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Slow just touched on one concept that isn't often considered when it comes to the seasonal use of RV's. In most areas of the country, winter is the "dead season" for RV dealers. They have to pay staff or lay them off when there's no work. So many dealerships work with "minimally adequate staff" rather than hire people and lay them off after the rush. It works to their benefit by being less expensive and it works to our benefit (even if it doesn't seem like it when we're waiting for an appointment) by not having "unqualified or untrained seasonal workers" doing maintenance on our RV.

Think about the "quality of staff" that would likely be available to work 4 or 5 months of the year and be unemployed the rest of the time. That's a tough way to provide for a family so most people who "have their stuff together" would move right on by that kind of opportunity and find employment some other place. What's left in the "worker pool" may well not be the caliber employee we'd want inside our trailer tearing out walls or searching for an elusive water leak......

It's not an easy job to run a "feast or famine" kind of business. In most places north of the "Mason Dixson Line" RV dealerships face challenges we don't often think about when we're looking for someone to hurry up a job because it's summer and we have things to do......