GUYS we need to buy this

remember what happened last time we had the opertunity to buy a resort? nothing. sorry to be a pesimist but ns doesnt have the determination or the capital to buy and run a resort.
 
It COULD work but you would have to have people organized and motivated. As has been said, there are not 80,000 active people on this site, and it would cost assloads of money to run the place, beyond buying it. Also consider paying people to work at it, taxes are gonna be ugly, and what about eqipment maintanance? Its a huge cost to run a resort, it would take all the people who ever read this to pull it off, and they would all have to be committed and willing to put well over 100$ into it.
 
lets see here:

83,711 members

x50

=======

$418,555

and many people on this site have like 3 accounts, so that makes it even less money, plus half the active members on this site don't even go into the forums, so they won't even know.

so basicly, if there were one person for every account each donating $50, we still wouldn't even be halfway there.
 
I wrote the calculations on my stretched out ball sack with a chopstick dipped in ranch dressing....are they incorrect?
 
nono dude i bet there are less than 40.000 who pay..for sure

many people have more than one account and many aren´t only for months...so..
 
Check your own calculator. lol.

$4,185,550.00

Is it a good dream.? Yes. Is it obtainable? Yes. Is it actually realitic though? No.

Organizing and getting people to put money into this is a lost cause. You need to find someone who has the capital already. You need business savvy and marketing knowledge.

You propose a valid business plan, and submit this to people, banks other financial institutions. if you have a plan that will actually make money, you will get the money you need to get the project off the ground. If your plan won't work, then you won't and you'll know that nothing can be done.

If you really want to do something like this, I'd suggest getting organized and creating a business plan before you worry about the money portion.
 
dude this thread was started like a week ago and there has been much talk, but i think by now we have realized that it is not realistic. Dont get me roung i want it as much as every one else, but it is just not plausable
 
A good rule. For every 5 people that say they would donate to a good cause if presented the oppurtunity, only one will actually do so, when possible.

Go to university, get a degree in commerce, accounting, real estate etc, then start dreaming this big. Education is key.
 
OR, we could all come to alaska and take a heli ride and find a huge mountain for free, i like my idea better
 
you guys are saying you'll donate 50 dollars each. lmfao "we'll have to donate maybe even a little more then 100" LMFAO yeah ok keep dreaming guys
 
I think it'd be cool to start an NS west resort (read: small ropetow with a volunteer park crew and a couple snowmobiles) and an NS East resort (read: pretty much the same but with less snow, but more people willing to work on it) and then slowly work up from there. It'd be doable with 20,000 people to put together for snowmobiles, even snowcats. I saw one on ebay for $2500. A lot more realistic and we wouldn't have to go through quite as much legal bullshit and training.
 
Questions to ask before purchasing (not that anyone here has the capital, but just in case you were a businessman looking to buy):

1. Valuation: how is the value of the resort compared to other resorts. Take a look at comprable mountains and see how much they are valued (probalby gonna be hard to value b/c most are not publicly pwned, and thus the information is not available.)

2. Future Revenues: How much money will this place make over the next 5 years. The $4 Mill price tag inclues the price of the land and the potential revenues. Let's assume that the land costs $2 mil... You need to run some calculations that show that you can make up the other $2 million and make a profit over the next few years. $40 a ticket X 100 Snow Days X 1000 skiers a day X 5 years=20 million dollars... minus expenses (salary, insurance, snowmaking, lodging, utilities etc), and hopefully your profit over the next 5 years is around $4 milion. Actually that'd be great... 100% returns over 5 years. 20% a year....

3. You also need to look at other shit like risk of bad weather, effect of 2010 olympics, growth potential, taxes, and ease of selling it to another purchaser over the next 10 years...

Get all those estimates and assumptions in there and you should be able to calculate whether to buy the place or not.
 
there are bound to be changes in the cost of the resort, as many6 of these things fluctuate. you could geta a couple of bad falls resulting in shitloads of excess on ur insureance.

and of cousre thisis assuming that you get 1000 skiers on average every day. u would have to check the numbers from the last couple of years
 
great idea and all, and i would support, but if this resort was made into an all-mountain park you cut out a lot of your visitors, limiting the customers to just park skiers, which is most of us on ns. and seeing that we are offering free season passes to anyone who donates it's looking like there wont be too much money made each year because the people skiing at this resort already donated and therefore are skiing free. its a good idea and i would love to see it take flight but it needs some work
 
^^^ dude we couldnt give free pass's to every one that donates, mabey a free day pass, but if every one who is intrested to go there rides for free it would die in less than a week, so lets stop debating something that isnt possible.

Was it a good dream, yes but is it a possible dream, no
 
You need to think about how rad it would be to have a hill owned by NS. It would be all park/booters. We could have music pumping all the time and everyone could get their hate on. And we could all make fun of newbs! AWESOME!
 
okay, i got it, we get lots of huge corporations to sponsor it and they get to photoshoot for free/ name a trail/park/have all of their contests, on top an assload of people donating 5 g's
 
if it could actually happen i would do it. a big problem is making it publicly known. the lift tickets would have to be at least $50, and it would have to have park, moguls, pow, and a couple bunny slopes to make everyone happy.
 
Pretty sure when my rents are at my camp for the summer I could sell the deed to my house for like 300,000.00..... id need some1 to let me bunk at there house in BC. I roll a mean dutch if that helps.

I can do the 50 bucks thing too, and im good at running shit, if some1 wants to elect me offcial Manager, or dishwasher... w/e works.
 
dude why would you turn that whole mtn into a park, they get 500 plus inches a year, thats not worth wasting all the mtn on a park
 
oh mike...silly hippies, you need more than 10 cm to make it a powder day. it can be slightly heavier if its 80 cm of fresh a night

i never noticed this thread. I guess i would be in the running for manager?
 
First of all, I should know why this would be impossible?? If someone really wants to buy the mountain and is good educated and talented to run it than he or she shouls make it a company and everyone could be shareholder.

Also I do think u can discuss price first, so start with that.

But back where i was, make it a company like newschooler.com mountain and who wants pays like 500 bugs. Enough people who wnats that. Also u can poll first who is willing to pay and than calculate a price. also find sponsors and people outside NS. When we bought the mountain, this smart guy and his staff will run the mountain and shareholders can ski for reasonable prices. I'd say do it!!
 
good idea. this would be the sickest thing ever. the only problem is theres a lot of people from aussie and stuff that might not be able to make it but w/e still sick idea. i think we should definitely do it
 
^sooo, we build a strip for airplanes and we will get an airline involved haha. Ur problems are just solved my friend!
 
good idea donno how realistic it is but it would def be sick

we should make a thread where if u wold donat like 100 dollers towards this u say "i" and then we see how many ppl reply
 
good idea donno how realistic it is but it would def be sick

we should make a thread where if u wold donat like 100 dollers towards this u say "i" and then we see how many ppl reply

then we would have atlest an ideo of how many ppl would contribute
 
jUST KEEP DREAMING GUYS....I wish it could happen but do you know how many people would want to stay there for free because they donated $50?? Yeah think about that!! But it would be the shit!!
 
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