Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 @mattcropp@social.coop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPuBrFDMd3w

#NowPlaying #ska #pietasters

11 minute mini-doc of my buddy Ren talking about life and making sourdough...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xIC1nW3iSg&feature=emb_title #vermont #btv #DonutGiveUp

First nibble of local press coverage for one of the #btv #RealEstateCoop projects I've been working on. The campaign officially launches tomorrow... 🤯

https://m.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/chubby-muffin-to-close-next-month-become-co-op-space/Content?oid=29413038

Working on a #RealEstateCoop's offering document, and suddenly realized that we don't pay a dividend in the first year of operation. Which means there's suddenly $10,500 of extra slack in my model that I wasn't otherwise planning for...

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Walked into the credit union today with the pile of checks from pledged members, and deposited $24,000 as the starting funds for the Vermont #RealEstateCoop. More is coming soon, and hopefully we'll collectively own our first property (a commercial condo that will hopefully be the future home of a start-up #coop) within a month or two...

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Mondragon grew from the ashes of the Spanish Civil War.

But it'd be so much better to live in a world where we can build the things that allow humans to live safe, flourishing lives without any more of the great slaughters our species has gotten so skilful at over the millenia.

No more of those please.

The work of building a more just and equitable economy/world gets me out of bed in the morning and gives me hope for the future.

The threat of escalating war is a reminder that generations of the gains of such work can be swept away in an avalance of guns and bombs. Which can lead to feeling a bit dispairing.

But also important to remember that vital work has been done in the aftermath.

Still hope peace prevails, though feeling a bit powerless to influence that rn...

This is inspiring me to install more absurdly high shelves in other parts of the house, TBH...

For the past few years, a (very minor) conflict in my relationship with my partner has been their use of all available bathroom surfaces. I'd repeatedly tried to asset ownership of 1/2 of 1 shelf in the vanity, but would find it overrun with in the month.

I'm 6'3", and she's 5'4", so it recently occurred to me that I could simply install a new shelf that she'd need a step stool to access.

Mischief managed... 😂

@GuerillaOntologist my coworker Don is curious as to what GEO's readership numbers were for 2019 - you got 'em? He's a big fan...

Good practical things worth knowing, interspersed with motivational tips on how to more effectively exploit tenants to get to your first million...

Reading a "wannabe landlord 101" book as research for getting this #RealEstateCoop project going has been pretty eye-opening...

#AbolishCelebrity