Campground Damage Deposit

copeland343 wrote:
I talked to the campground today. Someone broke a electric pedestal and it cost them over $1100 to repair. The lady I talked to stated that it would be a $100 charge on a credit card only, no cash deposit and it would be refunded after inspection of the site and should take three day for refund to appear on the card. We go there several times a year my BIL live across the lake and my brother lives in Bossier City. We have not been there since the $100 deposit requirement. It is a Parish run park not a private park. The charge is on all RV sites and also on the cabins also.

If repairing/replacing an electrical pedestal cost the park $1100.00 I am in the wrong business. They must have used government workers or bid the job out using some kind of ridiculous job specifications instead of just hiring an electrician to fix it.
That park must draw a much different crowd than any park I have knowledge of. In 15 years I have attempted to collect for damages exactly one time. Some idiot family decided mini-golf wasn't good enough and they took to driving the golf balls into the surrounding area. One broke a neighbor's plate glass window. The family was very apologetic and said to contact them with the repair bill and they would take care of it. Suffice to say they never returned a phone call, let a certified letter go unclaimed, had cancelled the credit card they used to pay for the site and basically stiffed us for the $500.00 repair. So there is some logic to having a damage deposit if the crowd is a bunch of drunken "watch this" hooligans. Otherwise, it is a whole lot of wasted time because normal RVers and Campers are not exactly the damage causing crowd.