The Jared Covit, Lauren Rich, Martin Shell Show is Back in Town

The Jared Covit, Lauren Rich, Martin Shell Show is Back in Town.

Some of you long time readers might remember the homeowners of Ranch 51 in Saugerties, that great house with a stream, views abutting a lovely field in the rear of the property at the far end of a 16 home project we did in 2020-2022, those perfectly nasty folks who after we delivered a home to in a world-wide pandemic sued us for deceptive business practices, tried to pierce the corporate veil to sue me personally, breach of contract and bunch of other nonsense that an Ulster County court unceromoniously threw out and dismissed.  Unless you know a little about the law, or run a business that gets up in the morning and works hard all day for decades, it’s hard to overstate the offensiveness of these causes of actions these jerks brought.

Jared Covit also created a shadow Catskill Farms instagram account which looked friendly and then turned nasty if you liked or followed, and used his digital prowess to seemingly auto-contact a lot of my Catskill Farms followers, many who are my friends and one who got caught up in this was my son Lucas since Lucas is an active follower of mine on Insta. Now Covit doesn't have a kid, so he can't really fathom the rage a situation like that can feel like to a parent. He took it down after he was rightfully shown the potential liability he was creating for he and his apparently long-suffering wife Lauren (we will learn how long-suffering tomorrow) with his business interference tactics.  One of the few smart things he’s done in this regard.

So Jared Covit and Lauren Rich have a few issues with their home, which is true for every single home we’ve ever built, and as we tried to work through them, the level of obsession became frightening - during and after the build.  Hundreds upon hundreds of emails.  Texts.   Followups.  Add ons.  Repeat.  Remedy one thing, four more emails arrived in our inbox.  And then followups to the new emails.   Really, a sickness the level of obsession. 

So anyway, this was years ago, and his home is perfectly fine, performing in a fashion I hope all our homes perform - dependable, safe, appreciating in value, good looking, low maintenance.

But this fucking guy Jared Covit wants his pound of flesh so the one legal cause of action that withstood immediate dismissal was about a warranty claim about siding, and that wasn’t dismissed not because its valid, but because the judge wanted to learn more about it because it was a dispute on the facts, whereas on the 4, 5, 6 causes of action that were dismissed were just wrongly pled and really just a tool of harassment.

So here we are years later and Jared Covit won’t let it go even though there have been so many off ramp opportunities I’ve lost count, so today I had to sit for a deposition discussing among many things, if I’ve read and committed to memory and had team meetings about a 110 page technical manual about how to install Hardy Plank siding.  His attorney Martin Shell, attorney at law, who showed up an hour late since I guess he doesn’t know that there is traffic getting out of the city, put on a ridiculous performance of ill-tempered, easily-provoked amateurness that only he and his seemingly delusional client could think was effective. It should be self-evident, by the very nature of a blog, that these statements are my opinions derived directly from watching him in action.

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Or as ChatGPT says - Yes—blogs are personal in tone and perspective.They’re essentially your voice, your take, your narrative—more like a journal or commentary than formal writing.

Tomorrow, Jared Covit and his wife Lauren Rich have to sit for their depositions where we will closely evaluate their claims, approaches, theories and opinions about a lot of different things. I don't want to spoil it tonight, but expect a good recap tomorrow or over the weekend.

One of the off ramps I offered in an attempt to lower the temperature was to take down four funny blog posts from a year ago after all most of his legal causes of action were dismissed, highlighting Martin Shell’s apparent lack of legal acumen and Jared Covit’s insane obsessiveness (in my opinion) as well as all the time he has on his hands and well as the perverse need to stain his and his wife's upstate life with this exercise.  

Well, those posts Google loved, as I’m sure Google will love this one, since Google loves this blog.  Why does Google love this blog? - because it’s pertinent, it’s informed, it’s regularly updated and I’ve been keeping it for the better part of 2 decades. So I’m going to republish them and then watch to see if anything has changed with our authority with the world's smartest algorithm.  Since Jared Covit doesn’t have much of an internet presence, my blog posts quickly - and I mean quickly - became the dominant search return on his name. Forever. What do they say? FAFO?

When I intimated that I’m going to repost those and create new ones tracking this new uptick in energy with this site, Martin Shell once again lost his cool saying ‘I’m going to the judge’, “I’m going to do this”, “I’m going to tell my mom”.  I’m just like ‘free speech bro, free speech.  Let it ring my Brother.” Martin Shell also wasn't that happy to learn I filed a ethics complaint against him for his actions towards me at a site inspection, which can actually be a big deal depending how it gets viewed by the powers that be. I don't have a copy of it handy but I'll post it when I can. It's a great rebuttal to his dismissed causes of actions against me, personally- to make one against him. Only mine has legs and his didn't.

Anyways, it’s weird when $100,000 or $200,000 is just a business expense, one that is reduced in half because of NY and Fed taxes on big earners.  The time to compromise with these pricks is over - this will go all the way now.  Stay tuned. Amazingly, I didn't get a parking ticket in Kingston today.