Greetings Fellow Life Travelers:

Warm weather abounds and now we have pollen!  Good news is that it’s early this year and hopefully will be over within a few weeks.  Visited the Nevada Museum of Art this week to see the Maynard Dixon exhibit…wonderful!  Lunch at the café was also excellent, and the shop has never-ending treasures, including great cards.  Looks like real estate activity is picking up, so let’s take a look.

Residential Real Estate – week 5/11 – 5/17 

• Tahoe Sierra MLS – North/West Shores & Truckee.  New Listings – 46; Escrows – 12; Solds – 12
• Incline Village/Crystal Bay MLS.  New Listings – 14; Escrows – 5; Solds – 0
• East Shore, NV MLS.  New Listings – 7; Escrows – 4; Solds – 2
• Reno/Sparks MLS.  New Listings – 167; Escrows – 154; Solds – 97

Tahoe Sierra had a big uptick in new listings, including a couple of lakefronts – one in Meeks Bay, the other North Shore.  Incline/Crystal Bay also had a nice rise in listings, including a Crystal Tower listing at $5.4 Million, a Pet Free building!  (First time I’ve seen that.  Will be limiting, but it will sell.) East Shore action ticked up bit and Reno’s market had a big increase in listings and escrows.  

Local/Real Estate/Luxe

• Toccata’s Classy Classics is kicking off its 19^th Summer Concert Series in June.  Check it out!  www.tahoesymphony.com
• Summer at Sierra State Parks.  Check out their interesting and eclectic events!  https://sierrastateparks.org/events/
• New Florida Law impacts condo buildings over 30-years old, following the Surfside collapse.  Required retrofitting means six-figure assessments, requiring one building $134,000+ per unit.  Units in there are not selling, even with reduced prices.  There are over 18,000 condos on the market in South Florida, double since first quarter of last year. WSJ
• Bear Plaques in Tahoe City.  25 new engraved bears now hanging on the railing at Heritage Plaza, raising more than $100,000 for trails in North Tahoe.  To put your name on one of these plaques, visit www.tahoefund.org/tahoecitybears.
• Wanna build a Frank Lloyd Wright-themed home?  Lindall Cedar Homes has the rights to Wright-designed plans that are modified for today’s living.  They provide the kit; you take care of the rest. 
• High-tech saunas are the new hot home amenity!  With pollen season upon us, home air purifiers are also in demand.
• Big up-tick in new rental housing.  With mortgage rates higher than we’ve seen in some time, many more people are renting vs. Buying. In 2023, 93,000 new single-family homes for rent were completed, the most in any year. WSJ
• Tahoe Getaways – great resource for holiday and vacation rentals.  www.tahoegetaways.com
• Shreve & Co. – 170 years in San Francico – is closing its City store and relocating headquarters to its Palo Alto outlet.  This is where bridal registries have lived for we ‘natives’ – Shreve’s was ‘the place’.  Another blow for Union Square. However, luxury purveyors Harry Winston, Cartier, Dior, Fendi, Bulgari and Hermes appear to be thriving.  

Entertainment

• Robin Williams – excerpt from Good Will Hunting:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GY3sO47YYo

TidBits

• He who asks a question might be a fool for five minutes; he who doesn’t ask a question remains a fool forever. Chinese Proverb
• Chance favors only the prepared mind.
• Everybody wants to help save the earth, but nobody wants to help mom do the dishes. P.J. O’Rourke
• I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence.  They got one marked ‘brightness’, but it don’t work.  Gallagher
• Some say the glass is half empty, some say the glass is half full.  I say, “are you going to drink that?”  Lisa Claymen
• Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy.   Albert Einstein
• A dozen a gross and a score, / Plus three times the square root of four, / Divided by seven / Plus five times eleven / Is nine squared and not a bit more.  Leigh Mercer.
• I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.  Cyra McFadden
• We must be willing, individually and as a nation, to accept whatever sacrifices may be required of us. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
• Stop making excuses. You’re the only one stopping you.  Issa Rae
• Truth is like the sun.  You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.  Elvis Presley
• You can’t have everything.  Where would you put it?  Steven Wright
• It it’s free, it’s advice; if you pay for it, it’s counseling; if you can use either one, it’s a miracle.  Jack Adams
• The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning, you’re on the job.  Slappy White
• He who laughs last didn’t get it. Helen Giangregorio
• Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.  Groucho Marx
• I always look for a woman who has a tattoo. I see a woman with a tattoo, and I’m thinking, ‘okay, here’s a gal who’s capable of making a decision she’ll regret in the future’.  Richard Jeni
• I was on a date with this really hot model.  Well, it wasn’t really a date date.  We just ate dinner and saw a movie.  Then the plane landed.  Dave Attell
• I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, “Get the hell off my property.”  Joan Rivers

So, there’s the importance of using a Realtor® to be sure title to your home is in your name.  

Cannot believe Memorial Day is next weekend.  Boats are launching, deck furniture is out, trees and flowers are blooming and flip-flops are appearing as we get ready for a great summer season ahead!  Looks like we’re back in the 60s this week, popping back to 70 on Memorial Day….and no snow in the forecast!  Have a great week and holiday weekend.  See you next time.

Best wishes, 

Trinkie