10 year old trailers banned

[T and C]

I recently stayed in an RV park in Flagstaff, AZ called Black Bart's. The place is pretty run down and the facilities are limited and in poor condition. The park has about 8 rows of spaces. In the last few rows there were many older travel trailers and motor homes that are obviously permanent homes. They had plywood cut to fit the open spaces underneath the coach all the way around for cold weather insulation. In addition there were wooden decks, large grills, bikes, jury rigged clotheslines and such.

This gives the park a run-down look. A business owner who wants to get a good rating from Trailer Life or Goodall's has to limit these sort of coaches to keep up the "tone" of the park. The Maple Leaf rv park near San Jose has long term residents but nothing is run down or junky looking.

Notice there is a two-week limit for the older coaches. That means anyone can overnight or spend vacation time there, but not set up for permanent residence.

I don't know that I would do it differently.

Tom

You know, unless they actually look at your registration, how are they going to tell if you have, say, a 1998 TM? It it is clean and neat, they all pretty much look the same...

There is a campground in the City of San Diego that is on public land and is given over to a private company to run. They ask for the paper work onthe RV and then send someone out to inspect it. My problem with this is that it's City property and I think all the tax payers should be able to use it if they can pay the price.

PS: At least that is how it was about 5 years ago when I last camped there.

Originally Posted by ragmopp

You know, unless they actually look at your registration, how are they going to tell if you have, say, a 1998 TM? It it is clean and neat, they all pretty much look the same...

I've found that most of the parks with a 10 year rule have it to keep trashy looking trailers out, not as a hard and fast rule. One of our favorites has this rule. When you check in, they look out the window at your trailer and if it's clean looking, you never hear a word.

Keith

[scrubjaysnest]

That's why we never go to an RV park unless there is no other choice. They always seem to have silly rules and stack you like cord wood.

[rvcycleguy]

Originally Posted by Bluegrass

I've found that most of the parks with a 10 year rule have it to keep trashy looking trailers out, not as a hard and fast rule. One of our favorites has this rule. When you check in, they look out the window at your trailer and if it's clean looking, you never hear a word.

Keith

So, at check-in, if the RV was not to their liking, they would say no vacancy? Or refer to a 10 year old rule? Or sorry, no thanks? Go on down the road....

I guess I'm sympathetic to weary travelers who may not have done the research on the parks restrictions. Especially if the driver and passengers were not of the "profile" the park owner wanted to stay.

Originally Posted by rvcycleguy

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I guess I'm sympathetic to weary travelers who may not have done the research on the parks restrictions. Especially if the driver and passengers were not of the "profile" the park owner wanted to stay.

It's perspective. Here on the Delta we have a lot of RV parks. I see a lot of run-down trashy RV's. I wouldn't let them park on the street in front of my home. I don't understand why these park owners let them on their property. I guess they are RV-slum lord equivalent.

I fully support private park owners who "toss out the trash".

A 10 year rule is just something so employees of the park have an objective threshold. Leaving subjective decisions to employees like "is it a good looking RV?" doesn't always yield the desired results.

My 2002 TM looks pretty good for it's age, and the designs haven't changed much...I'll just tell em it's a 2006 or so

[HIKERZ]

this is a quote from the Bluewater Resort in the Florida Keys

"Minimum RV length is 24 feet (exterior traveling length). Please note that we do not accept tents, pop-up campers, RVs with soft-sided/canvas pop-outs, or truck campers. All units are subject to management approval".

Summer rates are $95-$120
We stay at Bahia Honda instead.

Rio Dan's comment cause me to remember that this is also a common practice in many marinas who don't want run down boats in their marina. In fact, getting rid of an old boat can be so costly for the owner, that it was common practice to find a marina, rent a slip, then abandon the boat and quit paying the slip rent. The marina owner is then stuck with the junk boat and has to pay to dismantle and grind it up.


Dan - we had a boat at Willow Berm Marina for many years before moving to Utah. Nice place. No junk boats.

Keith