Spring is springing

I’m sure everyone is not only sick of the weather, but actually sick of me talking about it in my blog too - and the last few days of ice, melt, ice was no fun at all.

We are inching ahead with our spring plans, ready to burst through the earth like a tulip or other like-minded spring plant.  Within a week it may be soupy wet and muddy, but winter’s restrictions will be in the rear view mirror, even if it would dare to artic blast us again.

It’s pretty amazing how little chance the snow has versus the sun. Bright rays and some mid-30’s and you can literally watch the snow disappear.

I’ve been waiting for 2 years for electric to one of my homes.  Two years is a bit of an exaggeration because that’s when I first applied for electric when we started the house, but 2+ years it has been, and now almost a year with a finished home just waiting on electric.  It’s the type of thing you are happy didn’t happen earlier in my career when holding onto a house for the fun of it wouldn’t really fly too long.

Or, maybe the timing would have advantageous like if I was trying to get it up and sold in 2020, then Covid happened, then by the time I had electric house prices doubled but the increased cost of construction didn’t matter since the house was built prior - A guy can dream.

This year my goal is to fully price my homes.  Meaning not sell too quick, or early in the marketing campaign.  It’s hard to argue with the success of our sales strategy - take good offers everytime, but it’s also hard to argue I’ve left a lot of money on the table by doing so, specifically thinking about at the beginning of 2025, when I had my last two houses in Olivebridge to sell.  I was worried about the market, so was (and still am) happy to have sold them, but it was a strong year for real estate in Ulster county so I probably walked away $200k lighter than I could have.

And since I’m picking up this long-awaited post after writing the above paragraphs, we are having a nice spring week with temps touching 70 and dry.  I’m running around from job to job to make sure all is moving forward in as straight of a line as possible.  Played pickleball on the home court yesterday, first match of the season.  Heard some geese coming home high in the sky last night.  Watched the water melt and run from all directions.

I have a 3 week trip to Sardinia, Corsica and points still undetermined coming up in May.

Pictures of the Ranch home in New Paltz we just are finishing up.