Can't make it up....

The amount of baloney I save my clients from is pretty significant. They really have no idea the brain damage I take on their behalf, protect them from phony contractors, misguided utility advice, long way around simple problems. After I dropped Caroline Akt from my brokerage, I had to finish up like 8 of her deals, and I'm always amazed at how easy repping real estate is compared to what we do. I mean, what we do is tough, and half the time clients are upset at a crooked outlet, and other times I broker a simple piece of real estate (as opposed to what we do at Catskill Farms, which is find land, buy it, develop it, design it, drill wells, clear land, pair it with an owner, get it financed, etc... - it's hard), and I'll go broker a simple piece of real estate and people think I'm a hero. It's just two different universes, in terms of complexity and difficulty, and client expectations.

Here's what greeted me at my small project in Saugerties NY - now mind you, I did what no builder has ever done before, which was write a letter to all 30 homeowners along this street we are building warning them about construction traffic and to be a little more careful with my personal cell phone, and I also posted these signs to keep reminding my team to keep it slow. So someone scratched in some alt words and now it reads 'Report Chuck, Crimes against Nature".

SERIOUSLY! 7am. I'm still laughing at the absurdity of it, since whoever wrote clearly owns a home, has cleared trees, etc... I mean, I've been slapped around enough over the last month, that this was a bit of levity.

And then this - I'm trying to hire a project super for some work in Sullivan County, so this guy responds and I decide to meet him at a project and I can't get a word in edgewise, then he starts talking covid and fake stats, etc... and I say what I think is pretty nicely, "I'm not really interested in talking about that'. and he starts going off about this and that and says "I knew when you wouldn't shake me hand..." storms out of the building, blares out my driveway with a bunch of 'fucks' and 'you' and horn honks, etc... and completes it with this text

"I will blast u in the internet you asshole, like I already heard

Fuck u"

Like I said, I protect my clients from a lot of this insanity. But it's what I navigate to get stuff done. For nearly 20 years.

Here's a farmhouse in Narrowsburg - in contract.

Mini-barn in Narrowsburg, under contract.

Converted and retrofitted 1931 Community Hall in Phoenixville PA, into a single family residence.

Barn something or another in Saugerties NY, under contract.

Lot clearing in Saugerties. Don't ask, Under Contract.

Ranch house in Saugerties, Under Contract.

Ranch in Kerhonkson. Under Contract.

Lil' Farm in Olivebridge NY. Contract, under.

Me modeling a rain jacket I borrowed from my electrician and failed to give back and now it was raining so I sent a pic to rub it in just for fun. I love my Vineyard Vines shorts with a bulldog surfing. I actually wear them too much.