Tahoe Update

Greetings Fellow Life Travelers:

Spring (again) at last!  From rain and drizzle to big blue skies and warm temps.  Now landscaping care is a reality as we watch lawns green up and perennials start to blossom.  Road construction on Int 80 to Reno a huge PITA, giving us a taste of what’s to come on our local roads.  Golf courses are opening and Palisades Tahoe remains open with a few lifts for late spring skiing.  Listings are ramping up as we can see on chart below.

Residential Real Estate – week 5/2 – 5/8

Tahoe Sierra had a big push in new listings including a re-list of a North Shore lakefront at $10.9M – a property that’s been on and off the market for several years, challenged by very limited parking.  Incline had a new lakefront come on at $47.5M (seems like a stretch to me), an eastern slope home listed at $13.5M go to escrow and two lakefront condos sell in the mid-$4M range. East Shore had a new lakefront listing at $12M, a nice Chase listing in Skyland sell for $10.4M, and another lakefront sell for $8.1M. Reno had a new Montreux listing come on at $4.4M and one sell for $4.4M.  

Local/Real Estate/Luxe

• New David Geffen Galleries at Los Angeles County Museum, spectacular new build on Wilshire Blvd, is now open and unlike any museum experience in Los Angeles.  Check it out:  https://tinyurl.com/4d2f3kmd
• Construction is in process for more parking on the East Shore for trailhead/beach access, some of which will be paid parking.
• Bay to Breakers, benefit for San Francisco’s SPCA, is next Sunday the 17th.  Crazy fun for participants and voyeurs! 

TidBits & Quotes

• The disciplined life looks impressive, but the well-designed life lasts longer.  Before you try to find more willpower, design your environment and arrange your day so you’re more likely to follow through.  James Clear
• No one tells you running is 10 percent cardio and 90 percent negotiating with the voice begging you to quit.  David Dack
• 90% of the things I worry about never happen.  Worrying works.  Grumpy Chickens
• Wonder why a man’s heart beats faster and he goes weak in the knees when a woman wears leather?  It’s because she smells like a new truck.
• I did some financial planning, and it looks like I can retire at 97 and live comfortably for eleven months.
• I’ve been in bed for 20 minutes and just realized I came upstairs for a pen.
• I might wake up early and go running.  I also might win the lottery.  The odds are about the same.
• You got a dog.  Now you can’t spontaneously travel, get sick, be poor, or die.
• Back in my day we didn’t have Urgent Care.  We had Mercurochrome, a Band-aid and a mother who said, “You’ll live,” and somehow, we did.
• If you are attracted to both women and men but neither of them is attracted to you, that means you are bi-yourself.
• Tequilla is the Spanish word for, “I don’t remember doing that.”
• Game time:  Think of a number. Double it. Add six.  Half it. Take away the number you started with.  The answer is three.
• I feel like a lot of my problems would be solved if I hadn’t caused them in the first place.
• Me at my peak:  No debt, ideal weight, 8 hours of sleep, right nutrition, zero alcohol, plenty of exercise.  I was 10.
• I’ve ordered so much stuff online that I have no idea what’s supposed to be arriving anymore.  If Amazon rolls up with a donkey, I’m just signing for it.
• Humans are the only species that would cut down trees, make paper out of them, and then write, “Save the Trees” on it.
• I was at the grocery store and a beautiful woman waved at me and said, “Hi!”  I didn’t recognize her, so I asked, “Do we know each other?”  She said, “I think you’re the father of one of my kids.”  As I began to panic, I quietly whispered, “Are you the stripper from the bachelorette party?”  She replied, “No. I’m your daughter’s teacher.” 
• My daughter-in-law messaged me today.  ‘You need to come get YOUR son; he’s driving me nuts.  Me:  Package is opened, seal is broken, item is used, warranty expired, sorry that’s not a manufacturer’s problem.
• I dusted once.  It came back.  I’m not falling for that again.

So off the hook for housecleaning and on to the serious business of helping people solve their lifestyle choices!  Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms including our doggie family members.  Have a great week and see you next time!

Best wishes, 

Trinkie