Mary's Musings

It happened again last night when we were out to eat...'look there's the mayor', the people next to us said in whispers. My husband does have an uncanny resemblance to Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman.It's almost embarrassing!  Actually it is embarrassing sometimes.  Once he drove through a fast foo...

I'm watching the news on TV this evening and one of the stories is about a mom in Florida who had her children help her steal a dog from a pet store!  The whole thing was caught on surveillance camera inside the store.  The children, a 7 year old girl and her younger brother, were seen stuffing t...

Some news from 7/19/2007 Las Vegas Review Journal.........According to SalesTraq the median new home price in Las Vegas in June rose from May's $314,100 to $329,990.  New home prices are down 2.2 percent from a year ago. On resale homes for June the median pirce rose from $277,900 surpassing May'...

Angel Point, like the rest of Las Vegas,  has come to a virtual standstill, although it is starting a 'slow crawl' back.  There are currently 7 condos available.  7 have closed since the first of the year.  All solds had been listed for 6 weeks to 14 months.  The range of prices within the commun...

         The article below was written for me by Carmine DiFulvio, CES®  with First American Exchange Company.  If you would like further information on 1031 exchanges please feel free to contact either myself of Carmine.        When Governor Gibbons signed Senate Bill 476 into law on June 14, 20...

I LOVE IT WHEN I END UP WITH SATISFIED CLIENTS.  Yesterday I had the privilege of being invited to a combination housewarming/1st birthday party for some WONDERFUL  clients who closed on their gorgeous first home in April.  Meet Josh and Deborah and their BEAUTIFUL daughter Emily Susanna.They wer...

Our son called us yesterday, as he does every Saturday, he's usually a pretty upbeat kind of guy...yesterday he sounded a little 'down'...I asked him what was the matter...He said he had been to a funeral the day before (on Friday) for a friend of his who had gone with a youth group from her chur...

Indian Wells, like the rest of Las Vegas, has come to a virtual standstill, although it is starting a 'slow crawl' back.  There are currently 10 condos available.  3 have closed in the last 7 months.  All have been listed for 2 to 9 months.  The range of prices within the community is so WIDE bei...

Dreaded what?  you say....the Dreaded of the the dread-est...the JURY SUMMONS.  I went to the mail box yesterday and after weeding through all the junk mail on my way to the trash, I found one thing of interest...I'd received my 'order' to do my civic duty!  I truthfully almost did not realize th...

Do you as a prospective sellers (FBSO's, Expired, Etc) insist on pricing your home in an unrealistic price range?  I personally make it a rule not to list anything that is more than 10% over priced. and I am sure that many other Realtors feel the same way.  We find that if we do as the seller ask...