Boondocking Article

rkortes wrote:

amandasgramma wrote:

ed6713 wrote:

amandasgramma wrote:

Sparky87k5 wrote:

amandasgramma wrote:
So let's do some calculating. I'll guess the average park space is $30. a night......100 spaces in the RV park. That's $3000 a night if full. Times 30 days in the month -- that's $90,000. a month. Times 12 months ---$1,080,000 a year. Let's say you're only full half the time or half that year....that's still $5.4 million a year.

NOT $5.4 million but $540,000, still a good income.

You're right......type-o!!!!!! giggle giggle.........and that's why I retired from being a budget analyst!!!!!!! thank you

The $540k is the GROSS income. Well above what the owners will NET after all expenses are paid. I would be surprised if they netted 10% after income tax.

Well, sweetie, you're right --- however that's still more than I make. So what makes them (and apparently you) think that I should take all MY income and pay them to sleep in MY rig that I paid for?????? There's plenty of campers out there to keep RV parks and campgrounds in business. What causes most that I've known of to not have enough campers is 1) attitude and 2) too costly.

ed6713's point was that these campground owners are small business owners just trying to make a buck to live on. I don't really see them as "1 percenters" as your math attempted to illustrate.

and I think both of you are missing my point....no, I don't think they're the 1 percenters. But I DO think they have a lot of gall trying to prevent me from boondocking .....doing what we can afford, to help line their pocket. Now -- I've said enough on this -- i don't want to get kicked off here......