Greetings Fellow Life Travelers:
Well, we skated through some rain and wind and didn’t lose all the leaves – enough to cover the ground and enough on the trees to keep color cooking for at least a little while longer. Last weekend we had a neighborhood party at our interior designer’s house to welcome a new owner. A visit to their home during the holiday season is extra special! This week was focused on a new cabin listing on the North Shore, showing a repeat client Truckee homes and a call for a lakefront interview on Monday. Thursday was the last Thunder Thursday for the season at Thunderbird Lodge, complete with a lecture by curator Bill Watson on various fun myths about Nevada and North Tahoe. Fabulous nibbles were accompanied by Picon Punch, a special beverage that’s recently been adopted by the State of Nevada as the official drink. This 19th -century cocktail features a liquor called Amer Picon dating back to 1837 when it was created by Gaëtan Picon as a medicinal tonic for malaria. Keep that malaria at bay and now for the serious biz of real estate.
Residential Real Estate – week 10/25 – 10/31
| Location | New Listings | Escrows | Solds |
| N/W Shores/Truckee MLS | 24 | 31 | 22 |
| Incline/Crystal Bay MLS | 9 | 6 | 3 |
| East Shore MLS | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Reno/Sparks MLS | 78 | 112 | 102 |
Tahoe Sierra had a new North Shore lakefront listing at $7.25M and another listed at $7.75 M go to escrow after a short time on the market. Martis Camp had a $17.495 M listing close at $16.5 M. Lots of properties going off the market for winter with ski leases. For September, there were 165 solds in the TS MLS and 146 in October. For TS lakefront count, 12 Active, 5 in escrow and 17 sold for the year so far.
Local/Real Estate/Luxe
- East Shore Trail now has 1,735 names on the Donor Wall, helping the next big step to extend the trail from Sand Harbor to Spooner. Tahoe Fund
- We Do Not Care Club. Are you a member yet? Very clever virtual club created by Melani Sanders, “putting the world on notice that we simply do not care much anymore”. Started in May 2025, she now has well over 1 million followers. Fun to watch, and you can submit your own gripes. “We do not care if we put on a pair of leggings and a graphic t-shirt in the morning, we are dressed for the day, we are ready for bed and possibly dressed for tomorrow”. Check it out: YouTube, Facebook, and other social sites.
- Bay Area investor ownership is very low…except for one zip code in Fremont. Fremont based real estate company Ardenbrook owns thousands of homes in 94555 alone.
- In the U.S., Atlanta metro area tops the list of major cities that offer the lowest price per square foot for luxury homes. Mansion Global
- Tahoe Forest Hospital’s two Truckee projects and one in Tahoe City are full steam ahead, creating new office spaces to accommodate our population and reduce the long wait times for non-emergency appointments. President and CEO, Anna Roth, is a beacon of light in our community, engaging with its citizens to listen to their needs and concerns as this next chapter of our health system unfolds.
- Palisades Tahoe has invested in sustainable grooming with a new diesel-electric snowcat.
- Good gas prices – Kings Beach. New Star gas station offers almost $2 less per gallon than in Truckee. Also, the RV campground at Hirschdale offers regular at good prices.
- Pumpkin Pride: The Friday File: This year’s winner of the 52nd World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, California, held earlier this month, was Brian Dawson. His winning gourd came in at a staggering 2,346 lbs. The world record of 2,749 was set by Travis Gienger at last year’s event. However, it was recently broken by English twin brothers Start and Ian Paton whose jack-o-lantern tipped the scales at 2,819 lbs. Elliot Eisenberg, the Bowtie Economist
- Interest Rates. Just because the Fed dropped by .25 points, it doesn’t necessarily impact mortgage rates. As a matter of fact, mortgage interest rates inched up a bit relative to economic impacts, the bond market, inflation, etc. And, in anticipation of a drop, mortgage rates had already factored that in.
- Jackie and Shadow, Big Bear Eagles, are starting to visit the nest together.
Entertainment
- Showing a house – Sarah Millican: (6) Facebook
TidBits
- I’m not saying I live in a fixer-upper, but even the ghosts have filed for relocation assistance.
- Home is where the Wi-Fi connects automatically, and the mortgage payments arrive like clockwork.
- Realtors: Turning ‘just browsing’ into ‘just closed’ forever.
- Love at first sight is great, but love after the inspection report? That’s real commitment.
- In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in real estate there is equity….and maybe a hot tub.
- The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.
- I am tremendously not sorry that my sense of humor has offended your utter lack of it.
- She believed she could but she was really tired, so she didn’t.
- Sorry I’m late. I didn’t want to come.
- I am expensive all the time. Stop asking when I’m free.
- The problem with stupidity is that it doesn’t always recognize itself. Will Stainton
- Have you ever just looked at someone and knew that the wheel was turning, but the hamster was dead?
- Waiting is so unusual that many of us can’t stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something. Julian Baggini
- They laugh at me because I’m different; I laugh at them because they’re all the same.
- Young at heart, slightly older in other places.
- I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
- A funny thing about having teens is how they text you from school to tell you they don’t like their lunch.
- If you fall, I’ll always be there. The Floor
- Men are like bank accounts. Without a lot of money, they don’t generate a lot of interest.
- A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
- If I won the award for laziness, I would send somebody to pick it up for me.
- I’m at that age where my mind still thinks I’m 29, my humor suggests I’m 12, while my body mostly keeps asking if I’m sure I’m not dead yet.
- When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard,” I am tempted to ask, “Compared to what?” Albert Einstein
- Not all storms come to disrupt your life. Some come to clear your path.
- Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, “I’m Possible!” Audrey Hepburn
- I’ve learned from my mistakes, I’m thinking of making a few more.
- Even I don’t wake up looking like Cindy Crawford. Cindy Crawford
- During the day, I don’t believe in ghosts. At night, I’m a little more open-minded.
- Pilates? I thought you said pie and lattes.
- In order to keep a true perspective of one’s importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship you and a cat that will ignore you.
- Life has no remote. Get up and change it yourself. Mark A. Cooper
- What do dogs do on their day off? Can’t lie around – that’s their job! George Carlin
- ‘I can’ is 100 times more important than ‘I.Q,’
So, now I can go clean up before guests arrive for book club! Gad, it’s dark by 5PM today and no sleeping in after 6AM tomorrow. Thanks for reading, have a great week and see you next time!
Best wishes,
Trinkie