Archive for September, 2007

28 Sep

The Dali Lama Has Four Questions For You-

I don’t usually fall prey to the internet games but this one was insightful, fun and fast. Check out the series of 4 cool questions that may be the true answer in finding your quest to fame, fortune, success and what ever has been haunting you to achieve. Surprise package!
This is a unique personality test. There are [...]

27 Sep

Discount brokerages, do they work?

For the last decade, discount real estate firms vs traditional real estate firms have been in a tug-of-war to dominate the market. There has also been the birth of the internet based companies such as Redfin, who operate almost exclusively in the vitural world of business. Obviously people are trying to find a way to pare down the cost [...]

24 Sep

Reno is proving to be a great game plan~

There’s a lot of action in Reno despite the subprime housing bust and just for the record here’s some facts on Reno that makes us look quite not so bad after all, and it appears that Las Vegas is really the painted lady. 
Reported by Kathy Chu of USA TODAY, a study completed by First American Loan-Performance, an analysis [...]

23 Sep

Biofuel Inventor/Entreprenuer in Reno

After seeing the smash hit, An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore, I was awestruck by the images of our planet. I imagine that everyone has heard or seen by now this documentary on global warming and it’s certainly penetrated my mind to seek alternative ways to help the planet find comfort and refuge from our human family.
BP [...]

17 Sep

Federal Reserve Link

  http://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/default.htm
  
Press Release

Release Date: August 17, 2007
For immediate release
To promote the restoration of orderly conditions in financial markets, the Federal Reserve Board approved temporary changes to its primary credit discount window facility. The Board approved a 50 basis point reduction in the primary credit rate to 5-3/4 percent, to narrow the spread between the primary credit [...]

14 Sep

Alan Greenspan coughs up subprime debacle~

de.ba.cle (de.ba.kel) n. Fr. debacler, break up  1. crushing defeat.  2. a ruinuous collapse
In the national wire reports this morning, in a very tiny section of the news from Washington, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan “acknowledges” that he did not see the subprime storm hitting the shores as a significant danger to our economy. He [...]

12 Sep

Chateau Montreux Open Today!

If you have been waiting to see a gorgeous new home in Reno’s most pretigious gated golf course community, surrounded by your own story book forest, with 5000 square feet of luxury living, then here is the home of your dreams!  I will be hosting this grand residence built by Zahler Homes from Incline Village and [...]

11 Sep

Looking for a $100 Million Dollar Tahoe Home?

 I’m sitting on the shores of a beautiful private lake, teeming with Brown trout, on 210 acres of pristine wilderness, overlooking the most famous lake in America and participating in a marvelous event for the victims of the Angora Fire. Where am I?
   On the fabulous Tranquility Estate owned by the Horowitz Family, co-founder of the Tommy Hilfiger dynasty. [...]

10 Sep

Reno Real Estate Logic now on Inman Wiki

For all you real estate techies out there, this Reno real estate blog content and map is now available at Inman Wiki
And just for techy fun check out www.gizmodo.com

09 Sep

Remarkable! You Can Help Find Steve Fossett~

I’ve been wondering how to help find Steve Fossett and now everyone can contribute to the effort! Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Air a friend of Steve Fossett organized and implemented an incredible way that everyone can search for him via the internet. They put together a connection with “Amazon Mechanical Turk” which is a satellite imagery based system supplied by Google [...]