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August 31, 2025

Tahoe Update

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Greetings Fellow Life Travelers:

Thunder, lightning, rain, repeat and repeat!  What a few days with rain most welcome, especially since we had lightning.  And that gives me excuse to use my favorite GSD poster below.  Between blasts, we had a fun Knights of the Vine event at a private home in Northstar featuring wines of Spain.  Our wine expert gave a wonderful review of a wine from six different areas, and we sampled each with an appropriate pairing at each station.  Sprinkles be damned! Not a drop spoiled the party. Then it was down to biz during the week showing condos in Incline Village and negotiating – still – a condo purchase on the North Shore.  And Amie and I brought another lakefront to market at a great price of $4.895 million with shared pier and development opportunity.  So, let’s see what else happened in the market this week.

Residential Real Estate – week 8/23 – 8/29 

  • Tahoe Sierra MLS – North/West Shores & Truckee.  New Listings  – 43; Escrows – 33; Solds – 36
  • Incline Village/Crystal Bay MLS.  New Listings – 4; Escrows – 11; Solds – 10
  • East Shore, NV MLS.  New Listings – 4; Escrows – 4; Solds – 3
  • Reno/Sparks MLS.  New Listings – 87; Escrows – 110; Solds – 110

End-of-month recordings typically show an uptick in most areas.  Tahoe Sierra had two new lakefronts on the market, ours and another on the West Shore at $11.9million, no pier.  Incline had a nice lakefront condo listed at $6.85million go to escrow.  And Martis Camp had an escrow listed at $11.495million. 

Local/Real Estate/Luxe

  • Correction:  It’s the California State Water Resources Board – Diversion of Use Statement – for those drawing water from the lake (not TRPA).  
  • Housing market in general has been stagnant this summer, with the Northeast and Midwest bucking that trend. However, a more balanced market is emerging with opportunities for those with patience and flexibility.  (ed: The anticipated drop in mortgage interest rates should have a positive effect on buying activity.)  Mansion Global
  • Luxury for your dog.  Ready for this?  Louxor Crystal Pet Bowl by Baccarat  – $1700 at Neiman Marcus.  
  • Birth at Burning Man. You may have already read that a couple, with no idea wife was pregnant, had a little girl in the midst of the muddy mess.  Everyone survived with huge help from medical expert guests on the playa. SF Gate
  • JSX (JetSuiteX) coming to Truckee! Plan is for once a day, four days a week, service to Bay Area and LA Basin on its 30-passenger jet.  Great way to travel!  I’ve used it twice to Burbank from Reno; outta Truckee will be amazing! 
  • Livestream a ROV’s journey to Lake Tahoe’s bottom, real time view at 1,570 feet.  Friday, Sept 5 at 9:30 AM Pacific.  www.tahoefund.org/deepdive

Entertainment

TidBits

  • I thought about going jogging this morning but Proverbs 28:1 says, ‘The wicked run when no one is chasing them’.  So there goes that.  Mother of Heathens
  • More English as she is spoke:  1)  Tokyo Bar – Special cocktails for the ladies with nuts.  2) Yugoslavia hotel – The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid.  3) Japan hotel – You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.  4) Lobby of Moscow hotel, across from Russian Orthodox Monastery – You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and Soviet composers, artists and writers are buried daily, except Thursday. 5)  In Germany’s Black Forest – It is strictly forbidden on our Black Forest camping site that people of different sex, for instance men and women, live together in one tent, unless they are married with each other for this purpose. 
  • I know I’m a handful but that’s why you got two hands.
  • Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.  Truman Capote
  • If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito. 
  • Taking naps sounds so childish.  I prefer to call them horizontal life pauses.
  • I walk around like everything’s fine, but deep down inside my shoe my sock is sliding off.
  • So it turns out that being an adult is really just Googling how to do stuff.
  • It’s okay to look at the past and the future.  Just don’t stare. Lisa Lieberman-Wang
  • You know that tingly little feeling you get when you like someone?  That’s your common sense leaving your body.
  • We don’t grow old.  When we cease to grow, we become old. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.  Art is knowing which ones to keep.  Scott Adams
  • Children really can brighten up a house because they never turn the lights off. Ralph Buss
  • More Paraprosdokians:  1)  In filling in an application, where it says, ‘In case of emergency’, notify:  I put ‘Doctor’.  2)  I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.  3)  Behind every successful man is his woman.  Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.  4)  A clear conscience is the sign of a bad memory.  5) Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.  Nor is there any future in it. 
  • ‘May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.’  That’s an Irish toast.  ‘Cinnamon, eggs, bread and maple syrup’, that’s a French toast.  Mother of Heathens

Let’s toast to clear skies and more lovely summer weather as we celebrate all who work to keep our Country humming with productivity and services we use every day!  

Best wishes, 

Trinkie