2026-08-04 04:29:17For 14 days, Vivian and Chase didn't go live. Not once. After 170 days of going live every single day; crying, accusing, GoFundMe, they went silent. Because you can't go live when your GoFundMe was refunded for fraud, when Greenwich Time puts your fake notary stamp on page 2 with the headline "Fake Stamp," when your own daughter asked you on your own live in Town Hall, in front of 1,200 people, "Mom, did you give Tyler $200 to steal from Jack?"
My carousel was still climbing. 18M views by Day 171, 22M by Day 173. Comments off, but shares 400k. Every contractor in Connecticut shared Slide 2: Chase's text, "Use interior sheetrock on outside, save 12k, don't be a pussy." Every mom in the Bronx shared Slide 10: 8 year old asthmatic Leo, sitting on his little white oak stage reading Dog Man, air purifier humming from our dirt battery. We started House 4 the next day for a family in Queens, but slow, because Mike said, "Boss, we need to hire, we have 12 families on waitlist now." We didn't have money to hire, but we actually had waitlist. Meanwhile, Stamford, 2-bed above dry cleaner, $3,200 a month, chemicals smell, Number 1 MOM and Number 1 SON mugs chipped. Vivian's math, handwritten on back of a takeout menu because she doesn't trust Excel since Chase deleted a column in 2022: Big house sold: $3.1M cash, buyer Juniper Ridge Holdings LLC, Delaware, registered 3 days before sale, lawyer no return calls. Minus Sullivan & Cromwell: -$400k Minus back taxes: -$180k Minus Kade: -$20k Minus Tyler & Marcus "gas money" for red backpack job: -$1,000 cash Left: $2.5M Minus Chase Florida "investor trip" : -$800k withdrawal + $16k hotels/dinners Left: $1.684M Condo Old Greenwich, 2-bed, roof leaks: $1.2M price, down $300k, mortgage $900k at 7%, lender Juniper Ridge Capital LLC, same name, same lawyer, 7%, monthly $5,994 Left in joint bank: $1.384M Chase's math, on back of BizBuySell printout: Company account: $38,742 Trucks: 2, need $12k brakes and tires, inspection failed Excavator: need $9k hydraulic Tools: worth $4k now Judgment: $400k to Judge McAllister for pool house, due in 60 days, 8% interest, plus $600k old line of credit note from 2021 he forgot about, where he wrote "all assets owned by Hawthorne family entities" as collateral because he thought it sounded big Permit ban: 2 years, Greenwich, Stamford, Darien Crew: 0 Uber: deactivated after ridee said "Aren't you pool house guy?" and got out mid-ride Company listed: $100k, BizBuySell, "Owner pursuing other opportunities" Next day: No inquiries. Just one email: "Is excavator stolen? Why so cheap?" Chase tries to get job at another builder in Stamford. Owner says, "Chase, my insurance saw Box Boy's post, Slide 2, interior sheetrock outside, my insurance says no, sorry." Vivian tries to play tennis at Greenwich Country Club, Tuesday ritual 18 years. Desk: "Mrs. Hawthorne, corporate account Hawthorne Custom Homes closed, you owe $8,400." Card declines. Joint account, Chase withdrew $800k. She leaves, no tennis, sits in car in parking lot for 20 minutes. Big house buyer, Juniper Ridge Holdings, files permit to demolish pool house remains and build new one. Approved in 24 hours. Not Chase's crew, out-of-state crew. Vivian sees it on town website, cries at kitchen table above dry cleaner, because someone else is building a pool house where hers fell down. BizBuySell alert: Offer $100k cash, Juniper Ridge Holdings LLC, close 24 hours, no inspection, takes $400k judgment as is. Chase calls number. Voicemail: "Representation for Juniper Ridge Holdings LLC, distressed construction, accept judgment, close tomorrow 10 AM, bring LLC binder." Chase: "Who owns Juniper Ridge?" Lawyer: "Confidential." Papers: Sale of Hawthorne Custom Homes LLC, all assets, all liabilities including $400k judgment, $100k cash wire today. Chase signs. Gets cashier's check $100k, First Republic, Juniper Ridge Holdings LLC. 12 years of building houses that fall down, gone for price of used truck. Same office, 2 PM, same lawyer, different stack: Vivian's mortgage. $900k, 7%, Juniper Ridge Capital LLC, affiliate. Page 4, paragraph 12, tiny print she doesn't read: Acceleration clause: If borrower involved in criminal investigation related to forgery/fraud, lender may call loan due full in 30 days. She is involved. Greenwich PD has fake deed with EVIDENCE tag, investigation open. She signs