Building an RV Park from scratch under 50k?

Tvov wrote:
In my little town (and surrounding towns), building permits are a relative thing. If you have relatives in the town hall, no problems - whether or not you built before or after "forgetting" to get a permit. Or if you don't have relatives, a few nice lunches for town officials goes a long way. And learning where their "watering holes" are for happy hour after work to become friends.

There is a legend in my parts that one builder did actually do everything "legally"... but he went out of business.

Either way, it does take money -- and $50,000 may just be the "initiation fee"! lol

Sorry, just spend too long sometimes gossiping about local politics.

As I and others have said, go ahead and help your friends however you can, but not financially. Even if it turns out to be a big money maker business, it is rarely good to mix friends, family, and money.

LOL
You mention watering holes. In my case I think the watering was during work too!! I had a new house built years ago and I had it pretty much figured out as you describe it. During the winter I had such a bad draft in the living room that our feet would get cold. When I pulled the vinyl siding off that side of the house and found that they stood that wall up with a scab of about 3/4 inch thick wood under the bottom plate. Only about half that side of the house had Tyvec. I then found that the chase had huge gaps where it fastened to the side of the house and no insulation.

We had to sign a paper stating what paint colors and tile choices we wanted so there were no misunderstanding. Everything in the house was painted the wrong color so they had to change it. The hearth tile was not what we picked out and signed for. They changed that too but when we would vacuum the vac seemed to hit the tile at the edge of the carpet. They had installed the correct tile color over their wrong tile. I removed the tile and the fireplace insert so I could seal and insulate as good as possible.

The neighbor had a very slow water leak upstairs that destroyed the drywall and caused mold all the way down to the basement. They fixed all that then it blew a solder joint and took out everything from upstairs master bedroom down.

A couple years later we sold that house and about 3 moths later my realtor called and asked if I had done any undisclosed plumbing repairs or changes in the upstairs master bathroom. Nope, it was a new house, I never touched anything. He said it blew a joint and flooded the master bath, bedroom, down the stairs, into the living room and took out the kitchen and everything below all the way to the finished dry walled carpeted basement.

Just as you say this was a pack of rub dub drunken good old boys along with the township inspectors all hanging out at the local bar on the lake. After I knew what was going on I started recognizing the vehicles parked down there.

Code? Code my fanny