A California Developer Said ‘Name Your Price.’ Here’s What This Montana Outfitter Told Him.

Mick and Karen Cheff sit side-by-side at the huge dining table facing the big picture window, talking about the developer who tried to make them sell their Montana ranch 25 years ago. Probably worth more than $1 million then, it is worth much more now, a 500-acre ranch and outfitting business nestled against the Mission Mountains.

"I didn’t even invite the two of them inside," Mick says, remembering the developer and his lawyer standing on the porch. "He kept saying, ‘This is the place I want. Name your price.’"

The two men, probably Californians, returned when Karen Cheff was home alone, and even took a helicopter and buzzed the property.

"I was getting aggravated. He made me feel like he could buy it if he wanted it," Mick says.

"This is the setting I want," the developer said.

"Well, you’re not getting it," Mick told him, and shooed him off the porch.

Elizabeth MacBride Contributor

https://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabethmacbride/2018/04/29/this-montana-outfitter-is-worth-millions-but-it-was-not-for-sale-at-any-price/#7ea42de46ff1

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