Selling an RV Park With Deferred Maintenance

Items buyers weigh most heavily

• Wastewater systems: failing septic fields, undersized lagoons, line failures
• Electrical: aged pedestals, undersized service, unsafe wiring
• Water lines and freeze damage history
• Roads, pads, and drainage
• Bathhouses and other guest-facing buildings
• Park-owned rental units in poor condition

Repair before selling, or price it in?

Repairs with clear, fast payback — a broken utility that limits rentable sites, for example — often return more than they cost. Cosmetic upgrades late in an owner's tenure rarely do. Structural or system-level repairs are usually better handled as a price conversation than as a rushed project.

Disclosure strategy

Give the buyer your list up front, with any quotes you have. Priced-in issues are stable; discovered issues invite renegotiation on the buyer's terms and can end a transaction outright.