Dear Seasonal Campers
This letter contains important details about the Site License Policy Changes announced January 11, 2022.
Selling Units Privately VS through Fish Lake Trailer Sales
Since Fish Lake Trailer Sales opened, the majority of unit sales have been conducted between sellers and buyers. The number of private sales have been far fewer. A growing number of problems with private sales have caused us to prohibit them as of the announcement. Some problems include:
· Units are sold without a clear title or with the promise of producing a title; and then it is never produced. Fish Lake Beach requires a clear title to facilitate a ‘clear title’ transaction between buyer and seller and help with bank pay-offs. Doing so protects the buyer from title issues and ensures the unit is legally owned by the owner.
· The seller fails to convey pertinent information or gives misinformation to the buyer regarding policies, rules, and fees. The buyer, and now new seasonal camper has misunderstandings about their site license obligations, policies, rules, fees, passes and so on.
· The seller lists their unit above market value, it does not sell quickly or at all. Oftentimes while the unit is for sale, the site is unmaintained, requiring Fish Lake Beach to maintain the site until a sale occurs.
· Private sales prevent Fish Lake Beach from meeting and pre-qualifying the buyer as a potential seasonal camper. Prospective buyers must pay for and pass a background check as a pre-requisite of unit sale and Fish Lake Beach Site License.
· With this new policy we are eliminating the $200.00 fee for the evaluation of your unit by Fish Lake Trailer Sales.
Sales Commission
· Fish Lake Trailer Sales earns 10% of the units’ selling price as commission for conducting a sale. This percentage has not changed since Fish Lake Trailer Sales opened many, many years ago.
· The commission is capped at $3,000.00.
· The units’ selling price is established by the Seller, not by Fish Lake Trailer Sales, and must be reasonable & within current market value.
Early Termination Fee
The Early Termination Fee applies to licensees that choose to terminate their license and remove their unit off the site between April 15th-October 15th.
· Why is there an Early Termination fee? Termination during the season leaves us with an empty site, zero revenue and lost opportunity to rent that site.
· How are refunds and the Early Termination fee calculated? Once the actual date of departure is firm, the departing licensee will receive a refund based on pro-rated fees for the remaining season minus the $800.00 Early Termination Fee.
· If your unit is approved to sell on site, the Early Termination Fee does not apply.
Tiers
The practice of tiering sites is an industry standard practice at campgrounds. In 2019 we undertook the process of evaluating all seasonal sites to create tiers. Tiering reflects site variables, such as size of lot, view, parking, location, etc. allowing site license fees to be proportionate. After re-evaluating a number of sites’ tiering in the fall of 2021 some sites’ tiers changed. The tiers of established seasonal campers will remain as is; changes in tier will only apply when an existing seasonal sells their site, therefore the new tier will apply to the new site licensee. Established seasonal campers that move from one site to another will not change tier.
Deposit Season 2023
We have decided to keep the deposit for 2023 at $500.00.
Please feel free to write us with any questions or concerns.
YC, Randy, Desiree, Christi & Fish Lake Beach staff
