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

Weighing in at 2000 sq ft, 3 cool 2nd floor bedrooms.  2 full baths on the 2nd floor including one attached and dedicated to the master bedroom (I'm frankly surprised they still use that term).

Farm 62, Located in Kerhonkson, the last of 4 lots off Ridgeview road.  Pretty parcel, half wooded, half field.

1/2 bath on the first floor.

Very modern/traditional hybrid with a ton of porch and deck.

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Who can't love a freelovin' mudroom that gives and much as it gets.
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Good view of dining and kitchen, with the living room hogging the other side up.

And one of the bedrooms with a salvaged wall accent.

Getting started here in a few weeks and scheduled for an early 2021 completion.

Farm 61
1550 sq ft
3 beds, 1.5 baths
Basement - 700 sq ft, unfinished.
Olivebridge NY
Completion:  Oct, 2020.
Status: Framing just went up.

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Barn 37
2000 sq ft
3 beds, 2.5 baths
Basement - 1000 sq ft, unfinished
Kerhonkson NY
Completion: Jan, 2021
Status: Beginning week of June 6

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Ranch 44
2000 sq ft
3 beds, 2 baths
Basement - Mostly finished
Kerhonkson, NY
Completion: Jan 2021
Status: Beginning week of June 6

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Farm 62
2000 sq ft
3 beds, 2.5 baths
Basement - 1000 sq ft unfinished
Kerhonkson, NY
Completion: March 2021
Status: - Beginning July 6.

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Ranch 38
810 sq ft
2 beds, 1 bath
Basement - None
Saugerties NY
Completion - Just finished.
Status - Complete
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Ranch 39
810 sq ft
2 beds, 1 bath
Basement - None
Saugerties NY
Completion - Just finished.
Status - Complete

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In order to meet demand, we are working hard to get our existing contracted homes rolling and get a few more in the 'ground'.  This home is just getting started and will be ready later in the year.

To that point, let me introduce Barn 37, a thoroughly modern lofty structure with a ton of windows and light.  We built the first one these back in 2010 or so, with the help of a young designer woman who envisioned a barn that played off previous versions of homes we built, but with a new slant.  From there it evolved over the years to include a front mudroom popout, a screened porch, a neat first floor bedroom/bath suite.  It weighs in at just under 2000 sf, has 2.5 baths, and 3 bedrooms.  Also has, will have, a basement with light and glass that could be finished at any point.
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This home benefited from a mistake a few years ago, where the house framer got something so wrong in the layout that it helped us see new ways to lay the house out, leading to a 2nd bath on the 2nd floor that made all the difference in terms of ease of ultimate use.


Will be located on the last lot on a private road in Kerhonkson NY, a road with 3 other Catskill Farms' homes.


3 or 4 different takes on the main space.

Easy house to love and live in.  Priced at $580,000.

With several new house deals over the last 6 weeks, and our Lazy Meadows real estate arm busy as a bee, it's a confusing time to be successful.  Only 8 weeks ago, I was blogging about how we always seem to shine when times get hard, since I'm forward thinking, don't wear rose colored glasses, and have the ability to find a lane, ahead of time, of which lane we should occupy.  This was a lot easy than I expected, with demand for homes really off the charts.

And that leaves me with a perplexing condition of what I guess they call survivor's guilt, where the individual wonders why they are so special to have survived unscathed.  Usually applied to war survivors, or terrorist attacks, school shootings or a wide-range of calamities where people suffer and die, and the ones left are left with a feeling of guilt for still being around.

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Now, with our little company as busy as can be, my son healthy, I'm healthy, my employees are healthy, my dog seems happy, my wild flowers are blooming wildly on a large plot of land I cultivated, and both the pandemic and now the racial unrest, more than just the tender-hearted can feel.   Slathered top to bottom in white privilege, I sail on with my clients, associates and friends.

I'm not really going to take this thought too far, but one level I've been focused on and struggling with is a marketing message that has the right tone.  Word like 'capitalize on', 'opportunity', 'escape' all ring with slightly off-key pitch, as does my usual flippant 'you snooze you lose', or 'could've been you' in your face taunt.

I'm cognizant of the power of words, cognizant of the somber moment, and cognizant that I do best by keeping my family fed, my employees and their families working, our subcontractor teams engaged, and our clients safe.  It's a bubble, but like one of my new clients said artfully, it was a bubble I choose 20 years ago, and it's a bubble that keeps giving back.

So our marketing message has been reduced to 'we build safe houses for you to be safe in, and we've been doing it for 20 years'.  Nothing more really has to be said.

Couple of news pieces -
http://www.westmilfordmessenger.com/tag/-/meta/charles-petersheim

https://upstater.com/catskill-farms-saugerties-mini-homes/