Greetings Fellow Life Travelers:

Have never seen so many gorgeous lilacs in bloom!  Truckee is showcasing a beautiful bounty this season. This was a week of organizing for me…boring stuff – house maintenance, Trinkie maintenance, Dancer maintenance – and all is good.  Not cheap but good. Now it’s on to real estate and what’s in store for the next few months!  Interesting, national sales figures are down for the last month even with increased inventory, but Tahoe seems to be holding vs. last year same time.  Comments re drop seem to relate to interest rates, but I’m not so sure that’s impacting most buyers at Tahoe. No roar in the market, but we are selling homes, maybe slower than we’d like to see. Graduations will be over soon and our visitor count will be up. High end properties doing well in the Miami/Palm Beach environs, but other parts of market not so much.  Fear appears to be holding many back from moving forward, and interest rate climb isn’t helping either. So, what happened this last week at Tahoe?

Residential Real Estate – week 5/24 – 5/30

• Tahoe Sierra MLS – North/West Shores & Truckee.  New Listings – 39; Escrows – 23; Solds – 16
• Incline Village/Crystal Bay MLS.  New Listings – 15; Escrows – 8; Solds – 3
• East Shore, NV MLS.  New Listings – 4; Escrows – 8; Solds – 1
• Reno/Sparks MLS.  New Listings – 118; Escrows – 185; Solds – 118

Things are percolating!  However, the high end is still sluggish…except for Chase’s Gonowabie lakefront listed at $26 Million that just went to escrow!  Only lakefront in escrow right now.  Incline/Crystal Bay action is divided between homes and condos.  The Reno market is very busy, and East Shore had a nice increase in activity.

Local/Real Estate/Luxe

• Truckee Thursdays:  June 26 – August 14. https://www.truckeethursdays.com/schedule/
• Music in the Park – Truckee: Wednesdays June 18 – August 27.  https://www.tdrpd.org/219/Music-in-the-Park
• Truckee Roundhouse Maker’s Show – Sunday, June 8.  https://www.truckeeroundhouse.org/makershow
• Tributary Whitewater launches immersive Google Street View experiences for Truckee River and others: https://tinyurl.com/59mr56rm
• Ice Cream thievery:  Cinnamon bear broke into a Kings Beach ice cream shop and stole a 3-gallon tub of chocolate chip cookie dough.
• Being piggy.  Luxury retailers that raised prices during the pandemic are now reporting disappointing numbers. Dior and Chanel are biggest culprits with dramatic spikes in pricing.  A Chanel purse that cost $5,800 in 2019 is now $10,800.  Hermes and Cartier, more restrained, are still showing healthy growth.  Now that the two biggest drivers of luxury goods demand, China and the U.S., are in the doldrums, 2025 is shaping up to be a lost year for the luxury industry with global sales expected to dip 2%.  WSJ
• Impressive estate:  Lots of amazing properties for sale; this one with its history caught my eye:  https://tinyurl.com/5n6j48kb
• Tahoe City Food & Wine Classic – Saturday, June 7.  https://tinyurl.com/47wkua3u
• Tahoe Sailing Charters.  Twice a day 2-hr trips from Tahoe City.  Or charter the whole boat for special event. Great company!  https://tahoesail.com/

Entertainment

• Big Bear Eagles: almost ready to fly.  https://tinyurl.com/5n7wbze4  Sunny has taken a few little leaps, so getting close to flying. They will still need parental help for food and learning to hunt.

TidBits

• I put my grandma on speed dial.  I call that Instagram.
• When does a joke become a dad joke? When it becomes apparent.
• 1) Cautious rider. To her reckless dear. Let’s have less bull. And a little more steer. Burma Shave   2) Speed was high. Weather was not. Tires were thin. X marks the spot.  Burma Shave   3) The midnight ride. Of Paul for beer. Let to a warmer. Hemisphere.  Burma Shave   4)   Around the curve. Lickety-split. Beautiful car. Wasn’t it?  Burma Shave
• They said to follow your dreams, so I went back to bed.
• Someone stole my coffee cup.  I’m headed to the police station to look at mugshots.
• Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.  Leonardo da Vinci
• My son said he didn’t understand cloning.  I told him that makes two of us.
• Love is like quicksilver in the hand.  Leave the fingers open and it stays in the palm; clutch it and it darts away.  Dorothy Parker
• Nothing tops a plain pizza.
• To the thief who stole my glasses.  I will find you.  I have contacts.
• Age is not a number.  It’s clearly a word. 
• It’s never too late to start.  It’s always too late to wait.  Jeff Olson
• Wealth consists of not having great possessions, but in having few wants.
• Wouldn’t it be terrible if you’d spent all your life doing everything you were supposed to do, and suddenly one day you were run over by a big red bus, and as the wheels were crunching into you, you’d say, “Oh my God, I could have got so drunk last night!”  That’s the way you should live your life, as if tomorrow you’ll be run over by a big red bus.  Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother (lived to 101)
• Neighbors:  I put a cute love note on what I thought was my wife’s car last night. We figured out today that in my tired state, I had put this note on the wrong car.  If this car happened to be yours, I apologize for the confusion.  I am not in love with you.
• Sign inside a large tent:  Tent poles are not for pole dancing.  Please find alternative ways to disappoint your father.
• Sandwich sign:  Free Beer.  Topless bartenders.  False Advertising.  (Saw this in Savannah, GA!)
• Name of store:  Unnecessary Necessities.  If you need it, we don’t sell it.
• Teenagers:  Tired of being harassed by your stupid parents?  ACT NOW!  Move out, get a job, pay your own bills while you still know everything.
• Sign in store:  Prices have been pre-haggled for your shopping convenience.

So, onto haggle-free shopping!  Tahoe temps toasty in the mid – high 80s, but heading back into the 70s this week.  Have a great one and see you next time! 

Best wishes, 

Trinkie