Buying campsites

Why not just contact the Park owners and ask them your questions. I think you'd get better answers. Every campground has it's own rules & expenses. If this is a deeded lot then yes you'll have taxes & insurance expenses. But if it's membership park you'll have maintenance(water & sewer)fees to pay, or membership fees. And electric of course. My advise is to read over the park rules before signing anything. You'll be surprised what kind of rules that's written in them.

x-2 what the Captain said, with an addition, go there not just to talk to the operators but to visit with others who are there and have bought sites. Not the ones looking to sell only, also the ones who are satisfied with their purchase and find out why.

You've got some good advise already. We own two lots in Florida. We stay on one in the winter and rent the other out. The rental does very well and more then pays for itself.

Even though you own a lot, you can still travel and rent it out.

Never owned a lot.
Like to go different places.

One thing you will never have problems with that kind of campground and HOA rules ... you will always be able to park your camper in your own driveway.

My guess is that it is a secure feeling going to the same place all the time. My parents had a summer home in Wisconsin and never went anyplace else in 50 years! My wife and I, however, like to move around and see new sights.

This is a very interesting thread to me. I want to travel around the country when I retire, but with an open mind towards settling down somewhere, if I like it a lot. I could still travel part-time, but enjoy a cheap, simple life away from the rat-race of the big city the rest of the year. What search terms would you use in this website's search feature to find more threads on this subject? I'd like to get an idea of the approximate costs involved, although I realize it will vary a lot from campground to campground and area of the country. The rental idea is very interesting, too. Maybe I can become an RV campground landlord tycoon in my retirement.

Rv campground slum lord? No! I don't know how full timing is going to be for us. Are we going to be gone year round until one of us dies? Maybe 10 years? I don't see myself turning into a snow bird.

Frau Blücher and I own lots both here in Ontario and in Florida and it works for us perfectly,,, for us. The reasoning behind our decisions were,

-After adding up the cost per year over the fifteen years we would likely be snowbirdin' it makes financial sense to own and in the end sell off our lots and recoup most or all of our costs.

-With owning our lots we know what our annual costs will be and how our resorts are run and not have to be at the mercy of an independently owned RV resort owner's whims that will govern our property or future.

-Every year we know where we are going, where the things we need are, how safe it is.

We have annual costs to both lots like HOA's, property taxes, electric and so on but it still works out cheaper than paying monthly or seasonally and we have complete control over what we do!

Sheryl Crow: "Its not having what you want,Its wanting what you got"

We took a different approach. We leased our summer spot. No HOA, no tax problems, Seasonal fiber service to site, fixed sales/transfer fee and low annual cost - around $900 last year plus electric. Happy campers.