Greetings Fellow Life Travelers:

From summer to almost winter – what a change in temps!  In a turtleneck but clinging onto sandals for a bit longer. Big puffy clouds and some rain along with wishes for the 70s for at least a few weeks before it’s really fall.  Hints of leaves turning and now we’ll see that become a reality.  Fun Book Club/picnic on a Donner Lake beach Monday afternoon reviewing Raising Hare, a true story of a woman who came upon a leveret that would have died had she left it there.  Charming read.  Amie and I closed a nice off-market lakefront part way through its new build to buyers that want to finish it their way.  Showings on a couple of others, so things continue to percolate nicely.  Let’s see what cooked this last week in our real estate world.

Residential Real Estate – week 9/6 – 9/12  

• Tahoe Sierra MLS – North/West Shores & Truckee.  New Listings – 23; Escrows – 54; Solds – 24
• Incline Village/Crystal Bay MLS.  New Listings – 4; Escrows – 6; Solds – 4
• East Shore, NV MLS.  New Listings – 4; Escrows – 3; Solds – 5
• Reno/Sparks MLS.  New Listings – 117; Escrows – 129; Solds – 98

Tahoe Sierra had two nice escrows – one a 20-acre property in Juniper Hill listed at $5.95M and a lakefront on the West Shore listed at $4,25M, down from $4.798M.  And Amie and I had a nice lakefront sale, under construction, at $14.5M. 

Crystal Bay had a new lakefront listing at $23M (now that’s 5 lakefronts on the market there).  Reno showed increased action.

I toured our new West Shore lakefront under construction, and it’s coming along beautifully!  The siding is almost done and looks fabulous. Perfect time for someone to jump in to pick finishing touches.  Gorgeous, peaceful setting. 

Local/Real Estate/Luxe

• AI Parental Controls.  OpenAI will introduce this new amenity next month on ChatGPT.  Parents will be able to link accounts, set feature restrictions, receive alerts if child shows signs of emotional distress.
• Truckee Bug Station.  With low staff challenges, the private vehicle side for entry into CA from NV has been sparsely staffed for some time.  Intent is to change that back to full staffing and checking.  The commercial side is staffed 24 hours a day, and it is effective.  Invasive species are found regularly and caught before getting into our agriculture.    
• Pine Lodge (the Hellman-Ehrman mansion) had California State Parks maintenance staff from all over the state to learn and implement historic techniques for restoring the porch’s limestone plaster ceiling and wood shingled roof.  The roof was restored last year, and the ceiling completed this summer.   
• SF Gate’s feature on Shari Chase – check it out!   https://tinyurl.com/mr2c8vha
• Truckee Wine, Walk and Shop – October 4,  11AM – 5PM  – Benefit for Tahoe Food Hub. To volunteer – https://tinyurl.com/yfjz5zfc  For tickets – https://truckeewinewalk.com/tickets
• The Gap – San Francisco – has been reinvented and earning fashion cred.  Started in 1969 by Doris and Don Fisher, its chairman is their son, Robert Fisher.  Richard Dickson was hired in August 2023 as president and CEO, turning the company back to its glory days, referred to as ‘Gapaissance’ by NY Magazine’s The Strategist.  
• New Netflix binge watch.  “Long Short Story”, best new Netflix show in years is a cartoon set in the Bay Area suburbs.
• Affordable homes.  With median prices under $300K, Ohio and Illinois topped the list – Canton, Akron, Toledo, Rockford and Springfield.  Rochester, NY and Erie, PA rounded out the seven where affordable homeownership includes access to jobs and lifestyle amenities.  Realtor.com

Entertainment

• Investing – Crypto? Gold? What makes sense with Ray Dalio: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yj42yJL3bw

Tidbits

• Crossing things off my to-do list.  I didn’t do them; I just don’t want them on my list anymore.
• A dull truth will not be looked at.  An exciting lie will.  That is what good, sincere people must understand.  They must make their truth exciting and new, or their good works will be born dead.  Bill Bernbach, Founder, DDB advertising agency
• English as she is spoke:  1) Hotel, Zurich: Because of the impropriety of entertaining guests of the opposite sex in the bedroom, it is suggested that the lobby be used for this purpose.  2)  Ad for donkey rides, Thailand:  Would you like to ride on your own ass?  3)  Airline office, Copenhagen:  We take your bags and send them in all directions.  4)  Laundry in Rome:  Ladies, leave your clothes here and then spend the afternoon having a good time.  5)  Souk Shop window, Abu Dhabi: If the front is closed, please enter through my backside.
• Always remember that you are unique – just like everybody else.
• I love you with all my belly.  I would say my heart, but my belly is bigger.
• You’re not as young as you used to be.  But you’re not as old as you’re going to be.  Irish Saying
• My keyboard must be broken. I keep hitting the escape key but I’m still at work.
• The only time I set the bar low is for limbo. Michael Scott, The Office
• The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.  Marge Kennedy
• Today I decided to go visit my childhood home.  I asked the residents if I could come inside because I was feeling nostalgic, but they refused and slammed the door in my face.  My parents are the worst.
• Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.  Lemony Snicket
• Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.  Albert Einstein
• Never miss a good chance to shut up.  Will Rogers
• What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees, and he told me about the butcher and my wife. Rodney Dangerfield
• Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.  Robert Benchley
• Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.  Dave Barry
• Pressure is something you feel when you don’t know what the hell you’re doing.  Payton Manning
• He’s always asking, ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.”  It’s like, why don’t you mind your own business?  Solve world hunger.  Get out of my closet.  Michelle Obama
• The funny thing about writing is that whether you’re doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same.  That’s actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.  John Green
• Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally for  – looking up exes to see how fat they got?  Bill Maher

Temps are back up a bit for more lovely Indian Summer!  Enjoy the week and see you next time!

Best wishes, 

Trinkie