Chris Koerner says the fix for low RV park occupancy is buying used trailers yourself and offering lease-to-own deals to long-term residents. He bought 25-35 ft trailers, 5-10 years old, for $8,000-$15,000 each at a rural Oklahoma park. The capital goes into inventory, not financing profits.
So the surefire true way to really fix an occupancy issue is to buy a unit and it might be a tiny home, it might be an rv. We used to do this. We bought a park in a city with literally like 800 people in it and not like outside of a big city. It was, it was out there. It was all by itself, Oklahoma to be exact. And the only way to fix occupancy at that park, and I've never seen this not work, was to buy a 8 to $15,000 trailer, 25 to 35ft, usually 5 to 10 years old. So not a motorhome, just a, just to pull behind either gooseneck or otherwise and then do a lease to own and really target it towards people that are going to live there for six months to six years at a time. It takes some capital. Obviously there's not really a way around that. You don't really make money on the financing. I'm sure you can.
