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The thing about Eric from Nest is that he's a veteran of customer service, having been on the front lines of a family insurance business for years.  

Let's just say its not common to have someone with that type of sophisticated customer service mindset tackling chores and tasks around the house  - and it doesn't take much time up here (or really anywhere) to look for the nearest bridge when dealing with 'around the house' vendors.

So to have someone like Eric maintaining your grounds, and to have a customer service pro address your concerns and problems, well, its a real breath of fresh air for us folks who appreciate those simple pleasures in life.

For those of you who live in civilized areas, you may take for granted the delight of friendly, intuitive service - but for us up here, we are starved for the tlc one gets when employing a service or ordering a beer.

1550 sq ft 3 bedroom on 5 acres outside of Narrowsburg NY.

Big Ass porch.

Window trim, flooring, interior doors then painting.

Construction started January 3rd and ended May 5.  Nothing really more needs to be said about our part  in the successful and timely debut of this home in Rhinebeck.

120 invited guests showed up at the opening night gala on a beautiful summer evening.

Here I am (2nd from right) with my date and the Editor in Chief of Country Living.

Part of my entourage below.  Coarse, loud and unable to leave a server or drink opportunity pass without pouncing would best describe this group.

This was an easy story to sell to the Press and sell we did.  The local and regional press placements were a whole lot more important to me than the national shout out by Country Living.  We aimed so comprehensive and micro targeted our media platforms that 25% of the well-distributed rags don't even have the stories online.  It's easy to think bigger is better when it comes to a public mention, but I've found the smaller well placed mentions are easier to digest for the average reader.

The whole 'partnership' I engaged in with Country Living was about the potential to further build the brand, as well as accelerate our expansion into our 4th county and it definitely worked.  The Catskill Farms Country Living co-brand syncing up with the Country Living Fair was an easy story to tell, and one that was featured prominently in most publications we approached.  Interestingly, Country Living more or less left the local media alone, which left it up to us to spread the word.

At this point, I'm pretty press savvy so it was fun to be riding a good story horse like this one, galloping the whole way to several feature profiles.

Daily Freeman

Ulster Press Salutes House of the Year

The back porch partiers.

And the post party early evening Farm 25 - a house that was similar to Farm #1 which inspired this whole new old house thing back in 2002.  It's funny how full circle things seem these days.

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Wasn't that long ago that a distressed country home was perched perfectly on this 20 acre slab of land.

As you remember, Lucas took the first ceremony swipe with the excavator (he played hookie just to do it)

Then the big foundation.

Then the house.

you just don't do it any better than that, and I guess that's why people call me Can't Do Better Than That Petersheim.

Here's a link to the Owner's first museum show for her sculptures, titled a Talking Cure.  Typical of our Top of Their Game clients.

And then 'it's all fun and games till someone gets hurt Lucas Petersheim', slipping into the cargo area of my new kayak.  Games ended real quick when I pretended to put the plastic cover over the hole.  Talk about tears and cryin' for his Momma.

Now, just to even things out, the only reason I needed a new kayak is because the tree guys who were cutting trees on my property must had landed one on my old kayak since there were 2 branches stuck through the bottom of the boat.