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Thunder_Mountai
Explorer II
Jan 27, 2018

What does the future hold for 55+ park model communities?

The wife and I were talking the other day about how changing demographics will affect the park model retirement communities. We are currently in the Apache Junction/Mesa area. Have no clue how many th...
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TomG2
Explorer
Jan 31, 2018
almcc wrote:

I'm talking about a 1200 site park with 100 pre-historic sites virtually unused and empty. Converting a few and charging a bit extra might just make them some additional $$ and attract folks that have larger RVs.


A park in the RGV combined the lots on a couple of streets to create "Widows Row" for those that can afford the extra space. Those sites are full while many other smaller sites in the same park sit empty.

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