Acquisition & Market Intelligence
01 — Actual parks & land for sale right now
Checked live: LoopNet, Crexi, MHVillage, RV Park Store, RV Park Sales, Parks and Places, BizBuySell. Verified July 19, 2026 — each listing below was independently confirmed across 2+ page fetches.
Florida
Weeki Wachee RV Park & Campground
Also cross-listed on LoopNet and Showcase.com with identical price/site count.
RVParkStore listing →The Dew Drop Inn & Okeechobee Lake RV Park
Confirmed as a real operating property via matching FL LLC registration (Dew Drop Inn Mobile Home and RV Park, LLC, #L16000147332).
RVParkStore listing →Okeechobee RV Park — "Great potential, can't be duplicated at the asking price"
Seven Sisters Campground & RV Park
Confidential Florida KOA campground
4 more Florida listings on the same page, not yet detail-verified
Everglades City RV Park (~$4.0M) · under-construction park in Alford, FL (~$1.995M) · Stoughton's Pine Island Campground (~$1.85M) · Pine Island RV & Marina (~$2.65M). None disclose cap rate, acreage, or broker on the summary page.
RVParkStore Florida listings →Michigan
Campground, File #3325065
50+ years operating history, ~30 acres available for expansion.
Parks and Places listing →Campground, File #423214
Includes 2 modular homes (one 28 yrs old, one 4 yrs old), each with a 30'x50' pole barn. Seasonal (Apr 15–Oct 15), 34 repeat seasonal campers, 40+ years operating history.
Parks and Places listing →Family campground & float-river business, File #3315790
Includes camp store and guided river float trip operations.
Parks and Places listing →Campground & cabins, File #3309149
Mix of RV hookups, tent sites, cabins, and manufactured homes.
Parks and Places listing →"Established 100-Site Park and Cabin Resort in Michigan Recreation Hub"
"Northern Michigan RV Park / Campground Development Opportunity"
Caveat: listed as "6 Lots," but MLS records (Movoto/Coldwell Banker/Zillow) show this is actually a 168-acre unzoned raw land parcel near Manistee National Forest — a land/development play, not an operating 6-site park.
MLS record →5 Michigan listings confirmed SOLD / no longer available
Parks and Places file #440160 (RV resort with private lake) plus #833002, #3325454, #440165, #432018 all show as sold as of this check, despite still appearing in some older aggregator snapshots — don't waste time chasing these.
02 — News × Insights × Trends: cross-references
National RV slowdown is real — but it's landing unevenly across our own two RV resorts
RVIA lowered its 2026 shipment outlook after five straight months of falling consumer RV spending (source). Checked against our own Q1 2026 statements: Sunkissed is genuinely bucking the trend — 97% occupancy, revenue up 6% ($54K) YoY, NOI up 12%. Bay Bayou is not — occupancy fell to 75% from 86% YoY, consistent with the national softness, and only rate increases (ADR +$3.40) kept revenue positive.
Fed turning hawkish lands directly on the portfolio's most leveraged, thinnest-cushion entity
The June Fed meeting shifted — a majority of officials now favor a 2026 rate hike, not a cut (source). The red-flags digest already flags Tax Certificate Buying Entities as running ~4.1x debt-to-equity on a $38.2M facility, with excess collateral cushion that collapsed from $12.49M to just $407K by December 2025 (a 1.08% buffer) — and separately, ~$30.2M in near-term bank maturities across three lenders (First Bank of Highland Park, Byline Bank, Old National Bank).
Chicago's proposed renters ordinance lands on the portfolio's thinnest-margin, still-stabilizing property
Chicago City Council's Housing & Real Estate Committee is reviewing just-cause eviction and fee-cap rules (source). Ellis Apartments (Home Sites/Ellis) is flagged in Insights for cash falling 97% peak-to-trough ($326K→$16K in 2024) and a retained-earnings deficit that grew from $37K to $416K in two years, with interest expense alone running 40–160% of revenue.
