Reno Housing Market Update For April

Sales are starting to increase especially in the under $150,000 range. The sale price remains under pressure from bank owned properties.

April had 419 properties sold compared to 366 in March. This makes 4 straight months of a positive swing in sale in the Reno - 100 Area. However, April saw a 6% drop in median price after three months of relative stability. Of the 419 sales in April 215 were bank owned and another 80 where short sales.

649 new listing came on the market in April a drop of 12% from March. 370 of these listing were either bank owned or a short sale.

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How Reno's RC Willey Did The Bait And Switch On Us

... the cards. At first Master Card and VISA refused to cancel them. It took six months, telephone calls, letters until finally I got both cards cancelled. Employees, including managers, refused to give their names, just an employee number. Now cash is tight and we are on a cash basis.

Off to Reno’s Lowe’s we go where Lowe’s agreed to finance a washer, dryer and refrigerator with 12 months zero interest no payments. Armed with that in writing, we go to Reno’s RC Willey on the way south end of Reno. There a Carol in appliances slyly pounces on us. We look around, pick out what we... (more)

Tags: financing, lowes, personal finance, no payments, business, rc willeys

Reno AAA: Where Our Members Don't Come First

Recently I went to renew my 37-year membership with AAA. I had not received a renewal notice. I went to the Reno AT&T phone book but was unable to find any listing for AAA. I called the 800 number on my AAA membership card, 800-222-4357. I got a Don, not allowed to give last name or employee number. Don told me that there are two AAA locations in Reno, both in South Reno. 6795 S. Virginia and the other on Damonte Ranch Road. Both very way south. Not at all centrally located. AAA, where all members outside of South Reno don’t come at all at AAA.AAA has only one location in Sparks and that... (more)

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Greenies Among Us, Reno's Earth Day 2008

Sunday, April 20, 2008, is this year’s Earth Day. One’s trash is another’s treasure and that is Reno Freecycle’s rocking premise. Instead of dumping something in the trash or making a trip to the dump, try listing it on Reno FreeCycle.

The April 20th Earth Day is 10-5 at Idlewild Park with free admission. This year the stage is solar powered, cell phone and auto battery recycling sites are included, as well as a free valet service for bicycles, skateboards and roller blades, and free shuttle from Reno High, 395 Booth Street. For more info, check out Nevada EcoNet,... (more)

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The Audit of Broo: An Internal Dissection By Its Own Members

...would be a great opportunity for individual members and for Broo as a whole. I believe that this could result in significant traffic increases, particularly as authors create fan bases who return regularly to see what they have written.

Threats

-Has a nasty past/history with Reno Broo

-Former Reno members and possibly others have blamed new ownership as a reason why Broo is not successful ranking wise and page view wise.

-Accusations of changing words in an article that have nothing to do with typos is still online to read.

-Personal attacks happen... (more)

Tags: broowaha, writing, gillean smith, swot analysis, growing your blog, learning to write online, get connected online, online audit

Hector's Big Weekend: Part I

...that adrenalin rush. One time he and another fool bet on who could eat more pieces of sushi and Hector started gagging after 90. Pretty impressive for a 5’2’’ 100-lb. guy, but he lost $10,000 when his friend ate 104 nigiri-zushi. Another time, Hector was convinced that he could run from Reno to Carson City in a business suit in the dead of winter. One of the assorted morons in his entourage of hangers ons, wanna bes and never wasses, bet him 20 grand and Hector won. It took him almost two days for him to run, jog, shuffle and finally limp the 40 miles. But in the process, two of... (more)

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Employee fired for refusing to place abused dog on plane

Lynn Jones a baggage handler at Reno -Tahoe International Airport says she was fired "on the spot" when she saw a sad, listless, and what looked like an abused dog in a pet carrier and refused to place the emaciated dog onto onto the Texas bound plane. When she refused she was fired on the spot.

"I was crying," she said. "I kept saying that dog could not be put on a plane," she told the Reno Gazette-Journal. Her boss who said the paper work was in order told her to load the dog onto the plane. "Everyone who saw it, the TSA people, the airport police officers, the girls at the ticket... (more)

Tags: dog abuse, flying with pets, baggage handlers, airport terminal services dog abuse

Willie's Wisdom 6

...in the witness box. On second thoughts, I believe you deserve jail time, as any man who wants to watch his wife undressing is obviously dangerous.WillieSWITCHINGDear Willie,I am a very successful businessman, with a loving wife, an expensive car and a very large house. Unfortunately I also have a very beautiful secretary. What can I do?HowardRenoDear Howie,What you have to do is re-arrange things a bit. Stick with the successful businessman, the loving wife and the expensive car. But switch the house and secretary so that she is vary large and the house is very beautiful.Willie

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Hey, Can We Really Do That With Fountainhead?

...will endure because it is a classic monument of and to human love and it was built to last.

What we know of today as Fountainhead started its life as an ordinary tract house in a plain and homogenized subdivision with the universal name of Sky Country. Its zip code is 89503 in Reno, Nevada. However, being on the north side of McCarran, Sky Country was commonly classified as New North West Reno 89523 zip code. Chino the Carpenter says Sky Country is a boring and poorly engineered subdivision. Reno allowed the subdivision to be designed wrong he complains. The streets and... (more)

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Ed's Sports Corner

... that we grew up together by the way he was acting.”

On meeting Marilyn for the first time: “We were playing in a golf tournament at the Merced Country Club, and afterwards all of the guys went to a bar in San Francisco. Dominic DiMaggio was partners in this bar. And our buddy Reno Barsocchini was serving drinks – just to help out. ‘Hey, Dario!’ Barsocchini called out. ‘Go down that hall and turn left, the first door you come to. There’s a guy down there who wants to see you.’ So I walked down there and sitting in a chair was Joe DiMaggio. And sitting on his... (more)

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