acknowledgment. Thinks it's routine. Bank $1.484M total, but $900k can be called in 30 days, no income, Chase banned, Uber dead, Vivian never had job. Day 181: Chase takes $60k of $100k check, goes to Miami "investors," posts I*******m pool #grind #comeback, 14 likes, no investors, comes back Day 185 sunburned, $20k left. Vivian calls Sloane from condo that leaks. Vivian: "Honey, is that office manager $75k job still open? I can do QuickBooks." Sloane in Unit 14B, hard hat, building House 4: "Mom, you hired Tyler and Marcus to steal his box. I'm not sure he will forgive you. " Vivian: "We recovered... " Sloane hangs up. Vivian calls me. Vivian: "Jack, Juniper Ridge, they own my mortgage, they say I was $12 short, they want $900k in 30 days, they own Chase's company, they own the big house." Me: "Vivian, you have $1.4M." Vivian: "It's joint with Chase, he took... " I call Brown. Brown pulls property records. Brown: "Jack, Juniper Ridge Holdings LLC bought big house Day 175 $3.1M cash, bought Hawthorne Custom Homes Day 177 $100k cash, bought Chase's $600k line of credit note Day 178 for $50k from private lender, and Juniper Ridge Capital holds Vivian's $900k mortgage. One buyer, 4 deals, 10 days, all cash, all same lawyer, all Delaware LLCs registered 3 days before each deal. Someone is buying your family." I check BizBuySell. Hawthorne Custom Homes LLC, now owned by Juniper Ridge Holdings, new listing: Hiring, heavy equipment operators, Elko, Nevada, $5M line of credit approved, project near Elko. Near my 4,000 acres. Someone bought Chase's banned, broke company not for trucks, but because Chase wrote "all Hawthorne family entities" in a loan doc in 2021, and they think they found a backdoor to my $2.1T lithium. And they own Vivian's house, so Vivian works for them. She was now broke. This was the broke where you have $1.484M in bank but you owe $900k in 30 days, you have no job, no one will hire you because 22M people saw your pool house fall down, and your condo roof leaks and you can't afford to fix it because your mortgage is owned by the same LLC that bought your son's company for $100k. Vivian sits above dry cleaner, Number 1 MOM mug chipped, letter on table: NOTICE OF ACCELERATION: $12 short on 10/15, full balance $900,000 due 11/15 or foreclosure. Chase sits next to her, sunburned, no company, no trucks, checking his phone, Juniper Ridge now hiring near my dirt. And I sit in Unit 14B, House 4 half-framed, rusty box back on shelf, polished where Vivian polished it with WD-40, with new paper inside: fake deed with EVIDENCE stamp. Tomorrow, unknown buyer calls and says bring box to Greenwich Country Club at 10 AM alone, and we finally learn who bought my family.
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The Use Of Money
Now that the House and Company had been sold and I had gotten rid of Vivian and Chase, and still have some money left, I decided to build a mine and a real office in my 4,000 acres of dirt. Wednesday, after sale, I had:$3.3M cash from house sale, profit $200k on $3.1M.Company back for $1, plus $5M line intact, minus $284,800 they spent, plus $1.Two F-150s repo now company assets again.100% of dirt $2.1T, 4,000 acres Elko, $6B battery company valuation, $50M cash, $200M DOE loan, $150M Tesla/Ford prepay left, $75M Tesla $75M Ford, plus $3.3M.Mike: "Boss, $3.3M, what we do? Build 13 more houses $280k off-grid, 13 houses 13 stages?"Luis: "Boss, batteries humming twelve houses, we build more?"Margaret: "Jack, $3.3M from the house that called you stupid and liability to your face, you can... "Me: "We take the money we got from selling the house and company, to buy a new branch in Texas and also build head office and mine in here."Head office and mine in my dirt, 4,000 acres Elko
The Cutoff
We drove back to Elko that same Tuesday,8:48 AM Greenwich, 5:48 AM Elko time, but we drove east to west so we gained time and lost everything.When we returned, Brown was already in our office waiting. He saw my face and understood that it really went as bad as he thought it would go.Brown: " How bad did it go?"Luis: " Really bad. They called boss. Stupid and a liability."Brown: " You see? That is what you get for trying to be nice to people like Vivian and Chase. "I just sighed and looked at the ground.Brown: " So when will you start the filing?" Me: "Brown, don't file."Brown: "Jack, they called you stupid and liability to your face."Me: "No filing, no court, no Sheriff. Court is boring. I have a better plan instead."Brown: "Then what is it?"Me: "We sell it. Silently. The house and the company. We sell it off and the buyer will know how to handle them."We got back to Elko main camp by 8 PM, 15 hours drive, window down, 104 degrees even at 8 PM Elko summer, batteries hummin
