Greetings Fellow Life Travelers:

Last Saturday was Tahoe Forest Hospital’s annual fundraiser – Best Of – at the Kings Beach Conference Center.  Beautiful wine pairings with fabulous food created by several local chefs coordinated by our very own Billy McCulloch and Pride Wine ambassador, Stuart Ryan.  Mike and Julie Teel, Raley’s, were the main sponsors for the event that raised $350,000 for the Incline Village and Tahoe Forest Foundations and their programs and needs.  Monday was book club and great discussion of The Correspondent, an intriguing book by Viginia Evans, winner of Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal. We had big winds and rain on Wednesday, back to sun and dry for a while.  Now for this last week’s real estate report:

Residential Real Estate – week 11/1 – 11/7

Location	New Listings	Escrows	Solds
N/W Shores/Truckee MLS	19	23	24
Incline/Crystal Bay MLS	4	10	6
East Shore MLS	2	4	1
Reno/Sparks MLS	96	100	96

Incline/Crystal Bay had a nice lakefront condo sale at $4.4M; East Shore had a Beach Club unit last listed at $7.7M sell for $6.5M, and Reno had a new Montreux listing at $5.925 M.  Out of the 24 solds for N/W Shores, 14 were under $1M and the most expensive was a $10M sale in Martis Camp.

Local/Real Estate/Luxe

• Tahoe Fund’s great work this year:  Granted over $1.7M to 60-plus projects, and helped leverage nearly $52 M in public funds, more than ever before.  Three focus areas are The Forest, The Lake, and The Experience – BurnBot’s suite of remote-operated tools for excess forest fuel removal, $200K to demolish SLT’s old Motel 6 to restore wetland into healthy filtration for Lake Tahoe and expanding the East Shore Trail for safer recreation along State Route 28. 
• Ski Resorts:  Mt. Rose will not be opening this weekend. Not enough snow yet or cold enough temps to make snow.  Stay tuned for updates as we move further into the month.  Mammoth plans to open the 14^th.
• 2025 Profile of Home Buyers shows that the number of first-time buyers is at an all-time low and the number of all-cash home buyers is at an all-time high.  Also, down payments have risen for both first-time and repeat buyers. 80% of buyers purchased their home through an agent or broker. 91% of sellers used a real estate agent.  National Association of Realtors
• Truckee River Watershed Council.  For a peek at their projects – on going and completed – check out

Our Work — Foriver  Amazing work in the Truckee/Sierra County area.

Entertainment

• BBC: Throwback things you can say in Ikea or the bedroom. (10) Facebook  (racy – sound up)

TidBits

• I’m so old I remember when climate change was called Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.
• Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.  Abraham Lincoln
• If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.  Theodore Roosevelt
• There’s great power in words if you don’t hitch too many of them together.  Josh Billings
• It’s simple.  If it jiggles, it’s fat.  Arnold Schwarzenegger
• I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.  Bertrand Russell
• He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.  George Eliot
• I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.  Rodney Dangerfield
• Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.  Benjamin Franklin
• Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.  Mae West
• A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.  A successful woman is one who can find such a man.  Lana Turner
• The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.  Thomas Edison
• They say marriages are made in Heaven.  But so are thunder and lightning. Clint Eastwood
• Gambling:  The sure way of getting nothing for something.  Wilson Mizner
• Oh Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.  Saint Augustine
• One advantage of talking to yourself is knowing that somebody’s listening.  Franklin P. Jones
• A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.  Milton Berle
• Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.  Charles Dudley Warner
• Don’t talk about yourself.  It will be done when you leave.  Wilson Mizner
• Why is there an expiration date on sour cream?
• I want to be like a caterpillar.  Eat a lot. Sleep for a while. Wake up beautiful.
• I’ve got a photographic memory, but it’s mostly out of focus.
• Winter: the season when we try to keep the house as hot as it was in the summer, when we complained about the heat.

So, stay warm as temps drop and see you next time!  Thanks for reading!

Best wishes,

Trinkie