not "end of life right now" type of severe. I suppose I could plan a trip around her birthday.
Trump's VP pick is JD Vance. I know nothing about him, but I do know that the leftist media instantly went after him and the republican party as a whole. What a horrible pick! they try to establish with their version of facts. I have to say that MSNBC is one the vilest, evil, self-serving, biggest propaganda driver and evil media outlets that exists in the US today on the mainstream scale. If you want to see where a lot of this drivel originates from, just tune into their shows.
It wouldn't have mattered who Trump picked, the left would have pounced on that person instantaneously regardless of who they are or what they have done. They are saying Vance wants to raise taxes on the middle class and give breaks to the rich. They say this and other stuff on every election cycle. It's Biden who is decimating the middle class, which started with Obama's policies.
Trump came strolling into the RNC last night, he didn't give a speech, I guess he isn't doing that until the 3rd day.
Ok, well there is nothing else, really, worth discussing. I am likely dumping Verizon altogether at the end of the month and just continue on with T Mobile, It's not near as bad as everyone has said it is. I may have to upgrade the account a bit for the perks I want. I basically have a business account for T Mobile and a personal account for Verizon. I'll save $192 per month minus any upgrades I may get. Like, probably a new phone. Couple that with dumping $221 per month or whatever that shed payment is and I'm over $400 per month off the outgoing payments (accounts payable).
Taking a loan to pay off all credit card debt would save me around $400 per month in payments, but, those payments go on for 6 years. And the only company that is offering it doesn't have very good reviews. A significant amount of reviews say they ask you for more and more information and at the end, they don't give you the loan. Why go through that. I have ideas, so far I haven't followed through with them for the money drain has been significant with doing things around the park and payments up the ying yang. Losing $400 per month should be redirected to just paying off some of the debt. Yet, I find that any money saved is money spent elsewhere. Things I need to get done that I have put on hold.
That much money saved could make a tractor payment, for one. These companies are all offering zero interest loans. The loans go on for 7 or 8 years, that's where I stop. What if the machine doesn't even last that long? I'm stuck paying on something that doesn't work and is in the junk pile? It's such a pain renting machines, tho, that's the downside of just renting machinery for whatever work needs done. I feel like I need to just wait on the Lord and ask Him to provide an answer to this situation.
Meanwhile, the trees continue to grow....Allen is working on that tho, he has made some good progress.
Well, time to get ready to leave.
G'day
