RV Storage

I had posted while we were at NIRVC that they were building a new building -- here's another picture of it:

They had been pouring the concrete on the day that I took the picture... a couple of the folks who gathered with us at the fire pit on some evenings had been standing at the fence watching, or, as I called it, "supervising", the work!

Our understanding is that they may be able to occupy the new space as soon as the end of this year.

Carl was talking with a fellow there. He indicated that NIRVC started as a storage facility and they added service due to storage customers wanting to get things done to their rigs and being required to drive somewhere else to get it done. They started doing simple things and gradually worked up to a full service shop with paint and body work too.

Some of the units in storage.

Some more of the units in storage. Do they all look alike to you?

We were trying to figure out how many motorhomes they could have in there -- one of our neighbors in the campground said 800. We were going to try to estimate, but Carl asked instead. The fellow he talked with said that the building could hold 250-400 motorhomes, depending on the sizes of each one (more if they were class B or C, fewer of the large class As).

This was a common sight in the evening (with the opposite in the morning) -- some of the units have to be moved out so that others can be moved in to work on them, so these units are being moved back inside in the evening. I think the ones being moved around are units that are in for service (not stored units). Once they get the new building open (seen on the right side of the picture with another motorhome and towed vehicle on the "new" concrete which is now several days cured), all service and body work is supposed to move there and the current building will be used just for storage again.

When Dwayne and I asked a few years ago, we learned that NIRVC stores only motorhomes, and they will provide "get-ready" service for their stored vehicles (dumping waste tanks, filling fresh tank, having refrigerator plugged in and cold, checking tire pressure, making sure batteries are charged and filled with water) before the customer picks it up. But, you have to sign a contract for a year of service. I just checked the rates, and it looks like it is $10/foot/month -- so for our 43' motorhome, it would be $430/month.