Riviera Slips

[Orange Juice]

Lake Pleasant near Phoenix has these “Penthouse” floating mobile tiny homes. They rent them at scorpion bay marina, if anyone wants to know what to expect.

a link for pricing.

Floating Cabins - Scorpion Bay Marina

www.scorpionbayaz.com

 

[Tank]

Lake Pleasant near Phoenix has these “Penthouse” floating mobile tiny homes. They rent them at scorpion bay marina, if anyone wants to know what to expect.

a link for pricing.

Floating Cabins - Scorpion Bay Marina

www.scorpionbayaz.com

That's really cool! Obviously, as they are straight up sold out until November!

 

[Orange Juice]

That's really cool! Obviously, as they are straight up sold out until November!

I’m sure their waiting llists st will run 7-8 years.

 

[FreeBird236]

There is a second article coming out Wednesday describing the lawsuits against Aaron and the penthouses etc….

RD

The new article definitely shines a different light on the on the Penthouses.

 

[Singleton]

The new article definitely shines a different light on the on the Penthouses.

Link to article without the pay wall.
Dislike pay to read news

 

[pkrrvr619]

put the article in the eleven foot ladder website. You’ll get beyond paywall

 

[FreeBird236]

Link to article without the pay wall.
Dislike pay to read news

I read the paper don't have a link, sorry.

 

[Paradox]

Since the slip leases are only allowed to be sold once by the original owner (so I hear anyway) I wonder what the resale market is looking like?

 

[Singleton]

Since the slip leases are only allowed to be sold once by the original owner (so I hear anyway) I wonder what the resale market is looking like?

Very similar to First Cabin Club timeshares at the Nautical. You have to give them away

 

[Paradox]

Very similar to First Cabin Club timeshares at the Nautical. You have to give them away

We had a 2 bedroom channel view suite timeshare at the London Bridge for many years before we bought a house. We got it for free and gave it away last year.

 

[RiverDave]

Since the slip leases are only allowed to be sold once by the original owner (so I hear anyway) I wonder what the resale market is looking like?

There are some serious questions about the legality of all of that..

 

[Singleton]

There are some serious questions about the legality of all of that..

While I don’t think it is legal, everyone who purchased signed a contract with that fine print.

 

[Tank]

I’m sure their waiting llists st will run 7-8 years.

Could you imagine throwing a little community like this on the water down by the springs or where that new bar is going in? Not house boats but floating houses with room to dock your boat. Gold mine!!! Shit would never NOT be rented. Name your price. I’d love to stay on the water down by the springs in one of these houses with the boat right next to you in the water. Nice and quiet down there. Would be so bad ass.

 

[RiverDave]

Could you imagine throwing a little community like this on the water down by the springs or where that new bar is going in? Not house boats but floating houses with room to dock your boat. Gold mine!!! Shit would never NOT be rented. Name your price. I’d love to stay on the water down by the springs in one of these houses with the boat right next to you in the water. Nice and quiet down there. Would be so bad ass.

Oh it’s coming! lol.

 

[RiverDave]

While I don’t think it is legal, everyone who purchased signed a contract with that fine print.

Not sure the people that actually own the land signed that fine print is the problem..

 

[Tank]

Oh it’s coming! lol.

Dude, if your buddy builds a fleet of these in the bay next to the bar, like I said, name your price. Would be so awesome to roll
Into town, launch the boat with family and luggage and run to your on the water house. Set up shop for the week and chill the most!! Next to that bar where you could grab food and a drink(s)!! Next level shit. I could only imagine the red tape and bullshit and endless hurdles you’d have to jump through to do something like that. I’d like to believe it’s coming but I won’t hold my breath. Rack storage at riviera will be built way before a project like this Fingers crossed though! I’ll be first on the rental List!!!

 

[QC22]

where that new bar is going in?

Where/what 'dat?

 

[Tank]

Where/what 'dat?

Havasu palms

I say build em right here -

 

[hallett21]

Havasu palms

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Remember the conquest dock and all that drama lol.

I think the “vessels” would need to move every 14 days or whatever it is. Unless the owner can install legitimate docks.

 

[Tank]

Remember the conquest dock and all that drama lol.

I think the “vessels” would need to move every 14 days or whatever it is. Unless the owner can install legitimate docks.

That’s the kind of stuff I was referring to above. Can’t imagine the nightmare of trying to get this done. I mean shit, couldn’t even get houseboats into established docks at riviera without fuckin drama and the whole deal falling through.

 

[HNL2LHC]

Havasu palms

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I say build em right here -

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Wasn’t that the place that was taking back by….. I guess……the Indian givers?

 

[Tank]

Wasn’t that the place that was taking back by….. I guess……the Indian givers?

