Greetings Fellow Life Travelers:

Truckee’s invaded with pollen!  Yikes, each year it seems worse than before.  Of course it comes just as one sets up the deck furniture, pillows now covered in towels for protection.  This annual event, sometimes in two waves, lasts for about 3 weeks.  Leave car in the driveway for 20 minutes and it’s coated in yellow.  And now, Tahoe’s in construction season.  However, the weather is glorious and we ‘natives’ are thrilled to enjoy a few months of warm weather and outdoor living.  As we’ve often said, we came for the winter and stayed for the summer – over 50 years ago! (That’s hard to believe!)  With real estate my passion, let’s see what took place this last week.

Residential Real Estate – week 5/31 – 6/6 

• Tahoe Sierra MLS – North/West Shores & Truckee.  New Listings – 36; Escrows – 25; Solds – 11
• Incline Village/Crystal Bay MLS.  New Listings – 19; Escrows – 7; Solds – 7
• East Shore, NV MLS.  New Listings – 3; Escrows – 1; Solds – 0
• Reno/Sparks MLS.  New Listings – 160; Escrows – 127; Solds – 82

Tahoe Sierra had two big listings – Martis Camp at $17 million and a North Shore lakefront at $16.85 million.  Crystal Bay had a Stillwater Cove condo come on at $6.5 million.  The lakefront market has new inventory as reported last week but, so far, no new escrows.  Did a new lifestyle video for my beautiful Rubicon listing this week; will send the link when it’s finished. 

Local/Real Estate/Luxe

• Sierra State Parks offers a multitude of activities at Sugar Pine Point State Park and Donner Memorial Park.  Check it out:  www.sierrastateparks.org
• Tennis coach anyone?  Give Mark Foti a call at (650) 308-6484 for lessons.  He has an impressive resumé and is here for the summer.
• Art by the Lake at Tahoe City Boatworks Mall – June 13 – 15.  Fine art show of works by regional artists.
• June is Tahoe Bike Month.  Track your rides for a chance at local prizes and a new e-bike!  www.tahoebike.org
• Farners Markets:  Alive and well on Tuesday morning in Truckee, Thursday afternoon in Incline Village, and Thursday morning in Tahoe City.
• Free!  Music on the Beach – Friday evening Kings Beach; Concerts at Commons Beach, Tahoe City – Sunday afternoon; Bluesdays – Palisades Tahoe – Tuesday; Music in the Park, Truckee – Wednesday evening.
• Pool Toys.  Poly-planar FS1 – smart speaker with Bluetooth controls.  $249.  Splash Runner Pro 2.0 – floating lounge with dual 55-watt motors with two joysticks.  $249.  Pool-On – underwater projector to showcase whatever you wish on the pool floor.  Pricing – www.pool-on.com.  Waydoo Subnado Underwater Scooter Lite – pool-zooming without the aerobics, also a power bank for electric devices.  $369

TidBits

• The best times in our lives were not about what we had, but who we were with.
• A vote is not a valentine; you aren’t confessing your love for the candidate.  It’s a chess move for the world you want to live in.
• I’m always disappointed when a liar’s pants don’t actually catch on fire.
• They say marriages are made in Haven.  But so is thunder and lightning.  Clint Eastwood
• Restaurant question:  What do you have with no fat and no sugar?  A: Napkins.
• Unfortunately, there is no lifeguard in the gene pool.
• Shoutout to everyone who can still remember their childhood phone number but can’t remember the password they created yesterday.  You are my people.
• Road signs:  1) No matter the price. No matter how new. The best device. In the car is you.  Burma Shave   2) A guy who dives. A car wide open. Is not thinkin’. He’s just hopin’. Burma Shave   3)   At Intersections. Look each way. A harp sounds nice. But it’s hard to play.  Burma Shave
• The beginning is mostly luck. The end is mostly choices. James Clear
• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.  Albert Einstein
• Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. 
• Let tomorrow’s worries wait at dawn’s closed door, for the present moment is all we truly own.  Adriana Poloz
• I’m not saying I’m old money, but my champagne has a trust fund.
• I tried being down-to-earth, but the altitude of my standards disagreed.
• Minimalism is great – until you run out of closet space for your restraint.
• I exercise self-restraint by not correcting everyone’s grammar….mostly. 
• Life is short. Buy the shoes. Ghost the dull.
• I don’t sell homes.  I curate lifestyles…with better parking.
• Yes, it’s a fixer-upper – a blank canvas with plumbing issues.
• You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy a lakefront – and that’s close enough! 

Shorter Update this week as off to Marin for a wedding, overnight in Napa with a friend and our doggies, dinner at Auberge and back to the mountains on Sunday.  Have a good week and see you next time!  

Best wishes,

Trinkie