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Need Funding or a Partner to set up a very profitable, multiple revenue, recreation & retail center.

LOCATION:	Lebanon, OH	PURPOSE:	Raise Capital for a Business
MEMBER SINCE: LAST LOGIN:	12/08/08 9/02/10	INTERESTS:	Sports, Fitness & Recreation Green Businesses

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     For many years while working in various recreation industry businesses I have been planning an ideal grouping of various complimentary recreation based businesses to someday have my own place. The biggest problem was finding a property that would even come close to working.

      I have found a property that is more than perfect in a location that has everything going for it and then some. I have customized a collection of 44+ various business areas of income for this property to keep a peak activity & income going all year long. One income area will be the sales of solar & wind powered generation systems, the customer center & business will be set up to use and openly display how these systems work.  Working with the local schools to become a host school, with students & teachers creating & leading presentations & tours when ever possible, building an education destination for school field trips to learn about alternative energy. Teaming up with a large heating & air company to do all instalation we can set up an aprentice program with the vocatioanal schools. To add to the display, schools & coleges will be asked to design & build experimental alternative energy ideas to promote their school & possibilities. This will generate power for the business to use & sell, bring many more people to the property to see what the business has to offer, help sell alternative energy systems, and promote the use of solar & wind power.

     My background consists of 15 years working for, managing, & building an all new outpost for one of the largest & original canoe rental companies in Ohio. I have managed canoe rentals in Ohio, Indiana, & Pennsylvania, handling 600 rental units per day. I was an active member of the National Association of Canoe Rentals & Outfitters, meeting with & visiting different canoe rental operations across the US. I am the only non owner of a canoe rental to ever be the President of the Ohio Canoe Livery Association, where I brought together canoe rental owners from several states, in the dead of winter, to lobby against and defeat a bill before the Ohio State House that would have negatively affected the industry. My education is in marketing & management.

I have a great business plan, building designs, property plans, price structures, marketing plans, & a vast amount of information ready to go. This project will take up to one million dollars to buy the land, equipment & building materials to set everything up. In the first year from day one the income will be at $500,000, clearing half of that, by year five the total combined income will reach $6,000,000, clearing more than 50% of the gross incomes each year.

Call me at (513) 503-6823 or email jjdebird@hotmail.com with questions & for information.

This kind of business grows in up & down economic times, people always need to get away from the everyday tensions of life, they need to spend quality time with their kids before they grow up, but they will no longer spend a few hundred dollars at a big amusement park. My project has a per person cost range as low as $5, most things around $10 per person, up to $35, and these are activities that can last a few hours, all day, or all evening long, with memories that will last life times.

Funding can be for just two years, five, ten or more years. It will be a great place to be invested in with everything in tangible, appreciating assets until the economy decides what it is going to do. Once set up the local news stories will soon be national. It is very possible to duplicate the over all idea and customize other businesses across the US. Individual activity businesses could be shown how they can use alternative energy as a marketing tool and also sell the same systems they are useing, being the best sales people for the systems, all under one nationaly franchised name.

Business Description

Grouping a number of popular recreation businesses at one site:

12 Main Areas of Business Incomes;

Canoe & Kayak trips, transporting customers to various put in points on the river for several trip lengths.

Group Hayrides & Bon-Fires, primarily evening hayrides along the river & around the property for about one hour, with a private bon-fire site for the group along the river, or a wooded site.

Daytime pumpkin patch hayrides for kids of all ages to ride back to a pumpkin patch and pick out their very own pumpkin on an Autumn afternoon.

Corn Field Maze, 7 acres of a double-planted cornfield with an elaborate maze design cut into with the help of a company that sets these up around the US.

10 acres of live Christmas Trees, setting out 5 main varieties of trees for customer to choose from, customers will take a hayride out to cut down their own tree, with assistance, re kindling an old fashioned family tradition.

