I for one don't particularly like it when I pull into a RV resort or park and find 80 or 90 percent of lots filled with park models. Seems more like a poor boys retirement village than a vacation destination. How do some of you mobile RVers feel about this ?

You're probably going to get attacked for saying this, but I agree with you. Many RV parks are being turned into trailer parks. And I'm not saying everybody who lives in a trailer park is bad, but they do tend to attract an undesirable element at times. Many of the RV parks put these park models in and just rent them by the day and that is not too bad. You still have an RV park then. But when they start renting them long term as well as have long term RV rentals, they can start to get junky if the management doesn't keep up with it.Personally, if I owned an RV park, I'd probably allow long term renters as long as they were the full timer RV type of people, but I wouldn't allow people to build things around their RV. No decks and things of that nature.

Most places I've seen the park models, they were owned by snowbirds who alternated between 2 locations based on the weather.

"Birds of a feather, flock together." so the expression goes. Put yourself in the shoes of someone who owns a park model. Park models are designed and equipped to resemble a half-way house and trailer. Basically, I think they are just shorter versions of mobil homes, and more mobil as people do not remove the wheels or tongues on park models like they do with mobil homes.Nothing wrong with a "resort" or a "park" that has occupancy with park models. You're correct however, that park models can (and probably are) used for a permanent residence, but how many "traditional" full timers do the same thing with a more standard "mobil" RV?If the Park Models have found a happy destination spot, I think that's great! It doesn't affect my world in the least. If I am fortunate enough to get a "spot" to park and right between to Park Models, I'm still thrilled, simply because I did get a spot! I'll be moving soon enough, much sooner they they are. They're honkered down for the "duration". My "duration" is much shorter. But hey, those folks are just as friendly, just as courteous, and just plain ol' people like me.I see no difference there than a campground that has 1 or 2 campground "hosts" parked for several months at a time. The only difference is the type of RV they have. Other than that, I see no problem.But, if you're talking about "seasonal campsite" vs non-seasonal... well ... that's a different matter!

I have to agree, I avoid parks with them like I avoid the plague. One issue for me is most times the owners have developed cliques over the years they have been there and they see traveling RVs as interlopers who they would just as soon see move on down the road. Second, as they add the decks, the outdoor refrigerators, the freezers, the sheds, the plastic pink flamingos and the garden Gnomes the park model really becomes permanently parked and gradually decays over the years. In 10 or 15 years the park just becomes a junkyard. I like the vehicle part of recreational vehicle, it strongly implies it moves around.

PF&PM wrote:I for one don't particularly like it when I pull into a RV resort or park and find 80 or 90 percent of lots filled with park models. Seems more like a poor boys retirement village than a vacation destination. How do some of you mobile RVers feel about this ?I agree.. Quick buck with steady income for owners. One Florida park called us to ask why we had not returned and I told them "We have no interest in camping in a trailer park".

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JohnnyT
Explorer II
Dec 28, 2013
Ok, lets move on. Topic has little to do with Class A... Way to many marginally acceptable post for any forum...

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Bea_PA
Explorer
Dec 28, 2013
I think that you will find here in FL, a lot of the park models are owned by former RV'ers. We own a lot, sometimes we use it, sometimes we rent it out but I suspect when we are too old to drive this rig. the lot will sprout a park model.
kjburns
Explorer
Dec 28, 2013
I own a lot in a place that's a 55 and older park/resort. It's 90% park models. There hasn't been a bad one in the bunch as far as the people go there. Out of 500 lots, I'd say 30 live there full time. It's just their summer hide out in the mountains...nothing trashy about it. We were just there for Thanksgiving and had a great time.

I've stayed in some places where I won't visit again, but I wouldn't use park models as a barometer. I look for how the place is kept and this park is immaculate. If it looks like a dump, it's probably a dump :)
doxiemom11
Explorer II
Dec 28, 2013
We also avoid the parks with park models, it's like a trailer park. We prefer a park that is a little more like a campground. And, for us, we are not as old as many of the residents who have park models. It would be like hanging out with our parents all the time. No offense as we will get there ourselves someday, but just not yet.
RFCN2
Explorer
Dec 28, 2013
We have stayed in hundreds of RV Parks in the last few years and I just don't think you can say (IMHO) that having park models negatively impacts RV Parks in general. It is certainly true that the "grapes of wrath" look folks have increased their numbers in the last few years, but in our experience that is not increased by park models. We stay at several very nice highly rated RV parks in the South West that do have park models.

But we rate people by their smiles and friendliness and not how fancy their rig is.
J-Rooster
Explorer
Dec 28, 2013
I wouldn't buy one unless it had a deeded lot (a lot that is not deeded the lot the owners can continually raise the rent if they choose to do so).
ScottG
Nomad
Dec 28, 2013
Francesca Knowles wrote:
Tom N wrote:

Ever see the Canadian comedy, Trailer Park Boys?

:h

Hmmmm......My husband sez he watches that show for the "park models".

HEY TOM!

Is the Park "model" in the pic the one with the blue siding or the one with the- er- ah- "front porch"? :?

:B
Francesca_Knowl
Explorer
Dec 27, 2013
Tom N wrote:

Ever see the Canadian comedy, Trailer Park Boys?

:h

Hmmmm......My husband sez he watches that show for the "park models".

HEY TOM!

Is the Park "model" in the pic the one with the blue siding or the one with the- er- ah- "front porch"? :?

:B
Tom_N
Explorer
Dec 27, 2013
Trailer park......nothing else to add.

Ever see the Canadian comedy, Trailer Park Boys?
Mr_Mark1
Explorer
Dec 27, 2013
Old Biscuit,

I think I miss that point too thinking that the OP was talking about the 'condition' of the full-time trailers/coaches, not the fact that it was just a majority of park models.

Nonetheless, I have sensed a feeling that they think we are invading their park.

MM.