From orfairbairn_Spam_Sucks@earthlink.net Sun Feb 24 19:53:44 2002 Path: cygnus.com!enews.sgi.com!howland.erols.net!netnews.com!xfer02.netnews.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Orval Fairbairn Newsgroups: rec.aviation.misc Subject: Re: Anyone live in an Airpark? Message-ID: <240220020009333899%orfairbairn_Spam_Sucks@earthlink.net> References: <4e6910bd.0202232035.346bce41@posting.google.com> Organization: Fairbairn Associates MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Macintosh Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: YA-NewsWatcher/3.1.8 Lines: 40 Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 05:08:44 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.215.244.71 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1014527324 204.215.244.71 (Sat, 23 Feb 2002 21:08:44 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 21:08:44 PST X-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 21:08:45 PST (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: cygnus.com rec.aviation.misc:109996 In article <4e6910bd.0202232035.346bce41@posting.google.com>, primerib60@hotmail.com (primerib) wrote: > I'm interested in living in an Airpark sometime in the next few years. > Anyone out there have any advice they can pass along? Problems to > watch out for? Situations to avoid? Special financing hoops to jump > through? I'd like to learn from your experience. Thanks. I have lived at Spruce Creek for the past 3 years and LOVE it! We set down a number of criteria that would satisfy both of us before we wanted to live on an airpark: 1. The residents must own and operate the airport. No closing the airport out from under us, as has happened in a few instances. 2. Water and sewer must be on a system -- not wells that can go dry or become contaminated or septic systems that can malfunction and back up or contaminate the groundwater. 3. It had to be relatively close to civilization -- shopping, theaters, community colleges. Who wants to drive an hour for a loaf of bread or a can of paint? Some are beautiful -- but oh, the access! 4. It had to be close to the beach (Arizona is ON the beach, but the ocean is a LONG ways away). 5. No state income tax! 6. The airpark association had to be big enough to defend itself against the neighboring Philistines. Some airparks have neighbor problems and are at the mercy of local governments. 7. It had to have lights and few operational restrictions. Some have limits on how many takeoffs and landings a resident ma perform during a week. That should get you thinking and looking. Get the "Guide Residential Airparks" (East and West editions) for starters, as they list many airparks and give a brief synopsis of their facilities.