Ok so a year or two ago I posted about opening an RV park with two friends but was deeply concerned bc they had no real funding and no real plan of action. I omitted myself from the project because I was going abroad on a grant and lots of other reasons but I was still emotionally invested.
To summarize it, land is out in Southeast Texas, 9 Acres my friend wanted to build into an RV park with very little funding. With an influx of cash from his step father he was able to build a roadway and plot out some spaces. The money was given to him on the condition he include his half sister in some rights to the land.
Well as soon as he spent that money he made his sister sign some agreement saying he would START paying her back in three years in monthly payments (with some absurdly low interest rate) and that she no longer held any stake in the property. He also did this with my other friend who was helping to pay the mortgage for years. He arrogantly told them both "I am buying you out" and gave them no other choice.
So they left and he got with a new "business" partner, and she signed him up with some guy who was boasting that he was going to be building tiny homes out there and theyd parcel out the land and sell it, and with the money he got he would keep some of the land and build on it finally.
Well shocker, this guy was full of it and backed out of the deal after my "friend" spent like 10k making lots (just throwing a ton of rocks on squares he mapped out).
They THEN tried to coerce people to live on the land and pay them a monthly subscription fee. You had to bring your own RV, no plumbing mind you, they had portopotties they rented, and the rent was 450-700 a month depending lmao. The kicker was that in addition to getting to live in the middle of nowhere with no resources, you got to be "mentored" by these two in "business" of all things lmfao.
Yeah so that idea went nowhere and no one rented from them. Friend got desperate and sold his huge bus, like the kind bands use when they travel, to pay the mortgage.
Now the road he purchased is more just rocks thrown down, and now its being washed away by the rain and he cant afford to replace it.
He also got a few used storage containers, RAW, no flooring or ventilation or windows, and started living in one and trying to rent out the others! To "Artists" who want to use it as a studio. I cant imagine what its like in the texas heat and cold living in a storage container that is raw with no windows. He offered that for initially like 250 a month, then went down to 100, and still got a few takers but it seems they left after just a month or so.
Now he offers the place to campers too who want to pitch a tent during their travels. He is mostly getting a lot of drifters and nearly homeless people who come for a week or two and then move on.
So there ya have it. He is living in a storage container on raw land with a portopotty and a road that is washing away. He is also trying to sell his blog post stories about the land to subscribers who I guess pay him a few bucks for the privilege of hearing about what a mess this is. And you know, putting the money toward building it? I dont even know at this point. I am starting to think he might secretly have a drug problem that is making him lose touch with reality or something.
I honestly couldnt make this up if i tried. And no i still wont say where it is exactly bc I think someone from this forum would try to go reach out to them and reason with them. There is just no reasoning with crazy. Also he is 29 and still says he will be a millionaire by 30. I am so waiting for him to turn 30.
