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AirportView Management LLC is seeking government grants to enhance its facilities and better serve its tenants. They aim to build on improvements made over the past three years, focusing on repairing electrical infrastructure and implementing a comprehensive survey to ensure compliance, which would help avoid emergency repairs. Located in unincorporated Franklin Township, Ohio, the business faces challenges due to surrounding properties in poor condition. Tenants have requested fencing for privacy and safety from loose dogs and nearby disruptions. Instead of fencing, the business proposes to plant large shrubs and trees to create a natural barrier, which would be more affordable and less intrusive.
The funds would also support necessary updates to electrical and water infrastructure, as well as ongoing property maintenance, to enhance the appeal of their lots. As a small, family-owned operation with deep-rooted community ties, the business has been profitable for over 35 years. The current manager is striving to modernize the park while acknowledging the difficulties in funding these improvements alone.
The business operates in a competitive environment with few rivals, primarily due to the local housing shortage, and stresses its commitment to community-oriented management. They prioritize tenant relationships, ensuring that residents own their homes and enjoy larger lots for personal use. Overall, any grant assistance would significantly contribute to the business’s ability to enhance its offerings and support its tenants.
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General Information
Business Registration Number: 86-1310140
Location: Strasburg, OH, United States
Length of Operation: 11plus
Number of Employees: 1-10 Employees
Annual Gross Income: $100k to $250k
Annual Gross Expense: Less than $100k
Open to Loans: NO
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Funding Usage
We would like to continue with improvements began in the past three years to directly benefit our tenants. We have been repairing and replacing infrastructure such as electrical boxes on an as-needed basis and would like to have our electrician do a comprehensive survey of each box and exactly what might be required not only to be sure we are in compliance, but also so that we can schedule and plan ahead, rather than having to make repairs in a crisis mode. We are also outside of town jurisdiction, in unincorporated Franklin Township, Ohio. This means that some of the properties around our park neighborhood are in very poor repair, or simply used as junkyards. Our tenants have been requesting fencing to block out both the eyesores on view and loose dogs, etc. We have never been able to do so, because of the cost. What I would like to do is to plant large shrubs or trees, such as Giant Thuja or Leyland Cypress strategically in rows along some of the worst borders of our property. This would be less expensive and less disruptive than building a fence and I think it would give our tenants, many of whom are elderly and on a fixed income, not only privacy and a nicer view, but would also contribute to the safety of our community in a very real way, as in the past we have had young men from nearby properties riding ATVs and golf carts through our tenant's yards and they have had many break-ins over the past years. I feel the trees/shrubs would contribute greatly to both privacy and safety- we just can't afford to buy or install them without help. I have estimated the amount needed for the electrical survey and possible upgrades AND the trees/shrubs to the best of my abilities, but honestly, we are a very small, family operated business and I am the only one running it. Any size grant would be very helpful and very much appreciated. Thank you for considering us.
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Business Plan
We cannot afford to buy more property or to put the infrastructure needed into place for any major expansion. However, we can improve what we currently have through updating our electrical and pump and well houses, keeping the gravel drives regularly graded and re-gravelled, and maintaining the property so that the lots increase in desirability for both us and our tenants. We are a small, family owned operation, over 35 years old. My father, frankly, would never have thought of applying for a grant. He has passed away, leaving my mom and the only original remaining partner, who is 96, as the owners of AirportView. I am the manager and sole employee and am trying to modernize and update our park in any ways that we are able. I feel that as a successful, albeit small, business, we are as eligible as any other. I take my management responsibilities very seriously, both for the retirement income it provides my mother and the other original partner and for our tenants, many of whom have lived here for 30 years or more. The business has always been profitable, since its inception. It still is- but expenses are growing and there are improvements that I know would increase our overall value and desirability in the market.
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Self Identified Competition
We do not really have any competitors in this area. Although there are other manufactured home parks nearby, most of them are not only much larger than we are, with more homes, but there is such a housing shortage in the area, as well as a lack of income for many families to buy a home in the first place, that most manufactured home parks here are full up. WE currently have one empty lot that I have just now put an ad out to start taking applications for, but that is all. We are family owned and managed. My father knew all of our tenants personally for many years. Most mobile home parks also sell and deal in the homes themselves- we never have. It requires a separate state license which I do not possess, but also it means that our tenants all OWN their own homes. We also have much larger lots than many other parks, giving each tenant an actual yard for gardening or for their kids to play in. We try to be more of a neighborhood than just a manufactured home park. We make a profit, of course. But we try to do so in a way that does not gouge or cheat our tenants who at this time, range from elderly long term residents to young families. We try hard to work WITH people and not against them whenever possible.
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