Renting Dirt

An Unfertilized (no BS) Look at What it Takes to Run a Campground and RV Park

By: Andy Zipser

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Paperback | 11 October 2021

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130 Pages

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21.59 x 13.97 x 0.71

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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.

Industry Reviews

"Needs to be read by anyone who is thinking of starting or buying a campground, and for any RVer to better understand and appreciate all the work that goes into running one." --Chuck Woodbury, RVtravel.com

The author "is an expert and understanding [of] what it takes to own an RV campground---he is also a talented writer. This book is a must-read if you are in the RV camping world." --Judge, 30th Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards

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