Since I’ve rented out nearly all my 20 week allotment of 1,250 sqft 1BR Suites for $2,550 each, and 740 sqft Master Studios for $2,150 each for 2015, all I have left other than a single 1BR and a few Studio weeks—one of which I just booked for myself—is unlimited 3, 4, and 5 night bookings at $625 and $495 per night, respectively. I make $100 per night on the spread. Been doing a lot of those.
It has been crazy night and day with inquiries. A year ago, I sold out my 10 contract weeks in February and popped for another $50K contract, to double inventory to 20 weeks. Now, here I sit, same month a year later in the same place: almost sold out for 2015 and it won’t be until July or so when people begin booking for 2016. That’s not all. Nearly sold out, it’s only from people who fill out the form on VRBO, then deal in email. 90% of my bookings involve zero phone conversation. I have 18 or 20 unlistened-to voicemails. Sorry folks: people who can communicate in writing get priority, and I’m almost sold out.
But what if I could serve the unwashed phone callers, as well as the Internet types who I can’t get to before they make other arrangements? What if I recognize my laziness of luxury as good, but not good enough? What if I could put in play another contract or two and have enough potential revenue to pay taxes (that’s euphemism for creating real jobs)? …The world is a 7 billions collection of fucktards who believe governments exact taxes. It’s an illusion. Businesses create activity, and the state steals the most from the unclever; all while the middle ground laps it up just because they can and are so sheepishly fearful of everything that they’ll hand over an ass fucking every day with a smile. The middle is the fat part of the Bell Curve with “FUCKTARD” as the x-axis.
…I got this review yesterday for another vacation rental place, one I own outright and the one that got me started in this business out of the blue. It’s the 66th review I think, 64 of them 5-star, 2, 4-star.
This cabin always exceeds our expectations!
This is our third and definately not our last stay at Richards cabin. It is the ideal getaway venue for the following reasons, not in particular order:
1. Richard is a breeze and a delight to do business with in every way – easy going, professional, communicative, helpful, thorough, kind.
2. The space has everything needed for a multiple family gathering – beds, linens, open floor plan, flat driveway, games, coziness, fully stocked kitchen, great location close to downtown, easy drive to big trees and bv, great music system, outdoor space from deck to fire pit to woods to explore.
3. Price is unbeatable for what you get.
4. Ease of interaction and the process – from getting in to the cabin to check out, it’s a breeze with Richard.
We had 5 families and 14 folks total and it was spacious enough for all of us. We had group meals, and game time and smores outside and night walks under the stars. We love coming to Richards and will be back again and again. As one family said, can we book this every year until eternity? I’m not sure VRBO is set up for that but you get the sentiment. Rent this space!!!
It’s tear fodder if you’re me, but when you’re me and you think about it, you serve yourself best by asking yourself what in the fuck you’re doing when you clearly have such ease, success, love, and no stress doing something you’re naturally so good at you barely need to get out of bed to do good at it.
Who’s the biggest fucktard here? I know if you don’t.
…A few hours ago I booked a three night stay in a Land’s End Grand Solmar studio for someone, just a call of hundreds over 3 years. $300 to me in the spread for the trouble. Marta Rodriguez asked me: “Mr. Nikoley, when are you going to come stay, and visit us; me, Veronica, Patricia, Becky, Hector?”
Thing is, I’d already long been reflecting on being a pusher who never once sampled his own stash. Her question put me over the edge: from contemplation, to action…and when I make a decide, I move very fast. I emailed Beatrice. 2 minutes later I get her call: do it. I already had Kayak up for a bead on direct flights, SJC –> SJD and back (I don’t do layovers). Called back and as luck would have it, got Marta again.
Done. Headed out morning of March 21, back evening of the 28th.
It’s a business trip, not a social call. I want to inspect the product I’ve been selling for three years, so as to best understand whether to buy more contracts retail, or scoop up secondary-market contracts for almost nothing. Moreover, same developer will soon break ground on a golf-centric 5-star world class resort miles away and I need to integrate that, ground floor shit. Potential problem there is capital outlay way in advance of rental revenue.
…All this to say that you may miss me, you may not, but I’m tired and basically done writing about what you ought eat. Eat good, and fast regularly. If you eat crap, fast more. Feed your gut. Just eat beans for that. That’s about it.
I’ll still blog about it sometimes; but hereafter, you’ll best consider me not a paleo[ish], food, or health blogger; but rather, an Anarchist above all: interested in illustrating all ways that you live by virtue of convenient illusions almost all the time, and how you break that vicious cycle.
Been a pleasure!
And
Change is all we can strive for!
Richard, I hope you’re still planning to make your special Compleat Fibre Blend available to the masses?
Not sure, still chewing on that, also still testing myself and adjusting.
+1
Well I shall certainly miss you. The combination of you, Tim and Duck was really rather magical. Your recent comments on Mike Eades’ blog were Nikoley at his best.
I’ll still be around, just with different focus.
I’ve come to the point where there’s nothing more to be said about what to eat. Eat real, non-industrial food, most of the time, go hungry some of the time. Done.
I’ll be posting sometimes on diet related stuff, just not all the time, and with no sense of obligation any longer.
Richard,
Continued success.
The food blogging thing is a drain I can imagine because there is so much energy spent on dissecting life, people get lost in arguments about nonsense like should I eat carbs in the morning yada yada. And expecting you to decide for them!
There is little respect for common knowledge and the instinct. We’re tied in knots over the rational.
I wish you all the best on your journey. Thanks also for your passion for life that I’ve benefitted from for many years.
Now it’s going to get interesting. Look forward to it
It’s been a great run! Thanks so much for your thorough research, your pointed commentary, and your great sense of humor.
It’s been totally helpful!
