For some time, Dallas Executive airport has been consistently ignoring my requests for remedial action on my hangar (small stuff like filling the holes in the asphalt floor was a remedial action that they could have done but did not).
They then painted the exterior of my hangar in the Summer. Frankly, this was of no interest to me - I could not care if the hangar was painted sky-blue pink with yellow dots, as long as the walls and roof perform their intended purpose. In the meantime they did not fix the major issue of the front of my hangar becoming a river whenever it rained heavily.
The turning point came when they upped my hangar rental from $215 a month to $270 a month this Summer, with a further increase to $290 if I did not sign a new hangar lease. Since they had not improved any amenities at all (the hangar electricity supply still cannot cope with a decent air compressor, and there is no water officially available anywhere on the site), I promptly went to Lancaster to check that airport out. The people there are really friendly, and they put me on the hangar waiting list.
Last week Lancaster contacted me to offer me a brand-new larger T-hangar, with water, restroom in the hangar block, concrete floor and bi-fold electric doors, for only $250 a month. It is only 33 minutes by car from my house. This was a no-brainer.
I am moving from Dallas Executive to Lancaster next weekend. It will be nice to have the plane in a new high-quality hangar at an airport which apparently does like small airplane owners. I am left with the uncomfortable impression that the management at Dallas Executive sees small plane owners as a nuisance, and that there is a campaign under way to force them out so that the site can be redeveloped for executive transport.