As much as I would like to recount the madness and mechanisms pursued long ago by people dumber than imaginable about how to sleaze a nights stay up at the hill, that's not what this is all about.
What it is about is far more mundane. The question is, what's the most economical way for a family of 4 to stay at a ski area.
In one corner, we've got the RV/camper camp.
So a decent camper is going to run you, what 40k? While this seems like an outrageous sum, I'm well past the age where I'm willing to spend inordinate hours writhing around on some wet tarmac or muddy gravel driveway fixing the treadle on the flangewort disc molester. So, I want to buy something that won't require hours of work or result in some roadside reaming.
Anyway, so there's that, gas and maintenance. Seems like a lot to stay in the lot. And after 10 years, that rig is going to come apart somewhere and be an old dog worth nothing.
In the other corner, there's the hotel advocates.
Say we take that $40k and invest is at 4%. How many years can we spend say $5000 per year on hotels? How does that exponential growth go again?
40*(1.04)^x? But then there's spending the $5k per year. O fuck, I need a truss for my head. I forgot how to compute a closed form for ((40*1.04 - 5)*1.04 -5)*1.04 -5., but it's gotta be about 10 years? Where those accountants without taste?
The bell rings, the fighters come out of their corners....
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