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988: How to Start Making Millions from These Overlooked RV Park Investments w/Heather Blankenship

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Investing, Education, Business

4.8 • 16.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Heather Blankenship has made $10,000,000 alone from just one RV park investment. She got into it with no money and zero experience. While pregnant with her first child, Heather answered the phones, paid the bills, laid mulch, and slept on the office floor, working long days and longer nights to do anything she could to keep the campground running. Over a decade later, she has a $30,000,000 portfolio, with her first campground worth almost half that amount. How did she do it, and can you repeat her same investing strategy? In her new book, Real Estate Campgrounds, Heather dives into the almost unbelievable streams of income you can create from just one campground or RV park investment. In today’s show, she shares the different ways you can make money (and cash flow!) from your first campground investment, what to know before you buy, and how rental property owners can transition from single-family or multifamily rentals to campground investments. We also bust some myths that have probably stopped you from investing in this lucrative asset class before. Do you need a ton of money? Nope. Do you need a HUGE campground? Not really. Should you have hospitality experience? Maybe. Heather started with ZERO real estate investing experience and now is a campground multimillionaire! Want to follow in her footsteps? Don’t miss this episode!  In This Episode We Cover How Heather’s campgrounds create over ten income streams (BIG cash flow!) Making millions by buying overlooked RV parks and campgrounds  The biggest expense of running campgrounds and why you CAN’T get this wrong What you should know BEFORE you buy a campground to ensure you make money Transitioning from rental properties to campgrounds and why it may be easier than you think The common campground investing myths that stop most investors from creating massive wealth with this asset class  And So Much More! Links from the Show Join BiggerPockets for FREE Property Manager Finder Find Investor-Friendly Lenders See Dave and Henry at BPCON2024 in Cancun! Glamping, Campsites, and The Insane RV Park Revenue No One is Talking About w/Heather Blankenship Pre-Order Heather’s New Book, “Real Estate Campgrounds” (00:00) Intro (02:17) Campground Investing 101 (07:36) 10 Streams of Income! (09:37) Making $10M on ONE Park? (13:21) Know BEFORE You Buy  (19:00) From Rentals to Campgrounds  (23:17) Campground Investing Myths  (33:51) Regulations and Local Laws (35:38) Common Campground Pitfalls  (39:42) Grab Heather’s New Book! Check out more resources from this show on BiggerPockets.com and https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-988 Interested in learning more about today’s sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Email advertise@biggerpockets.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today we are going to discuss a somewhat under the radar type of investing.

0:05.8

It's called campground investing and this industry is more than fresh air,

0:11.6

scenic shots and a piece of land to pitch a tent on, there is some

0:15.2

potential real money to be made using this strategy.

0:19.3

And in this episode, you'll learn how you can get a piece of this 30 billion dollar industry.

0:27.0

Hey investors and welcome to the Bigger Pocketockets Real Estate Podcast. I'm your host Dave Meyer joined today by Mr. Henry Washington. Henry, tell us about what we're going to learn today,

0:42.6

because this is something I have no experience.

0:44.9

Do you have any experience with this?

0:46.9

I do not.

0:48.2

And I live in a very outdoorsy place,

0:51.4

so this is very interesting to me to learn a little bit more about.

0:55.2

I was wondering it seems like Arkansas is sort of ideal for campground investing but so I guess

1:00.7

you're gonna have a lot to learn from our guests today.

1:02.8

Yes, I am going to be listening with open ears because we have a very seasoned investor

1:07.6

and brand new bigger pockets author Heather Blankenship and she's going to be talking about campground investing.

1:14.4

And some people overlook campground investing, but we're going to deep dive and what we're going to cover is,

1:19.7

what even is campground investing? How current real estate investing skills

1:24.5

you may have could transfer over to this asset class

1:28.2

and as well as some myths or misconceptions

1:31.0

about this category, because I believe there is a lot of

1:33.8

miss around this category and we have an expert here who can help us either

1:36.7

debunk or prove those things true. Great well I'm looking for you because I love

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