I guess they worked it out. Dave has a thread with pics of his visit last week. New bar looks cool as shit! Gonna be a destination for sure!! No where else on the lake you can sit at a bar and watch boats blast by at 100 plus. One of the coolest parts of SCFW is being on the water where the boats blast by all day. Totally unique.

 

[HNL2LHC]

I guess they worked it out. Dave has a thread with pics of his visit last week. New bar looks cool as shit! Gonna be a destination for sure!! No where else on the lake you can sit at a bar and watch boats blast by at 100 plus. One of the coolest parts of SCFW is being on the water where the boats blast by all day. Totally unique.

Gotcha. I saw the thread but did not know what or what that was about. Thanks for the clarification.

 

[QC22]

Wow!! At the Palms. Crazy, we off-road run over there from the Landing during the winter. Hopefully we can give them some off-season revenue to keep it alive!

 

[Ziggy]

Could you imagine throwing a little community like this on the water down by the springs or where that new bar is going in? Not house boats but floating houses with room to dock your boat. Gold mine!!! Shit would never NOT be rented. Name your price. I’d love to stay on the water down by the springs in one of these houses with the boat right next to you in the water. Nice and quiet down there. Would be so bad ass.

The "nice and quiet down there" would go out the window if something like that was developed.

 

[Tank]

The "nice and quiet down there" would go out the window if something like that was developed.

Yeah at the palms for sure. but down at the springs it’s still quiet. Less boat traffic, etc. it’ll be like the pirates cabins at the palms aka Party spot.

 

[mbrown2]

The "nice and quiet down there" would go out the window if something like that was developed.

Exactly....I like it nice and quiet down there and it has been that way since the 70's... keep that shit north of Copper Canyon....if the folks in million+ homes in the Riviera are cool with a bunch of houseboats plugged in and the risks of electrical and waste getting in their water there...keep it up there... It sounds like a cool idea....but the idea of 20-40 house boats that never move in one spot with waste flowing through some mechanism that likely is maintained by the lowest bidder....15-20yrs from now after those houseboats have been beat to shit from the constant renters... keep it up there....bet the ballers building nice homes in there would think differently how that KOA on the water may look 20 yrs from now...

 

[RiverDave]

Remember the conquest dock and all that drama lol.

I think the “vessels” would need to move every 14 days or whatever it is. Unless the owner can install legitimate docks.

These will be part of a legitimate marina from what I understand.

 

[Tank]

Exactly....I like it nice and quiet down there and it has been that way since the 70's... keep that shit north of Copper Canyon....if the folks in million+ homes in the Riviera are cool with a bunch of houseboats plugged in and the risks of electrical and waste getting in their water there...keep it up there... It sounds like a cool idea....but the idea of 20-40 house boats that never move in one spot with waste flowing through some mechanism that likely is maintained by the lowest bidder....15-20yrs from now after those houseboats have been beat to shit from the constant renters... keep it up there....bet the ballers building nice homes in there would think differently how that KOA on the water may look 20 yrs from now...

Kinda thought the same thing about the riviera project.

But a floating house community that was a stand alone project I think would be different and there’s examples of them elsewhere. In Idaho on pend orielle they have a neat floating community super cool. And the ones on lake pleasant look
Killer.

 

[mbrown2]

Some of those are cool and have pride of ownership character...but some of those would look like crap when married to the view of the multi million dollar community being built up there. I was just driving up past there on Saturday from the water and could not believe how nice it looked with all these modern homes being built, terraced communities. These pontoons are gonna be like the NICE Large Lux versions of stationary pontoons they rent in the channel... I don't live there and I don't even really boat Havasu so not my lawn, but unless there is extremely good funding, maintenance, legal issues solved iron clad; I worry about another half baked Havasu project that becomes an eye sore...

I know it might sound NIMBY, but if I was building in that community I would not want it.... similarly I would want tight controls on STR's and that's coming from a mammoth STR owner....Even Mammoth limits STR's to its condo's and multi family areas of town, but the nicer areas its not an option.

Kinda thought the same thing about the riviera project.

But a floating house community that was a stand alone project I think would be different and there’s examples of them elsewhere. In Idaho on pend orielle they have a neat floating community super cool. And the ones on lake pleasant look
Killer.

 

[RiverDave]

Some of those are cool and have pride of ownership character...but some of those would look like crap when married to the view of the multi million dollar community being built up there. I was just driving up past there on Saturday from the water and could not believe how nice it looked with all these modern homes being built, terraced communities. These pontoons are gonna be like the NICE Large Lux versions of stationary pontoons they rent in the channel... I don't live there and I don't even really boat Havasu so not my lawn, but unless there is extremely good funding, maintenance, legal issues solved iron clad; I worry about another half baked Havasu project that becomes an eye sore...

