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Catskills - Sullivan County - Ulster County Real Estate -- Catskill Farms Journal

Old School Real estate blog in the Catskills. Journeys, trial, tribulations, observations and projects of Catskill Farms Founder Chuck Petersheim. Since 2002, Catskill Farms has designed, built, and sold over 250 homes in the Hills, investing over $100m and introducing thousands to the areas we serve. Farms, Barns, Moderns, Cottages and Minis - a design portfolio which has something for everyone.

February 7, 2022

Turning the page

So it's now beginning of February, and to be honest, January was a shit show. First, everyone got covid, so the ability to get anything done was questionable. 2, the supply chain disruption is real, and now with delivery drivers scarce, getting it is twice as hard. Appliances are coming in in drips and drabs so what used to be a one day affair of careful receiving of said appliances, protecting the floors, installing the next day - a consolidated surgical affair to minimize chances of damage to floors, counters or the appliances themselves - now it's like a 3 or 4 delivery effort as stuff comes in whenever. Not good, not efficient, and hard to control for variables and Murphy's Law.

Last Friday, Ulster County got hit with an ice storm, and power was knocked out, and continues to be knocked out for many, including many of our clients, and even two houses I'm trying to finish and monetize my efforts.

On the sales front I have people busting down my door to get some information and get in line, but I haven't taken a sales call since November, giving both my team and myself a breather. You can't get a breather unless you do a no-exceptions policy - so there are people within the confines of the red velvet ropes and there are those that are not in the door yet. We hope to have a bunch of houses for sale and more than half done so I'm pretty sure they will be a big hit in this marketplace of low inventory and strong demand.

Now that time is on my side, and not so go go go go go go go go, and the team is in place, spending a fair amount of time on self care, across the mental, physical. A particular one of interest, and overdue, is finalizing and checking twice the succession and wind-down plan in case of my demise, or worse in my mind, incapacitation. As the key man who handles a bunch of details vital to the worth and value of my 20 year effort, paying attention of how it would get wound down and preserving as much value as possible is important and logical. Involves lots of planning and the right people in key places with knowledge and training and incentives of how to do it.

Thinking about taking my son on an African safari, then coastal Zanzibar, then maybe Dubai (logically stopping point on the way home from Africa it seems).

Atlantis, Dubai. Home to the worlds largest water park.
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