Article: Florida Company Finds that Consumers Will Buy Their Campsites if They can use them in Perpetuity.

The concept is appealing to Floridians and snowbirds alike, particularly recreational park trailer owners, who use their units as weekend getaways or seasonal retirement retreats

ORLANDO, Fla., April 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Retirement is still a few years away for Wayne and Linda Keeling.

But the Sanford, Fla. couple has already purchased their retirement getaway cottage in the Ocala National Forest in a 70-acre RV resort roughly 75 miles north of Orlando - and they got it for less than $100,000.

Their secret? They bought a $45,000 recreational park trailer manufactured by Ocala-based Chariot Eagle and placed on a $35,000 campsite, which they ...

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