I know it might sound NIMBY, but if I was building in that community I would not want it.... similarly I would want tight controls on STR's and that's coming from a mammoth STR owner....Even Mammoth limits STR's to its condo's and multi family areas of town, but the nicer areas its not an option.

There isn’t any STR’s in riviera

 

[Taboma]

Havasu palms

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So now we're supposed to trust the Injuns ?

 

[RiverDave]

So now we're supposed to trust the Injuns ?

The land lease is with an American developer… and the people that have been there have been there forever

 

[Taboma]

The land lease is with an American developer… and the people that have been there have been there forever

Must of have misunderstood, thought it was connected to the Havasu Palms, on Indian land.

 

[Tank]

So now we're supposed to trust the Injuns ?

I mean, YOU don’t have to trust them.

 

[QC22]

Must of have misunderstood, thought it was connected to the Havasu Palms, on Indian land.

Definitely inside the Reservation.

 

[Taboma]

I mean, YOU don’t have to trust them.

Some of us contractor types in San Diego who worked on Indian Casinos learned the hard way why they're not to be trusted.

 

[throttle]

Here is what some look like in Victoria, Canada

And before ya know it, this is how you will get there…

 

[HNL2LHC]

Here is what some look like in Victoria, Canada

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And before ya know it, this is how you will get there…

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That is the way to do it. No airport fees or other taxes for landing or taking off.

 

[RiverDave]

Must of have misunderstood, thought it was connected to the Havasu Palms, on Indian land.

The agreement for the land lease is between the tribe and an American developer. The agreement with the customer is with the customer and an American developer.

RD

 

[DWC]

Won’t take long for this to look like stuff to look like shit.

 

[RiverDave]

Won’t take long for this to look like stuff to look like shit.


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What makes you say that?

 

[DarkHorseRacing]

Kinda thought the same thing about the riviera project.

But a floating house community that was a stand alone project I think would be different and there’s examples of them elsewhere. In Idaho on pend orielle they have a neat floating community super cool. And the ones on lake pleasant look
Killer.

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Pic #2 has a pretty wicked lean.

I would think you'd want a wider base to put such a large structure on, kinda like the last picture.

 

[spectras only]

There is a bunch more of those floating homes in the greater Vancouver area.
Richmond, Ladner, False Creek downton, North Vancouver etc......
Dyke Rd Richmond. https://www.strawhomes.com/18-23000-dyke-road-richmond/

 

[DWC]

What makes you say that?

Houses on the water? I think it opens Havasu up to some unsightly messes.

We’ll be looking at just as many of these. Quick spin around town provides plenty of land based examples.

 

[n2otoofast4u]

Houses on the water? I think it opens Havasu up to some unsightly messes.

We’ll be looking at just as many of these. Quick spin around town provides plenty of land based examples.
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To be fair, the Portland Metro area has hundreds of floating homes. VERY few are shit holes. Are there some, absolutely, but in a city that is inundated with tents, needles, basic fuckery, the floating home communities don’t seem to tolerate too much nonsense. I can’t imagine Havasu would allow things to get too sideways.

 

[DWC]

To be fair, the Portland Metro area has hundreds of floating homes. VERY few are shit holes. Are there some, absolutely, but in a city that is inundated with tents, needles, basic fuckery, the floating home communities don’t seem to tolerate too much nonsense. I can’t imagine Havasu would allow things to get too sideways.

You’ve driven around Havasu…. Havasu, Tribal land. What could go wrong.

 

[OLDRAAT]

They banned the floating live-on docks/homes at GLOC years ago about the time the conversion to encapsulated foam floats was taking place. Many were in bad condition and most of the older ones lacked proper plumbing, electrical, etc. due to no formal rules or regs in times past.
I'm 70 and some were on the lake when I was a young boy.
However, I do like the ones we saw in Vancouver. Appears they have proper rules and restrictions in place.

 

[Dalton]

Here is what some look like in Victoria, Canada

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And before ya know it, this is how you will get there…

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no floating taj mahal replica?

 

[spectras only]

no floating taj mahal replica?

The non native Indians , live in 20,000 + Square foot homes in part of Richmond, more around in Surrey and Langley.
They pretty much dominate the trucking business too. My white friend who lives on Sideway Road ritzi part of Richmond, has the smallest , a 5000 # foot house on 5 acres, he bought 40 yrs ago, has a hindu guy next door in a 30,000 plus home built recently. Guy owns a shipping container business. My friend bought a 7000 # ft house on 10 acres not too far from us here near Penticton, to get away from the mayhem Greater Vancouver become in the last 40 yrs.