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travelnutz
Jul 10, 2015Explorer II
Hank MI,
So true and a very good point.
The land where most Michigan State Parks occupy would be incredibly expensive to purchase and prohibitive to pay for if used as a private CG park. The cost for a campsite fee would likely be a couple hundred dollars per day just to satisfy the ROI debt without even figuring in the utilities costs or development costs or operating/maintenance costs and I'll just bet all employees that work there want to get a paycheck. Whoops, forgot about property taxes etc. Then there's that dirty word some refer to as "profit" as without it, the CG will close anyway and it sure wouldn't take very long!
So true and a very good point.
The land where most Michigan State Parks occupy would be incredibly expensive to purchase and prohibitive to pay for if used as a private CG park. The cost for a campsite fee would likely be a couple hundred dollars per day just to satisfy the ROI debt without even figuring in the utilities costs or development costs or operating/maintenance costs and I'll just bet all employees that work there want to get a paycheck. Whoops, forgot about property taxes etc. Then there's that dirty word some refer to as "profit" as without it, the CG will close anyway and it sure wouldn't take very long!
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