Tahoe Update

Greetings Fellow Life Travelers:

Brrrrr – nights are getting nippy as they drop below freezing! Time for socks in bed. Of course, focus is on upcoming Hallowe’en festivities that began Friday night with parade and trick-or-treating in downtown Truckee. Gremlins were chilled as who would ever want to cover up a costume with a parka? Parade ended up at the Community Arts Center for more treats and fun. Just because Truckee’s Historical Haunted Tour is sold out doesn’t mean you can’t explore the spooky parts of Truckee on your own. Take in the history on a self-guided downtown Truckee historic tour; rent a Ghost hunting kit from the Truckee Library; or saddle up to a barstool at the Truckee Hotel (Moody’s) bar where paranormal investigators have said that it’s haunted. Who knows… maybe a bit of whiskey will get them talking. Let’s see what’s talking in real estate this last week.

Residential Real Estate – week 10/19 – 10/25

Tahoe Sierra MLS – North/West Shores & Truckee. New Listings – 24; Escrows – 27; Solds – 14
Incline Village/Crystal Bay MLS. New Listings – 3; Escrows – 8; Solds – 3
East Shore, NV MLS. New Listings – 3; Escrows – 4; Solds – 1
Reno/Sparks MLS. New Listings – 113; Escrows – 124; Solds – 73

Tahoe Sierra had a lakefront re-list at $15.495 Million. This came on originally in July 2021 at $23.5 Million, about $10 Million overpriced in my opinion. It has since been reduced several times and now relisted with another agency. So, it’s getting closer. Will be interesting to see where it lands. A new build I listed at $2.995 Million a couple of weeks ago in Gray’s Crossing went to escrow. And, Martis Camp had an $11 Million sale, down from original list at $13.25 Million. Reno had four homes listed over $3 Million go to escrow.

Local/Real Estate/Luxe

Need a costume? Check out Humane Society’s Thrifty Tails Boutique, 12047 Donner Pass Rd, for special deals of scary stuff! Why buy new when you can recycle landfill-headed treasures, create your own new incarnation, and find spine-tingling décor for that once-a-year evening?
Tahoe’s Trails – over 500 miles of them! From rocky peaks to lush meadows, there’s still time to take a hike before snow sets in. Tahoe Fund
Foreclosures: Worried about a crash? Get over it. “In the years after the housing crash, millions of foreclosures flooded the housing market, depressing prices. That’s not the case now. Most homeowners have a comfortable equity cushion in their homes.” Bankrate Even if an owner has a financial challenge, the home’s equity should provide enough cushion to sell without going under.
Truckee River Day. Over 300 volunteers got their hands dirty and worked to restore 9 different project sites across the Truckee River watershed.
Tahoe Forest Hospital’s 75^th Anniversary Celebration on November 1^st is sold out. However, if you want in, let me know! I may know somebody.
Baseball aficionado? How about a condo overlooking Padres’ stadium in San Diego? LMK if you want to explore availability.
Protect your home! If you own it free and clear, you might consider an Equity Protect policy, preventing a scammer absconding with your property. https://www.equityprotect.com/property-risk-management
Paddington Bear, a native of Peru, now has an official passport issued by the United Kingdom!
The Friday File: In 1974, the inaugural of the World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-off, the winning gourd weighed 132 pounds. Since then, it’s ballooned. By 1985, the supreme squash exceeded 500 pounds, by 2000, 1,000 pounds, and in 2015 it crossed 2,000 pounds. Last year the winning jack-o-lantern came in at 2,749 pounds. This year’s heavyweight was a paltry 2,471 pounds, grown by Travis Gienger of Minnesota, a four-time consecutive orange-thumb. Elliot Eisenberg, the Bowtie Economist

Entertainment

Doggie Monster Mash: https://tinyurl.com/yxczj8fe (sound upper right)

TidBits

People with siblings have better survival skills because they’ve had experience in physical combat, psychological warfare, and sensing suspicious activity. Life of Fred Math
Don’t believe every worried thought you have. Worried thoughts are notoriously inaccurate. Renee Jain
The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. Martin Luther King
Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there’s no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door. Jerry Seinfeld
Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you’ve ever been. The one constant in our life is change. Dr. Daniel Gilbert, Harvard Psychologist.
People who love to eat are always the best people. Julia Child
The Sign Guy: 1) I got booted from the coffee club because I wore a tea shirt. 2) Boarding school taught me how to get on an airplane. 3) I wanted to marry a carbon 14 expert but all she wanted to do was date. 4) To make a long story short, I became and editor.
All mistakes teach us something, so there are, in reality, no mistakes. Nikki Giovanni
Whoever said that money cannot buy happiness simply did not know where to go shopping. Bo Derek
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. Noel Coward
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work 12 hours a day. Robert Frost
I think ghosts are just people who died trying to fold a fitted sheet.
For Hallowe’en, I’m going emotionally stable. No one will recognize me. Mother of Heathens
Said the cat to me, “It’s useless to have nine lives, less you live them all”. Steve Cavin (National Cat Day is October 29)
Why don’t skeletons ever go to the party? Because they have no body to go with.
Why was the ghost a great entrepreneur? He knew how to scare up some business.

So, off to being a ghost and scaring up some new biz! Have a fun time with Hallowe’en, stay warm and see you next time!

Best wishes,

Trinkie