I don’t think home building companies realize how much damage they are doing to themselves by trying to use what they perceive as a mountain biking “trend” as a marketing gimmick.\u00a0 I know of three developments nationally where the home builder offered mountain biking trails as a community perk only to shutter the trails within months as they used the land to expand development.\u00a0 Now I’m not gonna get into how pathetic these over-priced, poorly built track homes are with regards to quality of construction and components (a $3700 laminate double door option, really?).\u00a0 Regardless of their lack of any real wood I suppose some people are drawn to pay a premium for a house built 10 feet from their neighbor for a sense of “community”.\u00a0 But when you build mountain bike trails you’ve immediately extended beyond your “community”.<\/p>\n
Build all the barn style coffee houses you want beside the community pool.\u00a0 Who cares.\u00a0 If you build mountain bike trails word will get out.\u00a0 We live to explore new trails.\u00a0 All great for your marketing right?\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Incredible.\u00a0 As long as you plant to NEVER remove the trails to expand development of more shot ass homes on the land.\u00a0 Once you do that, you’re BLACKLISTED.<\/p>\n
Blacklisted?\u00a0 Yep.\u00a0 A shit community.\u00a0 Traitors.\u00a0 Word’s getting out about Wendell Falls.\u00a0 I suppose they don’t care because demand for their boring track cardboard is so high they destroyed trails they marketed as the second coming of Christ to the area in April 2017.\u00a0 “Future expansion” they said.\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 Just destroyed trails after one season of riding.\u00a0 No communication about the trails status.\u00a0 Just people arriving to find them gone.\u00a0 Now they can sell all the ghetto fabulous, cheap material track homes they can build due to demand.\u00a0 We will not forget.\u00a0 You’ll never have a serious cyclist interested in your matchstick dwellings.\u00a0 Wendell Falls is blacklisted.\u00a0 To hell with posers and marketing dim bitches who think this is trend to us.\u00a0 It’s a lifestyle and you’re a tease for profit.\u00a0 A teasing whore in a coffee shop barn.\u00a0 A total misfire.\u00a0 You DO NOT fuck around by building trails with so much social media and LBS fanfare only to rip them down.\u00a0 You will lose sales and credibility as anything but development whores for such nonsense.\u00a0 The cycling community is much bigger than yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I don’t think home building companies realize how much damage they are doing to themselves by trying to use what they perceive as a mountain biking “trend” as a marketing gimmick.\u00a0 I know of three developments nationally where the home builder offered mountain biking trails as a community perk only to shutter the trails within … Continue reading Do NOT use Mountain Bike Trails as a promotional gimmick for Real Estate Development.<\/span>