New Money, No Need
Tuesday 7:30 AM, we were already on our way to Greenwich to visit Vivian and Chase and ask what really made them to forget us. My crew were already advising that I file to revoke the house and Company, but I had a better plan.Me, Mike, Luis, Jamal, Tommy Jr., Sloane, with dusty boots from Elko roofs, jeans, $22 t-shirts, hard hats in the truck bed, HAWTHORNE in Sharpie.We wanted to ask one question: why housewarming without inviting Jack?We parked on Round Hill Road by 8:45 AM on tuesday. The Big house lights were on. Two new F-150s $72k each in the driveway. White sheet still over the pool house hole. Catering trash bag still by the garage, Hendrick's.I had told Brown "Brown, don't file yet, maybe they were just excited, maybe they forgot to invite, maybe nice works." Brown said "Jack, page 4 clause, thirty-day clawback, I wrote it for this exact party." I said "Don't file yet."So no revocation yet. No Sheriff, no email. Just house and company given away on Monday, housewarming
The Housewarming
At 6PM my phone buzzed on a roof in Elko.I was on the roof of House 13. Tar paper hot enough to burn through my boots. Below me, twelve houses with lights on, gray bricks in basements humming from dirt. White oak stages inside, kids reading, air purifiers humming. Mike's crew was cleaning up, Luis coiling extension cords, Jamal sweeping white oak dust into a pile to save because white oak is $12k a load and we don't waste $12k.Sloane texted: "Don't look at Instagram."When Sloane says don't look at Instagram, you have to look at Instagram.Vivian Hawthorne is live. Location: Round Hill Road, Greenwich, CT. Big house. Six bedrooms. The house I bought for $3.1M inside the $900M Tesla and Ford prepay wire and gave to her for free because I thought I was being nice and un-clouded.Now it's 6PM Greenwich time, which is 3PM Elko time, but live says 6PM, so she started party early, golden hour lighting for Instagram.I clicked.First shot: drone. Kade's drone, same drone that filmed pool
Two Signatures
The double-wide in Elko has no AC at 8 AM. It died at 2 AM. Inside it's 104 degrees and the box fan just moves hot air around. The whiteboard says 12 HOUSES - LIGHTS ON, 88 TO GO and someone wrote underneath in black marker: DON'T SELL TO TESLA YET.At 1:20 AM last night I wired $900M to buy everything. At 1:21 AM I owned 100% of Dad's $8,000 dirt again, plus the big house on Round Hill Road where I ate in the kitchen for 15 years, plus Hawthorne Custom Homes LLC that built a pool house with interior sheetrock outside and got 2M views when it fell down, plus two trucks that failed inspection.At 1:22 AM I knew I didn't want any of it except the dirt and the press.At 8 AM I put two real deeds on the folding table in the dead-AC trailer. Real Greenwich Town Hall stamps, Tuesday stamps, when town hall is open.Mike, Luis, Jamal, Tommy Jr., Sloane, Margaret; all standing around table, all sweating.Margaret: "Jack, don't. Bad business. You just paid $900M for leverage. You sell the big h
The Buyback
We have 10 houses up now with lights on, and batteries trucked from Reno at $4k diesel each. We had already pressed first lithium brick in Elko from our own 4,000 acres and put it in House 11 for Ms. Carter.That video is what changes everything. Sloane sent it to DOE, Margaret sent it to Tesla and Ford.At 8 PM that night, after House 11 lights on, Margaret gets a call on speaker in trailer office, we all hear, Vivian, Chase, Mike, Luis, Jamal, Tommy Jr., me: Tesla: "Margaret, we saw on-site press video, DOE forwarded, you pressed in Elko and powered house same day, closed loop, no Reno trucking. We want 100 tons next month, $50M cash."Ford: 10 minutes later, same speaker: "We saw video, we want 100 tons too, $50M, can you do it?"$100M cash waiting for 200 tons of dirt, which is 200 holes 4x4x4 on 4,000 acres, nothing.Margaret looks at me: "Jack, $100M is $100M, you have $600M cash from selling your 15%, plus $200M DOE loan Brown got after I cleared lien in Greenwich Country Club
