http://www.tahoetruckeehomesales.com Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:02:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday I woke to temperatures in the teens with a fresh layer of powder and a bluebird day.  A skiers delight, that is if you could get to the resorts. Traffic backed early up on Hwy's 89 & 267 with everyone trying desparately to make first tracks. Today looks like a repeat,  ... http://www.tahoetruckeehomesales.com/a-bluebirdkind-of-day/ It is amazing how much we depend on electronic gear (I think that is still the word that one uses  for things like cameras and cell phones).  This trip south of the border has really pointed out this fact to me.  First  my cell phone went crazy and lost all ... http://www.tahoetruckeehomesales.com/musings-from-a-trailer-park-in-baja/                                                                                             You will love this nice open floor plan with pine vaulted ceilings and large windows that open to a private forested setting. This 4 bedroom home has room for everyone with a separate family room to give the kids a place to kick back and have some crazy fun ... http://www.tahoetruckeehomesales.com/12049-bernese-lane/ Finally on the internet today after forgetting 2 passwords and loosing the ability on my Treo to read my notes.  Let me tell you this moving around plays hell on your electronics.  I am so over that Treo and if I had any other choice at this point in time ... http://www.tahoetruckeehomesales.com/from-sunny-guerreo-negro/ Looking back to 2009, our January sales were down to 25 for the entire Tahoe-Truckee region. In comparison 2010 is looking up; for the month of January sales totaled 61, of those 20 were bank owned and 6 were short sales translating to 42% distressed sales ( up from 37% ... http://www.tahoetruckeehomesales.com/market-stats-for-north-lake-tahoe-truckee-january-2010/ Truckee lost a true public servant on Saturday night January 30, 2010.  Pat Sutton, Mother, Wife, Business Owner, and Public Servant in this wonderful mountain town of Truckee, California was and always will be for me a real stand up person. Pat was a real role model for all of us ... http://www.tahoetruckeehomesales.com/pat-sutton-in-memorian/ I can't help it. Suddenly I have really gotten into having fun with the graphs. Lets see how this one turned out. The results are not as dramatic as the Single Family Residences I published earlier. [caption id="attachment_1127" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Truckee N. Lake Tahoe Condo sales 06-09"][/caption] Here are ... http://www.tahoetruckeehomesales.com/condo-sales-north-lake-tahoe-truckee-2006-2009/ After I published my graph yesterday on the statistics covering ALL single family residences sold between 2006 and 2009, I got a call from a fellow agent who asked me if I could eliminate the lakefronts on the graph. Since I knew he had a good point and their ... http://www.tahoetruckeehomesales.com/sales-of-non-lakefront-homes-truckee-lake-tahoe-2004-2009/ For those of us who enjoy looking at the market via a graph, I have made these rudimentary graphs in order to put the numbers into a picture form. Every picture tells a story . . . . (Rod Stewart?) Truckee NLTgraph SFR2009 - http://www.tahoetruckeehomesales.com/year-end-truckee-tahoe-in-graph-form/ Most of you have probably heard about all the weather to hit the High Sierra, it created havoc on the highways, closed some resorts for a while and piled high in our front yards.  This is what it looked like coming into work yesterday morning in Downtown Truckee. And the snow continues....     ... http://www.tahoetruckeehomesales.com/bring-it-on/