Greetings Fellow Life Travelers:

Well, this crud is relentless.  Two weeks and still not back to normal.  Covid was EZPZ compared to this!  However, the sun is out and all the new snow melting.  We think the big storms are over, but I doubt I’d put money on it!  Lots of stirring in real estate as properties get prepped for market.  

Interesting first quarter stats 2024 vs 2025 for the Tahoe Sierra MLS:  2024 – 200 sales, $913,499 Median price, $265,927,431 volume, $7,415.000 highest sale.  2025 – 199 sales, $1,163,800, $348,893,754 volume, $27,500,000 highest sale (mine!).  The next highest was $11,320,000 in Martis Camp.  Interesting, the overall stats for the Tahoe Basin are down in number of units sold in 2025 vs 2024 by 32 and dollar volume down by $15,963,048.  The drop is due to big fallout in condo sales across the board. Also interesting, the median price of both sold condos and homes was up!  And, the North & West Shore had the strongest increase in home sales stats. So, we’ll take the upside anticipating a productive year!   Let’s see what this last week produced.

Residential Real Estate – week 3/29 – 4/4 

• Tahoe Sierra MLS – North/West Shores & Truckee. New Listings – 23; Escrows – 17; Solds – 21
• Incline Village/Crystal Bay MLS.  New Listings – 10; Escrows – 4; Solds – 4
• East Shore, NV MLS.  New Listings – 5; Escrows – 1; Solds – 0
• Reno/Sparks MLS.  New Listings – 139; Escrows – 153; Solds 107

Tahoe Sierra had a new listing on the West Shore – Black Bear Tavern (currently a residence), still equipped with its restaurant and bar attributes.  The was The Forest Inn when I sold it – my second sale – in early 1970s.  Chase Listing at $6.5 Million.  Reno’s activity appears stronger, and a newer modern home with big views, pool and pool pavilion in Somerset just listed at $4.9 Million.

Local/Real Estate/Luxe

• Homewood Mountain Resort will be open next season!  Looks like the new gondola will be a year away.  Season passes will be on sale soon.
• 2025-26 Ski Trip to Chile.  Mountain Gazette offers a chance to win a trip to Portillo.  Sweepstakes ends May 2^nd.  Check it out!  https://mountaingazette.com/pages/ski-portillo-sweepstakes-2025
• Gatekeepers Museum Garage Sale:  May 10, Tahoe City – 10am – 1pm.  Antiques, furniture, housewares, treasures.  www.gatekeepersmuseum.org
• Billy Dutton Hill Climb – Palisades Tahoe.  April 12 with 8AM race start.  5 Kilometers, 2,000 ft. vertical gain.

Run, ski, snowshoe…choice is yours.  Base of KT22 to High Camp via Mountain Run. Sign up:  www.farwestnordic.org

• Jackson Hole home prices have doubled in the past 5 years!  Scarcity of land (97% in Teton County is in conservation), plus no state, corporate or estate income tax.  As with Tahoe, locals have been priced out of town, commuting for work from outlying communities.  WSJ
• Mortgage rates are lowest in 5 months.  Question is….will this trend last?
• Australia is pushing for a social media ban for kids under 16.  If voted to confirm, it will be year before implementation.  WSJ
• Ski Area Closings.  Yikes – that time already!  Northstar – 4/20; Sugar Bowl and Mt. Rose – 4/27; Palisades Tahoe – 5/25.  Looks like Tahoe Donner closed this weekend.
• Baby bears are emerging!  Time for the cubs to start exploring the outside world.  Bear League has fun videos of a few domiciling under homes starting to stretch their legs under mama’s watchful eyes.

Entertainment

• Henry Cho, comedian:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXGgwvHNMEE

TidBits

• Success is largely the failures you avoid:  Health is the injuries you don’t sustain.  Wealth is the purchases you don’t make.  Happiness is the objects you don’t desire.  Peace of mind is the arguments you don’t engage in.  Avoid the bad to protect the good.  James Clear
• I’m sick of following my dreams, man. I’m just going to ask where they’re going and hook up with ‘em later. Mitch Hedberg
• Even if you’re on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers
• Whenever someone says, “Exercise”, I hear “extra fries”. 
• Never put off tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well.  Mark Twain
• Hey autocorrect, quit tampering with my curse words, you mother forklift!
• Here’s human empathy for you: Things die all over our windshields and we say, “Man I just washed it”.
• The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.  Albert Einstein
• I finally realized that people are prisoners of their phones. That’s why they’re called cell phones.
• You can do more than you think.  You are more than you think.
• When people cut you down or talk behind your back, remember, they took time out of their pathetic lives to think about you.
• Of course, women don’t work as hard as men.  They get it right the first time.
• Now that you’ve graduated, just remember: bosses don’t usually accept notes from your mother. Melanie White
• I remember when I could call my knees right and left instead of kinda bad and worse.
• Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.  Kinky Friedman
• Home is where the dog hair sticks to everything…but the dog.
• Be the person you want to work with.
• God is testing me and I have not studied.
• Two things you are in total control of in life are 1) your attitude and 2) your effort.
• You did not wake up today to be mediocre!
• If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.  Dalai Lama
• I dream of a better tomorrow where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The road to success is always under construction.  Lily Tomlin

So, with that, I’m done with this week’s issue!  Have a good one and see you next time!  

Best wishes, 

Trinkie