Outdoor Ice Skating, a large section of the parking area will be designed so it can be flooded and frozen over with 8 to 12 inches of water for November – February, greatly adding to the atmosphere of Christmas trees & Ice Skaters.

Miniature Golf Course of 18 holes created on an island in the center of the Lazy River, with a deserted island / river theme, using rocks, sand, driftwood, and logs creating some interesting challenges along with the passing inner-tubers going by
Zip Lines & Pumpkin Bombing Run, using the waterslide tower to start customers would fly over the Lazy River Canal & Miniature Golf Island to a second tower at the tree line, returning at a lower angle along the edge of the Corn Maze, dropping pumpkins, melons, or water balloons on targets for an added fee.
Rock Climbing Wall, setting up a 25’ climbing wall, with a safety rappelling system on one side of the water slide tower will add one more sought after & hard to find activity to further draw visitors.

Lazy River Canal of inner tubes circulating continually in a loop around the miniature golf course, with water fall curtains and other water features, a sun tan beach & sand volley ball, away from highways & massive amusement parks.

Retail section with a variety of seasonal items, new & used canoe equipment, local crafts, sculptures & artworks sold on consignment, solar and wind energy systems in use & as a magnet for traffic to the property.

Food Service & Hot Beverages, with a large open deck built towards the river for customers & guests to spend time and enjoy a number of basic food items. Plus benches and tables inside around wood stoves or a central fireplace for customers to warm up, sit & spend some time & money.

List of 40 Income Production Areas Planned for the property;

* Canoe / Kayak Rentals & Trips * Rent High End Canoes & Kayaks for more

* Lazy River Tube Trail * Miniature Golf

* Group Hayrides & Bon-Fires * Group Bon-Fire sites

* Pumpkin Patch & Indian corn, Straw, & Corn Shocks * Afternoon Individual Hayrides

* Corn Field Maze, afternoon & night * Farmers Market, renting booth space

* Corporate or Company Picnics with catering * Shelter Rentals

* Cut Your Own Christmas Trees * Pre Cut Christmas Tree sales

* Live Trees for landscaping * Local Crafts on consignment

* Solar & Wind Power Systems sales * Wind Towers leases
* Landscape Items, Stumps, Driftwood, and Sculptures * Solar landscape light sales

* Ice Skating Rental & Skating Rink * Cross Country Ski Rentals & Trails

* Food & Beverage Sales, Hot Spiced Apple Cider, Coffee, & Hot Chocolate

* Lodge Rentals when not in use * Barn Kit Sales of office / retail center

* Small Cabin Rentals & Sales * Log Cabin Sales

* Canoes & Equipment Sales, with new & used equipment * 2 to 4 Tanning Beds

* Retail Items for Christmas & Canoe – self-promotional items

* Locker Rentals for canoers, & lazy river tubers * Self contained Camper pull in sites

* Picnic Tables& Outdoor Furniture / construction & sales
* Bike Rentals for near by bike trail

* Bundled Firewood Sales for local camp ground & lake traffic

* Horse Trails & Camp area for horse owners * Summer & Fall produce sales

* Haunted Hayrides & or Haunted Corn Field Maze * Flashlight & glow stick sales

* Gift Certificates & Season Passes for almost everything will be sold anytime of the Year

Other income areas are needed to better fill in January through March, and any thing that will add to weekday incomes the rest of the year.

Income forecasts are $500,000 in year one, reaching $6,500,000 by year 4 or 5, with a NET profit between 50% & 80% depending on the income area.

Start up cost to purchase the land, equipment, materials, & construction will at least one million, producing a positive income in the first year.

I am willing to consider any terms, partnership, profit sharing, or equity plans with in reason to get this going. With in two years of start up the business would at the very least be eligible for a government business loan so your funds could come out at a profit as the economy becomes somewhat normal again.

Contact;

Jay Joyce

(513) 503-6823

jjdebird@hotmail.com

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12/17/2008 08:22 PM

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This is a great collection of proffitable businesses already being done individually on large scales near by, this place will over take all others in no time.