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

Ever since my rant the other day and then a few quick follow up posts, my phone has been ringing off the hook and inbox filled with would-be clients that have been 'stalking my website for years', know 'my website and my life inside and out', and loads of other great feedback including from Tommy from Brooklyn today who literally called me up and said "listen, dude, seriously, I've been jerking off to the pictures on your website"(that's how he started the conversation).  It's funny how it works - bombarded all day long with plastics, phoneyisms, disingenuity, and shallow appeals for attention, I come in with a real hard-earned opinion that rings true and people get it, appreciate, applaud it, want to be part of it.  Why not - there's so much self-righteous, self-important, dumbass, bullshit out there, that something with some balls is a nice comic relief every once and again.

Over the past 2 weeks -

Cottage 35, Narrowsburg, going into Contract.
Cottage 39, Eldred, going into Contract
Cottage 41, Livingston Manor, going into Contract
The Shack, Narrowsburg, going into Contract

Working on 2 big custom house deals in Stone Ridge and Chatham NY.

Now granted, 2 of these deals aren't our rock solid no doubt about it deals, but I have a feeling I'm gonna nurse 'em right home to momma.

Waiting for the laundry to dry which was long overdue cause I kept forgetting to buy laundry detergent.  I was tempted to just run 'em through with water, but I didn't.  I had no idea Wisk cost $14.

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So one of our customers opened a cool general store, and another bakes pies for a local restaurant and another one just bought an historic church/school to turn into a biz venture.

And this Saturday, The Bon Vivants are back at Bakers Tap Room, starring Richard Parkinson who owns Barn 2 over on Tuthill Road in Barryville NY.

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My companies, and me personally, donate a lot of money to local business and causes.  A $1000 to the Eldred Lions club, a $1000 to the Barryville Chamber of Commerce, $1000 to the local Eldred library, couple thousand to NACL- and a few more I can't think of.  Today I'm going to an event at the Boys and Girls Club at the Monticello Motor Club.

I even consider my advertising in the River Reporter, or the Homestead School pamphlet and the like to be donations cause I'm not getting any business from that stuff - it's just nice to co-brand and support local organizations that work hard and offer unique services, whether I agree with them or not.

But based on the continued (actually increased) community manipulation that The River Reporter serves up as news, I've withdrawn my advertising support, since in the end, my support was to support their work, and their work sucks.  For 10 yrs I've been buying $8-10k a year in advertising from them with probably a return of little if any business generated from the advertising.  I mean I don't have to agree with them to want to support them, but I can't support an organization that is going out of its way to misinform, mis-educate and manipulate - It's actually just like Fox News - all the news is put through a filter prior to reporting, and that slant is incorporated into every nuance, texture and detail of a story.  And since the local radio station, WJFF, who I've been supporting way before I could afford it, allows Fritz Mayer of the River Reporter to give weekly radio newscasts (propogandcasts), I've stopped supporting them as well.

It was all fine and dandy to have this nonsense playing out when the issues were small, but Sullivan County and the little towns like Narrowsburg actually are faced with pretty serious issues as of late, and the residents and readership of the River Reporter deserve more respect for their intelligence.  The position of trust is even more important because people don't have any other source of news.

So, how do you save $15k a year?  Stop supporting things you don't believe in.