Tahoe Donner Market Snap Shot: August 1 - August 31, 2008
August 30, 2008
Tahoe Donner Single Family Homes Sold - August 2008
Single Family Homes SOLD = 19
Median List Price = $694,000
Median Sold Price = $660,000
Average Days on Market = 92
YTD TD SF Homes Sold = 121
Active Listings = 184
| Address | Original Price | Sales Price | Square Feet |
| 15830 Northwoods | $425,000 | $407,000 | 1595 |
| 13103 Falcon Point | $489,000 | $469,000 | — |
| 12540 Lausanne | $590,000 | $505,000 | 1442 |
| 13656 Hillside | $615,000 | $525,000 | 1504 |
| 11174 Zermatt | $549,000 | $535,000 | 1423 |
| 13846 Herringbone | $645,000 | $605,000 | 1656 |
| 14487 Swiss | $659,000 | $629,000 | 1917 |
| 11876 Kitzbuhel | $659,800 | $640,000 | 2270 |
| 12768 Zurich | $694,000 | $645,000 | 2251 |
| 13406 Northwoods | $679,000 | $660,000 | 2793 |
| 13568 Hansel | $699,000 | $675,000 | 2326 |
| 11023 Lausanne | $742,000 | $675,000 | 1748 |
| 13601 Northwoods | $749,900 | $690,000 | 1890 |
| 13558 Weisshorn | $725,000 | $708,000 | 2406 |
| 15226 Alder Creek | $879,000 | $790,000 | 2550 |
| 13159 Skislope | $899,000 | $885,000 | 2856 |
| 13701 Hansel | $1,199,000 | $1,150,000 | 3762 |
| 14122 Swiss | $1,450,000 | $1,395,000 | 3160 |
| 14022 Ski View Loop | $1,950,000 | $1,520,000 | 3800 |
Tahoe Donner Condos Sold - August 2008
Condos SOLD = 4
Median List Price = $407,000
Median Sold Price = $386,000
Average Days on Market = 124
YTD TD Condos Sold = 13
Active Listings = 33
Tahoe Donner Lots Sold - August 2008
Lots SOLD = 4
Median List Price = $296,750
Median Sold Price = $267,500
Average Days on Market = 56
YTD TD Lots Sold = 13
Active Listings = 73
(YTD = Year-To-Date)
This is provided as a quick snapshot of the monthly market activity in Tahoe Donner. Keep in mind, numbers only tell part of the story. We would be happy to share our day-to-day insight.
Take the Recycling Challenge!
August 27, 2008
Keep it Green.
Here you’ll find all the information you need so that you can participate in North Lake Tahoe’s and Truckee’s Curbside recycling solution. Challenge your household to reduce waste as much as possible and recycle everything you can. Chances are you’ll have a much greater volume of recyclables than trash.
Use your BLUE BAGS to recycle all of the following:
Mixed paper: Office paper, catalogues, magazines, junk mail. Virtually all mixed paper types can be recycled!
Paper board: Paper board includes such as cereal & food boxes (remove plastic liners), paper towel and toilet paper roles.
Glass bottles and jars: All colors are okay.
Plastics numbered 1-7. Check the bottom of the container for the recycling symbol and number 1-7. Plastic bags and Styrofoam are the exceptions. Plastic bags can be dropped off at local grocery stores for recycling. Styrofoam is not recycled in Truckee, please avoid Styrofoam when possible. Mixed rigid plastics (these are generally non-food plastics, some do not have a number 1-7. Examples include old laundry baskets, children’s toys, snow disc.)
Aluminum, tin (steel) and bimetal cans.
Aluminum foil.
Cardboard: Cut it up to make it fit in the blue bag. Drop-off large quantities of cardboard at the fire station. Please do not place loose cardboard at the curb. Loose cardboard will be contaminated in the collection truck and charged as trash.
The Blue Bag Process: What happens to your BLUE BAG after it leaves your curb? What should you know in order to effectively participate in the blue bag program?
