Tahoe Update

Greetings Fellow Life Travelers:

This week marked the start of 9 days of decluttering – at least 27 things a day and you must start over if you miss a day. There will probably be no shortage of stuff to toss or give away. Decided to start with the office, and that may consume all 9 days. Great way to declutter your life and clear the way for new adventures. Dry weather as you probably know but temps are cold so snow should be holding for the resorts. Aspen/Vail in the same boat. Real estate is easy to show, so let’s see what took place this last week.

Residential Real Estate – week 01/10 – 01/16

For Incline/Crystal Bay, there was a Chase escrow listed at $12.875M and a Chase sale at $10.2M. Reno, with strong escrow action, had a Chase listing at $4.7M go to escrow. Below is interesting comparison with our active high-end Golf Course communities between 2024 and 2025:

This should be a harbinger of what we can expect in 2026!

Quotable Quotes

• We are here to give what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. William Osler
• Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence. Vince Lombardi
• Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses. Elizabeth Taylor
• Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. Benjamin Franklin
• If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. Oprah Winfrey
• The only way to do great work is to love what you do. Steve Jobs
• If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap. If you want happiness for a day – go fishing. If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a life time – help someone else. Chinese proverb
• Forever is composed of nows. Emily Dickinson
• Illness begins with “I”. Wellness begins with “we”. Swami Sivananda Saraswati
• Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. Plato
• When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. Henry Ford
• The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena; it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. Nikola Tesla
• There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. Thich Nhat Hanh
• One of the things reporters said about me is that I’m never nervous. They say I don’t worry about a thing, and they say I get eight or ten good hours’ sleep at night. I wish they were right. Elvis Presley

Entertainment

• For Elvis lovers: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/S356PXV2OcI (amazing costumes)

TidBits

• My 5 exercises: Jumping to conclusions, flying off the handle, carrying things too far, dodging responsibility, pushing my luck. Mother of Heathens

• It’s illegal to own just one guinea pig in Switzerland. It’s considered animal abuse because they’re social being and get lonely.
• Nutmeg is a hallucinogen. The spice contains myristicin, a natural compound that has mind-altering effects if ingested in large doses. (Guess it’s not a problem or we wouldn’t have festive foods and drinks.)
• Competitive art was an Olympic sport between 1912 and 1948, awarding medals for music, painting, sculpture and architecture. (How cool was that!)
• A chef’s hat has 100 pleats, meant to represent the 100 ways to cook an egg. (How many do you know?)
• The Japanese word ‘Kuchi zamishi’ is the act of eating when you’re not hungry because your mouth is lonely. (Hmmm…seems we do this all the time.)
• Louboutin’s iconic red soles were inspired by Andy Warhol’s drawing Flowers.
• Google Images was created after Jennifer Lopez wore the infamous dress at the 2000 Grammys as so many were looking for it on line.
• A jiffy is an actual unit of time. It’s 1/100th of a second.
• You can’t hum if you hold your nose. (Now everyone will try it…I did.)

Back to decluttering so I won’t miss a day out of the nine! Have a great week and see you next time.

Best wishes,