Reno Real Estate Logic

Despite the controversy surrounding the 12,000 unit project on the Winnemucca Ranch now called Spring Mountain, it’s heading back to the Reno Council for a public hearing and discussion this Wednesday at 6:00 pm. The project will be Reno’s first green development regarding maximizing wind, solar and passive energy sources.
Also, Jaksick and Venturacci are planning on a [...]

My father was a great baseball enthusiast and actually had his own team of rough and rowdy thirteen year olds in the mid 1930’s when street ball was the only game in town. He would tell us that baseball during the depression was the single most inspiring aspect of a world gone bleak.
On Friday, our [...]

   SCHEELS,  the largest sporting goods store in the world has a half page in the Reno Gazette Journal called the Proclamations of Thanksgiving. I have never seen a piece like this ever and I thought it would be wonderful to share just the last portion with you for this Thanksgiving Day.
“It has seemed to me [...]

 If you don’t have time to read the next post here is a summary of the book that cuts to the quick of where we are, here’s Zandi’s program:
So now that we’re in the midst of unraveling and deleveraging the system of subprime mortgages, complex securities and credit default swaps, how do we prevent a [...]

Book Review
Title: “Financial Shock: A 360-degree look at the subprime mortgage implosion, and how to avoid the next financial crisis.” Author: Mark Zandi
Publisher: FT Press, 270 pages, $24.99
When Mark Zandi, chief economist and co-founder of Moody’s Economy.com, decided to write a book on the implosion of the subprime mortgage industry earlier this year, the global [...]

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WASHINGTON – World leaders on Saturday are ready to task finance ministers with [...]

 St. Thomas Aquinas
Philosopher, theologian, doctor of the Church (Angelicus Doctor), patron of Catholic universities, colleges, and schools. Born at Rocca Secca in the Kingdom of Naples, 1225 or 1227; died at Fossa Nuova, 7 March, 1274.
I received a letter in the mail today that is urging the community to help restore this marvelous 100 year [...]

To my surprise this morning, the RGJ posted that the South Meadows quadrant between the corner of Double Diamond Pkwy and Wilbur May Pkwy has been officially listed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a high flood hazard. Our offices are in the South Meadows but not in this area, thus I was interested in [...]

 The ArrowCreek Fall Summit was a total success. If you would like a copy of the power point presentation just email me and I will send you the whole McCoy from history of ArrowCreek to present day stats on the housing prices and what is going on in the HOA and  Golf Club.
mplevel@chaseinternational.com

There are two divisions of relief heading to Washington that I find very interesting in concept. First, the modification of existing loans package. This is intended to freeze foreclosures, re-establish new formulas across the board for modifications and create a new relief package that would inject directly to the homeowners vs the banks and institutions.
The Hope [...]