When your blue bag is picked up at the curb it is tossed in a small trash truck right along side your bag of garbage. When the small trash truck is filled it returns to a staging area where the big compacting trucks await. The load from the smaller truck is then transferred into the compactor. All the bags, both blue and black are compacted and driven to the Eastern Regional Landfill on Cabin Creek Road off HWY 89 south for processing. Truck loads of garbage and blue bags are dumped onto a floor, pushed around by heavy equipment and fed onto a conveyer belt. Two employees spend their day picking the blue bags out of the waste stream and setting them aside. Trash is then sent up a conveyer belt where 15 people pick recyclables from garbage. Depending on the time of year, the transfer station receives on average 100-250 tons of trash and recyclables from residential routes every day. Due to the high volume of trash, the conveyer belt must move quickly in order for all the trash to be processed. The 15 workers do an excellent job picking recyclables out of the trash and are able to recover 17-18% of recyclables from trash. Towards the end of the day the operation converts to processing blue bags. Blue bags are opened and the contents are sent up the conveyer for sorting, the blue bag itself is also bailed and sent to a plastic recycler. Keep in mind that recyclables in blue bags are much cleaner and easier to sort than picking recyclables from trash (we all know what we toss away). In order to assist in sorting recyclables, by material type, the conveyer belt is slowed way down when blue bags are processed. Workers are able to recover over 90% of the recyclables contained in blue bags. Using blue bags significantly increases the amount of recyclables recovered. In order to work effectively, your blue bags must hold up in the trash collection process so durability matters. When purchasing blue bags pay attention to the strength (the higher the millimeters (mil) on the package the better). Place your recyclables in your bags being mindful to not over stuff the bags and tie your blue bags securely to ensure that your recyclables will remained contained in the bag. If you have an excess amount of glass (which is heavy and could potentially tear the bag), consider using the Nex Cycle recycling facility behind Safeway or the recycling facility at the Eastern Regional Landfill. Cardboard should be cut into smaller pieces and placed in blue bags. If you have more cardboard than can easily be cut up and placed in a blue bag please utilize one of the free cardboard collection dumpsters at the Fire Station on Donner Pass Road or at the elementary school in Glenshire. Loose cardboard left beside your garbage can will be mixed with the trash, contaminated and not recycled.
Annual Alpen Wine Festival - August 31, 2008
August 27, 2008
The Village at Squaw Valley USA is the location for the Alpen Wine Festival to be held on August 31st. You’ll enjoy wine tasting from over 40 vineyards, live jazz music and a huge silent auction & raffle. $40 for wine tasting benefit which includes a Spiegalau crystal souvenir wine glass. Wine tasting to benefit The Heuga Center, a foundation providing wellness & education for people with Multiple Sclerosis. 2 - 5 PM
SUNSET Magazine - TRUCKEE Ranked Top Ten Places to Live
August 23, 2008
TOP TEN DREAM TOWNS
Go for the perfect vacation. Or the perfect rest of your life. EASTSOUND, WA:
Eclectic island refuge Plunk a Cape Cod village at the end of a Norwegian fjord, tractor-beam this picturesque mash-up to an island 80 miles northwest of Seattle, and you’ve got Eastsound. This one-time agricultural port town is the largest settlement on Orcas Island. That’s not saying much - Orcas, the second most populous of Washington’s San Juan Islands, has only 5,000 residents.
Even at Main Street and North Beach Road, the town’s busiest intersection, you’ll look in vain for a stoplight, chain store, or flashing neon sign.
What you will find within Eastsound’s five-block centre ville is a vibrantly eclectic, even eccentric, assortment of restaurants, boutiques, and, most of all, people - from graying hippie homesteaders and youthful organic farmers to well-heeled urban refugees, Carhartt-clad contractors, retirees, school kids, and artists of all stripes.
Oh, yeah: You’ll also find pinch-me views of East Sound (the inlet that nearly splits horseshoe-shaped Orcas Island in half), Buck Mountain, and Mt. Constitution - at 2,400 feet, the highest point in the San Juans.
Even in summer, when tourists and part-time residents double the island’s population, the vibe in Eastsound is small-town mellow.
