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Owning a campground can be complex, this downloadable PDF will help shed some light on what purchasing a unique business like this entails. Enjoy!
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This guide is intended to provide an overview of the steps you can take when purchasing an existing campground. If you are asking yourself these questions “Could this campground be a profitable business? What questions should I ask the current owner? Where do I begin with the ownership transition?” this is the guide for you!
Table of Contents:
Section 1: Finding a Campground You Want to Purchase
Section 2: Financing the Purchase
Section 3: Making an Offer
Section 4: Offer Accepted
Section 5: Taking Ownership
BONUS: Considering a Partner in Your Campground Ownership
This PDF is 12 pages long. Once verified, you will receive an email with a link to download the PDF file.
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This is a bundle of templates and working files that I have created in order to operate our campground. This includes an operating agreement template, site reservations working file, camper registration form template, financial bookkeeping working file, and an invoice template. All of these files are Google Drive files. Once you purchase this download, you will receive a PDF with links to each of the fully editable Google Drive files.
The operating agreement template is to help establish business management roles when there is more than one owner. This type of agreement is crucial in each business partner clearly understanding their tasks in contributing to a successful business.
The site reservations working file will help you increase occupancy and optimize revenue by showing you which sites are available for short term or long term campers.
The camper registration form is what campers will fill out when arriving to your campground.
The financial bookkeeping working file is where you will enter all of your daily expenses and income. This spreadsheet is linked to automatically calculate your monthly and annual revenue, expenses, and profit.
The invoice template can be used when a customer requests to be billed.
“I wanted to figure out how to manage our campground without costly operations software, and I couldn’t find many online resources for business operations of a campground…”
I am a co-owner and operator of a small campground in the Midwest. We have owned a campground for nearly three years but had no prior campground management experience. My intention with The Campground Clinician YouTube channel and these digital products is to help aspiring or current campground owners access operations information in order to optimize their business.
How can these digital products help your campground business? The “Purchasing a Campground Quick Start Guide” contains all the information that I wish I would have had access to when my business partner and I were purchasing our campground: lists of questions to ask, explanation of the due diligence period, business partnership how-to, and more. The “Campground Operations Templates and Working Files” provides Google Drive files ready for you to edit and implement. These files do not utilize further paid software (outside of a payment processor) to run a campground business. Meaning, you can use these files for all of your reservation and bookkeeping needs without additional costly campground operation software programs.