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Renting Dirt: An Unfertilized (no BS) Look at What it Takes to Run a Campground and RV Park
The average length of time before an RV campground is put up for sale is just seven...
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The average length of time before an RV campground is put up for sale is just seven years-and as it turns out, there's a good reason for that. While campers are out to experience fresh air, bucolic surroundings and the easy-going camaraderie of fellow travelers, the people who create that environment are often over-worked, under-paid and stressed out. And to make matters worse, their efforts are too readily dismissed as just "renting dirt."
This first-hand narrative describes one couple's journey from wide-eyed occasional campers to full-time owners of a medium-sized RV campground in the Shenandoah Valley. Buying in early 2013, as the campground industry was just regaining its feet after the Great Recession, the Zipser family soon realized that their biggest challenge wasn't managing the property-it was managing the people involved with it: campers with diverse and often unrealistic expectations, a franchise system led by a brain trust with minimal boots-on-the-ground experience, and a transient workforce with employees stuck on the bottom rung of the economic ladder.
Author: Andy Zipser
Publisher: Andrew Zipser DBA Mint Spring Publishing
Published: 10/11/2021
Pages: 130
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.28d
ISBN: 9781737775003
About the Author
Zipser, Andy: - Prior to being a campground owner I worked for nearly 30 years in the newspaper industry, starting as a reporter on a couple of Long Island community weeklies that paid 10 cents a column inch-an unfortunate practice that discouraged concise writing, a habit which required years to overcome. From there I worked my way up the journalistic food chain, parts of which no longer exist: The Myrtle Beach Sun-News, The Phoenix Gazette, the New Times in Phoenix, The Roanoke Times & World News, The Wall Street Journal and Barron's. I then segued into another dying institution, organized labor, by becoming editor of The Guild Reporter, former official publication of The Newspaper Guild. Although I specialized in long-form journalism, writing stories and investigative pieces that sometimes exceeded five thousand words, Renting Dirt is my first book. It's a modest effort, but depending on how it's received, I may attempt another. Meanwhile, my wife, Carin, and I live in Staunton, VA, just a few miles from the campground described in this book and within spitting distance of our two grandsons, Anthony and Matthew. Thus far, no spitting has been involved. Anyone wishing to follow my writing can find my blog at www.renting-dirt.com.
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