Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
I mentioned back on a post a week or so ago that we had a resident meeting that left a lot of our winter residents wanting.
We have some concerns in the park. Maintenance type things like more gravel is needed at the sites to help keep the sand down when the wind blows, our mini golf course needs the carpet replaced, our pool needs some major attention and the list goes on.
We have other issues in this park but it wouldn’t be very nice of me to air out our dirty laundry here in this open forum so you’ll just have to take my word for it. Don’t get me wrong, Quail Run is a wonderful park and nicer winter residents you will never meet. It’s the people who you make friends with that keeps everyone coming back year after year. And our activities department, we have a very good activities department.
I will say that the owners of the park won’t meet with us at a resident meeting and that is certainly understandable. Emotions run hot sometimes and nothing will get accomplished that way. It was suggested that if we had concerns that each of us write a letter and sign it.
As mentioned, we do have very valid concerns, especially the park model owners, and we have all noticed in a drop in the number of people who come to the park for the winter months. This is of great concern to us as we have a financial investment here. The majority of us know why some winter residents don’t return for a second year but as stated above I’m not airing dirty laundry here.
At a gathering of concerned park residents, that we had after the meeting a week or so ago, it was decided that the park would be canvassed and the winter residents would be asked their likes/dislikes/concerns about the park. We explained to each resident that a letter would be written and a list of likes/dislikes and our concerns would be addressed in the letter and everyone would have a chance to sign it if they agreed with what was written.
We decided to do this because in the heat of the moment (our meeting) everyone is gung ho about writing a letter but when tempers cool the idea falls by the wayside. Besides, what if everyone did in fact write their own letter, would the owners read two hundred plus letters? I find that doubtful, especially when they are all saying essentially the same thing.
Its hard to catch everyone to get their input because we are such an active park. Between golfing, skeet shooting and all kinds of everyday activities you can go by someone’s house/rig five times and never catch them home.
The park was divided up between seven of us and we have been busy talking with our neighbors. Oh My,,,the things we’re hearing!
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