Natives and visitors alike stroll into Darvill’s Bookstore to pick up a newspaper and shoot the breeze, then amble across the street for coffee at the Sunflower Café. Eastsound is all about fusion - old, young, left, right, trucker, cyclist, vegan, carnivore. What binds these contrasting elements into a vital community is a shared love for this glorious blue-green landscape, where sea, mountains, forests, and sky come together. The place is a little inconvenient to get to, but its proudly independent residents wouldn’t have it any other way. -Craig Canine
MAKE A VISIT MAKE A MOVE
SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA: A historic mission town set among rolling hills halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, SLO buzzes with undergraduate energy, thanks to California Polytechnic State University. Edna Valley wine country is a few minutes south, and the coast is 10 minutes west by car or, as many in this relentlessly fit community prefer, 30 minutes by bike. And the climate? Well, let’s see, how do you describe a place that’s as ideal for people as it is for wine grapes? Where the annual average monthly highs range all the way from 62° to 74° ? Oh, that’s right: Perfect. SLO is a town of 44,359 people who live outdoors, whether on the trail that winds through the oak forests and meadows on Bishop Peak or along the shaded downtown banks of its restored creek. Some of its best neighborhoods - where the streets are lined by a mix of Queen Annes and Spanish bungalows - sit within a few blocks of the back patio at the local coffee-house classic, Linnaea’s Cafe, or the eclectic offerings of the Palm Theatre, the only solar-powered picture show in the country. And all year long, Thursday’s evening farmers’ market sends the scent of barbecued tri-tip (and a soundtrack of live blues) across the tidy urban landscape. -Matthew Jaffe
MAKE A VISIT San Luis Obispo is 12 miles inland from the coast on U.S. 101, 190 miles north of Los Angeles and 230 miles south of San Francisco. Amtrak’s Coast Starlight and Pacific Surfliner both stop here (800/872-7245). The local airport is served by American Eagle, Delta Connection, United Express, and U.S. Air-ways, with direct connections to and from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Phoenix, and Salt Lake City. Staying the night? Consider Petit Soleil Bed et Breakfast (from $159; 805/549-0321); it’s charming and near downtown. More info at: Visitslo. MAKE A MOVE If you’re thinking about living the SLO life, figure on a median home price of $655,323 (2007). As for jobs, Cal Poly is the city’s biggest employer - but the county is the third-largest wine-grape producer in California. For local news, try the free weekly, New Times or the city’s daily newspaper, The Tribune.
CRESTED BUTTE, CO: Unpretentious and personable, CB is a locals’ town, buzzing with young families, powder hounds drawn to Crested Butte Ski Resort, elite athletes, and big-city refugees. Everybody rides bikes here. This, arguably, is the place where mountain biking was born 30 years ago, and two-wheelers are everywhere: vintage cruisers, circa 1970, adorned with glittery handlebar streamers and bells, left unlocked in tidy, trusting rows outside Camp 4 Coffee; rusty Schwinns propped up on kickstands in front of Izzy’s deli; mud-splattered, full-suspension steeds rolling up Elk Avenue after a blissful beating on the infamous 401 single-track. A recent proposal to begin mining molybdenum (a key element in steelmaking) just outside town on Mt. Emmons has drawn the ire of many residents, who came here for the scenery and wilderness access, if not the jobs. There’s plenty to do besides free-wheeling. Cast for brown trout on the fast-flowing Taylor River, explore nearby Strand Hill on horseback, or scope out downtown’s cheerfully redone Victorians and sweet local boutiques like Beyond and Casa Bella (CB prides itself on having only two chain stores and zero stoplights). But the ultimate souvenir is your own refurbished cruiser bike, complete with a miniature Colorado vanity plate that reads eat my dust. -Katie Arnold
MAKE A VISIT Crested Butte is 28 miles north of Gunnison, on State 135. United Express flies daily from Denver to Gunnison airport, and Alpine Express will shuttle you north (800/822-4844). A good choice for an overnight stay is The Ruby of Crested Butte B&B (from $169; ( 800/390-1338). The Visitor Center (Sixth St./State 135 at Elk Ave; 800/545-4505) is a great one-stop source for maps and info. MAKE A MOVE The median home price in 2007 was $815,000, but local agents say prices are rising. Along with real estate and tourism, telecommuting is big here. Go to skicb.com to check out live CB webcams. Best local scuttlebutt: The Crested Butte News. BOZEMAN, MT, pop. 38,000, $299,000 HOMER, AK, pop. 5,400, $244,902 OJAI, CA, pop. 7,800, $799,000 PRESCOTT, AZ, POP. 43,000 $246,938 SANDPOINT, ID, pop. 7,647 $249,000 SISTERS, OR, pop. 1,700 $415,000 TRUCKEE, CA, pop. 16,000 $539,000 All median home prices are based on 2007 data
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