buying campground

Sprink-Fitter wrote:
Most of you that respond must be business experts. Most are trying to tell him he can't do it, how do you know? Beleive it or not not every closed campground is a failure, some close for other reasons.

Live a little.

I don't know about being a "business expert", but I have owned RV parks for a long time and haven't gone broke yet. I do know that buying and operating any business is like analyzing an iceberg, you have to consider what is below the water, out of sight, much more than what can be seen on the surface.
It is very easy to spend someone else's money. Supporting any business idea simply because it is someone's dream is irresponsible. Most of the responses here have been pretty spot on. There just aren't very many closed campgrounds littering the countryside. There are many reasons why a business would close, but I haven't seen or heard of any that were successful and just shut the doors. Knowing why a business closed is very important and the fact that it did close should be seen as a giant red flag, not as a reason to buy it. Purchasing an RV park is a big investment, and done carelessly is a ticket to financial disaster. Just having a dream is not a business plan.