John
Yours is the only “health” blog I read regularly; I’ve been this way for the past 3 years.
The reason is because your posts on things besides health.
My once insatiable appetite for all things nutritional turned into a simple paragraph much like the one you put at the end of this post, as the more I learned the more I realized there are so few answers.
“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.” Bruce Lee.
Good luck with your future endeavors, Richard. Thanks so much for blogging all these years. I didn’t always agree with you or feel comfortable with what you said, but you always made me think and for that I thank you. Take care.
Haven’t been here for the food stuff for quite a while, although the gut bug stuff has been top-notch. Although I’ll admit to finding you absolutely insufferable at times, you definitely played a part in my transition away from voting or giving a skinny dump about what goes on at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, etc, and I’ve payed it forward. Keep doing your thing and we’ll keep doing ours.
I really appreciate messages like this, Eric. Arguably, changing a MIND on ideological ground is one of life’s most difficult undertakings. Fortunately, giving myself license to ridicule and offend with abandon is what keeps it fun and engaging for me.
“ease, success, love”
Finally, Richard. Good luck!
I love how you always find the real bare essentials, Gemma.
I think I’ll miss your take on the English language the most.
BTW, I do think you have a novel in you, and not just a good novel but a great novel. I was convinced after reading your expose on dr. grace. It was penetrating and nail-biting. Do that same thing in novel form and you win again.
Jed, it’s one of many things I want to do, but I have to first get our book out there, Tim’s and mine.
Discussing with Matt Stone and Rob Archangel presently about moving forward quickly. They are doing amazing things with archangelink, and buckboks. It’s the right place to be.
If you know my history with Stone, it’s fun and perfect things turn out this way. We make fun of each other and laf about it all the time.
Forgot to add.
I plan to first start doing some short stories and getting reader critique on that, before beginning a big project.
A few months.
I came here for the nutrition but stayed for the anarchy.
It has been a pleasure. Looking forward to more.
Exactly. Me too!
Everything useful I have learnt about diet has originated from this blog. I now follow my own version of something similar to lean gains (via your experiment with the method) and I am now fitter than I ever thought possible. My body fat percentages are the lowest in my lifetime and I am hitting new maximum lifting bests – all at the age of almost 40.
What I have learnt about life from you Richard is to believe in my self and to do anything I like. I did not learn this from what you say but from what you do. Thanks.
Richard, you’ve “freed the animal” in me. That’s for sure. Best of luck with everything you do.
But really, all I did was assure all of you that you are your own authority and that you have “permission” to do as you please. That you’re here in the first place means you are to be treated with all that. Not that it matters, but it does increase chances for success.
Alright, all of you cunts leave me the fuck alone. I have a post to write, and I will be using the word cunt.
Will that be OK, cunty?
“ou serve yourself best by asking yourself what in the fuck you’re doing when you clearly have such ease, success, love, and no stress doing something you’re naturally so good at you barely need to get out of bed to do good at it.”
Boy that’s the eternal question, isn’t it?
“Do what you love and the money will follow.”
I hate trite bromides. There was never any guarantee. For one, didn’t know I loved it until out of financial necessity over one property, I got into it. Didn’t know I loved it until a trip to Cabo 2 years into the first deal where we got a free ride to the hotel at 11PM, plus a rental car for a week in exchange for sitting through a presentation. Didn’t know I loved it until after 2-3 hours getting deals I couldn’t make profitable on the back of a napkin, I was finally presented with one that not only worked, but has since worked way better than my back-of-napkin.
So, the saying is BS. You have to do something that returns, and then you get to see if you love doing it.
And I say that with some experience. I once began a business in a bedroom I grew to 30 employees and $3 mil annual revenue, and hated it for most of the 20 years I kept it going.
You have to do something that returns, and then you get to see if you love doing it.
That’s truth right there.
” Feed your gut. Just eat beans for that. That’s about it.”
So no more RS suppls? Dirty Probiotics?
Depends. I don’t eat beans or other plant fibers all the time. Sometimes I prefer the sups.
I’ve been at this a couple of years now and I think that everyone will know when to move from probiotic and prebiotic supplements daily, to a mix of food, sups, and fasting.
Thank you Richard!
I knew years ago that I was along for the Free the Animal ride, no matter where you turned–for as long as you post, tweet, whatever-I will be here-turn up the Anarchy!
You are a true gentleman! (I define a gentleman as a noble truth teller.)
Regards,
Jane
I came for the uncommon sense and was turned on to fasting and paleo–that spawned a pivotal turn towards better health (and have the six pack to show for it! Not without a lot of t&e mind you), and now I look forward to whatever adventure you take me on next.
Thanks.
Hey Justin. What was it you nicked me for? Was is $300k, or just $300w for that graphic header at the top, resident from 2008-2014?
I think it was about $300. You got had 😉
I think I have loved most about your blog is that you are an experimenter. Always trying new things and questioning old theories. I have learnt a lot. I am also at the point of saying the nutritional analysis journey is done for me. I have been reading this stuff online for 10 years now. Balance what you eat with more movement. I have discovered I love yoga for the effect it has on calming my mind and body. The animal seeks what is true for itself instinctively.
I’m with the person above who said it sounds like the blog is about to get more interesting. The diet side of things has largely been “eat real food” for me for a couple years now. (Although, I hope you do continue the cooking posts from time to time–love those posts.) I think you’ve knocked some things out of the park in the food realm, but it’s feeding the rest of the animal that has me always coming back for more.
I’m looking forward to more red pill posts. You’ve certainly been an instrumental force in opening my eyes to a lot of dumb fuckery that goes on in the world.
“…convenient illusions and how to break that vicious cycle.”
So looking forward to this; I’ve never bookmarked this site before. I just did.
Thanks