Building RV park near McKinney TX, what would you want most?

westernrvparkowner wrote:

mkc wrote:

txfamilycamper wrote:

My wife and I are developing a new RV park between McKinney and Anna (15 minutes north of McKinney), TX along highway 75. We'll have some monthly spots and some daily/weekly spots available.

That last statement has me thinking your primary clientele will (most likely) be construction workers for the commercial and road projects in NTX. Take a look at Sunrise RV Park in Texarkana as an example of how they handled that. A small area up front (2 rows) for transient, the rest for the long-term stays.

I think the family developing the park should take a trip or two spending time in parks that are occupied primarily by long term stays by construction workers, tradesman, lower income migrant workers and the like. That business is polar opposite of running a park for the vacation, retirement and recreation crowd.
Furthermore, once you have taken on long term stays the laws will become much less favorable to the park owner and much more favorable to the tenant. The time frame varies from state to state, but at some point those renters will fall under tenant/landlord laws and no longer be subjected to innkeeper laws. Once that happens, the park owners will no longer be able to enforce many policies such as quiet hours, site occupancy, certain site keeping rules, certain pet policies and many others. The park's ability to evict a problem will be curtailed and will require court action. The RVs will likely be considered mobile homes and the procedures for eviction will be even more restricted than evicting someone from a stick built home.
Knowing the area where the intend to develop this park (assuming it truly is along US 75) I am reasonably sure the land costs alone are significant enough to warrant hiring a professional park consultant. A consultant would not only assist in the design of the park, possibly preventing a costly error, but would be able to assure the park would be in compliance with the myriad of laws the park will fall under (ADA, environmental, zoning, health, fire etc.). They would also offer their opinion on the risks and advantages associated with things like long term stays. Better to spend $10,000 upfront than incur multiple times that amount in legal fees, fines and change orders in construction down the road.