Couple Buys Moldy Lakefront RV Park, Pretends It’s Boutique Hotel
KEY POINTS
- •In November 2024, Robin Singh and Sharan Samra bought the Fish Mill Lodges and RV park near Florence, Oregon, for $1.23 million.
- •Despite rotting cabins, unsafe docks, and overgrown grounds, they planned a boutique hotel renovation while maintaining full-time tech and marketing jobs.
- •Singh proposed just days before the purchase and then flew to India to arrange custom furniture fitting their whimsical, childlike designs.
In November 2024, Google engineering lead Robin Singh and marketing guru Sharan Samra dropped $1.23 million on Fish Mill Lodges, a 1940s-era run-down RV park near Florence, Oregon, infamous for creaky floors, 10-foot blackberry jungle shrubbery, and toilets green with algae ambitions. Working full-time while low-key risking sanity, Singh, 32, eagerly sketched what Samra labeled '3-year-old crayon art' to transform it into the Florentine Waterfront Hotel. A romantic finisher: Singh proposed just days before closing. Highlights include trips to India for bespoke furniture and ignoring RV hookups to save the boutique aesthetic—because nothing screams 'luxury' like dodging broken docks and expired bathroom flora.
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Nothing says 'boutique hotel' like a million-dollar jungle with algae toilets and a bridge you may spontaneously collapse through. Bonus points for hand-drawn design by a ‘not-an-artist’ ex-Googler who thinks banks saying no is just a fun warm-up.
Who needs a honeymoon resort when you can have blackberry bushes as tall as your dreams and toilets straight out of a biology experiment? #EauDeAlgaeLuxury
Banks said hell no, so these two made a pact with a hard money lender and a swamp. Marketing jobs unsure if ‘boutique’ means ‘brace yourself’.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 1/10/2026 | Author: Samantha Grindell Pettyjohn
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