National golf demand is at a record high — Madison's golf course is still losing money at 200%+ of revenue
NGF reports 2026 rounds-played running ahead of last year's record pace, with public golf participation at 48M+ U.S. participants in 2025 — an all-time high (source, source). Insights flags Madison Community Resort's golf segment as losing money every period since acquisition — a 200%+ loss ratio in the most recent nine months, with golf grounds payroll alone consuming 55–57% of golf revenue.
03 — Off-market sourcing & broker contacts (reference)
This directly serves the #1 stated goal: acquisition and growth, RV-first in Florida and Michigan. "Secret/undercover" in practice means off-market — owners who'd sell but haven't listed publicly. That market exists and is significant: specialty brokers report the best deals trade this way, and one 7-property, $97M RV resort portfolio (Blue Metric Group, 5 states, ~1,500 sites) closed entirely off-market this year, sourced by Park Brokerage's team.
National brokers with genuine off-market access
MH/RV-only boutique since 2012, $3B+ closed. Runs an explicit off-market buyers list — get on it. Confirmed 2026-07-19: their own intake form has a dedicated "55+ / All Age / Both" filter — 55+ is a first-class category for them, not a special ask. Average deal size $8–12M, floor around $1.5M, so it fits our scale.
Sourced the $97M Blue Metric off-market portfolio this year. National reach, RV/MH/campground focus, explicit confidentiality/NDA process for unlisted owners — contact.
Grand Rapids, MI — Scott Briggs, 35+ years specializing specifically in campground/recreational-business sales. Small, low-visibility firm, found 2026-07-19 — worth a second Michigan-focused relationship alongside Parks and Places. briggsrealtyonline.com
National MHP/MHC/RV-only brokerage, acquisitions + advisory. avinerealestate.com
MH + RV + off-market deals nationwide. cribrokerage.com
Exclusively MH/RV communities, primary/secondary/tertiary markets. themhpbroker.com
Outdoor hospitality (RV/campground) specialist arm of NAI's commercial network. naiohb.com
Florida & Michigan regional specialists
| State | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Michigan | Parks and Places | Dedicated MI campground/RV brokerage; broker Ken Weaver named as MI specialist. Site shows ~72 total MI opportunities incl. off-market, only 24 publicly listed — the gap is exactly the "undercover" inventory worth asking about directly. |
| FL & nationwide | Crexi / LoopNet | Public marketplaces, useful for comps and pricing baselines (FL RV/MH averaging ~$1,437/SF on LoopNet) — not where off-market deals appear, but good for calibrating an offer. |
| Both | RV Park Store / RV Park Sales | Confirmed 2026-07-19: rvparkstore.com is genuinely live/productive (real current FL/MI listings, cross-checked against LLC registrations and MLS records). rvparksales.com returned nothing usable — worth a standing saved search on rvparkstore only. |
| 55+/age-restricted specific | MobileHomeParkStore.com | Confirmed 2026-07-19: uses the exact field "55 And Over" on live listings (e.g. Cherrydon MH Community, Titusville FL) — this is where age-restricted inventory specifically gets tagged, not the generic sites above. |
Recommended next steps
- Get on Yale's buyers list with the 55+ filter checked, and open a direct line with Park Brokerage Services — both explicitly deal in off-market inventory. Note: Yale's current 12 live listings have no 55+/Michigan matches today — the value is the alert mechanism going forward, not present inventory.
- Contact Parks and Places and Briggs Realty directly for Michigan — two independent local specialists now identified, not just one.
- Set a standing saved search on rvparkstore.com and MobileHomeParkStore.com specifically (confirmed live and productive 2026-07-19), using "55+"/"age-restricted" search terms directly, not just generic "RV resort for sale."
- PropStream ($99–699/mo) and Reonomy (~$400–500/mo) both have real, confirmed pricing now — but neither has any RV/MH-park-specific coverage (deep research 2026-07-19 found no evidence either tool specializes in this asset class). The off-market deal that actually closed this year ($97M Blue Metric portfolio) came through a broker, not a data tool. Recommend holding off on either subscription unless there's a broader prospecting need beyond RV/MH parks specifically.